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Deaths
Charlotte Frances Wiley
Bradbury
Charlotte Frances Wiley
Bradbury, age 78, of Cumming
passed away Monday, May 26,
2008. She went peacefully in
the night after a four-year bat¬
tle from suffering three
strokes. Known to most as
Frances, she was born on July
23, 1929, in Covington, Ky.
She married Wayne Bradbury
in October 1948 and was
blessed with four daughters
and a son. She was preceded in
death by her husband in 1986;
and two of her children. Jay
Bradbury of Highland, Calif.,
(2006) and Joyce Sullivan of
Duluth (2000).
Frances was a loving and
caring wife, mother, grand¬
mother, and friend.
She is survived by her
daughters, Judi Bradbury of
Cumming, Jeanne Gibson of
Cumming. and Julia Chism of
Springfield, Mo. Additionally,
her son-in-law, Steve Gibson
of Cumming; and her daugh¬
ter-in-law, Sherri Bradbury of
Highland, Calif., survives her.
Her grandsons, Dan and Justin
Gibson of Cumming, and Jon,
Daniel, and Matt Bradbury;
granddaughter, Melanie Green
of Highland, Calif.; along with
two great-grandchildren, Chris
Green and Jolie Green also
survive Frances.
A small family and friends
memorial service was held
Wednesday. May 28, at the
home of Steve and Jeanne
Gibson at 4 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the fami¬
ly wishes that donations be
made to the American Heart
Association.
Byars Funeral Home and
Cremation Services is in
charge of arrangements.
Forsyth County News
Max 29, 2008
Chad Michael Cornute
Chad Michael Cornute,
21, of Cumming passed away
Tuesday, May 20, 2008. He
was born in Columbus, Ohio,
and had lived in the
Cumming area for the past
six years. Chad was a 2007
graduate from South Forsyth
High School and was an avid
sports fan, especially basket¬
ball and football.
He is survived by his par¬
ents, Dan and Sue Martin of
Cumming; sisters, Chelsie
Martin of Cumming, Lordless
Dalton of Columbus, Ohio;
brothers, Jared Martin of
Cumming, Cody and Tyler
Dalton of Columbus, Ohio;
grandmothers, Anna Cornute
of Columbus, Ohio, Pat
Dalton of Columbus, Ohio;
and numerous aunts, uncles
and cousins.
A memorial service will
be Saturday, May 31, at 3
p.m. at McDonald and Son
Chapel with Dr. Jim
Dwiggins officiating. The
family will receive friends
Saturday from 2-3 p.m. at the
funeral home.
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 29, 2008
WHISKEY from 1A
just after 1 a.m. Monday,
The store is less than a mile
north of Hubbard Town
Road.
The men reportedly took
six cases containing six
1.75 liter, or “handle,” bot¬
tles each of Crown Royal,
which had been on display
at the store’s entrance.
Taylor said they used a
large piece of concrete to
smash through the glass
doors.
Investigators say the sus
pects left the store in a 1995
^ylitsubishi Mirage. They
— FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS —Thursday, May 29, 2008
Floyd Ellis Garrett
Floyd Ellis Garrett, 81, of
Conyers passed away Monday,
May 26, 2008. He was bom in
Atlanta on Sept. 9, 1926. He
served in the Army/Air Corps
during World War II. He was a
graduate of Tech High in
Atlanta. After working for the
city of Atlanta for 37 years, he
retired as a civil engineer in
1981.
Floyd is survived by his
loving and devoted wife of 53
years, Bernice; son, Stephen
(Gloria) Garrett; daughter,
Patricia (John) Entrekin; sister,
Beverly Edwards; five grand¬
children; six great-grandchil¬
dren; one niece; and one
nephew.
A graveside service was
held at Westview Cemetery in
Atlanta on Wednesday, May
28, at 2 pm.
In lieu of flowers, the fami¬
ly requests that donations be
made to the American Cancer
Society, www.cancer.org or
800.ACS.2345.
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 29, 2008
Jim Perry
Mr. Jim Perry, age 79, a
native and lifelong resident of
Forsyth County, passed away
Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Mr.
Perry was a member of Coal
Mountain Baptist Church and
was preceded in death by his
parents, Homer and Gertrude
Perry; brother, Jessie “Dee
Perry; and granddaughter,
Tammy Harbin.
