Tyrone News
By PRISCILLA MAXWELL Please call 706-678-7657
I hope Santa and Mrs. Claus visited in your home, bringing gifts like the wise men brought to Jesus when he was born; showing the Lord's love and amazing grace during the Christmas holidays, making it a very merry Christmas to remember. That will brighten your days as we come to a new year. .Have you ever thought about what our country, our world, would be like if God had not loved all of us enough to send his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to be our example? To give us second chances, to offer his forgiveness, and willing to come into our hearts. If we but ask and invite him in, believing that Jesus is truly the Son of God. Oh, how each of us needs to read and study the Bible more and try to live lives that others can see Jesus in us, and is pleasing to him. Keep in mind that we won't have to give an account for others around us. It's their choice. But each of us will have to answer for ourselves. We cannot hide from God. Will his answer be "Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter into the gates, or depart from me. I never knew you?" Something to think about this new year. .Happy birthday wishes to our pastor at Phillips Mill Baptist Church on Wednesday, December 26; and to Lamar Cofer and Marcia Hunter Kirkland on Friday, December 28. A special wish to Lamar who has been a part of the backbone of Griffin's Store working there for many years and an active member of Phillips Mill for years. He will be 80 years old. A "little bird" tells me that Lamar plans to retire from work at the store. . The many friends of Shirley Mann (Mrs. Buddy) Dunn and Kenneth Mann of Phillips Mill Baptist Church are sorry to learn of the passing of their aunt, Elise Kathleen King Smith, age 93, of Union Point on Monday, December 10, at Minnie G. Boswell Memorial Hospital in Greensboro. A lifelong resident of Greene County, Elise was born September 2, 1914, to the late John Edward King and Susie Anna Culver King. She attended a one-room schoolhouse in White Plains. She was a homemaker and member of Bethesda Baptist Church in Union Point. She was preceded in death by her husband, Grover Linton Smith, in February 1987; two sons, Jimmy Smith and Larry Smith; and siblings, Byron King, Edgar King, Zena Humphrey, Eva King Mann, and Mary Will King. She is survived by two daughters, Dorothy Elizabeth Rhodes, and husband Ray, of Crawfordville, and Mary Anna Ferguson of Athens; two daughters-in law, Jane Smith, Greensboro, and Nancy Smith, Union Point; four sons, Ronald J. Smith and wife Sheila of Monroe, Billy H. Smith and wife Jackie of Union Point, Mike Smith and wife Kay of Union Point, and Tony Smith and wife Chris of Statham; 20 grandchildren; and 23 greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday, December 12, at Bethesda Baptist Church with Rev. Jim Olds and Ray Rhodes Jr. officiating. Burial was in Wisteria Cemetery in Union Point. Sincere sympathy is extended. Mrs. Smith kept her pride about how she looked and acted to the end, including her hair and lipstick. What a lady to know -- and love.
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