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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Wednesday, April 21,2004
Deaths
Robert L. Daniel
Mr. Robert L. Daniel, 60,
of Cumming died Saturday,
April 17. 2004. Mr. Daniel, a
native and lifelong resident of
Forsyth County, was a former
employee of Forsyth County
Hospital.
Survivors include wife,
Ann Daniel of Cumming; chil
dren, Patricia Daniel, Denise
and Johnny Samples, Lee
Daniel, all of Cumming;
grandchildren. Chloe Daniel.
Haley Samples; mothef-in-law,
Estelle Coker of Cumming; a
large number of other rela
tives also survive.
Graveside services were
Monday, April 19. at Sawnee
View Memorial Gardens with
the Rev. Johnny Pugh officiat
ing.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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April 21. 2004
Wanda Day
Ms. Wanda Day. 41, of
Alpharetta died Friday, April
16. 2004.
Survivors include son and
daughter-in-law. Stephen and
Heather Day of Cumming;
mother and father. Lois and
Emmett Wade of Alpharetta;
sister and brother-in-law. Law
Lorrie and Danny Sarker of
Helen; grandchildren. Moriah
and Nate Day of Cumming;
niece. Samara Sarker of
Helen; several cousins, aunts
and uncles also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday. April 20, at the
funeral home chapel.
Louie E. Jones Funeral
Home was in charge of the
arrangements.
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April 21. 1004
Charles Matas Martin
Mr Charles Matas "Buck’’
Martin. 72. of Cumming died
Saturday. April 17. 2004.
Mr. Martin retired from
Lockheed after 30 years of
service. He was a master bar
ber and w orked with-his dad.
Buell, at his barber shop for
many years. He was a member
of Coal Mountain Baptist
Church. He was preceded in
death by parents, Buell and
Edith Cain Martin, sister,
Laura Edna Martin; two broth
ers. George Washington "Gid"
Martin, and Earl W. Martin.
Survivors include wife.
Zeliah Samples Martin of
Cumming; daughters and
sons-in-law. Phyllis Jane and
Terry Bissette. Cindy Martin.
Stephanie Lynn and Todd
McCord, all of Cumming;
grandchildren. Chloe. Lindsey
and Riley McCord, all of
Cumming. Christopher
Bissette; former wife and
mother of his three daughters,
Doris Smith; sisters and broth
er-in-law, Mary Alice Thomas.
Diane and Johnny Gravitt, all
of Cumming; brothers and sis
ters-in-law. Robert and Shirley
Martin. Donald and Vivian
Martin. Mary Ruth Martin, all
of Cumming; father and moth
er-in-law. Luther and Thelma
Samples of Cumming; broth
ers-in-law and sisters-in-law,
Robert and Shirley Martin.
Donald and Vivian Martin,
Mary Ruth Martin, all of
Cumming; father and mother
in-law. Luther and Thelma
Samples of Cumming; brother
in-law and sister-in-law,
Adrian and Roberta Samples
of Alpharetta; a number of
other relatives also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday, April 20. at Coal
Mountain Baptist Church with
the Revs. Danny Bennett, Gary
Coffey. Pete Martin, and Phil
Christopher officiating.
In lieu of flowers, you may
make donations to the Coal
Mountain Baptist Church
Building Fund, c/o David
Smith, Treasurer, 5803 Burruss
Road, Cumming, GA 3004
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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April 21. 2004
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James Albert Ward
Mr. Albert Ward, 70, of
Madison died Saturday, April
17, 2004.
Mr. Ward was born on
Banks County and was the son
of the late Glenn Ward and
Lonnie Gowder Ward Mr.
Ward has resided in Madison
for the past 22 years and is
retired form Complete Auto
Transit in Doraville where he
worked for 37 years.
Survivors include his wife,
Margie Ward of Madison;
children, Linda Holcombe of
McDonough, Nancy Butler of
Dawsonville. Kathy Pruitt of
Otto, N.C., Julie Phillips and
Sonny Wood, both of
Rutledge; brothers and sisters.
