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Newspaper Page TextLOCA^SOUTHEAST The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Monday, November 19, 2018 7A OBITUARIES Samuel “Sam” Smith Died Nov. 17, 2018 Samuel “Sam” Smith, age 72, of Dahlonega, GA and formerly of Buford, GA passed away Satur day, Nov. 17,2018. He was preceded in death by his parents, Allan Braxton Smith and Margaret Ann Smith; broth ers, Allan Smith and Doug Smith; and sister, Alice Smith Dickerson. He is survived by his wife of fifteen years, Debbie Smith, Dahlonega, GA; sons, Samuel A. Smith, Jr., Broken Arrow, OK and Bobby Smith, Broken Arrow, OK; four grandchildren, Hannah Sue Smith, Gavan Bobby Smith, Samuel A. Smith, III and Mack enzie Katherine Smith; sister, Ann Smith Thompson; sister-in- law, Diane Martin Smith, Flow ery Branch, Ga; and numerous nieces, nephew and cousins. Mr. Smith was born July 17, 1946 in Buford, Ga. He was a graduate of North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, GA. He was retired from the U. S. Army after twenty-three years of service as a Ranger. He was owner of Smith Son’s Enterprise, Inc., a landscap ing business. Mr. Smith was a member of the Buford American Legion Post 127 and a life-time member of the National Foreign Wars. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018 at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Dr. Jim Fer guson officiating and Mr. Jeff Smith giving the eulogy. Inter ment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA with full military honors. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday, Nov. 19 from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford Sign the online guest book at gainesvilletimes.com. The Times, Gainesville, Ga. Nov. 19, 2018 Macon transition home is helping veterans get back on to their feet In this Nov. 1, 2018 photo, U.S. Army veteran Jason Cormier, right, teaches a Self Defense class at Middle Georgia State University’s Macon campus. Cormier’s house was foreclosed on after he and his wife divorced after his final deployment. Cormier is currently living in the Home Port Veterans Transition Home in Macon while majoring in interdisciplinary studies at the University. BY STANLEY DUNLAP Associated Press MACON. — Finan cial struggles following a divorce left Army Ranger Jason Cormier without a home and some uncer tainty about if he would be able to finish college. The 34-year-old now credits a Macon transi tional home for veterans with not only providing an affordable place to stay for the last year-and-a-half but also keeping him on track to graduate from Middle Georgia State University in May. Cormier is one of 22 people currently resid ing at Home Port Veterans Transition Home, a former motel situated on Harrison Road just off Eisenhower Parkway. Cormier says Home Port is a place where the cama raderie reminds him of his 10 years in the military. He plans to embark on a career in film production as well as creative writ ing, a process that helped pass the time while on deployments. “There’s a lot of veter ans, whether it’s older or younger like myself, that are going to need help to just get on their feet,” Cormier said. “That’s what this place is. For myself, it’s coming out of a financial situation and trying to fin ish my education so I can get back out on my own two feet. ... It’s just a massive help.” Since Home Port opened in 2016 there have been 28 rooms refurbished and renovations have started on other areas of the com plex. The goal is to have 80 rooms available to house veterans and their families as well as offices offering counseling and job placement services, a cha pel, recreation room and ballroom. George Brown, a co founder of Home Port through the non-profit American Aviation Group, said about $675,000 in money and in-kind services is needed to complete the $1.4 million project. The outpouring of help from the community has been instrumental in get ting the complex to its current point, Brown said. Help has come from churches, companies, members of a high school ROTC programs, college students, veterans organi zations and others. “We’re reaching out to corporations, citizens, church organizations, any body who can help us help JASON VORHEES I Associated Press these guys,” said Brown, a retiree of the Marine Corps. “Some of (the veterans) have a long way to go,” he said. “You can see some of these guys are Vietnam era veterans here who are still suffering. When this complex is completed, it’ll be whole, and we’ll try to make those veterans lives whole at the same time.” On the morning of Nov. 1, some of Home Port’s res idents gather in the lobby where they grab some food for breakfast. One of them is the genial Ralph Lord, the 75-year-old Air Force Veteran, who recently became a U.S citizen. After he arrived back from a naturalization cere mony in mid-October, a cel ebration was held for Lord at his temporary home, a day that was chronicled on video by Cormier. Another resident is Army veteran Michael Childs, whose post-traumatic stress disorder led to him using alcohol to cope after leav ing the military in 1999. It was tough to adapt to a life without the same struc ture that comes while serv ing, he said. “We’ve been in wars and looking at bodies,” Childs said. “We see helicopters crashing, we see all those types of things so when you come home when we’re adjusting to this civilian life, it’s different. A lot of veterans turn to alcohol, turn to drugs, turn to whatever they turn to to escape the reality.” Childs credits services like Home Port transition home, veterans treatment court and others as being critical for many veterans. He moved to Home Port after the rent skyrocketed at his previous place. “To have all these dif ferent programs walk us through how to get this degree, how to get this job, how to get this education, we need it.” DEATH NOTICES Grace Marie Anthony Died Nov. 18, 2018 Grace Marie Anthony, 80, of Flowery Branch died Sunday. Memorial Park Funeral Home, Gainesville. Garry Lee Cochenour Died Nov. 17, 2018 Garry Lee Cochenour, 69, of Cumming died Saturday. Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory, Cumming. Werner Frederick Goeckel Died Nov. 17, 2018 Werner Frederick Goeckel, 77, of Braselton died Saturday. Memorial Park Funeral Home, Braselton. Edna Ruth Brown Jones July 10, 1940-Nov. 17, 2018 Edna Ruth Brown Jones, 78, of Cornelia died Saturday. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, Crossroads Baptist Church. Whitfield Funeral Home & Cre matory, Demorest. Cole Edward Kraft June 27, 1998-Nov. 16, 2018 Cole Edward Kraft, 20, of Mount Airy died Friday. Funeral service, 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, Level Grove Baptist Church. McGahee-Griffin & Stewart Funeral Home, Cornelia. Russell Richard Lamp Died Nov. 17, 2018 Russell “Russ” Richard Lamp, 76, of Flowery Branch died Sat urday. Memorial Park Funeral Home, Gainesville. Helen James Meyerink Died Nov. 17, 2018 Helen James Meyerink, 85, of Gainesville died Saturday. Memorial Park Funeral Home, Gainesville. Hugh Hosch Roberts Died Nov. 17, 2018 Hugh Hosch Roberts, 77, of Homer died Saturday. Memorial Park Funeral Home, Gainesville. Obituary information Death notices are printed free as a public service by The Times. More information can be provided in paid obituaries. The rate is $50 per 100 words (or any part thereof). There is an additional mandatory $40 fee for online services, which includes a guest book that allows family and friends to post condolences. Deadline for publication is 6:30 p.m. seven days a week. Death notices and obituaries are accepted only from funeral homes. They should be emailed to obits@gainesvilletimes.com. All submissions will appear in The Times and online at gainesvilletimes.com. For additional information, please call 770-718-3419 or 800-395-5005, extension 3419, between 3 and 6 p.m. weekdays. AT\BAMA Plan calls for clinics on school campuses A nonprofit health care organization in Montgomery County wants to put clinics on Montgomery school cam puses to provide medical and dental care. The plan would involve a partnership between Health Services Inc. and Montgomery Public Schools, The Montgomery Advertiser reported. The partnership would be at zero cost to the school system and would benefit students and staff, Health Services Inc. CEO Gilbert Darrington recently told the school board. The school-based clin ics could provide any health service offered in their facilities, includ ing dental, behavioral health, and optometry, Darrington said. “Imagine a student with a toothache or that can’t see sitting in class. It’s going to be hard to learn,” he said. Nationwide, there are about 2,000 school-based clinics, Darrington told the board. He said they have a track record of decreasing absenteeism and increasing grades. The clinics could prevent the need for children to be checked out of school to attend appointments and par ents needing to take off work, the Montgomery newspaper reported. The clinics would not inter fere or substitute the services provided by the nurse’s office in schools, Darrington said. They would likely be located in a fixed space provided by the district, or through a mobile unit outside. Superintendent Ann Roy Moore told the board that she has met with Darrington on multiple occasions and they have looked at potential spaces in different schools that could be used for clin ics. The ideal situation would be to have both a fixed space and mobile unit, they said. Associated Press WARNER ROBINS Former grocery store becomes Air Force lab A former grocery store in Middle Georgia is now serving high-tech aircraft manufacturing for the military. The inside of the brick building — a former Publix store in War ner Robins — is full of gleaming new futuristic machinery. The Air Force Advanced Technology and Training Center is reminiscent of the lab James Bond walks through to pick up his latest spy gadgets, The Telegraph reported. The facility is a satel lite operation of Robins Air Force Base. It offi cially opened Oct. 24, the Macon newspaper reported. The center now employs about 30 peo ple and may eventually employ about 100. The lab is the second like it in the Air Force. The first is connected with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The Georgia facil ity involves 3-D print ing, also called additive manufacturing, as a key to keeping the aging fleet flying. Previously 3-D printing had been thought of primarily as something to make prototypes, but now the Air Force is looking at using it to routinely make parts to be used in planes, the newspaper reported. The traditional method of fabricating a part from scratch involved essentially carving it out of a piece of metal, or subtractive manufacturing, Maj. Ben Steffens said. That required special tool ing to make the specific part, so the setup alone could be time-consum ing and expensive. In additive manufac turing, a machine mea sures the part, creates a digital model, then an additive manufac turing machine slowly builds it layer by layer, the Macon newspaper reported. It’s much cheaper and faster than the traditional method, said Steffens, who works in the Air Force Cor rosion Prevention and Control Office at Robins Air Force Base and is now involved in getting the Advanced Technol ogy and Training Center in full operation. The new center is cru cial to keeping old air craft flying when parts for it are no longer avail able, Steffens said. “Much of the work that has been done on the base has been done in the same method for years and years,” he said. “This equipment, this technology, this material that we are dealing with here is cut ting edge and will bring us to the next level as far as keeping our schedule down, keeping our cost low.” OMAHA STEAKS BURGERS 4If I^ERICA'S ORIGINAL BUTc/tfT Omaha Steaks Give a little TENDERNESS and SAVE 75%‘ on Omaha Steaks 30 GOURMET ITEMS! The Family Gourmet Feast 2 (5 oz.) Filet Mignons 2 (5 oz.) Top Sirloins 2 (4 oz.) Boneless Pork Chops 4 Boneless Chicken Breasts (1 lb. pkg.) 4 (3 oz.) Kielbasa Sausages 4 (4 oz.) Omaha Steaks Burgers 4 (3 oz.) Potatoes au Gratin 4 (4 oz.) 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