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Lake Oconee News
Friday, December 22,2017
Obituaries
The deadline for obituaries is 1 p.m. Monday. Funeral homes may send notices to obits@lakeoconeenews.us.
James Boswell Dolvin, Jr.
December 18,1946 - December 12,2017
James Boswell “Jimmy”
Dolvin, Jr., age 70 of
Greensboro died Tuesday,
December 12, 2017 at
Piedmont Athens Regional
in Athens.
Funeral services were
Friday, December 15, 2017
at McCommons Chapel in
Greensboro with Rev. Wayne
Usry officiating. Interment
followed in Siloam Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jack
Eberhart, Russell McCain,
Glen Johnson, David Mayo,
Donald Clements, and Edward “Red Top” Clements.
Honorary pallbearers were Niles Webb and Jamie Eley.
Jimmy was born December 18,1946 in Atlanta and was
the son of the late James Boswell “J. B.” Dolvin, Sr. and Jean
Miller Dolvin. He graduated from Greensboro High School
and attended Georgia Military College in Milledgeville.
Jimmy married the former Cheryl Leach May 3,1969. For
the last eighteen years, Jimmy was the owner ofWatkinsville
Woodyard and later he worked for Reynolds Lake Oconee as
the Golf Maintenance Operator. Most of his life, he was an
avid Georgia football fan and enjoyed gardening, camping
and going to the mountains. He was a member of Siloam
Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Cheryl Dolvin of Greensboro;
a daughter, Crystal Dolvin Brown of Bogart; a son, James
Boswell “Jim” Dolvin III (Kimberly) ofMonroe; two brothers,
William Robert “Bobby” Dolvin (Teresa) ofWatkinsville and
Ralph Leonard “Len” Dolvin (Janice) of Sparta; three grand
children, Delainey Brown, Ingrid Dolvin, and Amelia Dolvin,
a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
McCommons Funeral Home, 109 W. Broad St., Greensboro,
GA, (706)453-2626, had charge of arrangements. Visit us
at www.mccommonsfuneralhome.com to sign the online
guest register.
Horace Gary “Trey” Harwell III
May 29,1991-Dec. 12,2017
Horace Gary “Trey”
Harwell III, age 26, of the
Liberty Community in
White Plains died Tuesday,
Dec. 12, 2017.
Funeral services were
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, at
Liberty United Methodist
Church in White Plains with
Rev. Wes Privitt officiating.
Pallbearers were Jim Foster,
William Sumner, Patrick
Nix, Josh Barr, Dr. Matt
Carithers and Dr. Corey
Woodard.
Trey was born in Augusta May 29,1991 and was the son
of Caren Gentry Harwell of the Liberty Community and
the late Horace Gary Harwell Jr.
Trey graduated from Nathanael Greene Academy and
received a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Georgia
College in Milledgeville, graduating Magna Cum Laude.
On Aug. 3,2015 he married the former Abigail Ravadilla.
He was a Dental Registration Clerk for Tendercare Clinic
in Greensboro and a member of Liberty United Methodist
Church.
His favorite pastime was playing video games and
spending time with family and friends.
Survivors include his wife, Abigail “Abby” Harwell of
the Liberty Community; his mother, Caren Harwell ofthe
Liberty Community; abrother, John Harwell; grandfather,
Horace G. Harwell, Sr. ofGreensboro; two aunts, Kathy Ivey
(James) and Jan Foster (Ray); two uncles, Rodgers Gentry
(Vicky) and Ron Gentry and his beloved pets, Tux and
Georgia. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
McCommons Funeral Home, 109 W. Broad St.,
Greensboro, GA, (706)453-2626, had charge of
arrangements.
Visit us at www.mccommonsfuneralhome.com to sign
the online guest register.
GREENE COUNTY
Carter named
St. Mary's new
president, CEO
Montez Carter, President
of St. Mary’s Hospital
in Athens and former
President of St. Mary’s
Good Samaritan Hospital
in Greensboro, has been
named President and CEO
of St. Mary’s Health Care
System, effective today.
Carter had earlier
accepted the position of
acting President and CEO
followingthe announcement
in early November that Don
McKenna, President and
CEO since 2009, would be
leaving for the top post at a
large hospital in Jupiter, Fla.
“This appointment
reflects Montez’s strong,
strategic leadership and
operational excellence since
joining our Georgia minis
try seven years ago,”say Jean
Chin, MD, chair ofSt. Mary’s
Board of Directors, and
Mike Slubowski, President
and COO of Trinity Health
in a joint announcement.
