Tyrone News
By PRISCILLA MAXWELL Please call 706-678-7657
I enjoy taking the Crawfordville paper,
The Advocate Democrat, and keeping up with friends and relatives in Taliaferro County where I grew up and graduated from Alexander Stephens Institute (ASI) in the Class of 1953. I would like to congratulate their new mayor, J.H. Jefferson Herman Milner. He was sworn in at special council meeting on January 3 by Judge Martha Mayo. Mayor Milner is a graduate of ASI Class of 1952, the first class to go to the 12th grade. Among his classmates were Virginia Stevens (Mrs. E.F. Rady) Hunter and the late Leslie Swann of Phillips Mill Baptist Church. Mayor Milner's wife is the former Vivian Godbee who also grew up in Taliaferro County and graduated from ASI with the Class of 1955. Best wishes to them. May he have good support. .Best wishes to Crawfordville's outgoing mayor, Lois Arrington Richards. Her many friends and relatives want to thank her for a job well done and to all who may have encouraged her and helped in any way. Many recall her husband, the late Harold Frazier Richards, who grew up in Crawfordville, the son of the late Angus and Olive Sherrer Richards. They were blessed with three nice children, Judge Martha Mayo, George Richards, and the late Tommy Richards, father of Taliaferro County's sheriff, Marc Richards. .We were sorry to read about George F. Richards of Thomson passing away December 3. He was the son of the late Claude Norman Richards, brother of Harold Frazier, and his wife, the late Eleanor Gunby Richards of Thomson. They were next door neighbors of the late Jack and Frances Hardy Johnson who are buried at Phillips Mill. .Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Thompson Holloman and his wife Carolyn who were married 46 years January 6. He has preached in several churches in our area including Carter's Grove and Phillips Mill Baptist churches .Cloyd and Brenda Denard of Martinez visited his mother, Mary Nell Taylor Denard, 94, Saturday. .Visiting Dan and Mildred McAvoy and Jerry McAvoy Sunday afternoon were Mary Hawes and Billy McAvoy and daughter Beth. .Morrison and Priscilla Maxwell were happy to have their children, Mary Jane Scarborough, and son Tyler, Lee Nash Maxwell and Jason Paris of Atlanta with them Sunday. They brought lunch. .Thanks to all who attended the bridal shower Saturday morning at Phillips Mill Baptist Church for Amanda McAvoy, daughter of Benji and Sherrie McAvoy. According to many of her gifts, she must be a Georgia Bulldog fan.
.Sincere sympathy is extended to the family of Cornelia Poss Copelan, age 84, of Greensboro who passed away Saturday, December 29, at Willow Run Retirement Home. Graveside services were held December 31 at 2 p.m. in Greenview Cemetery in Greensboro with Rev. Michael Hardy officiating. She was born in Wilkes County and was the daughter of the late James Brantley Poss and Loinda Belle Rice Poss. She was the registrar and custodian of the vital records at the Greene County Health Department for many years and was a member of Walker United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Thomas Copelan; brother, Raymond L. Poss; sisters, Hazel Sorrow of Washington, Opie Beer, Gordie Raley, Lauree Powers, and Joslyn Cronic. Survivors include two sons, Jesse T. Copelan Jr. and Raymond D. Copelan of Greensboro; a sister, Leila Mapp of Watkinsville; brother, M.C. Poss of Martinez; grandson, Josh Copelan; granddaughter, Stacey C. Richardson of Greensboro; and great-granddaughter, Copelan Richardson. I would like to add a little information about her parents and their connections to our area. Her father, the late James Brantley Poss, was a brother of the late Corrie Franklin Poss, father of Miriam Poss Durham of Bethesda Baptist Church, Union Point; and grandfather of Douglas, Melvin, Carroll, and Melba Durham; Morrison and Corrie Maxwell of Phillips Mill Baptist Church. Her mother, Loinda Belle Rice Poss, was a sister of the late Martha Cornelis Mittie Rice, grandmother of Henrietta Rice Lunceford of Phillips Mill Baptist Church; and Martha Beth Flanigan of Hephzibah Baptist Church; also sister of the late Irene Rice Sherrer of Union Point who was the grandmother of Dean McDonald of Phillips Mill; and Terrie McDonald Bridges of Washington. . Please remember that a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and God loves you very much..
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