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Doug Reece of Lyerly proudly displays his first kill, a
spike buck which field-dressed at 115 pounds. The
kill was made with a 30.06 rifle last week.
[deaths]
HILL HAMMOND
Hill Hammond. 83, of La-
Fayette, co-founder and oper
ator of Hammond-Jones Hard
ware Co. until his retirement in
1952, died Nov. 6 in Shepherd
Hills Rest Home, LaFayette.
He was a member and a
deacon of the First Baptist
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Church of LaFayette.
Surviving are six sisters, Mrs.
Emily Groover, Chattanooga,
Mrs. Birdie Lumpkin and Mrs.
Ludie Wilson, both of La-
Fayette, Mrs. Mattie Ramey,
Trion, Mrs. Hattie White,
Charlotte, N. C., and Mrs.
Annie Ferguson, Atlanta; five
brothers, J. B. Hammond, La-
Fayette, Dewey Hammond,
Summerville, Julius Hammond,
Wheeler Is Speaker for Vet Groups
SAVANNAH-Pete Wheeler,
Director of the Georgia Depart
ment of Veterans Service and
Chairman of statewide observ
ances of Veterans Day, in a
Fall Festival
The annual Fall Festival will
be held at Lyerly School on
Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in
the school gym and cafeteria.
This annual event is sponsored
by the Lyerly PT A to raise
money for the school commu
nity.
Many of the usual events are
planned, such as fish pond,
country store, dart throwing,
basketball throw, fortune tell
ing, cake walk, bingo, and
many others. There are a few
pleasant surprises being
planned to add spice and fun
for everyone. Cotton candy,
peanuts, and popcorn will be in
abundance for those who like
them. Food and soft drinks
will be available.
Bingo will be in full swing in
the school cafeteria. All other
events will be in the gymna
sium.
The gymnasium will be
open on Thursday evening
from 7 to 9 p.m. to enable
committee chairmen to prepare
for the Friday evening festivi
ties. The gym will be open
during the school day on Fri
day for community workers
who need to make final prepa
rations.
The highlight of the event
will be the crowning of the
king and queen for 1972. This
will take place at 8:30 p.m. on
Friday evening in the school
gym.
Everyone is invited to at
tend and make a contribution
to the success of the festival.
Santa Cruz, Calif., Tom
Hammond, Corcoran, Calif.,
and Joe Hammond, Vesta,
Calif. Several nieces and
nephews also survive.
Funeral services were held
at 4 p.m. Nov. 7 from the First
Baptist Church in LaFayette.
The Rev. James Byler offi
ciated. Burial was in LaFayette
Cemetery.
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SHANNON LeANNE Sparks,
who weighed seven pounds,
eight ounces, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Terry Lee Sparks on
Nov. 1 in Memorial Hospital in
Chattanooga. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Barrett of
Kensington, Mrs. Betty Sparks
of Summerville, and R. L.
Sparks of Dalton. The baby’s
mother is the former Doris
Barrett.
Special toll-free telephone
service for veterans and their
dependents permits them to in
quire about benefits by long
distance to the Veterans Ad
ministration Regional Office in
Atlanta. A new system now
operating in Georgia provides
state wide toll-free contact
with VA for the entire veterans
population. Numbers to call
are listed in the white pages of
telephone directories
series of speaking engagements
across the state this week,
again called for a strong display
of patriotism among all Geor
gians “not only on Veterans
Day, but throughout the entire
year.”
In a speech before the Mil
ledgeville Kiwanis Club,
Wheeler said he hopes to see “a
great public outpouring of
gratitude next Saturday, Vet
erans Day, when we salute the
more than 28 million living
veterans who have done so
much to preserve the heritage
and freedom of this Nation."
The Milledgeville address was
just one of a series of speaking
engagements on Wheeler’s
schedule this week.
Speaking in Athens Wednes
day night, Wheeler praised the
Clarke County Veterans Coun
cil for its sponsoring a Vietnam
Veterans Appreciation Day. He
said he would like to see all
counties, veterans’ organiza
tions and civic groups sponsor
such programs to show the
Vietnam veterans that they are
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appreciated. “Veterans Day
should be like 196 Fourths of
July rolled into one,” Wheeler
said, “because were it not for
America’s veterans, we would
have no independence to cele
brate.”
In a Thursday night speech
to a dinner meeting of Ameri
can Legion Post 32 and its
Auxiliary in Covington,
Wheeler stated, “Already some
39 million men and. women
have shouldered arms for our
country and there will very
likely be many more. Whatever
the future holds, we must
never forget the more than 28
million veterans who are alive
today to see this land of oppor
tunity and freedom flourish.”
Friday afternoon, Wheeler
told the student body of
Treutlin High School in
Soperton that, “were it not for
the sacrifices made by our vet
erans, you could very well be
speaking another language
today.” Wheeler called upon
them to support his request for
a display of the American Flag
The Summerville News, Thurs., Nov. 16, 1972
DEAT^s"
MRS. MATTIE A. WYATT
Mrs. Mattie Alexander
Wyatt, 91, a resident of Menlo,
died at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Sne
from every street corner and
rooftop on Veterans Day “to
let our enemies at home and
abroad know that we are uni
fied in our efforts to preserve
and protect our American way
of life.”
On Saturday, Nov. 11,
Wheeler was in Savannah where
he participated in a day-long
observance of Veterans Day,
sponsored by the Chatham
County Veterans’ Council.
Beginning with a memorial
service and parade, the day’s
events were climaxed with an
address by Wheeler Saturday
evening at Hunter Air Force
Base.
was born in Cherokee County,
Ala., on Feb. 18, 1881, daugh
ter of the late Alfred Lawson
Alexander and Sarah Frances
Agnew Alexander. She was
preceded in death by her
husband, John Robert Wyatt,
on Jan. 17, 1960. She was the
oldest member of the Menlo
Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are two daughters,
Miss Helen Wyatt, Menlo, and
Mrs. Mary Fry, Signal Moun
tain, Tenn.; one son, John
Knox Wyatt, Mobile, Ala., nine
grandchildren; 16 great-grand
children; several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday at 10:30 a m. from
the chapel of J. D. Hill Funeral
Home, with Dr. Cecil Thomp
son and the Rev. George K.
Preston officiating. Burial will
be in the Alpine Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be
W. M. Ransom, Charlie Wyatt,
Joe Alexander, Leßoy Alex
ander, the Rev. John Lester
Edwards, and Bill Edwards.
The body is at J.D. Hill
Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, the
family requests that donations
be-made to the Alpine Ceme
tery Memorial Fund or any
charity institution.
Arrangements by J.D. Hill
Funeral Home.
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