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LOCA^SOUTHEAST The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Thursday, November 8, 2018 9A AROUND THE SOUTHEAST HEPHZIBAH Family: Man killed girlfriend’s son while they played ‘zombies’ The family of a 6-year-old boy says he was shot and killed by his mother’s boyfriend while they were playing “zombies.” Laura Stamey tells WRDW-TV that her grandson Ryder was play ing with her daughter’s boyfriend, 32-year-old Benjamin Goodson, when Goodson shot Ryder. Rich mond County Coroner Mark Bowen says the boy died Monday night at a home in Hephzibah. The county sheriff’s office says Goodson was taken into custody and charged with murder, child cruelty and other offenses. The arrest report says Goodson shot Ryder in the chest with a shotgun. It says the gun didn’t fire at first, so he had to pull the hammer back and aim and shoot again. Alcohol may have been involved. ELLIJAY Police shoot suspect in armed home invasion Authorities say officers and deputies responding a call shot an armed suspect. News outlets cite a Facebook post from Ellijay police that says officers from the department and Gilmer County deputies responded to a domestic-related attempted home invasion on Tuesday night. According to police, officers and deputies were approached by an armed suspect and multiple shots were fired. It’s unclear how many people discharged their weapons. The suspect was hospital ized. His condition has not been released. No officers were injured. Georgia Bureau of Investiga tion spokeswoman Nelly Miles confirmed that the state agency is investigating. No identities or further details have been released. Gilmer County is in north Geor gia. A significant portion of the county contains the Chattahoochee National Forest. MISSISSIPPI Man accused of taking Georgia baby is caught PEARL — A man accused of kidnapping a baby in Georgia has been arrested. News outlets report Michael Christopher Diaz was arrested Monday and charged with abduct ing a baby and stealing a vehicle. Pearl, Mississippi police say a hotel clerk called authorities that night about a man who appeared to be high on marijuana. Police say officers arrived and discovered the car the man was driving was stolen and he was believed to have kidnapped a baby from Dallas, Georgia. Police say Diaz may have had a relationship with the child’s mother. Police Chief Dean Scott says the clerk helped police negotiate the surren der of Diaz, who was shocked with a stun gun before being arrested. It’s unclear if Diaz has a lawyer. The baby will be reunited with family. NORTH CAROLINA $15K reward offered in case of kidnapped teen LUMBERTON - The FBI is offering a $15,000 reward in the case of a 13-year-old girl kid napped from a North Carolina mobile home park. News outlets report the search for Hania Noelia Aguilar also expanded Tuesday as authori ties circulated her picture across North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. Family members say the eighth grader went outside Monday morn ing to start a relative’s SUV to pre pare to leave for the bus stop. Police say a man then forced her into a green Ford Expedition with the South Carolina license plate NWS 984 and drove off. FBI Supervisor Andy de la Rocha read a statement from Hania’s mother saying she doesn’t “have anything against whoever did this to” her daughter and just wants her back. Prosecutors to seek death penalty in trooper’s death WHITEVILLE — Prosecutors say they’ll seek the death penalty for one of two men charged in the fatal shooting of a state trooper during a traffic stop last month. The Columbus County District Attorney’s Office said that a grand jury indicted 18-year-old Chauncey Askew on a first-degree murder charge Wednesday in the shooting death of Trooper Kevin Conner. District Attorney Jon David says his office intends to seek the death penalty against Askew. Authorities say Conner was shot Oct. 17 after stopping a pickup truck on a rural highway. Twenty- year-old Raheem Cole Dashanell Davis was arrested hours after the shooting and charged with first- degree murder. SOUTH CAROLINA Man sentenced to 30 years in shooting death CHARLESTON — A man who pleaded guilty in a shooting death on Mother’s Day of 2015 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Post