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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, December 28,2003
Deaths
Troy Dean Holtzclaw
Mr. Troy Dean Holtzclaw,
61, of Forsyth County died
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2003. He was
preceded in death by his father,
Egbert Holtzclaw.
Survivors include his wife,
Sarah Holtzclaw of Forsyth
County; children, Wesley and
Audrey Holtzclaw, Lanny
Holtzclaw, all of Forsyth
County; stepchildren, Cindy
Wimpey of Clairmont, Todd
Sheriff of Lula; nine grandchil
dren; mother, Ruby Dean
Holtzclaw of Forsyth County;
brothers and sisters-in-law,
Loyd Holtzclaw, Kenneth and
Shyrl Holtzclaw, Ricky and
Debbie Holtzclaw, all of Forsyth
County; and several nieces,
nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services were
Friday, Dec. 26, at the Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel with the
Revs. Danny Bennett and
Robert Martin officiating.
Interment followed in the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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December 28, 2003
Walter John Hopton
Walter John “Jack” Hopton.
Jr., 81, of Lawrenceville died
Tuesday, Dec. 23. 2003.
He served as a pilot with the
Army Air Corps, stationed in
England and
Germany during
World War 11.
After the war, he
remained in the
VETERAN
Air Force Reserves achieving
the rank of major.
He was preceded in death by
his parents. Jack and Mary Sue
Hopton. and brother Frank R.
Hopton.
Survivors include his daugh
ter, Sherry A. and Joe M.
Jenkins of Dacula; grandchil
dren, Doug and Maria Stacks of
Dacula, Christopher and Valerie
Jenkins of Cumming, Jonathan
and Gemma Jenkins of
Stuttgart, Germany, Jason and
Nicole Jenkins of Evans, Amy
E. Jenkins of Jacksonville. Fla.;
seven great-grandchildren and
six nieces and nephews; special
friends Mary Graves of
Hoschton and her family.
Funeral services will be
Sunday, Dec. 28, at 2 p.m. at
Hampton Mill Memorial
Chapel.
Private family interment will
follow at Arlington Memorial
Park.
Hamilton Mill Memorial
Chapel and Gardens are in
charge of the arrangements.
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December 28, 2003
Eunice Harris Owen
Mrs. Eunice Harris Owen,
89, of Gainesville died Tuesday,
Dec. 23, 2003. She was preced
ed in death by her husband,
James Owen.
Survivors include her son,
James A. and Cathy Owen of
Nashville, Tenn.; sister, Pauline
Arrington of Gainesville; sis
ters-in-law, Jean Harris of
Cumming, Lottie Owen of
Gainesville; nephews, David
and Robin Harris of Gainesville,
Michael and Linda Harris of
Roswell; and a number of other
relatives.
Funeral services were
Friday, Dec. 26, at 2 p.m. at the
Ingram Funeral Home Chapel
with the Rev. David Harris offi
ciating.
Interment followed in the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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December 28, 2003
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when its bed broke in half at the Hwy. 369 intersection Monday. Traffic was slowed as
the right lane of 400 was blocked by the back half of the bed. No one was injured.
Incident reports
Editor’s note: The follow
ing items were taken from
reports on file with the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Office.
Suspicious person: Short
ly after midnight on Friday, a
35-year-old woman living in
the 5500 block of John
Burruss Road woke up to
sounds of someone walking on
her gravel drive and attempt
ing to break into her vehicle.
She later heard someone
trying to get in the residence
through the back door. The
woman went into her kitchen
where she turned on a light
and saw someone run off into
the woods behind her house.
•
Illegal alcohol sales:
Deputies went to The
Cupboard in the 2300 block of
Canton Highway on Thursday
and found employees there
had been selling alcohol in
violation of a county ordi
nance prohibiting such sales
on Christmas. The assistant
manager who spoke with the
deputies reportedly said he
had been unaware of the coun
ty ordinance.
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Battery: On Thursday
afternoon, a man and a
woman, both 21, arrived at
their residence in the 6400
block of Hwy. 9 when another
man, 21-year-old Alvaro Avila
Hernandez of Fowler Road,
approached their vehicle and
began punching the man in the
car.