Ernest Ward, Mildred
Hilsman, Glenn Ward, all of
Madison, Rufus Ward of
Eatonton. Otis Ward of Mt.
Airy and Elizabeth Turner of
Lula; grandchildren, Greg
Butler, Leanne Holcome,
James Robert Pruitt, Steven
Paul Pruitt, Sarah Wood,
rebekah Wood and Kristy
Wood; two great grandchil
dren; and a number of nieces
and nephews also survive.
Funeral services were
Tuesday. April 20, at
Brownwood Baptist Church.
Interment was in Brownwood
Baptist Church Cemetery.
A. E. Carter Funeral Home
was in charge of the arrange
ments.
Forsyth Counts News
April 21. 2004
MAKEUP from 1A
In other school board
business from its monthly
meeting last week:
• A new policy limiting
overnight school field trips is
being considered by board
members. The policy would
make school principals
responsible for approving
their own school's field trips.
The trips would also be sub
ject to final approval by the
school superintendent.
Elementary schools would
be prohibited from participat
ing in overnight field trips
according to the new policy.
However, exceptions could
be made on a case by case
basis, said Ellen Cohan, asso
ciate superintendent of teach
ing and learning.
Middle school students
will not be allowed to exceed
one overnight field trip per
school or grade level with the
exception of participation in
competitions, performances
and leadership opportunities.
High school students will
be limited to overnight field
trips to participate in compe
titions, performances and
leadership opportunities.
• Board members ap
proved a three-step plan to
improve student behavior on
the school bus.
Transportation Director
Garry Puetz presented a writ
ten policy which will assist
bus drivers in achieving
appropriate behavior on the
school bus. The three-step
process involves prevention,
intervention and conse
quences. The prevention step
will include bus drivers
learning the names of each
student and stop locations on
routes, in addition to reading
the bus rules to students the
first day of school and
repeated reading of the rules
on a monthly basis.
The intervention step will
be used by the bus drivers if a
student has committed a
minor offense that is inappro
priate or unsafe student
behavior. The driver will doc
ument the incident in a daily
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pounds. The man was wearing
a dark gray jersey-style jack
et, loose-fitting pants and a
camouflage baseball cap that
covered his long brown hair,
according to a sheriff’s office
report.
The shaken, but hopeful,
community gathered Monday
night on the steps of Coal
Mountain Baptist Church in
north Forsyth for a prayer vigil.
At least 150 people wearing
yellow ribbons and holding
candles prayed for the safe
return of Endres and sang
"Amazing Grace." The crowd
was comprised primarily of
family members, friends of
Endres and her son, Pistol
Black.
While investigators hunt the
man who may hold the answer
to the question of Endres’ dis
appearance, public safety per
sonnel and civilian volunteers
spread over Cherokee, Dawson
and Forsyth counties in a
ground search for Endres.
Officials targeted Dawson
$5,000 reward offered
The Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward
Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward for informa
tion leading to the whereabouts of Patrice Tamber
Endres. The foundation was established in 1999 to
assist in the location of missing persons.
A fund also has been established for Endres' son.
Donations cart be made at Regions Bank in care of
Bonnie Welchel.
Please call the sheriff’s office at (770) 781-2222 with
any information about Endres' disappearance.
logbook, remind the student
the bus rule is not being fol
lowed, reassign the student’s
assigned seat, talk individual
ly with the student and their
parent or guardian and notify
the parent or guardian in writ
ing of the offense.
The consequences phase
of the policy will be imple
mented when a student’s
behavior escalates beyond a
driver's control or has not
improved after using the
intervention steps. The first
step of the consequence phase
w ill be the driver submitting a
bus discipline form to the
school office. Then the school
administer will assign appro
priate consequences based on
the severity of the behavior
and frequency of the student's
bus referrals. Elementary
offenses could result in bus
suspension from one to 10
days or the remainder of the
year. Middle and high school
offenses also can result in bus
suspension up to 15 days or
for the remainder of the year.
Gault said she knew that
several of the bus drivers felt
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Forest Wildlife Management
Area south of Dawsonville, a
place where murder victims
have been found in the past.
