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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010
ROTARY TO HELP GIVE LAPTOPS TO ORPHANAGE
The Rotary Club of Jefferson and a matching grant from Rotary District 6910, along
with First Baptist Church of Jefferson will supply laptop computers to the New Life’s
Children’s Orphanage in Peru. Rotarians Ron Hopkins, Michael Helms and Greg
Boussard will take the computers to Peru during the Jefferson school system’s
Spring Break. The mission trip by First Baptist Church will allow the children there
to know how to compete in the world when they become adults and break the cycle
of poverty, according to organizers. Two students from the orphanage were adopted
by local families in Jackson County. To donate to the project, contact Pastor Helms
at First Baptist Church of Jefferson. Shown are (L-R) Shade Storey, Greg Boussard,
Ron Hopkins and Michael Helms.
Holliday, Statham plan March 27 wedding
Mary Brown Tarpkins,
Commerce, and Charlie R.
Holliday, Rome, announce
the engagement and forth
coming marriage of their
daughter, Charlene Elizabeth
Holliday, Commerce, to
Cruse Lafrozo Statham,
Commerce, son of Jeanette
T. Geter, and Paul J.
Statham, Gainesville.
The bride-elect’s grand
parents are the late James
and Beulah Brown,
Cornelia, Alice Holliday,
Cedartown, and Roosevelt
Sewell, Rome.
Miss Holliday is employed
at ResCare HomeCare.
The groom-elect’s grand
parents are Edward and
Hilma Smith, Homer, and
the late Willie and Doshie
Statham, Gainesville.
Mr. Statham is employed
with Goodwell.
The couple will marry on
March 27, 2010, at 4 p.m.,
at the Commerce Civic
Center.
MR. STATHAM AND
MISS HOLLIDAY
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MR. GAZAWAY AND
MISS BORDERS
Borders, Gazaway
to wed March 20
Shena Leigh Borders and
Brian Douglas Gazaway will be
married on Saturday, March 20,
at the Commerce Civic Center.
Invitations have been sent.
Plott to serve
Debra Plott will be the new
president of the Jefferson
Woman’s Club, succeeding
Connie Taylor.
She was elected at the March
8 meeting and will assume her
duties at the September session.
Other officers elected for the
new year were: Ruth Joiner, vice
president; Joan Walker, secretary;
and Jerry Stewart, treasurer.
The club takes a summer break
and will not meet in June, July
and August.
birth announcement
Brycen Anthony Murphy
Tylor and Nicole Murphy, Jefferson, announce the birth
of a son, Brycen Anthony Murphy, born on Feb. 19, 2010,
at Northeast Georgia Medical Center,
Gainesville,
He weighed nine pounds and was
20.5 inches long.
He joins siblings Gavin, 8; Chloe, 6;
and twins Ryleigh and Reese, 3.
The grandparents are Jerry Lewis,
Nicholson, and the late Martha B.
Lewis, Maysville; and Rick Murphy,
Hoschton, and Michelle Ledford,
Commerce.
The great-grandparents are the late J.P and Ola Mae Boswell,
Maysville; the late Sharp and Stella Lewis, Maysville; the late
Betty O’Kelley, Commerce; Geraldine Murphy and the late
Lamar Murphy, Hoschton.
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QUILT ROOM
Nancy Murphy, Vicki Howington and Carolyn Knight ply their needles and thread
to a quilt being made to raise funds for the Friends of the Harold S. Swindle Public
Library in Nicholson. The quilters meet at the Nicholson Community Center, in the
quilting room, which is hung with quilts of varying patterns and colors.
Photo by Jana Mitcham
Quilting continued from page 1C
quilt room about a year and a half
ago, fundraising for the library
remains a concern of the quilters
and they are at work on a Log
Cabin pattern quilt to be “given
away’’ to the winning ticket hold
er at the Nicholson July Fourth
celebration. Proceeds will benefit
the Friends of the Library.
Thursday evenings gathering
included Rice, Vicki Howington,
Nancy Murphy, Carolyn Knight
and Gail Maxwell.
“Susan is our wonderful teach
er,’’ one lady said.
Rice laughed: “I’m just the
addict and I need this fix.’’
“We need to work on this,’’
she added, with a nod toward
the quilt spread across a wooden
frame in the middle of the room.
“We got the top down quickly,
but we want to get this finished
and let it hang in the library for
a while.’’
The group chose the Log
Cabin pattern because it can be
fitted with paper pieces, meaning
everyone can do the same work
and same pattern, regardless of
skill level.
“I’ve been quilting about 30
years,’’ Rice said. “I’ve sewn
since I was 9 years old and it was
a natural progression, all those
scraps.’’
Rice took one quilting class,
but mainly has relied on books
and magazines and trial and
error. She on occasion dyes her
own material and has even tried
her hand at designing quilt pat
terns.
“In Cobb County I started my
little business out of my pick-up
truck and I’d go around and teach
at quilt guilds and sell materials,’’
Rice said. “That’s where a lot of
this material came from.’’
Murphy, another longtime
quilter who quilts for pleasure
and manages the quilting room
at the Jackson County Senior
Center, stretched out her hand.
“If you quilt all day long and
all night long, you get a thumb
like this,’’ she said. “I started sew
ing at 13 with clothes, and it went
on from there.’’
Murphy learned to sew and
quilt from her granny, who lived
on a sharecropper’s farm and
would use the last pickings to fill
her quilts.
“It’s the real cotton batting that
makes the old quilts so heavy,’’
she explained. “They had to card
the seeds out. She couldn’t use
what there was to sell for a living,
so she’d use the unopened bolls
and pull the cotton out.’’
Knight is self-taught and has
quilted “off and on’’ for 10 years.
Howington and Maxwell both
started quilting when the Quilt
With Friends group was formed.
“Right now I’m learning to
knit, that’s my thing right now,’’
Howington added. The group is
open to learning new skills, and
crocheting and knitting have also
been on the table, along with the
quilting projects.
They quilt.
And they talk.
They talk about quilts, and
patterns with names like The
Drunkard’s Path, The Dresden
Plate, The Blooming Nine Patch,
Grandmother’s Fan, Jellyroll,
Cathedral Window and Wild
Goose Chase.
There are terms like applique
and stack and whack quilting.
“There are so many patterns,
thousands and thousands of
choices,’’ Rice said.
The group has held a Saturday
workshop and will sometimes
head out for a field trip, like
last week. Thursday evening they
were looking forward to travel
ing to the Gwinnett Sewing Expo
on Friday.
And then the next week, they
would start quilting work all over
again.
“Anybody who wants to come,
from knowing nothing to want
ing to teach us something, we’d
love to learn,’’ Rice said.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Mr. Larry Thomas
Dowdy would like to thank everyone for the
acts of kindness shown during his time of
illness and our time of bereavement. We
would also like to say a thank you to the
following people: City of Arcade Police
Department, Patriot Guard, Arcade Mayor;
Doug Haynie: CertainTeed, Rev. David T
Batts and the staff of Gardenview Funeral
Chapel, Paula Elliott (Larry's nurse), Dr.
Thomas and the staff of Northeast Georgia
Cancer Care, Dr. Brown and the staff of St.
Mary's Hospice House, Rev. Gary Walker,
and Pastor Mark A. Weaver and the Summer
Hill Baptist Church Family. Every act of
kindness shown during our time of need was
very much appreciated.
Sheila Dowdy (Wife)
Sheprentice, Xernona, D'Aysha, Travis,
Jason, Dwight, Malcolm (Children)
and the Dowdy family
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