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> FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Wednesday, February 4,2004
Deaths
Bernice Darby
Mrs. Bernice Darby, 68, of
Dahlonega died Friday, Jan.
30, 2004.
Survivors include her sons,
Billy Darby of Cumming,
Danny Darby of Dawsonville,
Stevie Darby of Alabama;
daughters, Gail Darby of
Dahlonega, Pattie Beardon of
Dawsonville; brother, J.W.
Ledford of Tate; sister, Edith
Heath of Marble Hill; nine
grandchildren; two great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were
Monday, Feb. 2, from the
chapel of Cagle Funeral Home
with the Rev. Harold Bottoms
and Pastor Joel Crotzer offici
ating. Interment followed in
the Sunrise Memorial
Gardens.
Cagle Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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February 4, 2004
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James Garrett
James Garrett, 47, of
Cumming died January 31,
2004.
Survivors include wife,
Cyndie Garrett; son, Patrick
Garrett; daughter, Jordan
Garrett; mother, Florine
Maloney; brothers, Michael
Garrett, Ike Garrett.
Memorial services are
Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 2 p.m. at
Wages & Sons Stone
Mountain Chapel.
Wages & Sons Funeral
Home is in charge of the
arrangements.
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/ February 4, 2004
Carolene Coffey Glover
Carolene Coffey Glover.
72, died Jan. 31, 2004. She
was born Dec. 22, 1931, in
Atlanta and married Harold
Glover on Feb. 24, 1950, and
moved to Forsyth County in
1953. Carolene was a home
maker and a substitute grade
school and preschool teacher.
She was the first dispatcher for
the Forsyth County Volunteer
Fire Department. In 1979,
Carolene was named Woman
of Achievement for her work
with the fire department. She
and Harold were foster parents
for 18 years and were named
North Georgia Foster Parents
of the Year in 1991. She was
active in the local and Georgia
Foster Parents Association and
was a member of First
Redeemer Church in
Cumming.
Survivors include her hus
band of 54 years, Harold; sons
and daughters-in-law, Daniel
and Alaine Glover, David and
Susie Glover; daughter and
son-in-law, Joan and Jackie
Jennings, all of Cumming;
grandchildren, Ryan and
Theresa, Danielle, Janet and
Phil, Jessica, John, Justin,
Jennifer and Shannon; step
grandchildren, Bobby and
Kristen; great-grandchildren,
Christian and Emma; brothers
and sisters-in-law, Lloyd and
Montine Coffey, Lindsey and
Miyoung Coffey; sisters and
brothers-in-law, Christine and
Vernon Bailey, Gayle and Jim
Bates; long-term foster chil
dren, Tina and Jamey; many
nieces and nephews also sur
vive.
Funeral services were
Monday, Feb. 2, at the Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel with Dr.
Richard Lee and the Rev.
Mike Schmid officiating.
Interment followed in the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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February 4, 2004
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Ricky Dean Grogan
Mr. Ricky Dean Grogan,
50, of Cumming died Jan. 31,
2004. Mr. Grogan was a mem
ber of Mt. Pisgah Baptist
Church. He was also an avid
hunter and fisherman. Mr.
Grogan retired from Lucent
Technology after many years of
service.
Survivors include his wife,
Joy Huffstetler Grogan of
Cumming; children, Derrick
Grogan, Trevor Grogan, both of
Cumming; parents, Harold and
Joyce Grogan of Cumming; sis
ter and brother-in-law, Michelle
and Dan White of Lathemtown;
mother-in-law, Elise Huffstetler
of Dawsonville; uncle and aunt,
Derrel and Ellen Carnes of
Cumming; several nieces,
nephews and other relatives
also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Mt.
Pisgah Baptist Church with the
Revs. Randy Richards, Robert
Martin, Ronnie Waters and
Travis Bridgeman officiating.
Interment followed in the Mt.
Pisgah Baptist Church
Cemetery.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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February 4, 2004
Ruthel Duran Heard
Mrs. Ruthel Duran Heard,
76, of Cumming died Sunday,
Feb. 1, 2004. She was preceded
in death by her husband of 56
years, Curtis Heard; brothers,
Winburn and Hoyt Duran and
Winfred “Ham” Duran.