and Courier of Charles ton reported Richard Dara Sim mons was sentenced in the shooting death of 36-year-old Dena Brown. Prosecutors say Brown was the mistaken victim during a gunfight in North Charleston. Simmons gets credit for the three years he’s spent in jail. He had pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder in January. Investigators say there had been a shootout between occupants of two cars and that Brown’s car looked like one involved in the shootout. Kenneth Lamont Robinson Jr. was convicted of murder in Febru ary and sentenced to 50 years in prison. ALABAMA Deputy shoots, wounds suspect in drug probe MOBILE — Authorities in Ala bama say a sheriff’s deputy shot a man who tried to strike several undercover officers with a vehicle. Mobile County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Lori Myles tells news outlets that 53-year-old Michael Orlando had evaded mul tiple law enforcement agencies throughout Tuesday. Authorities first encountered the 53-year-old during a Saraland police narcotics investigation at a car wash. He hit another vehicle while fleeing the scene. Later that evening, undercover narcotics officers with the sheriff’s office and Mobile police set up a sting at a shopping center. Authori ties say McGregor showed up and tried to run over deputies. One deputy shot him. He was hospitalized with injuries believed to be non-life-threatening. No officers were injured. Associated Press OBITUARIES Edith S. Chambers Died Nov. 6,2018 Edith S. Chambers of Gainesville passed away peacefully on Nov. 6, 2018. Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Ward’s Funeral Home at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 10, 2018. Interment will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday, Nov. 9,2018, from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Edith was born and raised in New Holland and was the daughter of the late Hoyt and Mattie Smith of Gainesville. She attended New Holland Elementary, graduated from Air Line High School and was a member of New Holland Baptist Church. She was pre ceded in death by her sister and brother-in- law, Louise and Jack Walker; brothers-in- law, Guy Russell Boleman Jr. and P. Bruce Smith. Survivors include sisters, Allice Smith Boleman, New Bern, N.C., Grace (Smith) Smith, Pensacola, Fla.; sisters and brothers- in-laws, Betty Sue and Robert “Bob” Thomp son, Tifton and Mary and Herb McClure, White County; special friends, Michael and Linda Turner; caregiver, Carolyn Morse; and special caregiver, Herb McClure. Edith was a bookkeeper, buyer and gen eral manager of Gem Jewelry Company (five stores) from 1946 until 1999. She was also partner/owner of Gem Wholesale Inc., part owner and President of Brides Show case, which was located in Lakeshore Mall, and partner/owner of WLBA, Country Love radio station. She was a prominent business woman in the jewelry and fashion world. Edith was one of the first Pink lady volun teers for the old Hall County Hospital. She was active in many organizations, a judge for the Gents Club of Gainesville and other events. Edith was very family oriented and claimed all her nephews and nieces as her own and most of them grew up working for her at one time or another. Edith’s nephews are as follows: Guy Rus sell and Gayle Boleman III, Virginia Beach, Va., Danny and Shawn Smith, Gulf Breeze, Fla., Keith Walker, Pine Hurst, N.C., Bryan and Barbara Thompson, Oglethorpe, Blake Thompson, Sautee, Woody and Lisa Wilkins, Flowery Branch, Lt. Mitch and Lynn Wilkins, Atlanta; nieces, Cindy (Boleman) and Gene Campbell, Oriental, N.C., Greta (Smith) and Dick Schrock, Findley, Ohio, Beth (Thomp son) and Martin Mahan, Wake Forest, N.C. Edith was a giver, giving to many chari ties, and requests in lieu of flowers that dona tions be made to your favorite ones. Online condolences may be sent to wardsfh.com. Ward’s Funeral Home, Gainesville Sign the online guest book at gainesville- times.com. The Times, Gainesville, Ga. Nov. 8,2018 Virginia Nelson Anding (“Gini”) La Charite Jan. 18, 1937-Nov. 7, 2018 Virginia Nelson Anding (“Gini”) La Charite, formerly of Lexington/Nicholas- ville, Ky., Middleton, Wis., and Saint Augus tine, Fla., died Nov. 7, 2018, at age 81 at her home in Hoschton, Ga. She