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October 14, 2015
Nellie Grant Hollingsworth
Jan. 17, 1920 - Oct. 12, 2015
Nellie Gertrude Grant Hollingsworth completed
her earthly life on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015 at the age
of 95. She was born in Monroe County on Jan. 17,
1920, the daughter of Joseph Clarence and Nannie
Smarr Grant. Nellie was a graduate of Mary
Persons High School and a 1940 graduate of her
beloved Bessie Tift College.
After graduating from Tift, Nellie pursued a
career as a bookkeeper and followed a lifelong
path of community service. During World War II,
she served with the Rationing Board in Monroe
County. She worked as a bookkeeper with Walthall
Oil Company in Macon and for many years was
the bookkeeper for Willie Mack Tribble Pure Oil
Company in Forsyth. After retiring from that posi
tion, she served as church secretary for Forsyth
First Baptist Church. During much of tenure at
First Baptist Nellie chaired the church Social
Committee and also provided the Wednesday
Night Supper for midweek services. In 1991, she
and Angeline Ashe DeLeGal organized a Meals on
Wheels program for shut-ins. Nellie directed this
program for many years. Nellie completed her pro
fessional career as bookkeeper for the E. W. Banks
Company in Forsyth.
Nellie was active in the Forsyth Junior Women’s
Club/Women’s Club, serving as Treasurer for many
years and receiving recognition for her service
in numerous areas. She was a former member of
Cabaniss Chapter 415 United Daughters of the
Confederacy. Her love for Tift College was shown
by her work with the Tift Alumni where she served
as President and also with the Okie Order of Tift
Alumni. For over 60 years she corresponded and
visited with close friends from her Tift years.
In 1998, Nellie received the Distinguished Tift
Alumna Award from the Okie Order.
Service and compassion were hallmarks of
Nellie’s life. Many ill or bereaved persons were
recipients of a Nellie pound cake, usually hot from
the oven. She lived the philosophy of “random acts
of kindness” long before the phrase became a catch
word. Many Tift students through the years were
beneficiearis of home-cooked meals and relaxing
visits in Nellie’s home. Students were eager to be
“adopted by Miss Nellie”.
Much of Nellie’s life was lived at home as she
faithfully cared for her mother, but that did not
prevent her enjoying travel and adventure. During
the 1940s Nellie was a participant in the 41
Motorcade, a caravan of cars driving to Chicago
when U.S. Highway 41 was first paved. Fifty years
later, in 1994, she enjoyed a trip out west where
she climbed rocks in the Badlands of South Dakota,
rode out on the range and had dinner with cowboys
on a Montana ranch, explored Yellowstone and the
Grand Tetons, and rode up Pike’s Peak. Between
these two adventures were many enjoyable trips
to the mountains of north Georgia, to beaches in
Georgia and Florida, and many other locations.
In 1988, Nellie became re-aquainted with a wid
owed friend who had pastored in Forsyth during
World War II. After a touching courtship, Nellie
and Willis B. Hollingsworth were married in
January, 1989. They enjoyed a brief six months
before Dr. Hollingsworth’s death.
In addition to her parents and husband, Nellie
was predeceased by her siblings J. Ray Grant, Sr.,
George C. Grant, and Lois G. Bryant and by her
niece, Mary Grant Morris. Although Nellie had
no children of her own, she was much beloved by
generations of nieces and nephews as well as her
“adopted” Tift family. She is survived by nieces
and nephews Priscilla Grant Doster, Ecl.D., and
husband Ernest Jackson of Forsyth; J. Ray Grant,
Jr., M.D., and wife Leigh of Forsyth; Frances
Barnes Grant, M.D., of Macon; Martha Grant
Clark and husband Tom of Snellville; and Clarence
Bryant of Hawkinsville. Great-nieces and nephews
include Amanda Doster Parks (Keith) of Forsyth,
Katherine Doster Fletcher (Will) of Watkinsville,
Jessica Grant of Forsyth, Natalie Grant Estes
(Aaron) of Jackson, Amelia Grant White (Patrick)
of Auburn, AL, W. Barrett Grant (Beth) of Atlanta,
Michael Ray Grant (Sarah) of Atlanta, Grant Clark
of Savannah, Kelly Morris Faris (Mike) of Atlanta,
and Johnathan Bryant of Hawkinsville.
Nellie’s epitaph provides a true summary of her
life: “Meticulous Bookkeeper - Excellent Cook -
Beloved Aunt”.
