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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Deaths
Dora Tate Bailey
Mrs. Dora Tate Bailey, 94,
of Dawsonville died Monday,
Jan. 26, 2004. Bom in Gordon
County, she lived most of her
life in Dawson County. Mrs.
Bailey was a homemaker and
a member of Concord Baptist
Church. She was preceded in
death by her husband, W.S.
"Bill” Bailey; daughter,
Eunice Sosebee Beck; son,
Samuel “Bud” Bailey; a
grandson and great-grandson.
Survivors include her
daughters and son-in-law,
Mildred Adams of Trion, Ruby
and Ed Lipscomb of Pelzer,
S.C.; son and daughter-in-law,
Lane and Marell Bailey of
Dawsonville; sisters, Belle
Bailey of Cumming, Ethel
Grizzle of Dahlonega; brother,
Way mon Tate of Cumming; 14
grandchildren; 21 great-grand
children; 10 great-great-grand
children.
Funeral services will be
Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 2 p.m.
at the Bearden Funeral Home
Chapel with the Revs. Roy
Bailey and Rodney Pilcher
officiating. Interment will fol
low in the Concord Baptist
Church Cemetery.
Bearden Funeral Home is
in charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
January 28, 2004
Elsie Oakley Chambless
Mrs. Elsie Oakley
Chambless of Cumming died
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004. Mrs.
Chambless retired from the
Orange County Board of
Education in Orlando, Fla.,
with 30 years of service as an
educator. She was preceded in
death by her husband, William
Henry “Boots” Chambless,
former football coach at
Auburn University.
Survivors include her
daughter and son-in-law, Jim
and Barbara Conner of
Cumming; sons, Lloyd
Chambless of Chapel Hill,
N.C.. William H. Chambless
Jr. of Plano, Texas; brother,
Gregg Oakley of Pine Apple,
Ala.; 10 grandchildren; six
great-grandchildren.
Local memorial services
were Sunday. Jan. 25, at 3
p.m. from Deer Creek Shores
Presbyterian Church in
Cumming with the Rev. John
Tarrant officiating. Out-of
state memorial services were
Monday, Jan. 26, at the White
Chapel-Greenwood Funeral
Home in Montgomery. Ala.
Byars Funeral Home in
Cumming is in charge of the
arrangements.
Forsyth County’ News
January 28, 2004
WEATHER from 1A
the Board of Commissioners at
noon chose to postpone the
regularly scheduled meeting
until the following Monday,
Feb. 2, at 5 p.m.
Chairman Jack Conway
said the postponement was in
the interest of the public. He
said some residents had told
him they did not want to drive
in the icy conditions.
“With the weather being
the way that it is, ... I think
that it’s prudent to postpone
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Clarence A. Elzey
Mr. Clarence A. Elzey, 83,
of Acworth died Saturday, Jan.
24, 2004. Mr. Elzey had been
a resident of Acworth for the
past 32 years and was of
Baptist faith.
Survivors include his wife,
Dorothy Elzey of Acworth;
sons, James C. Elzey of Rex,
Richard A. Elzey of Acworth;
daughter, Marsha Clafton of
Locust Grove; sister, Cynthia
Burch of Cleveland; eight
grandchildren; eight great
grandchildren; several nieces
and nephews also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday, Jan. 27, from the
chapel of Winkenhofer Pine
Ridge Funeral Home with Past
Jimmy Elzey officiating.
Interment followed in the
Greenlawn Cemetery in
Roswell.
Winkenhofer Pine Ridge
Funeral Home was in charge
of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
January 28, 2004
O.C. Parker
Mr. O.C. “Pops” Parker,
86, of Nelson died Thursday,
Jan. 22, 2004. He was a World
War II veteran and decorated
with the Purple
Heart. Mr.
Parker served
his country
aboard the USS
VETEKAX
Atlanta.
Survivors include his sons
and daughters-in-law,
Lawrence and Shirley Parker
of Clayton community, Seth
Parker of Nelson; daughter
and son-in-law, Elaine Parker
and Phillip Bourque of
Cumming; sister, Jo Wilson of
the Ludville community;
granddaughter, Candace
Bourque; grandsons,
Lawrence Parker Jr.. Brian and
Tristan Bourque.
Memorial services were
Saturday, Jan. 24, from the
Pleasant Hill Christian Church
with Minister Glenn Sims offi
ciating.
Cagle Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
January 28, 2004
F~'" _ _ . .
it,” the chairman said.
In addition to'regularly
scheduled business, the Board
has 21 public hearing topics to
discuss. Commissioners typi
cally use the first Monday in a
month as a work session to
prepare for upcoming meet
ings.
They said the primary rea
son for postponing Monday’s
meeting was to allow more
participation in the public
hearings.
WIFE from 1A
named Samuel Morris
Chadwick.
Grace Chadwick said the
boy was injured during child
birth and was expected to live
only two or three months.
The Chadwicks’ only child
would survive the first crucial
months but, when he was 9
years old, he went in the hos
pital for a kidney operation
and died.
Her husband had always
been a hardworking man who
tempered life’s tragedies with
a strong faith. He worked at
Wilson’s chicken plant in
Cumming for several years
followed by a stint at the
Forsyth County hospital and
the Bank of Cumming.
In the last few years,
Grace Chadwick said her hus
band lost two sisters and a
brother before his mother,
Pauline Chadwick, died last
year.
The family had been hav
ing some arguments over her
estate, which included proper
ty near Lake Lanier on
Flowery Branch Road. When
Grace left the house
Thursday, Morris had been
speaking with Cleveland
DA Penn’s
By Todd Truelove
Staff Report
Penny Penn, the district
attorney for the Bell-Forsyth
Circuit which includes all of
Forsyth County, obtained
$20,945 in cash campaign
donations during the July-
December reporting period,
according to disclosure reports
filed with the secretary of
state’s office.
