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Gertrude V. Travisano
Gertrude V. “Jessie
Travisano age 83, of Marietta,
left this earth on May 17, 2008.
Jessie leaves behind her husband
of 60 years, Patrick; her sister,
Louise Scoles of New Jersey; and
brother and his wife, Frank and
Rosarie Votta of Maryland; her
four daughters and their spouses,
Ginny and Larry Williams of
Sugar Hill, Donna and Colin
Hines of Plant City, Fla., Patty
and Lee Smith of Plant City, Fla.,
and Maria and Mike Cira of
Alpharetta; her grandchildren,
Brian and Greg Williams, Patrick
and Kristina Hines, Lisa and
Stephanie Smith and Matthew
and Taylor Cira; great-grandchil¬
dren, Heaven and Gavin
Williams; many nieces and
nephews. Jessie was preceded in
death by daughter, Phyllis
Travisano of Roanoke, Va., who
succumbed to Leukemia.
Jessie’s passion was her
family, going to the beach and
celebrating the holidays togeth¬
er and watching her grandchil¬
dren grow up. She enjoyed
bowling, exercising at the Y
and arranging flowers.
Friends are asked to join her
family at Byars Funeral Home
in Cumming on Monday, May
19, from 6-9 p.m. A memorial
mass will be held 10 a.m. at St.
Brendan The Navigator
Catholic Church, 4633 Shiloh
Rd, Cumming, GA 30040.
Burial will be held immediately
following at Georgia National
Cemetery, 2025 Mount Carmel
Church Lane, Canton GA
30 ll 4.
In lieu of flowers, Jessie
requests donations be made to
Embracing Hospice, 8013
Majors Rd., Cumming, GA
30040 or to the Leukemia
Lymphoma Society, 3715
Northside Parkway, 400
Northcreek, Suite 300, Atlanta,
GA 30327.
Online condolences may be
expressed at www.byarsfuner
alhome.com.
Byars Funeral Home and
Cremation Services in
Cumming is in charge of the
arrangements.
Forsvth Counts News
Mar 21, 2008
Sarah Christine
Henderson
Sarah Christine Henderson,
68, of Cumming passed away
Thursday, May 15, 2008, at
Northside Hospital Forsyth in
Cumming. Ms. Henderson was
born in Eufaula, Ala., but had
resided in the Cumming area for
the past five years.
She is preceded in death by
her husband, John William
Henderson Sr.; son, Charles
Henderson; daughters, Vickie
and Sandy Henderson; brothers,
Robert and Clyde Lindsey.
She is survived by her
daughters and sons-in-law,
Sharon and Fred Breinlinger of
Gainesville, Molly and Eddie
Blackmon of Calhoun; son and
daughter-in-law, John Willis and
Tracey Henderson of Cumming;
son, John William Henderson Jr.
of Jonesboro; sisters, Imogene
Wright of LoveJoy, Dorothy
Strickland of Las Vegas, Nev.;
six grandchildren; eight great¬
grandchildren; and numerous
nieces and nephews.
A memorial service was
held Sunday, May 18, at
McDonald and Son Chapel with
Rev. Greg Rawlins officiating.
Condolences may be
expressed online at
www.mcdonaldandson.com.
McDonald and Son Funeral
Home and Crematory is in
charge of arrangements.
Forsyth County News
May 21, 2008
Peggy Renouf
Peggy Renouf, passed away
May 16, 2008.
McDonald and Son Funeral
Home and Crematory is in
charge of arrangements.
Forsyth County News
May 21, 2008
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS — Wednesday, May 21,2008
Allen Wayne Stringer
Allen Wayne Stringer, 63,
of Gumming died on May 18,
2008, at his home. The son of
the late Henry and Zelma
Stringer, he was a native of
Texas and a proud former
Marine. For more than 20
years, Mr. Stringer was a
financial consultant in Atlanta
and Texas.
Mr. Stringer is survived by
his beloved wife, Eileen
Stringer of Cumming; daugh¬
ters, Brenda (Doug) Mason of
Cumming, Tania (Kenny)
Freeman of Greenbrier, Tenn.;
brothers, Henry Ray (Carol)
Stringer of Ft. Worth, Texas,
Robert Ray (Virginia)
Stringer of Burnet, Texas,
Ronald David (Dee) Stringer
of Midland, Texas, Gary Emil
Stringer of Midland, Texas;
and much loved grandchil¬
dren, Matthew, Jonathan,
Reagan and Emma.