Visitation will be at Forsyth First Baptist Church
at 1 p.m. on Thursday, October 15. Funeral ser
vices, conducted by Dr. Dan Whitaker, will be held
at the church at 2 p.m., with burial afterward in
Forsyth City Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will
be Barrett Grant, Michael Grant, Grant Clark,
Johnathan Bryant, Aaron Estes, Patrick White,
Dick Bazemore and Bill Bazemore. Monroe County
Memorial Chapel has charge of arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Nellie’s memory
may be made to the Meals on Wheels program
of Forsyth First Baptist Church, 95 West Morse
Street, Forsyth, GA 31029.
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IN MEMORY
Kathryn Brewer Benson Tingle
Nov. 15, 1926 - Oct. 7, 2015
Kathryn Brewer Benson Tingle, 88, of Forsyth
slipped into eternal rest on Oct. 7. Funeral services
were held Saturday, Oct.
10, 2015 at Forsyth United
Methodist Church with
her nephew, the Rev. Mike
Benson, officiating. Burial
was private.
Mrs. Tingle was born on
Nov. 15, 1926 in Atlanta. She
was the daughter of the late
Kate and Charlie Benson and
grew up in Smarr. After grad
uating from Mary Persons
High School she attended Nurse’s training and
eventually retired after 43 years of nursing at the
Forsyth Clinic. She was an exceptional role model
with a servant’s heart.
She was a member of the Forsyth United
Methodist Church. After retirement she enjoyed
traveling with her friends, working in her yard, and
enjoying her pets at her home along the bank of her
beloved Tobesofkee Creek.
She was given the gift of time that her first love
and husband, Archie Tingle, and her devoted
daughter, Barbara MacMillan, were not. Survivors
include daughter, Kathy Jenkins, and son,
Joe Tingle (Ava) of Forsyth; son-in-law, Buzzy
McMillan (Annette) of Calhoun; four grandchil
dren and 10 great-grandchildren; brother, Charles
(Betty Jane) Benson of Warner Robins; and sister-
in-law, Sue Benson of Forsyth. She was preceded in
death by her brothers Bob Benson, Allen Benson,
Harold Benson and sister Louise Melton.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, dona
tions be made to Save-A-Pet Inc., P.O. Box 933,
Forsyth, GA 31029 or the Forsyth United Methodist
Church, P.O. Box 108, Forsyth, GA 31029.
The family may be contacted at the residence of
Kathy Jenkins, 3598 Hwy 42 South, Forsyth, GA
31029. Please visit www.monroecountymemori-
alchapel.com to express tributes. Monroe County
Memorial Chapel had charge of arrangements.
Angela Smith
November 9, 1965 - October 3, 2015
Macon - Ms. Angela Smith, daughter of the late
Wilmer Smith Sr. and Elizabeth S. Smith, tran
sitioned on Monday, Oct. 5. Services were held
Friday Oct. 9 at Little Rogers CME Church, 9754
Thomaston Road, Macon. Burial Macon Memorial
Park.
She is survived by a loving and
devoted daughter, Mykala Faith;
loving and devoted mother,
Elizabeth S. Smith; seven sib
lings, Wilmer Smith, Jr., Hughel
Smith, Wynell Seldon, Mary
Joyce Smith, Jerome “Ricky”
Smith, Charles E. Smith, Harold
Smith and a host of relatives and
friends. The family can be con
tacted at 9191 Thomaston Road, Macon. Freeman
Funeral Home, Forsyth had charge of arrange
ments.
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Stuart Shorty Bergman
Sept. 26, 1965-Oct. 6,2015
Stuart “Shorty” Bergman, of Forsyth was called
home to the Lord Oct. 6,2015 after a long battle
with head, neck and throat cancer. He was born
Sept. 26, 1965 to Janice M. Bergman and the late
Harry “Bud” Bergman-Retired USN in Memphis,
Tenn. Being the son of a Navy man Stuart spent
time in the Philippines and San Diego,Calif.,
returning to Memphis often and then settling there
as an adult.
Stuart was very active in the Memphis Sci-fi,
Fantasy, and Pirate community, volunteering at
conventions as well as events at St. Jude Children’s
Hospital. While in Memphis he was a member
of Bellevue Baptist Church Frayser. He moved
to Forsyth in June of 2014 and was a member of
Shiloh Baptist Church of Barnesville. The last six
months of his life were spent at Pruitt Health Care
Monroe (Hilltop) where he made many friends
among the patients as well as staff.
