Entries by Walter Geiger

Lawrence Smith

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Friday, July 21. 2017

Graveside services for Mr. Lawrence Smith will be conducted Sunday morning at 9:30 am in the Milner Baptist Church Cemetery with Rev. Ken Ross officiating.
Mr. Smith was a native of Frankford, WV and was raised in Hines W.V. He moved to Atlanta where he worked for A T & T for 35 years and had made his home in Lamar County for the past 10 years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and was preceded in death by his parents, Walter Smith and Freda Burns Smith, and brother Harold Smith and sister Nadine Crist. [Full Story »]

HBO location manager Greg Alpert adores key to city

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Walter Geiger

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Friday, July 21. 2017

Location manager Greg Alpert started scouting Barnesville as a possible set destination for HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects’ last December. Soon after that, he had his first meeting with community development director Niki Sappington who was the city’s official liaison for the project. At that time he asked Sappington if he might get a key to the city if things worked out well.

Alpert got just that July 13 at a city hall celebration in his honor. [Full Story »]

HBO work done; Wind Gap back to Barnesville

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Walter Geiger

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Friday, July 21. 2017

HBO completed local film work on its series ’Sharp Objects’ over the weekend and a large portion of the crew left town. The crew camp in the Gordon parking lot off College Drive has been dismantled.

A skeleton crew of location personnel remain here converting Wind Gap, Missouri back to Barnesville. [Full Story »]

Police report

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Friday, July 21. 2017

Between Monday, July 10 and Sunday, July 16 the Barnesville Police Department made the following arrests: [Full Story »]

Jeffery Glenn (Jeff) Marable

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Friday, July 21. 2017

Martha Laverne Slaughter Davis

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Thursday, July 20. 2017

Mrs. Martha Laverne Slaughter Davis age 81, passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2017, in an Upson County health care facility. She was a native of Thomaston Ga, having lived most of her life in Barnesville. She was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. Charles Lamar Davis, her father Mr. George William Slaughter, and her mother Mrs Emma Lela Parker Slaughter. Mrs. Davis was an assembly line worker, having worked at Federal Paperboard in Thomaston. Mrs Davis served Faithfully at Pineview Baptist Church and was a member of Aldora Methodist Church. [Full Story »]

Grace “Louise” Compton

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Walter Geiger

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Thursday, July 20. 2017

Ms. Grace “Louise” Compton, age 66, of Upson County, passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at her residence. A native of Barnesville, Ms. Compton was the daughter of the late Mr. Charlie Thomas Compton, and the late Mrs. Grace Marge Sauley Compton. She was a homemaker, a caregiver for her Mom & Dad, and was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church.  [Full Story »]

Flath working Trojans; season starts Aug. 25

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Thursday, July 20. 2017

The high school football season gets underway in just over six weeks and new Trojan head coach John Flath is busy preparing his team for his inaugural season at the LC helm. Lamar opens regular season play August 25 when the Northeast Raiders visit Trojan Field.

Flath was introduced here March 30 and hit the ground running. “Arriving after spring break afforded us the opportunity to become familiar with the upperclassmen. They are fine young men who found a way to win 21 games under three different staffs. That is a credit to them and the support of the community,” Flath said. [Full Story »]

Big Brother is always watching

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Thursday, July 20. 2017

By Walter Geiger

Big Brother’ made his first appearance in George Orwell’s 1949 novel ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’. Orwell also wrote ‘Animal House’. Both are commonly required reading in high school and college classwork.

In Orwell’s book, Big Brother was the leader of Oceania where the dominant political party was all powerful and maintained iron fist rule over the citizenry ‘for their own sakes’. Citizens were watched constantly through television screens thus the birth of the phrase ’Big Brother is always watching’. [Full Story »]

Jeff Marable

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Walter Geiger

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Thursday, July 20. 2017

Mr. Jeffery Glenn (Jeff) Marable, age 54, of Barnesville, passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2017, at Brightmoor Hospice in Griffin. Mr. Marable was born August 18, 1962, at Turner Air Force Base in Albany, Georgia, son of Willis and Peggy Marable of Barnesville. He was raised in San Antonio, Texas and Barnesville, Georgia and graduated from Barnesville Academy, class of 1980. He attended Gordon Junior College on a baseball scholarship. Mr. Marable worked most of his career as an auto salesman for Davis-Cooper Ford, Moore Chevrolet and Trophy Ford. He was an active member of the Pinta Lodge #88 Free and Accepted Masons, Jaycees, Kiwanis Club and the Barnesville Chamber of Commerce for many years. He was a Baptist by faith.

Survivors in addition to his parents include a sister, Missy (Tim) Parker; two nephews, Blane Parker and Scott Parker; uncle, Larry (Wanda) Sealock all of Barnesville; aunt, Theora Reynolds of Thomaston and several cousins.

A celebration of Jeff’s home going will be at 11:00 Saturday, July 22, 2017, at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Garth Forster and Ken Chambliss officiating. Interment will be at Lamar Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at Breedlove Memorial Chapel Friday evening from 6:00 until 8:00.

Services are being arranged and directed by Breedlove Memorial Chapel, Barnesville, GA. Condolences and memories may be shared at www.breedlovememorialchapel.com

Updated: Wadsworth descendants hit B'ville with lawsuit

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Wednesday, July 19. 2017

Updated: 4 days ago

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Covington attorney John Strauss, on behalf of Cynthia Wadsworth and Mike Ross, has filled suit against the City of Barnesville to halt reloction of graves in the Wadsworth-Clayton Cemetery.

City officials were served with the suit Wednesday morning. [Full Story »]

Updated: Prayer Walk for schools is Sunday

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, July 19. 2017

Updated: 4 days ago

The annual Prayer Walk for Schools will be held Sunday in anticipation of the upcoming school year.

Participants are urged to meet in front of the school system Fine Arts Center on Burnette Road at 6 p.m. for Christian music, lemonade and instructions. At 6:15 p.m., they will be given a general prayer list and then can pick a school to walk around while praying for students, faculty, staff, administration and others involved in educating the community’s young people. Churches are encouraged to participate.

For more information, contact First Baptist Church 770- 358-2353.

Jeff Marable

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Wednesday, July 19. 2017

Jeff Marable of Barnesville died July 19 after a long illness.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

Sheriff's report

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Tuesday, July 18. 2017

Between Friday, July 7 and Thursday, July 14 the following were processed through the Lamar County jail: [Full Story »]

Sumner finally going to trial

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Monday, July 17. 2017

By Walter Geiger

Judge Tommy Wilson, who had been assigned the case only a week previously due to a recusal by Judge Bill Fears, set a trial date for Bobbie Jo Sumner at a change of venue hearing at the Butts County courthouse July 7.

Sumner is charged with first degree vehicular homicide, hit and run and four counts making false statements in connection with the June 29, 2013 death of Alexandra Noelle Desir on Rose Avenue in Barnesville. [Full Story »]