Funeral services will be
held Thursday, May 22, at 11
a.m. in the McDonald and
Son Funeral Home Chapel
with Kevin Hosner officiat¬
ing. Interment will follow at
Georgia National Cemetery in
Canton. The family will
receive friends on Wednesday,
May 21, from 6-8 p.m. at the
funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, the fam¬
ily requests that donations in
Allen’s memory be made to
the American Cancer Society,
www.cancer.org or 800-ACS-
2345; the National Kidney
Foundation, www.kidney.org
or 770-452-1539; or Hospice
Atlanta, www.vnhs.org or
770-936-1126.
Condolences may be
expressed online at
www.mcdonaldandson.com.
McDonald and Son
Funeral Home and Crematory
is in charge of arrangements.
Forsyth Countv News
May 21, 2008
Elvyn Chamblee
Tallant
Mrs. Elvyn Chamblee
Tallant, 95, of Morrow passed
away peacefully at Sacred
Journey Hospice in
McDonough on Sunday, May
18, 2008. She was born June
29, 1912, in Cumming and
was a member of Bouldercrest
Baptist Church in Ellenwood
with Rev. Elmer Goble, pas¬
tor. Elvyn was preceded in
death by her husband of 57
years, Joe Scarboro Tallant;
her brother, William Leland
Chamblee; her parents,
William Toy and Mamie
Eugenia Chamblee.
Services will be held
Wednesday, May 21, at 2 p.m.
for Horis A. Ward Funeral
Home in Stockbridge with
Rev. Ed Galbreath and Rev.
Elmer Goble officiating.
She is survived by two
sons, Michael Jospeh Tallant
(Kay) of Morrow, Richard
Holmes Tallant of Spokane,
Wash.; one daughter, Anne
Tallant Gauthier (Mark) of
McDonough; grandchildren,
Leigh Tallant Blum (Dave)
Williamson, Audra Tallant
O'Neal (Ronnie) of Griffin,
Cheryl Tallant Reed (Ben) of
North Bend, Wash., Keith
Tallant of Hillsboro, Ore.,
Patty Tallant Rasmussen
(Mat) of Spokane, Wash.,
Richard and Russell
Bergmann of McDonough;
great-grandchildren, David
Blum (USAF) of Valdosta,
Michael Blum of Atlanta, Jake
and Kaleigh O’Neal of
Griffin, Paxton Rasmussen of
Spokane, Wash.; numerous
nieces and nephews also sur
vtve.
The family received
friends Tuesday, May 20,
from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at
the funeral home.
Interment followed at
Fairview Memorial Gardens.
Contributions may be
made to Sacred Journey
Hospice, 138 Peach Dr.,
McDonough, GA 30252.
Horace A. Ward Funeral
Home in Stockbridge is in
charge of arrangements.
Forsyth County News
May 21, 2008
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he’s particularly proud of the
groups that stayed the entire
night.
A sizeable portion of the
funds raised came from one
man.
Mitch Holland, a 2007
North Forsyth High School
graduate who has cerebral
palsy, did 5,010 sit-ups to raise
funds.
The sit-ups honored his late
friend, Dakota Pritchard, who
died from cancer six years ago
at age 13.
Several days later, Holland
was still sore.
“I just deal with the things.
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still fared better than the rest
of the state.
Official system scores will
not be released until early June,
But school officials do have
preliminary figures, which
Pijanowski said show that only
20 to 30 percent of sixth- and
seventh-graders statewide
passed social studies.
.. It makes us feel a lot better
about where our system stands
in regard to the state,”
Pijanowski said.
“On social studies, what
they’re saying is that, with the
social studies exam scores so
much lower ... they are actually
going back to the drawing
board, inviting teachers this
summer to redesign the social
studies standard.
Pijanowski attributed much
of the state’s struggles to the
new version of the test, which
is based on Georgia
Performance Standards, rather
than skills-based standards.
Deaths
William Wayne Wallis
Mr. William Wayne Wallis,
age 51, of Forsyth County
passed away Sunday, May 18,
2008. He was preceded in death
by his son, Jesse Wayne Lientz;
mother, Lelia Elizabeth
Davidson; and father, Howell
Eugene Wallis.