was born Jan. 18, 1937, in Philadelphia to Virginia (Nelson) and Claude Ellis Anding Jr. of Norfolk, Va., and Haddon- field, N.J. She grew up in Haddonfield and attended its excellent schools until the untimely death of her father in 1952. Gini and her mother then relocated to Norfolk, where Gini gradu ated from Granby High School in 1954. Through the years, Gini kept fond memo ries of the College of William & Mary in Wil liamsburg, Va., where she received her B.A. in 1957, with a major in French and a minor in International Studies. She was the recipi ent of a Fulbright Grant for study in France and spent the academic year 1957-58 at the University of Besanpon. While there, she used her free time to travel extensively with friends throughout Europe. Upon her return, she taught French at Granby High School in Norfolk, Va. In 1959, Gini was hired as an Instructor in French at William & Mary, a position she held until 1962. While at William & Mary, she also worked on an M.A. in Education and obtained her degree in 1962. She then did her graduate work in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsyl vania, earning her M.A. degree in 1965 and her Ph.D. in 1966. While at Penn, she met and married Raymond (“Ray”) La Charite. Gini and Raymond were professors of French Studies. While it was never their intention to teach together in the same university departments, it simply worked out that way. Gini specialized in 19th- and 20th-century French literature, language and culture. She taught at the College of William & Mary, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Univer sity of Kentucky, from which she retired as Professor Emerita Dec. 31,1999, having served as Chair of the Comparative Litera ture Program and Chair of the Department of French. As a scholar, Gini was instinctively drawn to poetic texts and she worked on some of the great poets of the period, especially Stephane Mallarme, Rene Char and Henri Michaux. She was particularly interested in the interrelationship of painting and literary texts and published extensively on these top ics (books, articles and reviews). She loved to teach Surrealism and Women’s Studies, and she was very proud of her doctoral students. Because of her tireless and innovative work in the area of French Studies, the French Government made her a Knight of the Order of the Palmes Academiques in 1986 and then elevated her to the rank of Officer in 2001. In 1976, Gini and Ray founded French Forum Monographs and French Forum, a journal of literary criticism devoted to the publication of cutting edge scholarship in the field of French Studies. When they retired at the end of 1999 after 25 years of leadership in the production and dissemination of schol arly work, their alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, took over French Forum. Gini always loved mystery and spy nov els, and in retirement she decided to write seven of them under her maiden name, Gini Anding. She also found time to produce two cookbooks. Gini went Kappa Kappa Gamma in college and served the national sorority in count less ways: Province President, Chairman of Chapter Scholarship Programs, Historian, Editor of The Key, Bylaws Chair, member of the Heritage Museum board and editor of vol. 3 of The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Not surprisingly, KKG gave her a lifetime achievement award. She also found time to be a Girl Scout leader, teach Sunday school, function as a day school board member and edit the newsletter for Camp Nelson, Ky. Gini was an extraordinary woman, capa ble of juggling various responsibilities and interests seamlessly. She was a gifted story teller and avid bridge player. She enjoyed ballroom dancing. She worked crossword puzzles and tinkered with gourmet recipes endlessly. Genealogy and needlepoint were favorite pastimes. Antiques always attracted her eye. She loved to travel and take cruises and did so on a regular basis. She was pas sionate about all things French and she loved to share her enthusiasm, frequently working out travel itineraries for family and friends. Most of all, she loved her husband, her children, her granddaughters and her many friends. They structured her world and meant everything to her. She is survived by her husband Raymond (“Ray”); her