Tyrone News
By PRISCILLA MAXWELL Please call 706-678-7657
As we have begun a new year I want to take time to thank those of you who live in the Tyrone area and other interested friends for all your loving support, understanding, and encouragement over the many years I have tried to write this column. Through sickness and health many of you have been there for me. I have fond memories of many people who have passed on to be with the Lord for their faithful support. One lady, a cousin of mine, had 12 children and she saw to it that their
News- Reporter was renewed on their birthdays no matter where they lived as long as she lived. And she was very faithful to share family news. This day and time more people are interested in family history, working on family ties, and a little added information on ties with community and new generations coming along helps keep some to still take
The News-Reporter. I remember one family moving to
Washington back before Morrison retired as a city mail carrier in 1985, had been
taking the paper before moving to learn more about Wilkes County. As soon as
they learned that their mailman was Morrison Maxwell they asked him how
Priscilla and the children were doing. It was a nice surprise for him. .Well,
this "Old Gray Mare" ain't what she used to be. Therefore, I am asking for more
community input to be able to continue this column. More families taking part
make the column more interesting. I have not been able to drive in over a year.
I don't get out much, not even to church much. I count it a true blessing and
good medicine to write even in bed. God is so good and forgiving. . Phillips
Mill Baptist Church Women on Mission and active deacons will both meet Tuesday
night, January 29, at 7 p.m. A meal will be served at 6:30 p.m. for those who
would like to take part. Linda (Mrs. Dean) McDonald is WMU Director. The ladies will begin a new Beth Moore study. .On Wednesday nights there are adult, children, and youth group Bible studies and prayer meeting at 7 p.m. Youth group is invited to meet at 6 p.m. every week for those who would like help with homework, and would like to eat supper and have fellowship before hand (meal provided) at Phillips Mill. Sunday School is each Sunday at 10 a.m. and the morning worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday night worship service is at 6 p.m., children's choir, 6 p.m., and adult choir at 7 p.m. Everyone is cordially invited to attend when you can. .We are glad to hear that Dan and Mildred McAvoy's daughter, Dorothy Ann Saxon, was able to return to her home in the Vesta community near Carlton Saturday after being in the Elberton hospital with pneumonia. Her husband Jimmy has also been sick, but was able to visit them during the weekend. Thomas McAvoy Jr. also visited one day. . Sincere sympathy is extended to the family of Nell Lunceford Thigpen of the Augusta area who passed away January 11. She was an aunt of the late Olin Lunceford of Phillips Mill and Betty Lunceford of Green Point Health Care Center in Union Point. Olin's wife Henrietta and son Mike, and Betty were among relatives attending visitation at McCommons Funeral Home in Greensboro Sunday night, January 13. The funereal service was held Monday at Bethesda Baptist Church near Union Point with her pastor, Steven Pencer, pastor at Bethesda, Jim Olds and Rev. Lem Clark officiating. Burial was at Bethesda beside her husband. .Friends and relatives of Martha Beth Rice Flanigan are glad to know that she is having tender loving care and therapy at the home of her daughter, Judy Cunningham, and her husband Robert in Lincolnton, next door to her home. Martha had a diabetic attack causing her to pass out on her floor several hours before she was found, back in December. She spent several weeks in the Thomson hospital and Willis Memorial Hospital in Washington all during the Christmas holidays. Her sister, Henrietta Lunceford, has been visiting her often. She appreciates everyone's prayers.
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