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Deaths
Imogene Heard
Miss Imogene “Jean” Heard
of Sugar Hill died Tuesday,
Nov. 22, 2005. Bom in Forsyth
County, Miss Heard worked for
Rich’s department store and
Scientific Atlanta in Lilburn.
She was a member of the
Norcross First United Methodist
Church. She was preceded in
death by her parents, Gus Heard
and Annie Lou Wallace Pugh.
Survivors include her broth¬
er and sister-in-law, George T.
and Ann Pugh; several cousins
also survive.
Funeral services will be
Friday, Nov. 25, at 1 p.m. at the
funeral home chapel with the
Rev. Aleck Poolos officiating j
Burial will follow in the Coal
Mountain Cemetery.
Flanigan Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
November 24, 2005
Greg Holder
Mr. Greg Holder, 47, of
Cumming, formerly of Red
Bank, Tenn., died Tuesday, Nov.
21, 2005. He was a computer
software specialist with
Hewlett-Packard and a part-time
stock broker with Quest Capital
Strategies Inc. Mr. Holder was a
member of Lanier Golf Club
and a Class A golf professional.
Survivors include his wife,
Nancy Sohl of Cumming; moth
er, Norma Holder of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Memorial services will be
Saturday, Nov. 26, at 1 p.m. at
the Ingram Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to any humane
society or animal shelter.
Ingram Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
November 24, 2005
Wesley F. Krebs
Wesley F. (Wes) Krebs, 75,
of Buford died Monday, Nov.
21, 2005. Mr. Krebs resided in
Moores Mills, N.Y., for 29
years and moved to Buford in
2000. He was the Northeast
District Manager of Thomson
Consumer Electronics from
which he retired in 1992.
Survivors include his wife,
Marie Krebs; children, Michael,
Michelle, Richard and
Christopher; and eight grand
children also survive.
A private service was
Wednesday, Nov. 23, at
Tapp/Stewart Funeral Home.
Tapp/Tim Stewart Funeral
and Crematory were in
charge of the services
Forsyth County News
November 24, 2005
Gerald E. Turner
Mr. Gerald E. Turner, 64, of
Cumming died Monday, Nov.
21, 2005. Mr. Turner was a
truck driver for more than 45
years. He was preceded in death
by his granddaughter, Heather
Chadwick; parents, Egbert and
Edith Turner.
Survivors include his daugh¬
ters and sons-in-law, Susan and
Wesley Hamilton of Cumming,
Sharon and Bobby Andrews of
Ellijay, Stacey and Truett
Robertson of Jasper, Stephanie
and Steve Babiuch; sisters and
brothers-in-law, Kathryn and
Rex Walker of White, JoAnn
and Clyde McRae of Hampton,
Joyce and Donald Shook, Gail
and Harold Smith, Elaine
Wheeler, all of Cumming; 12
grandchildren; three great
grandchildren; and a number
nieces, nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Funeral services were
Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the
Ingram Funeral Home Chapel
with the Revs. Tim Hubbard and
Gerald Carnes officiating.
Interment followed in the
Sawnee View Memorial Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
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tion, he said. What Christ came to do
is to bring forgiveness for us and we
have to receive it before we can give it.
The key to mental health is being able to
forgive people who have hurt us in our
lives.”
Sharp works at the facility up to six
days a week. He teaches many of the
courses, including “Being Made
Whole,” which he wrote. Other classes
include parenting classes, a course on
boundaries and a financial class, which
teaches the women how to budget, bal¬
ance a check book and manage money.
They also learn how to maintain a prop¬
er diet and exercise routine. A new pro
gram was just added to teach residents
basic computer programs such as
Microsoft Word and Excel to help them
acquire marketable job skills after they
graduate from Abba House.
Though he is the only paid employee
at the organization, Sharp earns less
than $20,000 a year. His wife works
part-time as a dental hygienist to supple¬
ment their income and spends the rest of
h er time at working at the ministry. All
f our G f t h e Sharps’ children, Rachel,
Erin, Johanna and Jonathan, have been
involved with the ministry,
According to Tiffany Scarbrough,
w ho came to Abba House on April 5 for
a cocaine and alcohol addiction, the
facility has done more for her than she
could have received from a 30-day pro
gram.
“I couldn’t have done it without the
program. I was desperate for help, I was
miserable, I was running and wanting to
change really bad,” said the 21-year-old.
“I thought I could get over the cocaine
addiction but I was hopeless I would
ever stop drinking. I was into the bar
scene and had a fake ID since I was 15.
I thought it would always be a part of
my life, but now I know that I will suc
ceed and that I won’t go back to that
lifestyle.”
In addition to crediting the Sharps
and the program to her success,
Scarbrough said the relationships she
REPS from 1A
On Thursday, many
Democrats were praising
Congressman Jack Murtha, a
decorated veteran of the
Vietnam War, who ann
ounced his view that U.S.
military personnel should be
immediately redeployed from
^ rac l- O n Friday, the House
Republican Leadership
brought [House Resolution
571] expressing the sense of
the House that the United
States military mission in
Iraq should be immediately
terminated to the floor of the
House for a vote. Yet, 95 per
cent of House Democrats
joined 100 percent of House
Republicans in voting against
this measure.
