The North Georgia Cruisers will be having a car show on Saturday September the 3rd at the Chattooga County Fairgrounds located by the Ag Center. The show will take place from 8am until 4pm. Admission to the show is free. The fee for exhibitors will be $25. All proceeds raised from the show will go towards buying Christmas gifts for 150 children here in Chattooga County.
Selling a lot of shop tools and a new climbing tree stand only used once last year. Call 706-331-2064.
Someone is needing linoleum flooring installed in their home. They also have an extra large wrought iron bird cage for sale. He is also wanting to find someone who can program a scanner. Call (706)734-7999.
2001 Honda Shadow motorcycle for sale. It has rebuilt carbs and a refurbished gas tank. Oil has been changed and the engine has been tuned up and ready to ride. Call (484)-226-7569
Mr. Kenneth Turner Venable, age 79 of Summerville, passed away Tuesday, August 23, 2022 surrounded by his family at a Rome area hospital.
Mr. Venable was born in Cedartown, Georgia on January 21, 1943, son of the late Otis Turner Venable and Jessie May Osburn Venable. He had been employed as a Carpenter prior to working and retiring from Bigelow-Sanford. Mr. Venable was a jack of all trades and could fix just about anything. He enjoyed going to yard sales and Trade Day; and was a great pool player. In addition to his parents, Mr. Venable was preceded in death by his wife, Briana Jane Venable and a baby sister, Glenda Venable.
Mr. Venable is survived by his children, Wayne (Diane) Venable; Lisa (Susan) Venable, and Adriana Venable; brother, Charles W. Venable; grandchildren, Jesse (Carl) Moses, Alexis Abernathy and Emily (Joseph) Keith; great grandchildren, Owen Moses, Kinsley Moses, Bennett McElwee and Brenley McElwee; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral Services for Mr. Venable will be held Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 4:00 P.M. in the Chapel of the Coffman Funeral Home with Rev. Tony Weaver officiating. Private Interment will be in the Macedonia Cemetery.
Mr. Venable will be in state at the Coffman Funeral Home and the family will be receiving visitors from 2:00 P.M. until the funeral hour.
Coffman Funeral Home, Petitt Chapel is honored to be serving the family of Mr. Kenneth Turner Venable. Please visit www.coffmanfh.net to sign our online guestbook, and to post condolences.
There will be a Labor Day Gospel Fest on Monday September the 5th at the Cloudland Community Park from 10am to 2pm Eastern time. The free admission event will be sponsored by the Cloudland Volunteer Fire Department. BBQ plates will be sold for $10. There will be an open mic for gospel music and sound equipment will be provided. Everyone is welcomed to attend.
On Wednesday morning, at about 1:03 AM Rome Police officers responded to a 911 call reference to a subject being shot multiple times at an address within the city limits. When officers responded they discovered this was the home of Marjorie Taylor Greene. She assured the officers there was no issue and the call was determined to be a false call commonly known as “swatting”. Rome/Floyd 911 received a second call from the suspect who was using a computer-generated voice stating that he/she was upset about Mrs. Greene’s political view on transgender youth rights. The Rome Police Department Criminal Investigation Division is working in conjunction with the United States Capital Police on this investigation. This is an active investigation and no further information can be released at this time.
Mrs. Mary Frances Shearin Ray, age 84, of Gaylesville, AL, died Tuesday, August 23, 2022, at Riverview Medical Center in Gadsden, AL.
Mrs. Ray was born January 28, 1938, in Chattanooga, TN, daughter of the late Edward and Edna Mathis Shearin. She was a homemaker and a member of Pleasant Valley # 1 Baptist Church. She loved the Lord Jesus Christ and she loved her family and friends very much. She was so gentle and always had a listening ear. She was always willing to help anyone in need and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. She was the glue that held her family together and was a beautiful reflection of the Lord that she loved.
She is now in the presence of the Lord that she spent many hours talking to. We are reminded of the “Amazing Grace” song’s line “I once was lost but now am found…was blind but now I see.” We are left to wonder what beauty that her blind eyes are now seeing. This beautiful, loving, sweet lady will be missed, but the love she has touched others with will continue. She would want the reflections of Christ in her to be passed on to her family and friends to know that her labor was not in vain. She has finished the race the Lord placed for her and is now sitting at His feet. One of her favorite Bible verses was Isaiah 55:8; “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.”
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Alvin Junior Ray; daughter, Joyce Battles; son, Lamar Addison; sisters, Peggy Kitchens, Christine Freeman, and Sue Smith; and a grandson, Stephen Addison.
Survivors include her sons, Michael (Tricia) Ray, Darryl (Carla) Ray, Randy Ray; daughters, Vicki Robbins, Pamela Porter, Kimberly (Michael) Reynolds; grandchildren, Whitey Miller, Russell Addison, Koby Addison, Leah Hairrell, Chris Battles, Colton Robbins, Michael Reynolds, Peyton Reynolds, Natalie Ray, Lyla Ray, Isaac Ray, Owen Ray, Tyler Ray, and Jamie Ray; and several great-grandchildren.
Graveside and interment services will be held at 3:30 P.M. (E.S.T.) Friday, August 26, 2022, at Mount Zion Cemetery with Rev. Briggs King and Rev. Ronald Berry officiating. Pallbearers will be Russell Addison, Koby Addison, Tyler Ray, Chris Battles, Michael Reynolds, and T.J. Miller.
Mrs. Ray will be in state at Mason Funeral Home and the family will receive friends from 2:00 until 3:00 P.M. (E.S.T.) on Friday.
To share your condolences with the family online, please visit our website at www.masonfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are provided by Mason Funeral Home- Summerville, GA.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, August 24, 2022:
Georgia’s former first lady Sandra Deal lost her long battle with cancer on Tuesday. She was 80.
