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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Friday, December 12,2003
Deaths
Juanita Barrett Echols
Mrs. Juanita Barrett Echols,
89, of Cumming died Monday,
Dec. 8, 2003. Mrs. Echols was a
supervisory dietitian at Forsyth
County High School, now
Central, for more than 25 years.
A native of Dawson County, she
was preceded in death by her
husband, Major C. Echols.
Survivors include children,
Donna and Don Eberhart,
Michael and Linda Echols, all
of Cumming, Sula and Donald
Pruitt, Salisbury, N.C.; grand
children, Denise and Richard
Kaiser of Athens, Derek and
Jennifer Eberhart of Woodlands,
Texas, Kevin and Jamie Pruitt of
China Grove, N.C., Lisa and
Brad Thompson of Morganton,
N.C., Ashleigh, Emily and
Andrew Echols of Cumming;
eight great-grandchildren;
nieces, nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Funeral services were
Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Haw
Creek Baptist Church with the'
Revs. Richard Kaiser and Jerry
Orr officiating. Interment fol
lowed in the Haw Creek Baptist
Church Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be made
to the Peachtree Christian
Hospice, 3430 Duluth Park Dr.,
Duluth, GA 30097 or the Haw
Creek Cemetery Fund.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
December 12, 2003
Dorothy Rothman
Mrs. Dorothy Rothman, 80,
of Dahlonega, formerly of
Cumming, died Monday, Dec.
8. 2003. Mrs. Rothman was a
member of First Christian
Church of Cumming. She was
preceded in death by her hus
band, Robert Rothman.
Survivors include her daugh
ter and son-in-Ew, Jean and
Steve Martin of Dahlonega;
grandchildren, Tracie Guthrie
and Todd Mullinax, Carman
Martin, Scott Mathis; great
grandchildren, Joshua Martin,
Kenna Mathis; and several other
relatives also survive.
Funeral services were
Thursday, Dec. 11, at the
Ingram Funeral Home Chapel
with the Rev. Larry Deckard
officiating. Interment followed
in the Crown Hill Cemetery in
Indianapolis, Ind.
Donations may be made to
the Premier Hospice, 500
Spring St., Suite 204,
Gainesville. GA 30501.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
December 12, 2003
PARADE from 1A
Smith said, referring to last
year’s parade on a Friday
night.
Next year the city will go
back to a nighttime parade,
but on a Monday night, Smith
said.
In other Cumming
Christmas events, about 100
vendors will sell their creative
wares at the Cumming Arts
and Crafts Show in the barn at
the Fairgrounds.
The show begins at 4 p.m.
today and continues through 6
p.m. Saturday. Admission for
adults is sl, and children 12
and under are free.
Jimmy Mathis will bring
his mule wagon to the fair
grounds tonight and offer hay
rides for a song.
Admission is free, provid
ed riders bring a loud voice
and merry spirit to join in
Christmas caroling. Rides
begin at 7 p.m.
Before his big show at the
parade, Santa Claus will be
available 6-9 p.m. today at the
fairgrounds for free photo
graphs.
Mr. Claus will also have a
free knee for children to sit on
after the parade from 11
a.m.-l p.m. Saturday.
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Maxie Smith
. Mrs. Maxie Smith, 70, of
Dahlonega died Saturday, Dec.
6, 2003. Mrs. Smith was a
native and lifelong resident of
Lumpkin County and was a
member of Dahlonega Church
of God.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, Roscoe and
Alma Brown Reeves; husband,
Neal Smith; and sister, Lucille
Owens.
Survivors include daugh
ters and sons-in-law, JoAnn
and Joe Labermeyer of Ft.
Walton Beach, Fla., Anita and
Shane Thacker of Sparta,
Tenn.; sons and daughters-in
law, Jimmy and Phyllis
Woods, Johnny Woods, all of
Dahlonega, Jeff and LaDawn
Wood of Cumming; sisters,
Jessie Chapman of Dahlonega,
Bertha Waters, Doris Payne,
Brenda Sue Ocasio, all of
Lula; brothers, Billy Reeves,
Barney reeves, Grady Reeves,
all of Dahlonega; eight grand
children; one great-grandchild;
and a large number of other
relatives also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the
Banister Funeral Home Chapel
in Dahlonega with the Rev.
P.L. Jones officiating.
Interment followed in the
Dahlonega Memorial Park.
Banister Funeral Home
was in charge of the arrange
ments.
Forsyth County News
December 12, 2003
Vinita Williams Soule
Mrs. Vinita Williams
Soule, 52, of Douglasville
died Monday, Dec. 8, 2003.
She was a member of Ophir
Baptist Church. She was pre
ceded in death by her parents,
Bonnie and Ruby Williams;
brother, Gary L. Williams.
Survivors include her
brothers and sisters-in-law,
Jerry G. and Kerry Williams of
Snellville, Terry and Diane
Williams of Lithia Springs,
Ted and Gloria Williams of
Jonesboro; sisters, Trixy
Williams, Lynn Williams, both
of Conyers; three nieces and
two nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Funeral services were
Thursday, Dec. 11, at the
Ingram Funeral Home Chapel
with the Rev. Junior Waddell
officiating. Interment followed
in the Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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SLAP from 1A-
sion,” Cunat said. “We think the judge
made the right decision and my client just
wants to put this behind her.”