Survivors include her chil
dren, Larry and Marsha Heard,
Jerry and Lou Heard, Joyce and
Ricky Caine, all of Cumming;
grandchildren, Mickey Heard,
Casey and Michael Tavenier,
Jeremy and Lynn Heard,
Heather Sinram, all of
Cumming; great-granddaugh
ter, Skyler Tavenier; sister and
brother-in-law, Charlotte and
Donnie Bennett of Cumming;
sister-in-law, Jinny Duran of
Gainesville; sisters- and broth
ers-in-law, Charlotte and
Charles Gravitt, Jerry
Standridge, Sylvia Heard,
Willena Heard, all of
Cumming; and a number of
other relatives also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel with the
Revs. Jimmy Hogan. Ruel
Martin, Dexter Gravitt and
Ronnie Bennett officiating.
Interment followed in the
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Cemetery.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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February 4, 2004
Carolyn Boling Mashburn
Mrs. Carolyn Boling
Mashburn, 67, of Marietta died
Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004. Mrs.
Mashburn, a native of Forsyth
County, was a member of Mt.
Zion Baptist Church in Cobb
County. She was preceded in
death by her father, Emory
Boling.
Survivors include her hus
band, LaVon Mashburn of
Marietta; son and daughter-in
law, Lee and Julie Mashburn of
Dallas; granddaughters, Haley,
Amanda and Taylor Mashburn;
mother, Irene Boling of
Cumming; sister, Vicki Boling
of Alpharetta; mother-in-law,
Jessie Mashburn of Marietta;
and several other relatives also
survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel with the
Revs. Charles Nunnally and
Bud Sutton officiating.
Entombment followed in the
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens Mausoleum.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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February' 4, 2004
Cecil B. Patterson
Mr. Cecil B. Patterson, 76,
of Cumming died Saturday,
Jan. 31, 2004. Mr. Patterson, a
native of Bartow County, gradu
ated from Cass High School.
He was a veteran of World War
11, serving in the U.S. Navy
aboard the USS Shangri-La in
the Pacific Theater. He was
retired from The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers after 35
years of service. He retired as
resource manager for Lake
Sidney Lanier. Mr. Patterson
was active in many civic organi
zations in Forsyth County. He
was preceded in death by his
son, Richard Patterson.
Survivors include his wife,
Marjorie Smith Patterson of
Cumming; daughters and sons
in-law, Lynn and Harley Boeve
of Muskegon, Mich., Ann and
David Leonard of Ringgold;
daughter-in-law, Melody
Patterson of Cumming; grand-
children,
Jameson, Joseph
and Jonathan
Patterson, Lora
and Bradley
Raines, Taylor,
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Mary and Daniel Leonard; sis
ters- and brothers-in-law,
Kathryn Ross of Alpharetta,
Eva Jo and David Shoemaker of
Millbrook, Ala.; nephews,
David and Ben Shoemaker; and
a number of other relatives and
friends also survive.
Funeral services were
Monday, Feb. 2, at the Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel with the
Revs. Mark Harrison and John
Hamrick officiating. Interment
followed in the Sawnee View
Memorial Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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February 4, 2004
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the Corps of Engineers annual
picnic for many years.
“He saw the lake grow
from local use to becoming a
regional place of visitation,”
he said, noting the overwhelm
ing boom in lake usage during
the late 1970 s and early 'Bos.
“He was one of the best
lake managers in the whole
system,” said James
Harrington, a former Forsyth
County Commission member.
“He carried on a good dis
course with the local commu
nity. You didn’t have to be a
public official to talk with
Cecil.”
Patterson was active in a
number of local civic organi
zations and was a member of
the Forsyth County Rotary
Club.
He is survived by his wife,
Marjorie Smith Patterson, two
daughters, and eight grand
children. He was preceded in
death by a son, Richard
Patterson.
Funeral services were held
Monday at the Ingram Funeral
Home Chapel.
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Sex offender failed to report, deputies say
By Steven H. Pollak
Staff Writer
A convicted sex offender
who moved to Forsyth County
the first week of January was
arrested Friday for failing to
report his new residence to the
local authorities.
Charles Howard Bentley,
64, of Brannon Oaks Lane in
Forsyth County, turned himself
in to detectives with the Special
Victims Unit at Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office. He was arrest
ed on a charge of failure to reg
ister as a sex offender, a felony
offense punishable by one to
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ethylene glycol, a deadly
chemical found in antifreeze,
glass cleaner and brake fluid,
according to court records.
Twelve jurors from Cobb
will decide the guilt or inno
cence of Lynn Turner in the
murder of Glenn Turner.
Evidence from the Thompson
investigation will be allowed,
the judge ruled in July.
Berry and his partner, Vic
Reynolds, requested that the
word “antifreeze” be disal
lowed in future proceedings.