Survivors include his fiance,
Phyllis Lientz of Cumming;
children, Randy Wallis, Lisa
Cheyenne Wallis and Michael
Shayne Sizemore, all of
Cumming, Brandy Atkinson of
Bedford, Texas; brothers and
sisters-in-law, Terry and Judy
\\t Wa ir Hs ot f n Cumming, Juny i an a
Karen Trent and Kim And Rick
Nunez, all of Cumming; broth
er, Len Wallis of Ball Ground;
ex-wife, Robin Wallis of
Cumming; eight grandchildren;
numerous nieces, nephews and
other relatives also survive.
Funeral Services were held
Tuesday, May 20, at 2 p.m. in
the Ingram Funeral Home
Chapel with Rev. Johnathan
Seitz and Rev. Randall Woody
officiating. Interment followed
at Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home and
Crematory in Cumming is in
charge of arrangements.
Forsyth Counts News
May 21, 2008
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Above, David Hawkins gets ready to play Monday in the
12th annual Norman’s Landing Golf Classic, which raises
money for the United Way. Left, Victor Florez of Norman’s
Landing grills food for lunch as the golfers get in some
pregame practice.
you know, because people with
cancer go through a lot more
than 1 do,” he said of his mus¬
cle cramps.
This was the first year that
the event known as “Mitch
Maddness” was not held at
North Forsyth High gym.
“When you get out of high
school, it changes,” said
Holland, noting that he did as
many sit-ups and raised as
much money as he could.
It wasn’t 6,000 [sit-ups],”
he said of his goal. “But the
way I see it, a couple of weeks
ago, I had a seizure and they
didn’t'think I was going to
“The concern of the [new]
standards was that they were
asking for discrete, finite skills
that are not typical of a per
formance standard," she said.
The specificity, she added,
threw off students statewide,
though teachers had done as
instructed by the state.
“We delivered the curricu
lum exactly as it was written
and developed by the state
department,” she said.
In a statement, State
Superintendent of Schools
Kathy Cox expressed con
cerns about the social studies
scores,
In the next week, I will
impanel a group of Georgia
teachers and curriculum spe
cialists to review the first-year
implementation of our new
standards in social studies to
figure out what may have
caused such poor perform
ance,” she said.
One area that will be
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hole about four feet below
ground and was caught from
t h e W aist down. The trench
collapsed about 1:15 p.m. and
man was removed by
about 4 p .m.
The man, whose name has
not been released, had report
gdly been digging a sewer
drain in a subdivision off
Freemanville Road when the
incident occurred. His condi
{j on Tuesday could not be
determined.
Fire department crews
f rom Atlanta and Alpharetta
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E-mail Julie Arrington at
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Contact
• To donate to Relay for Life on behalf of Mitch
Holland, e-mail Helen Lane at
hlane@forsyth.k12.ga.us.
• To stay updated on Jenna Vorbeck’s progress, go
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make it this far.”
The first thing he did after
finishing, Holland said, was go
to Waffle House.
His former teacher, Helen
Lane, said the event was amaz
mg.
He averaged 100 sit-ups
looked at is whether these mid¬
die grade social studies stan
dards were clear enough,” Cox
continued. “It appears that the
specificity of the test questions
may have caught some students
off guard. We have to do better
than this.”
Sixth- and seventh-graders
who didn’t fare well on this
section of the CRCT should not
worry too much. The state edu
cation department likely will
consider social studies test
scores for those two grades
invalid,
Pijanowski said students in
sixth and seventh grades who
didn’t pass social studies don’t
have to go to summer school or
retake the exam,
“The only kids affected for
promotion and retention are the
third-grade reading, fifth-grade
math and reading, and eighth
grade math and reading,” she
said.
She added that statewide,
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every four minutes,” she said.
“Now that’s a little sit-up
machine if you ask me.
Like Eve, Lane also hopes
more donations come in toward
Relay for Life. She estimated
the sit-up event had raised
$5,(XX) so far.
there was a dip in eighth-grade
math, but the trend didn’t apply
to local students.
“The state scores were hov¬
ering around 62 percent and
that’s compared to our 88 per¬
cent,” she said.
Parents of students who
need to attend summer school
in order to move on to the next
grade have been notified.
She is trying to keep the
lines of communication open
for residents.
“We will be working on
developing some communica¬
tions explaining the math and
social studies dip in achieve¬
ment,” she said.
Parents who wish to see
their children’s test scores can
log onto “Parent Portal”
through the district’s Web site
(www.forsyth.kl 2.ga. us).
Otherwise, scores will be sent
out with report cards.
E-mail Lara Moore at
laramoore @forsythnews. com.