That tells us much about
what Congressional Dem
ocrats believe in with respect
to our ongoing efforts to
bring democracy to Iraq,
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stress, his wife acknowledged.
“We have been separated,
an ^ they’ve had better days
financially, but there was
nothing severe enough to the
point where he would just take
off and leave his children.”
Fabian Casas’ sister and
parents have flown in from
McAllen, Texas and are stay
ing in the area as they anx
iously await any news,
We’re just trying to figure
out what’s going on,” Crystal
Casas said,
Casas is 6 feet, 215
pounds. Anyone with informa
tion about his whereabouts is
asked to call the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Office
Criminal Investigations
Division at (770) 781-2200.
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Barbara Coyne, center, leads a group at the Abba House in prayer. Coyne, now a house mother for Abba
House, is a graduate of the program.
made with other women in the house
and their trips to the Northland Church
has been a tremendous part of her heal
mg.
Several graduates of the program
have gone on to become volunteers at
Abba House including Barbara Coyne,
who Scarbrough said has inspired her to
give back.
“I’m planning on getting a full-time
job, saving some money and going back
to school. Then I’m going into the mis¬
sions field, if that's God’s calling,” she
said. “I want to stay around the church
and try to help out around here [Abba
House] and give back a little bit of what
they’ve given me.”
Scarbrough, and the nine other
women currently residing in the house,
While we may not all agree
on our efforts in Iraq, House
Republicans are not playing
politics, and every day we
are making no illusions about
its own views, namely, sup¬
porting our military person¬
nel, promoting democracy in
the Middle East, and ensur¬
ing the safety and security of
the American people. M
Murtha (D-Pa.), a 73
year-old decorated U.S.
Marine colonel, introduced
the resolution, Nov. 17 to
withdraw U.S. forces from
Iraq, The resolution stated
that troops are to be rede
ployed “at the earliest practi
cable date. “ It further called
for a “quick-reaction U.S.
force and an over-the-horizon
presence of U.S. Marines,” as
well as a pursuit of security
and stability in Iraq through
diplomacy.
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work across the street at Abba’s
Treasures, a 6,400-square-foot thrift
store which the Sharps opened three
years ago. All profits from Abba’s
Treasures go directly back into the Abba
House.
Though the Abba House and the sur¬
rounding land has been purchased, the
thrift store is run on a lease-to-own
basis. Sharp is currently working on
raising the $50,000 needed for a down
payment.
Providing the Sharps acquire funds
for the down payment, the next project
will be expansion on the property, pri¬
marily, a new building to house 50
women.
“There was nothing in the county
and nothing in the six or seven sur-
Though he called for a
more rapid turnover of Iraq
to its people, his plan also
included a plan of action to
ensure the safety of both U.S.
soldiers and the Iraqi people.
Republican leaders report
edly converted the wording
of the resolution to simply
ask for a vote on immediate
withdrawal.
U.S. Rep. Cynthia
McKinney (D-Decatur) of
Georgia’s 4th Congressional
District, was one of the three
members to support the reso
lution.
“Republicans in this
House have done a heinous
thing. They have insulted one
of the deans of this House in
an unthinkable and uncon
scionable way. They took the
words of Rep. Murtha and
contorted them and they took
his heartfelt sentiments and
rounding communities for women,” he
said. “We’re the only facility in the
northern 27 counties in the state that
have a therapeutic nature to them and
that allow women to bring their children
while she’s getting help for a mental
health issue or addiction.”
The project to build a 19,000-square
foot house recently began when Sharp
applied for a rural development loan
through the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. The projected expenditure
for the new house is $1.5 million,
$750,000 of which Sharp hopes to raise
through fund raisers and donated mate¬
rials and labor. A major drive to raise
funds will begin after the new year.
For more information or to donate to
Abba House, call (678) 947-2850.
spun them. They took his res
olution and deformed it in a
cheap effort to silence dissent
in the House of
Representatives,” she said in
a statement. “I am voting
“yes” on this Resolution for
an orderly withdrawal of
U.S. forces from Iraq despite
the convoluted motives
behind the Republican reso
lution. I am voting to support
our troops by bringing them
home now in an orderly with
drawal.
On Monday, an announce
ment was made by Iraq's
political factions, collectively
calling for a timetable for the
withdrawal of foreign forces,
The announcement conclud
ed a reconciliation confer
ence backed by the Arab
League, held in Cairo,
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In response, Deal com¬
mented that he would support
the Bush administration if it
were to cooperate with a
withdrawal effort, but only if
the goals of both govern¬
ments had been met.
“We turned over sover¬
eignty well over a year ago,
he said. “I think the Bush
administration will respond
appropriately. We would all
like to see our troops come
home, but that’s not the
issue. The issue is whether
the task has been completed
of a stabilized Iraq. We want
to make sure it doesn’t fall
under the control of the ter
rorists as we saw in
Afghanistan, nor do we want
it to fall under control of
Islamic extremists.”