Survivors include his wife
of 44 years, Betty Perry of
Cumming; daughter and son-in
law. Wanda and Leroy Harbin
of Cumming; son and daughter
in-law, Michael and Christy
Perry of Dawsonville; grand
children, Travis Harbin of
Cumming, Jody and Amber
Harbin of Cumming, Cade,
Carsen and Cara Perry of
Dawsonville; great-grandchil
dren. Heather Harbin of
Freehome and Haley and Eli
Harbin of Cumming; brothers
and sister-in-law, Donnie and
Carolyn Perry of Alpharetta and
Harold Perry of Cumming; sis
ters and brother-in-law, Dot
Thomas of Gainesville, Betty
and Lloyd O Bryant of
Freehome; brothers-in-law and
sisters-in-law, Doyce and Jim
Gilmore of Ellenwood, Annie
Laura Smith of Cumming,
Mary Chumbler of Cumming,
Hugh and Joyce Smith of
Cumming and Willie Mae
Smith of Cumming; numerous
other relatives also survive.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday, May 29, at 3 p.m. at
Coal Mountain Baptist Church
with Rev. Danny Bennett, Rev.
Vernie Worley and Rev. Jerry
Orr officiating. Interment will
follow at Sawnee View
Memorial Gardens. Mr. Perry
will lie in state at 2:30 p.m. The
family received friends
Wednesday, May 28, from noon
to 4 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to Coal Mountain
Baptist Church Building Fund.
Ingram Funeral Home and
Crematory is in charge of
arrangements.
Forsyth County News
May 29, 2008
LOOK FOR
OBITUARIES
ON 2A
headed north on Ga. 400
before ending up at the
Arbor Ridge subdivision on
Hubbard Town Road.
Sheriff’s Investigator
Paige Turpin said that’s
where the suspects appear
to have split up.
“At that point the passen¬
ger decided he didn’t want
to ride anymore so he [got
out],” she said.
Turpin, who recognized
Whitaker from video taken
at the liquor store, had just
finished processing the car
ant* was leaving the neigh¬
Valedictorians of the class of
Here is a closer look at the valedicto¬
rians from Forsyth Central, North
Forsyth and South Forsyth high schools.
Forsyth Central High School
Charles “Charlie” McKenzie
College:
University of
Georgia
Aspirations:
“I hope to
become an
orthopedic sur¬
geon somewhere
down the road
and live life hap¬
pily and fully.”
school memory: “Winning the North
ZOUL from 1A
brother to a Cubs-Sox game
at Wrigley Field and it was
really one of the last outings
he could do.”
He anticipates taking his
daughter to as many Cubs
games as possible.
“I really enjoyed it here,”
he said. “It is a little bitter¬
sweet because I’ve been
treated very well here.”
Zoul said he would par¬
ticularly miss Otwell’s four
Teachers of the Year —
Melissa Sessa, Mike Sloop,
Mark Fisher and Ronnnie
McNeese — who claimed
the honor in consecutive
years,
We have really good
people here, people of char
acter,” Zoul said. “You have
to be a great person to be a
great teacher.”
Teachers say they will
miss Zoul, too.
He has been an absolute
Godsend when it comes to
leadership, Sessa said. “The
mere fact that he knows
COUNTY from 1A
representatives about their expe
rj e nce * n acquiring grants to pur
c hase property and their work on
similar projects.
All said they were capable of
getting grants for properties and
had worked on comparable and
larger green space projects for
other Georgia counties.
Lose and Associates, the
Trust for Public Land, Pond and
Co. and MACTEC each gave
presentations to commissioners
a t ^ April work session on ways
to handle the county’s green
S p ace portion of the $100 million
p^ks, recreation and green space
bond voters approved in
February.
DOT from 1A
Dent, a latecomer to the
field, will find out whether his
role as a former DOT adminis¬
trator was to his benefit. Last
week, he picked up the
endorsement of the Greater
Hall Chamber of Commerce.
In Dalton, where Farrow
and Neff are active in the com¬
munity, the chamber did not
get involved in the race.
Seipp is from the Senate
district of state Sen. Jeff
Mullis, R-Chickamauga, who
is chairman of the Senate
Transportation Committee.
With four candidates, the
lawmakers also have the abili¬
ty to set their own rules. One
candidate will have to get 13
of the 25 votes in order to win,
but the lawmakers involved in
the caucus can decide how
candidates are eliminated.
Most capitol observers pre¬
dict that the voting will go two
or three rounds. The process is
open to the public; however,
the vote is traditionally taken
by secret ballot on paper. The
votes are counted by a desig¬
borhood when she saw the
suspect walking along the
road.
Taylor said the chase
began after the suspects
“made an improper turn” on
Ga. 400, which alerted
Sheriff’s Sgt. Phil
Alexander, who was in a
patrol car in the median on
Ga. 400.
Alexander followed the
suspects as they traveled
south in the northbound
lane for less than a 10th of a
mile, before turning right
onto Iflubbard Town Road
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Retiring principal Jeff
Zoul gets a hug from
eighth grade student
Brenda Corona.
every child’s name in the
school speaks volumes of his
commitment for the schools,
his commitment for the kids.”
Fisher said students have
become accustomed to
Zoul’s presence.
