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PAGE 2A 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 Fibromyalgia? If you suffer from reveals how to get relief chronic fibromyalgia as fast as humanly pos pain, a free report is sible without drugs, available that reveals shots or surgery, call what your doctor may toll-free 24-hour not know. To get your recorded message at free copy by mail that 1-888-895-7484. 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. BATHTUBS !! CERAMIC TILE Repair ~ Remodel ~ Reglaze With the nation's oldest and largest reglazing company you can Luis be assured of the highest quality workmanship and materials. 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Advertising Deadlines For Sunday's paper retail and classified display ads are due by noon Thursday. For Wednesday’s paper retail and classified display ads are due by 5 p.m. Friday. For Thursday’s paper retail and classified display ads are due by noon Monday. For Friday’s paper retail and classified display ads are due by noon Tuesday. , Classified Line Advertising Deadlines (Help wanted, garage sales, rentals, etc.) For Sunday’s paper classified line ads are due by noon Friday. For Wednesday’s paper classified line ads are due by noon Monday. For Thursday’s paper classified line ads are due by noon Tuesday. For Friday’s paper classified line ads are due by noon Wednesday. Legal advertising is due by Friday noon and runs only in Wednesday’s paper. 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.