Carter becomes just the
fourth President and CEO of
St. Mary’s since 1966, when
the Missionary Sisters ofthe
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
turned over administrative
duties to lay professionals.
He follows E. J. Fechtel Jr.,
Tom Fitz, and McKenna.
Carter has been President
of St. Mary’s Hospital since
March 2017 after serving
as president of St. Mary’s
Good Samaritan Hospital
since 2012. He joined St.
Mary’s Hospital in Athens
in October 2010 as vice pres
ident of operations. Prior
to coming to Athens, he
served at Greenwood Leflore
Hospital in Greenwood,
Miss., where hewas director
of pharmacy services and
then as associate director
of performance improve
ment and patient support
services. He earned his
master’s degree in business
administration from the
University of Alabama and
his doctoral degree in phar
macy from the University of
Mississippi.
St. Mary’s Health Care
System, part of the nation
wide Trinity Health min
istry, features hospitals in
Athens, Greensboro and
Lavonia.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Rep. Rhodes: Expect growth in Lake Country
Shannon Sneed
shannon@lakeoconeenews.us
Rep. Trey Rhodes told
Kiwanis members and guests
last week that rural Georgia
would be the focus of the
January 2018 legislative
session.
Recent studies conducted
by Georgia legislators found
much of rural Georgia is
vanishing, however, Putnam
County is expected to grow.
This year Georgia
Representatives passed HR
389, creating the House
Rural Development Council,
which meets with citizens,
businesses and organizations
across the state to learn what
challenges rural Georgia
faces, and what the General
Assembly can do to address
issues relating to economic
development, job creation,
infrastructure, education
and access to healthcare.
In addition to the Rural
Development Council, the
Georgia Chamber will also
be involved in proposing
solutions to address prob
lems that are specificto rural
Georgia.
Rhodes said there’s about
10 million people in the State
of Georgia, with 5 million of
them living inside 1-285 in
Atlanta. The rest of the pop
ulation is dispersed across
the state.
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of family and in the warm embrace of friends.
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“As we lose that popula
tion, we lose representation,”
said Rhodes. “Your districts
will get bigger geograph
ically and more and more
representation will be in
Atlanta.”
He noted that a study
conducted by the Georgia
Chamber, called Georgia
2030, projected what
Georgia will look like by
2030. That study found that
all across the state, rural
Georgia areas would die,
losing from 10 percent to 25
percent of its communities.
By contrast, the study
showed an expected growth
of up to four percent during
that time span for Putnam,
Greene and Morgan coun
ties, largely due to the impact
of Lake Oconee.
“We’reprotectedfromthat
shift,” said Rhodes.” Butwhat
that does is, when we lose
population in rural Georgia,
and it goes to the metro...
we lose representation. So,
we’re doing everything to
correct that, get things back
in our favor and give people
a reason to move to rural
Georgia.”
According to Rhodes,
healthcare, broadband and
jobs are the three main
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the gold dome. “That’s what
we hear the most, and that’s
what we’re working on,” he
said.
Broadband is a service
rarely offered in rural areas,
andthelocallegislatornoted
that in the business world,
Internet is as important
as electricity. According to
the study, Putnam County’s
future is brighter in part
due to an initiative by AT&T
to incorporate broadband
access throughout the
community.
Putnam County also has
an advantage by offering
its students a College and
Career Academy at the
local high school. Many
high school graduates have
previously left the county
for better opportunities,
and Rhodes advised state
legislators were working
to keep those graduates in
their hometown by offering
substantial paying jobs.
“We have got to keep
our young people home if
we want our communities
to keep growing and keep
thriving,” he said.
A nationwide problem for
employers is finding workers
who are able to pass a drug
test, Rhodes toldKiwanians.
That, along with issues
employers face during the
interviewing process with
job hopefuls not having
any soft skills, is causing
a staff shortage for many
businesses.
“They don’t know how to
dress or present themselves,”
said Rhodes. “And those are
the things a lot of the career
academies are teaching.”
Rhodes also noted that
with Tytan Pictures making
its home in the community,
Putnam County has achance
to be a major film hub.
Explaining HB 199,
Rhodes said the amend
ment was created to give tax
credits to production com
panies in order to keep the
post-production part of the
movie industry in the State
of Georgia and the money
generated by that work.
Producers were complet
ing all of the filming pro
cess in Georgia, except for
post-production, which was
being sent to California,
New York and London for
completion.
“It’s a $9 billion dollar
business,” said Rhodes,
noting those jobs average
$85,000 to $100,000 per
year, and Gov. Nathan Deal
wanted that money to go in
Georgians’ pockets.
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