Daryl Marvin Smith, 51, of Lenox, died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at his residence. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later. You may offer condolences to the family at the online guest registry at www.bowen-donaldson.com. Services for the Smith family are being provided by Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Vicie Roach, 79, of Sparks, passed away Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Concord Primitive Baptist Church with Elder Wendell Horten officiating. The interment will be held in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. tonight at Purvis Funeral Home. Survivors include her sons, Roger Roach of Sparks, Ricky Roach of Nashville and Dean Roach of Alapaha; one brother, Charles Roberts of Sparks; and one sister, Mattie Exum of Sparks. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at www.purvisfh.com. Purvis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Emma Lane Rigdon, 92, of Tifton, died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at Tift Regional Medical Center. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday in the chapel of Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors. Complete arrangements will be announced later by Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors. You may sign the guest registry at www.albritton-beaumontfuneralhome.com.
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County millage rate remains same
Tift County Commissioners voted unanimously in a called meeting Tuesday to keep the millage rate set at 12.183 for both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county.
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The southern half of the 1962 Class AA girls state hoops tournament was played in Fitzgerald, despite Fitzgerald having dropped their girls program in 1957.
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Girls basketball had long road to equality
When Georgia decided in 1945 to play a girls state basketball tournament, Macon Telegraph writer Sam Glassman was in favor, writing that the district tournaments that had always been held were just as strenuous. Days later, though, he wondered about the mental strain it was causing the players.
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Southern problems...some folks got’em
I was able to take a trip down to Tampa this past weekend with my mom to see my niece in her dance recital.We didn’t get to see her dance in her recital. She kept saying she was sick, and we all kept saying, “You’ll be OK...it’s just nerves.”
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