Survivors include his mother: Janice Bergman
(Forsyth); fiance: Rebecca Wasson (Forsyth), two
step-daughters: Jessica Wasson (Bristol, Tenn.)
and Cheyenne Feltman (Forsyth); brother & sister-
in-law: Bryan & Terri Bergman, nephew: Morgan
Sims (Memphis); aunt & uncle: Annette & Ray
Armstong (Memphis), and cousins: David Barnes
(Palmersville, Tenn.), Scott Barnes (Memphis),
Anglea Corley (Memphis); Audra Young (Atoka,
Tenn.).
Celebration of Life Service will be held at Shiloh
Baptist Church, 1530 US Hwy. 41, Barnesville, on
Saturday Oct. 17 at 2 p.m. Flowers can be delivered
to the church the day of service or, if wished, dona
tions can be made in Stuart’s memory to American
Cancer Association.
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IN LAST week’s
MCR, I hope you read
the guest column by
Erick Erickson entitled
Gold Dome: Pay to play.
Most of you know Erick
Erickson as a popular
WSB right-wing radio
host, a frequent fill-in
for Rush Limbaugh, and
Fox News contributor
from Macon. I nearly
missed his column
because, for some rea
son, I’ve never been a
fan. He predicted the
days of the GOP con
trolling the legislature
in Georgia are coming
to an end. He says the
Republican Legislators
view their office as a
get-rich-quick scheme.
He said the Legislature
under the leadership
of Lt. Governor Casey
Cagle and Speaker
David Ralston is noth
ing more than a Ponzi
scheme of check writers.
And I really loved the
part about Republican
leaders are for sale to
the highest bidder and
do not listen to voters.
Erickson explains that
lobbyists and special
interest groups, like
billionaire casino own
ers, are hauling money
into the State Capitol.
There’s little doubt that
casinos are in our near
future in Georgia.
THERE WERE words
of one of the most promi
nent Republican, con
servative pundits in our
country. I have been
writing about the she
nanigans under our Gold
Dome for quite some
time now. Erickson is
very plugged into the
Republicans and what’s
going on at the Capitol.
If he says it’s bad, then
I believe it must be very
bad! I feel so vindicated!
GEORGIA ISN’T the
only place with warn
ing signs that the GOP
is falling apart. Look
at what’s going on in
Washington. The GOP
there is in a tailspin.
They are in a mellava
hess.
Marilyn Langford
of High Falls writes a
regular op-ed column
in the Reporter sharing
the liberal perspective on
events.
Curtis Wesley Parker
Mr. Curtis Wesley Parker, age 51, of Jackson,
GA, passed away Saturday, October 10, 2015 at
the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon.
Wesley was born in East Point, GA to the late
Harold W. Parker, Sr. and the late Nellie Elizabeth
Wade Parker. He was owner of Parker and Sons
Roofing Contractors, Inc. Wesley loved hunting,
fishing, and golfing with his brothers. He was of
the Presbyterian faith.
Wesley is survived by his wife of 27 years, Sarina
Parker; son, Cameron Parker; brothers, Harold W.
Parker, Jr. and Alan W. Parker, Sr.; sister, Doris
Ann Coffey; and several nieces and nephews.
It was Wesley’s wish to be cremated and no for
mal services will be held. Those who wish may
sign the online guest registry at www.sherrell-
westburyfh.com
Sherrell-Westbury Funeral Home, 212 East
College Street, Jackson, is serving the Parker fam
ily.
Eula Mae Davis
January 27, 1928 - October 3, 2015
Forsyth - Funeral services for Mrs. Eula Mae
Moore Davis were Saturday, Oct. 10 at William
Chapel AME Church, 9818 Zebulon Road. Burial
was in Amos Moore Cemetery.
Survivors include her nephew, Samuel (Sophia)
Mobley; niece, Jessie Ruth Jackson; two step
children, JW (Linda) Davis, Catherine (Melvin)
Lawrence and a host of other relatives and friends.
Freeman Funeral Home has charge of arrange
ments.
Milton Terry Bowden Jr.
November 14,1985 - October 1, 2015
Forsyth - Funeral services for Milton Terry
Bowden Jr. were held Thursday, Oct. 8 at Rocky
Mount United Methodist Church. Rev.Jamaar Pye
Pastor and Officiating.
Survivors include children Elijah Isiah Bowden,
Eliza Clarencia Faith Bowden; mother Josephine
(Johnny) Deeds; father Milton (Brenda) Bowden Sr.
and three brothers.
Freeman Funeral Home had charge of arrange
ments.
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