Eloise Ozburn Riner, 85, of Chamblee, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at her residence.Mrs. Riner was born in Monticello to the late Emory Newt Ozburn and Ella Gladys Hodge Ozburn. She played basketball at Monticello High School; after graduation, she attended Greenleaf Business School in Atlanta where she continued playing basketball, and graduated in 1947.…
Robert Lee Robinson, 61, of Mansfield, died Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, at Jasper Memorial Hospital. Lee Robinson was born in Miami, Fla. to the late Gavin Robinson and Sybil Flowers Robinson. He lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for a number of years before moving to Mansfield in 2000. Before being disabled, Mr. Robinson was a…
Dorothy Owenby Harden, 87, died Saturday, November 3, 2012, at The Retreat Nursing Home in Monticello. “Dot” Harden was born in the Buckhead Community of Madison to the late James Lester Owenby and Ethel Sutton Owenby. She lived in Lithonia for a number of years before moving to Monticello in 1974. She was a member…
Evie Lou Campbell Pritchett, 82, formerly of Monticello, died October 30, 2012, at Well Star Community Hospice in Powder Springs. Mrs. Pritchett was born in Tyrone to the late Homer Campbell and Sarah Ann Maddox Campbell. She was a homemaker and loved to garden, bake, fish, and make arts and crafts. She was a very…
Oscar Lee “Bro” Williams died October 23, 2012 at Newton General Hospital in Covington. Mr. Williams was born March 23, 1951, in Macon, the son of the late Grover and Gertie Mae Glover Williams. He was educated in the Jasper County School system, and graduated from Jasper County Training School in 1969. That school was…
Franklin D. Barrington pled guilty to the charges of aggravated assault and battery of an unborn child in May, 2010, and was subsequently sentenced to 10 years to be served on probation. In Superior Court Tuesday, with Judge James L. Cline, Jr., presiding, Mr. Barrington was found to have violated his probation by committing the…
After the Deer Festival last Saturday, many went home to take a nap so they could get up at 2 a.m. to change their clocks to fall back to the normal time. What is the normal time? Rumor has it that Ben Franklin, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and…
I’ve never worn the uniform of military service. Honesty compels me to say that this often troubles me from time to time. When I contemplate how blessed we are to live in this great nation, I realize that there have been those who have done far more than I to make that possible. In as…
At this writing, we don’t know who will be our leaders for the next four years (or two years for some local county commission posts), but as you read this we are all breathing a sigh of relief that it’s over. This election became mighty contentious at times, but mostly it seems like it was…
Being that Tuesday was election day, here in the United States of American it begins a season of being Thankful. Some may be thankful that the election is over, well almost, and those who’s outcome was positive may still gloat a bit, and those who lost may bow out gracefully or be harsh. Either way,…