daughter Desiree La Charite of Atlanta, Ga.; her son Claude (“Trey”) and his wife Heather La Charite of Knoxville, Tenn.; and her granddaughters Emma and Grace La Charite of Knoxville, Tenn. A reception and celebration of her life will be held at the Kerr Brothers Funeral Home on Harrodsburg Road on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, at 11 a.m. Interment will immediately follow at Bluegrass Memorial Gardens in Nicholasville, Ky. Send online condolences to www.memori- alparkfuneralhomes.com. Memorial Park Funeral Home Braselton Chapel, Braselton Sign the online guest book at gainesville- times.com. The Times, Gainesville, Ga. Nov. 8,2018 DEATH NOTICES Patrick O’Hara Benton Died Nov. 6,2018 Patrick O’Hara Benton, 84, of Flowery Branch died Tuesday. Memorial Park South Funeral Home, Flowery Branch. Michael Ellison Sr. Jan. 10, 1956-Nov. 3,2018 Michael Ellison Sr., 62, of Port Arthur, Texas, died Nov. 3. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, funeral home. Gabriel Funeral Home, Port Arthur, Texas. Mark David Farley Died Nov. 6,2018 Mark David Farley, 61, of Flowery Branch died Tuesday. Funeral service, 11 a.m. Sat urday, Nov. 10, The Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder-Day Saints, Suwanee. Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel, Buford. Louie Hamm Died Nov. 6,2018 Louie Hamm, 71, of Alpharetta died Tues day. Funeral service, 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, funeral home chapel. McDonald and Son Funeral Home, Cumming. Troy Harris Died Nov. 1,2018 Troy Harris, 49, of Cumming died Nov. 1. McDonald and Son Funeral Home, Cumming. Tamla Horsford Died Nov. 4,2018 Tamla Horsford, 40, of Cumming died Sun day. Funeral service, 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, funeral home chapel. McDonald and Son Funeral Home, Cumming. Robert Woodrow Jett Jr. Died Oct. 5, 2018 Robert Woodrow Jett Jr. died Oct. 5. Memorial service, 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, funeral home chapel. Little & Davenport Funeral Home and Crematory, Gainesville. Thomas Reams Johnson Dec. 17, 1935-Nov. 7, 2018 Thomas Reams Johnson, 82, of Cornelia died Wednesday. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, funeral home. Whitfield Funeral Home, North Chapel, Demorest. Toney Alexander Johnson April 4, 1953-Nov. 4, 2018 Toney Alexander Johnson, 65, of Buford died Nov. 4. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Satur day, Nov. 10, Allen Temple United Methodist Church. Flanigan Funeral Home and Crema tory, Buford. Robert Vincent Longo Dec. 19, 1960-Nov. 5, 2018 Robert Vincent Longo, 57, of Royston died Monday. Graveside service, 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, Broadlawn Memorial Gardens. Flan igan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford. Chris Mangum Sept. 30, 1965-Nov. 7,2018 Chris Mangum, 53, of Lula died Wednes day. Whitfield Funeral Home, South Chapel, Baldwin. Lt. Col. Richard D. Snyder Nov. 19, 1924-Nov. 4, 2018 Lt. Col. Richard D. Snyder (USAR Retired), 93, of Gainesville died Nov. 4. Graveside service, 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, Tripp Family Cemetery, Woodstock. Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory, Cumming. Carolyn S. Stacy Died Nov. 7,2018 Carolyn S. Stacy, 76, of Hoschton died Wednesday. Memorial Park South Funeral Home, Flowery Branch. Billy Claude Stinchcomb Died Nov. 5,2018 Billy Claude Stinchcomb, 34, of Hoschton died Monday. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Sun day, Nov. 11, funeral home chapel. Lawson Funeral Home, Hoschton. Gregory Clyde Walters Died Nov. 6,2018 Gregory Clyde Walters, 66, of Commerce died Tuesday. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Fri day, Nov. 9, Crossroads Worship Center Church of God. Little-Ward Funeral Home, Commerce. Joseph Yarberry Died Oct. 31, 2018 Joseph Yarberry, 58, of Dawsonville died Oct. 31. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, funeral home chapel. McDonald and Son Funeral Home, Cumming. Obituary information Death notices are printed free as a pub lic service by The Times. More information can be provided in paid obituaries. The rate is $50 per 100 words (or any part thereof). 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