Penn’s report lists 123
campaign contributors who
donated the funds. The report
also shows no contributions
were made during previous
reporting periods.
No expenditures were
made during the reporting
period or in previous reporting
periods leaving Penn with a
$20,945 balance.
Penn said last week she
will seek re-election.
According to the report,
the individuals who donated
the most toward Penn’s cam
paign funds were Brinda
Cunat, a Cumming homemak
er who donated $1,500, and
Robert Bourne, a Cumming
attorney who donated $ 1,000.
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At some point Thursday
morning, a 64-year-old
Kennesaw man who made his
living going from door to
door selling aerial photo
graphs of real estate came to
the Chadwicks’ residence.
Sheriff Ted Paxton has
said he believes the Kennesaw
man, Terry Thrasher, went to
the house on Elmo Road and
“some sort of confrontation
ensued.”
The confrontation appar
ently escalated and resulted in
the shooting of Thrasher.
According to Paxton, a
passing motorist called 911 at
10:43 a.m. after seeing
Thrasher’s body lying in a
ditch about 15 yards away
from Chadwick’s driveway.
When emergency person
nel arrived at the scene of the
shooting, they performed
CPR on Thrasher’s body and
transported him to Northside
Hospital Forsyth where he
was pronounced dead.
After Thrasher’s body had
been taken to the hospital,
deputies were hanging yellow
crime scene tape around the
area when Chadwick emerged
campaign donations top $20,000
Contributors who donated
SSOO for the district attorney’s
campaign were: Atlanta attor
ney Michael Duponte; Forsyth
County District Attorney’s
Chief Investigator Frank
Frazier; business owner
Kimberly Jardine who lives in
Daphne, Ala.; Ann Penn
Kamp, the chancellor’s assis
tant at the University of
Arkansas Community College
at Batesville; and the
Cumming law firm of
Lipscomb, Johnson, Sleister,
Dailey and Smith.
The majority of Penn’s
contributors donated less than
SSOO apiece.
Cumming attorney
Kenneth Vanderhoff. The Steel
Law Firm in Atlanta and
Rhonda Sorrells Payne of
Cumming each contributed
S3OO for Penn’s campaign
funds.
Loretta Williams, an
administrator at Black River
Technical College who lives in
Strawberry, Ariz.; Atlanta
attorney Steve Murrin; Kay
McLemore, who is retired and
lives in Senatobia, Miss.;
James Harrington, who is
66
My husband
has never
taken a gun
to nobody.
from his house screaming and
“in a highly agitated state.”
He was placed in hand
cuffs and taken to the Forsyth
County jail where he was
charged with murder follow
ing interviews with detec
tives.
Investigators worked late
Thursday night executing a
search warrant at the house on
Elmo Road. They recovered
18 various firearms.
Judy Thrasher, Terry’s
wife of 36 years, had said her
husband never experienced
any serious problems in the
past when he approached
property owners about buying
his aerial photographs.
He had been selling the
pictures for 33 years in five
different states.
Grace Chadwick said she
did not find out about the
retired and lives in Cumming;
Atlanta attorney R. David
Botts; Atlanta attorney
Michael Friedman; Roswell
attorney Kevin Gerard Ryan;
and Doris Hodgson, who is
retired and lives in Bar
Minette, Ala., each con
tributed $250 toward Penn’s
campaign funds.
Contributors who donated
S2OO were: Atlanta attorney
Robert Weathers; Decatur
attorney Robert Rubin; Sugar
Hill attorney Kyle Epps;
Cumming resident Jackie
Downs, who is an interpreter
with Spanish Bilingual
Agency Inc.; Cordelia
Brannon, a postal clerk who
lives in North Little Rock,
Ariz.; and James Ward, who is
retired and lives in Westland,
Mich.
Other individuals, many of
whom are attorneys, listed in
the report contributed $l5O or
less in cash toward Penn’s
campaign funds.
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Thursday morning shooting
until she returned home at 4
p.m.
Her cousin was driving her
home and when the pair
reached Mockingbird Road, a
throughway which connects
Elmo Road and Bannister
Road, she said traffic became
unusually thick.
She immediately thought
the worst and wondered if her
husband had been hit by a car.
Those fears only grew as she
approached her home and saw
the yellow crime scene tape.
She said that as they drove
up to the house a deputy came
to the car and told the women
they were not allowed to go
near the residence.
Grace said she lived at the
house and when she told the
deputy her name, he allegedly
said, “We’ve been hunting
you all day. ... Your husband
killed a guy.”
She didn’t believe the
deputy’s words and still
thinks something must have
gone terribly wrong Thursday
morning.
“My husband has never
taken a gun to nobody,” she
said.
Penn’s report contained the
largest campaign cash contri
butions of elected officials
who work within the Forsyth
County judicial system.
Superior Court Judge
Jeffrey Bagley, Magistrate
Court Judge Barbara Cole,
Probate Court Judge Joyce
Hawkins, Clerk of Court
Douglas Sorrells, and Forsyth
County Coroner Lauren
McDonald reported no contri
butions or expenditures for the
reporting period.
Chief State Court Judge
David Dickinson reported no
contributions and expenditures
of $1,318 for reimbursement
of self-loans and a $425 dona
tion to the United Way.
Solicitor Leslie Abernathy
reported no contributions and
a $250 donation to Leadership
Forsyth.
School board members
reported no contributions dur
ing the July-December report
ing period.