At the court hearing, Tinsley said she’d
been slapped on the hand and manhandled
by Quarles on Oct. 14 during an argument
in the supervisor’s office at the Forsyth
County Administration Building.
On Tuesday, Tinsley told the magistrate
that she initiated the criminal proceedings
on a charge of simple battery because she
wasn’t satisfied with the way county offi
cials decided to punish Quarles.
According to the county’s human
resources director, Pat Carson, Quarles
BONDfrom 1A
the Board of Elections had no
legal authority to make such a
request.
“There is no provision for
the Board of Elections to ques
tion the substance of a ballot
presented to it for inclusion in
an election,’.’ Davis said in her
letter to Gary Smith, the coun
ty’s chief registrar and chair
man of the Board of Elections.
The letter went on to say
that there is “no provision for
the Board of Elections to other
wise interfere with lawful
actions taken by the Board of
Commissioners.”
Smith and the other two
members of the elections
board, Janis Thomas and Brant
Meadows, said previously they
would ultimately approve
whatever ballot request the
Board of Commissioners sends
WRECK from 1A
No one else was injured.
No charges were filed,
Huggins said.
The tractor-trailer was
owned by Floyd & Beasley
Trucking Co. of Sycamore,
Ala., and was loaded with car
pet fiber.
Hamby was the grand
mother of Mary Madison
Hamby-Garcia, a 2-year-old
FLU from 1A
Flu Mist, a live virus inhaler,
is available for the first time this
year. The product is three times
more expensive than the injec
tion and costs $65 to S7O.
Some insurance plans will not
cover the use of the inhaled vac
cine.
The Forsyth County Health
Department, which immunized
more than 5,000 persons for the
flu since October, ran out of a
second shipment of vaccine on
Wednesday.
“I’m not looking for us to
get many more (shipments of
vaccine) at all,” said Phyllis
Bailey, office manager of the
department. “It has been pretty
admitted to slapping Tinsley on the hand
and to placing her hands on Tinsley’s shoul
ders as she escorted the woman out of her
office.
In response, Quarles received an
“employee warning report” from the county
and had to attend two workshops, “Dealing
effectively with unacceptable employee
behavior” and “Conflict management and
confrontational skills.”
However, during Tuesday’s Magistrate
Court hearing, Tinsley alleged that she’d
been shoved into a chair by Quarles and she
portrayed the “escort” out of the office as
being pushed down the hallway in the Tax
back.
Typically, the Board of
Elections’ approval of a ballot
request simply means the ques
tion or referendum may be
included in an election. The
three-member panel does not
normally discuss the content of
a ballot issue.
However, Meadows, who is
the Republican appointee to the
Board of Elections, suggested
sending back the ballot ques
tion, citing “fiscal responsibili
ty” as a major reason.
He said the repeated elec
tions on the judicial center
issue have been costly and if
the March 2 referendum fails,
the county may need to pay for
a special election when the
issue is inevitably revisited in
the future.
A little more than two
who was killed July 27, 2002,
when her family’s van rolled
down a steep driveway and
trapped her underneath at a
Hughes Drive residence.
The child reportedly had
been playing in the vehicle
when it slipped out of gear,
rolled and struck a tree, eject
ing the child into the vehicle’s
path.
tough and the problem is that as
long as we have the vaccine, we
would give them. We are here to
serve Forsyth County and we
hope to provide as much as we
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can.
A few people waiting at the
department hoping to get an
immunization were turned away
Wednesday.
However, Emily Cox, a
mother of four, was able to get
immunizations for herself and
her children.
“It’s really scary,’ said Cox.
“I had mine last month and all
the children have had the shots.”
Staff Writer Kim Ash con
tributed to this article.
weeks ago, the Board of
Commissioners met to discuss
how the referendum would be
presented to voters in the
March 2 election.
With a 4-1 vote, the com
missioners opted to place a sin
gle question on the ballot, giv
ing voters the choice of approv
ing the entire justice center
complex or nothing at all.
The $62 million proposal
would fund the construction of
a new judicial center complex
in downtown Cumming,
including a new courthouse, a
new jail and a new sheriff’s
Sin foving Memory of
fatrelle Martinjohnson
Who went home to be
with her ford on
December 12, 2002
In my heart I thought of you with love today.
But that is nothing new, I thought of you
yesterday and the days before too.
I think of you in silence. I often speak your name.
Now all I have of you is memories and
your picture in a frame.
Your memories are my keepsake, which will never
part. God has you in his keeping.
I have you in my heart.
I miss and love you so much,
Your mother, Elizabeth Martin
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Assessor’s Office.
Other witnesses who testified said the
shove in the chair never happened and that
the slap was a light blow similar to what a
mother might do to a child.
In an interview Wednesday, Tinsley said
she may speak with an attorney about pur
suing the case through other legal routes
but, for now, she’s glad she brought her
complaint to die magistrate.
“It was very draining because of my ill
ness but I’m glad I did it because I really
don’t feel people should put their hands on
other people and hit them and humiliate
them,” she said.
office building with a 911 dis
patch center in the basement.
In addition, the money
would be used to build two
sheriff’s office precincts, one in
the southern part of the county
and one in the north.
The sole dissenting vote
came from District 2
Commissioner A.J. Pritchett,
who said he favored a referen
dum ballot with separate ques
tions on each of the compo
nents of the judicial center.
Similar referendums on a
new judicial center failed in
2000 and 2001.