Physical examination of Glenn
Turner and Thompson’s bod
ies revealed the presence of
ethylene glycol, which is pres
ent in other substances besides
antifreeze.
“There is no one that can
testify that it was antifreeze,”
Berry said. “If you don’t
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No one was injured in the
incident but the Fire
Department’s Haz-Mat team
was called out to investigate
the spill while deputies
blocked off the road.
In addition to the 3,000 to
4,000 gallons of spilled chick
en blood, Deputy Fire Chief
Dwight Clark said the truck
dumped about 150 gallons of
diesel fuel on the roadway.
Another Forsyth County
firefighter, Lt. Michael
Sheuring, said he came to the
Old Federal Road incident
while on duty as an ambulance
driver.
Sheuring said the firefight
ers contained the spill and pre
vented it from spreading by
digging several trenches
around the area. Once the spill
was contained, Leon Jones
brought in its own environ
mental contractors to finish
the cleanup job.
David Hood, the manager
of the Leon Jones trucking
facility on Leland Drive, said
there was a "good possibility"
Barnes would be fired for the
incident. Barnes had just start
ed working for Leon Jones
about a week ago, he added.
"I'm sure he didn't mean to
do it but it could have been
prevented," Hood said.
The company employs
about 100 truck drivers, the
manager said. He chalked up
both incidents to “operator
error” rather than a problem
with the company’s trucks.
three years in prison.
According to Detective
Jason Bumdrette of the sher
iff’s Special Victims Unit,
Bentley was convicted in
Georgia in 1998 on federal
charges of possession and/or
selling of material involving
minors. Bentley had been liv
ing in Panama City Beach, Fla.,
before coming to Forsyth. The
Bay County, Fla., Sheriff’s
Office notified the Forsyth
authorities that Bentley would
be moving here on Jan. 5.
Georgia law states that a con
victed sex offender must regis-
know, then you shouldn’t be
using this term."
The judge ruled against
the defense, stating that the
motion to limit use of the
word was too broad a
request.
The defense also moved
to limit the entry of Glenn
Turner’s death certificate into
evidence. The cause of death
is listed as homicide on the
recorded document, a verdict
that Berry said a medical
examiner legally cannot
decide.
Assistant District Attorney
Russ Parker argued that the
death certificate was “evi
dence of the death itself and
the agency of death.” Cobb
district attorney Patrick
Head, assistant Bryan
Lumpkin and special prose-
The last time a Leon Jones
truck overturned in Forsyth
County, approximately 7,000
gallons of chicken blood
spilled into a creek which fed
into Lake Lanier.
The driver of a Leon Jones
truck had been hauling chick
en blood on the night of June
18 when he attempted to make
a left turn from Bald Ridge
Marina Road onto Ga. 400
and the tanker's load shifted.
The tanker hit a concrete
median and ruptured the tank,
sending the blood onto the
roadway. From there, the
blood flowed down Eagle
Creek and into Lake Lanier.
Nearby residents and busi
ness owners were warned to
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ter with the local sheriff of a
county within 10 days oftaking
up residence in the jurisdiction.
The Georgia Bureatr of
Investigation placed Bentleyjon
its sex offender registry on Jin.
16 but the Sheriff’s Office
never heard from him,
Bumdrette said.
On Jan. 30, Bumdrette
called Bentley to ask why he
never notified authorities of his
new address. The sex offender
came in person to the Sheriff’s
Office and was arrested by
authorities for his failure to
register.
cutor Jack Mallard also rep
resent the state in this case.
Bodiford delayed a ruling
on the motion until the prose
cution enters the death cer
tificate as evidence.
Bodiford also declined to
rule on the state’s motion to
prevent any attempt to attack
the character and reputation
of the deceased. Reynolds
said on behalf of the defen
dant that evidence of
Thompson’s behavior around
the time of his death would
be pivotal to the case and
must be allowed.
Bodiford will rule on
allowance of such material
when it is introduced in trial.
Jury selection is expected
to last through this week. The
trial is scheduled to end Feb.
28.
stay away from Eagle Creek
while officials with the
Forsyth County Emergency
Management Agency tested
samples from the waterway
for the presence of E. Coli
and Salmonella.
Due to the high level of E.
Coli found in the samples,
the public was not allowed
near the creek for 10 days.
The state Environmental
Protection Division moni
tored the clean-up at Eagle
Creek last June but did not
respond to the latest over
turned truck incident because
it did not involve a waterway,
said Kevin Chambers, a
spokesperson at the agency.