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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
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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.
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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.”
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