Forsyth and Dawson County
sheriff’s deputies, firefighters
from both counties, the
Dawson County Emergency
Manage-ment Agency and
rangers from the Department
of Natural Resources swept
the 10,400 acres of woodlands
on Sunday.
Forsyth County Sheriffs
Lt. Mark Flowers led a search
Monday based at Shiloh
United Methodist Church in
Cherokee County. Deputies
rode the surrounding woods
on four-wheelers looking for
signs of Endres.
"Everybody thinks what
we’re doing out here is nega
tive. But we still hope to find
her alive,” he said.
Sheriff's officers plan to
scout abandoned barns, iso
lated roads, thickets and
creek beds all the way to
Canton, Flowers said.
more confident having a writ
ten policy to follow regarding
discipline procedures.
• Also at the meeting, the
board approved language arts
textbooks for grades nine
through 12. The school sys
tem assigned the task to a
special committee that uti
lized a rating scale of the
books presented by publish
ers.
Feedback on the textbooks
also was solicited from other
teachers and parents.
“McDougal Littell World
Literature.” Houghton’s “The
College Writer.” "Timeless
Voice Timeless Themes
British Traditions" of
Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall's
"American Experience,"
Holt's “Readings for
Writers." and Bedford Saint
Martin's “Patterns for
College Writers" are some of
the books chosen by the com
mittee.
In addition, high school
staff will be choosing at least
three novels for students to
read from an approved list
provided by the committee.
COMMISSION from 1A
in constructing a mixed use
project can still do so by filing
split zoning requests for their
property.
While the modifications the
board has scheduled to consider
next month do not include the
mixed use category which is
still in development they do
include several items in addi
tion to eliminating PUDs and
CUPs. The revisions include:
• Giving the board the
authority to grant lot size vari
ances while the mixed use cate
gory is being written to allow
for extensions to PUDs and
CUPs that have already been
approved.
Jackson will not
be a candidate
for new district
By Harris Blackwood
Community Editor
State Sen. Carol Jackson,
(D-Cleveland), announced
Monday she will not be a can
didate in the newly drawn 51st
state Senate district that
includes north
eastern Forsyth
County.
“Since I
was a young
girl, born and
raised in the
mountains of
northeast
Georgia. I
have had a
desire and goal
to serve in
public office,”
said Jackson in
/ now come to a
time in my poiliti
cal life that I must
make a serious
assessment con
cerning future
plans.
- Sen. Carol Jackson
a statement released by her
office.
"I now come to the time in
my political life that I must
make a serious assessment con
cerning future plans.” A three
judge federal panel redrew the
legislative districts in March
and placed Jackson in the new
District 51, which included
portions of three counties in her
current district. Jackson said
that with the upcoming special
session, she felt that she would
not have enough time to meet
her new constituents and con
duct an effective campaign.
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• Limiting the number of
residential applications county
staff will review on a monthly
basis to seven.
• Defining the term “bed
room” to ensure the correct
size of septic tank is installed
for a home.
• Allowing a conditional
use for commercial horse sta
bles on agriculturally zoned
property.
The board also postponed
until May 17 discussions that
involve changes to the coun
ty ’« land use map which is
consulted to determine if zon
ing requests conforms to a
property’s recommended use.
man Chip Pearson, a
Dawsonville resident, ann
ounced earlier that he would be
a candidate for the new seat.
Pearson, a major player in state
Republican politics, is making
his first foray into the political
arena as a can
didate. No
other candi
dates have
announced for
the seat.
Jackson,
one of the few
remaining
Democratic
senators from
north Georgia,
was facing an
uphill battle
after her new
district no longer included a
predominately African-
American precinct in Hall
County. Charles Bullock, a
political science professor at the
University of Georgia had
described Jackson's redrawn
district as “the most difficult sit
uation of anyone in the Senate."
Jackson had served three
terms in the Senate and had
held public office in White
County for 14 years.
While Jackson said that she
would not run for re-election,
she said in her statement that
she was not through with public
service.