Deputies came to the resi
dence and arrested Hernandez
on a misdemeanor charge of
battery.
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Burglary: A purse, a DVD
player, cash and a wallet,
worth $1,290 in total, were
stolen sometime between
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Thursday at 9 a.m. from a
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Stolen vehicle: A 2002
Chevrolet Aveo belonging to
Enterprise Rent-A-Car was
stolen on Thursday sometime
between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.
from a home in the 8000 block
of Mount Tabor Road.
Damaged mailbox:
Someone struck and damaged
the front door of a mailbox in
front of a home in the 500
block of Tidwell Road some
time between Tuesday at 6
p.m. and Wednesday at 10:30
a.m.
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Gas drive-off: A white
female driver in a late model
Nissan Maxima came to the
BP Connect store in the 2200
block of Atlanta Highway on
Wednesday morning and left
without paying for $24.75
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Drug arrest: On
Wednesday morning, a deputy
stopped a 1993 Chrysler
Lebaron on Bethelview Road
for displaying an improper
tag.
The driver, 38-year-old
Lisa Regina Hutchinson of
Hubbard Town Road, was sub
sequently arrested on charges
of driving without a proper
tag, driving without insurance,
failure to keep prescription
pills in their original container
and possession of a schedule
II narcotic.
Deputies reportedly found
a pair of syringes and an
Oxycontin pill in Hutchinson’s
purse.
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Burglary: A motorcycle
helmet, a Harley-Davidson
motorcycle leather jacket, a
set of Harley-Davidson leather
chaps and a Harley-Davidson
motorcycle vest worth
$1,150 in total were stolen
sometime Tuesday from a
home in the 3300 block of
Dahlonega Highway.
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ask the courts to rule on the
validity of the intergovern
mental agreement signed by
the two entities establishing
the SPLOST distribution for
mula.
From the city’s perspec
tive, if the SPLOST agree
ment isn’t valid, then other
city and county agreements
over water and sewer services
should also be questioned and
reconsidered.
“Everything is related,”
Gravitt said.
The mayor announced at
the December Cumming City
Council meeting that the
city’s raw water intake pump
would not be upgraded until
the SPLOST dispute is set
tled.
The county has offered to
upgrade the city’s pump at
the county’s expense to keep
up with the growing demand
for water.
A decision on Dawson
County’s immediate need for
500,000 gallons of water also
was tabled, as was Forsyth
County’s request for addi
tional sewer capacity.
Now Gravitt and Conway
have met, and no progress
has been made on any issues.
“I don’t think the citizens
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grid and regulates the flow of
water released from the lake
back into the Chattahoochee
River.
The increased security at
the dam mirrors events at air
ports and other potential tar
gets across the nation.
On Dec. 21, the Depart -
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time if the wreck was alcohol
related or if charges will be
filed.”
Across the state, a total of
eight people died and 216
were injured in 839 traffic
wrecks in Georgia from 6 p.m.
Wednesday through noon on
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The solution is
for everybody to
do what they
are required to
do by law.
realize that the mayor is hold
ing the citizens of the county
hostage over water and
sewer,” District 1
Commissioner Charlie
Laughinghouse said in a
phone interview.
“All we have done from
the start is ask for a small
degree of accountability and
the city apparently wants to
use our asking for that as the
catalyst to hold the water and
sewer over our heads,” he
said.
“The solution is for every
body to do what they are
required to do by law,”
Laughinghouse said.
City council member
Quincy Holton said, “I hope
we’ll both come to a good
agreement and go on with
county and city business.”
“It’s going to take both
sides working together to get
that accomplished,” he said.
ment of Homeland Security
raised the national threat
level from “elevated” to
“high risk” after a substantial
rise in the number of intelli
gence reports containing
information on possible ter
rorist attacks during the holi
day season.
Friday during the Christmas
holiday period as measured by
the Georgia State Patrol.
The Georgia State Patrol
predicted that 17 people would
die in traffic wrecks by the
time the holiday period ends
on Sunday at midnight.