It’s on to round two of the state playoffs for the Piedmont Academy baseball team.The Diamond Cougars (17-5 overall) swept visiting Crisp Academy last week and is now preparing for the GISA Class AA state quarterfinals this week. Piedmont will face Citizens Christian in a best-of-three series with a trip to the Final Four on…
Thomas Lee Rooks, Jr. was born June 27, 1958 to the late Anna Lee Byron and Thomas Lee Rooks, Sr., in Jasper County, Monticello. During the early years of his life, he joined St. John C.M.E. Church. He attended Jasper County schools, and was employed at Dexter Axle for many years. Tommy was friendly and…
WYATT GALLOWAY (L) SIGNS AS CONGRESSMAN JODY HICE LOOKS ON Wyatt Galloway, a senior at Piedmont Academy, Tuesday signed a letter to attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Congressman Jody Hice was in town to extend the appointment to Mr. Galloway. Appointments are actual invitations to attend an Academy. In other words, an…
Keith Dean Cooper, age 75, of Monticello, passed away Monday, May 1, 2017, at The Retreat Nursing Home. Keith Cooper was born in Manchester, Ill., to the late Rolly Lee Cooper and Martha Louise Sipes Cooper. He moved from Illinois to Oxford, Ga., in 1979; and to Monticello in 1988. Keith Cooper owned and operated…
Sandra Lee Davis Brown, age 69, passed away Saturday, April 29, 2017, at the Medical Center of Central Georgia after a lengthy illness. Sandra Brown was a lifelong resident of Jasper County. Her parents were the late Ray Davis and Shirley Cunard Davis. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband,…
Charles Leggett, age 69 of Monroe, formerly of Monticello, passed away on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. A private service will be held at a later date. Charles was preceded in death by his parents William and Mary Duckworth Leggett. Survivors include his loving wife Patricia Leggett of Monroe; daughter, Mary Ann Leggett of Madison; daughter…
Earl R. Priegel passed away on April 18, 2017 at his residence. He was born in 1926 to the late Albert Richard Priegel and Muriel Bacon Priegel in St. Louis, MO. Earl earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry from Utah State University in 1950 and a Masters Degree from North Carolina State University in 1965.…
Award-winning journalist William “Bill” Davis Cornwell, Jr. died unexpectedly of natural causes at home in Suwanee, on Easter weekend, 2017 at age 68. He is survived by sister, Eleanor Cornwell of Macon; son, William Cornwell III and his partner Hannah Lewis-Rosenblum of Salem, MA; daughter, Elizabeth Temkin, her husband Kris Temkin, and their children Kinsley,…
Frances Thompson Lynch of Jacksonville, Fla. died peacefully at her home Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Her cause of death was Alzheimer’s disease. She is survived by her husband of 64 years Hal Lynch Jr. and by her four children: Hal Lynch III (Brian), Helen Lynch Cooper (Charles), William Lynch (Jeanie), and Robert Lynch (Ann). She…
Astronomy is an interesting discipline. Extremely smart people look through telescopes to see objects in space, to watch and observe the activity of those objects, and to discern how our universe works. But, for that knowledge to be gleaned, astronomers must look and look again and look some more. They are constantly observing to see…