“The students are not sur¬
prised to see him in the class
room,” he said. “They don’t
At a May 13 work session,
the GIS department addressed
the commission, estimating that
about 25 to 30 percent of the
process would be within the
department’s expertise: gathering
and analyzing data, then mapping
it.
Commissioners have not
selected a firm, though Tam
unsuccessfully motioned to lock¬
ing in the firms as candidates on
May 13.
The commission did not
make a selection Tuesday either.
Further discussion of the matter
was postponed.
E-mail Frank Reddy at
frankreddy @ forsythnews. com.
nated person, and the results
are announced after each
round.
Also missing this time is
the heavy influence of the leg¬
islature’s top leaders, House
Speaker Glenn Richardson, R
Hiram, and Lt. Gov. Casey
Cagle, R-Chestnut Mountain.
Cagle and Richardson
engaged in a high stakes politi¬
cal battle in February when the
caucus re-elected Chairman
Mike Evans of Cumming, who
fended off a challenge from
former state Rep. Stacey
Reece, R-Gainesville.
Richardson later punished
House members who voted for
Evans. He evicted one of them,
Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ranger,
from his office in the Capitol
building.
The others, Doug Collins
of Gainesville, John Meadows
of Calhoun, Martin Scott of
Rossville and Mark Hamilton
of Cumming, were stripped of
offices held on committees and
subcommittees.
Richardson, who was in
and then into the subdivi¬
sion, Taylor said.
Turpin explained that
after Whitaker got out, the
driver turned around as if he
were going back to Ga. 400.
When he saw that deputies
were closing in, however, he
turned back and “tried to go
off road,” nearly ending up
in a creek.
“He was finished driving
at that time and jumped out
and ran,” she said.
E-mail Julie Arrington at
juliearrington@fosyth
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football game. I was out on that field ...
nothing better than that,” said
McKenzie, an offensive guard.
North Forsyth High School
Michael Fredrick Grasso
Age: 18
College:
Georgia
Institution of
Technology
Aspirations:
To major in engi
neering, pursue a
certificate in nan
otechnology and
become a “walk
on” for the
Yellow Jacket
basketball team.
assume anyone’s in trouble.
He likes to come in and tells
a good story.”
Also tugging at Zoul’s
heartstrings is his morning
routine, “standing out front
every day, shaking hands
with the kids.”
“The parents seem to
appreciate it and I always
enjoy it,” he said. “It’s my
favorite part of the day.”
Sloop said he’s grateful
for the opportunity to have
worked underZoul’s watch.
He has taught me so
much about raising student
expectations, about focusing
on the positive rather than the
negative, and doing whatever
it takes to reach students,”
Sloop said,
McNeese described Zoul
as an honest, caring person.
“Forsyth County will def¬
initely miss him,” McNeese
said. “Our loss, Illinois’
gain,
E-mail Lara Moore at
laramoore @forsythnews. com
Favorite high school memory: play¬
ing basketball for North Forsyth
South Forsyth High School
Joshua Evans
18
College: Duke
University
Aspirations: A
career in medicine
specializing in car¬
diac surgery
Favorite high
school memory:
Mr. Henderson’s
class and the
Governor’s Honors
Program
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Other business
About half of the items on the agenda for Tuesday's
Forsyth County commission work session were postponed.
On matters that did gamer consideration, commissioners:
• Extended until year's end a contract with Moreland
Altobelli Associates, a firm providing services for the engi¬
neering department.
• Denied a developer's request for a sewer tap refund on
property purchased from the county.
• Approved moving $734,330 from the contingency fund
to cover final payment for the purchase of computer soft¬
ware.
• Adopted an intergovernmental agreement with the
Department of Driver Services for the lease of a new build
mg.
Note: All votes were 5-0 unless otherwise noted.
-Frank Reddy
Gainesville two weeks ago for
a bill signing by Gov. Sonny
Perdue, said he hoped a con-
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Evans
— Lara Moore
Board approves
three rezonings
The Forsyth County Planning
Commission voted 5-0 on Tuesday
night to recommend approval of:
• ESES Properties' request to rezone
3.05 acres from agricultural to neigh¬
borhood shopping district in the south¬
west comer of Bethelview and Kelly
Mill roads. The company wants to
build a 22,000-square-foot retail center
with 113 parking spaces.
• Greenspace Properties' request to
rezone 4.7 acres from residential to
agricultural at Church and Hopewell
roads. The request would allow two
single-family homes to remain.
• Steve Manning's request to rezone
8.5 acres from residential to commer¬
cial business district at Buford
Highway and Windermere Parkway.
The applicant wants to develop 50,400
square feet of retail space.
The board also voted 5-0 to:
• Continue until June 24 a request
by Jose Elias Neto for a 5,000-square
foot granite fabrication business on
about 3.3 acres at Atlanta Highway and
Francis Road.
-Julie Arrington
sensus candidate would
emerge, though that does not
appear likely.