Aonia News
By SHERRY W. NEWSOME Please call 706-678-2898
Happy summer! Sure is hot and dry at Aonia. We've had very little rain. It has rained all around us but we keep missing it. Hope we get some rain real soon. .Ebenezer Baptist Church had its usual good Sunday. Dr. Dupree's sermon was "To Be Strong in the Lord," taken from Ephesians 6:10- 18. The children's sermon was "Five Smooth Stones." It was also a good message. Jimmy Demastes placed flowers in the church and they were very pretty. .Happy birthday to Lois Gay, Bill Mobley Jr., Jane Hudson, Melissa Shelton, and Michael Van Hart. .I visited my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wallace, in Lincoln County Sunday afternoon. .Mr. and Mrs. Hill O'Neal of Tyrone and Mrs. Walter Tuttle enjoyed a trip to Athens Saturday. They enjoyed lunch with their daughter (Pat's sister), Mrs. Henry O'Pry, and Mr. O'Pry. Mrs. O'Neal is feeling better and able to be out some. .Trudy Ingram spent several nights with Mrs. Betty Jean Crawford in Appling. Mrs. Crawford has not been well recently and Trudy went to help her out. .Mrs. Lucille Ingram and Trudy Ingram spent last Saturday week with Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Davenport and Tyler in Hayesville, N.C. .Bobbi Thornton of Washington visited Miss Grace Dunaway and Alex Dunaway last week. .Rebecca Phillips of Conyers came home to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Phillips to help them out last week. Brenda was sick and Richard felt really bad also, so Becky came home and took over the role as nurse and helper. Stephanie Haynes and Chip and Skyla were feeling bad also. They are all better now. .Visitors of Sara Huff during the weekend were Russell Goldman of Doraville; Randy Goldman, Connie and Misty Johnson, Steve Goldman, all of Lincoln County; Linda Standard and Peyton Standard, and a friend of Steve's. .Peyton Standard of Augusta spent several days with his grandparents, Keith and Linda Standard. .The Turpin-Burrell family reunion was Sunday at Mt. Zion. There was a nice crowd, but oh so hot. The ones from our community attending were Tommy and Regina and Wade Dunnaway, Alex and Grace Dunaway, Sara Huff, Cassie Goldman and Bryson, Randy, Russell, and Steve Goldman, Linda and Peyton Stan- dard, Mitch Taylor, Billy and Becky Glenn, Eddie and Carol Howard, Tonya and Billy and their families, Lucille Ingram, Trudy Ingram, and Lona and Roy Chesnut. These were the ones I know of. .Mr. and Mrs. David Ingram of Flowery Branch spent Friday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Ryll and family in Washington. They came especially to visit his mother, Mrs. Florence Ingram, who remains ill in Select Specialty Hospital in Augusta. Florence's son Paul of Smyrna visits often and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Glenn visit her mother as often as possible. We send get-well wishes to Miss Florence. .Pat Tuttle visited Mr. and Mrs. Hill O'Neal last week in the process of picking up her grandchildren from Bible School at Phillips Mill Baptist Church. .Lona Chesnut and son Roy spent two weeks at Myrtle Beach, S.C. Trudy Ingram joined them there for a weekend. .Our prayer concerns include Billy Gunter, Archie Brown, Larry Weimer, Ruth Freeman, Wilma Bunch, Henry Wallace, Grace Dunaway, Lois South, Dot Shank, Ethel Harris, Bill Mobley, Joyce Hall Bowen, Oliver and Genelle Gill, Mona Hall, Mildred Marett, Mildred Hamilton, Linda Albea, Claire Nelson, Ernest Cathey, Morrison and Priscilla Maxwell, Mr. and Mrs. Dan McAvoy, Mary Lou Stewart, Becky Thornton Thomasson, Roberta Roper, Deborah Cato, Kathryn Padgett, Bonnie Boatwright, Pete Strother, Teresa Echols Bray, Wylie Dallas, Billy Bailey, Barry Bailey, Gary Rogers, Ronnie Callaway, Blanche and Marvin Armour, Jenelle Newsome, Emily Thornton, Pete Hardy, Pete Poss, Charles Elam, Dr. and Mrs. Weems Pennington, Mary Ruff, Lynn W. Brim, and Ruth Bell. .Sincere love and sympathy to all who recently lost loved ones.
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