MRS. SHERRY DIANE KIRBY, age 66, of Montgomery Street, Summerville, Georgia, passed away Thursday, November 28, 2024, in a Rome hospital. Mrs. Kirby was born on July 15, 1958 in Summerville, Georgia, a daughter of the late Fred Miller and Martha Lou Clark Money; She was a Homemaker and Baptist by Faith. In addition to Parents, She was preceded in death by a brother, the Late Clark Money.
Surviving are Her husband, Ed Kirby; sisters, Lisa Keen, Buffy Money, and A. J. Martin; brother, Todd Money; several Nieces and Nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be held Monday, December 2nd, at 1:00 P.M. from the J. D. Hill Memorial Chapel of Earle Rainwater Funeral Home with Pastor Jeremy Stroop officiating, interment in Johnson Cemetery. Active Pallbearers, Chase Lively, Bryan Barnes, Allen Keen, Ty Hutchins, Ethan Young, and Nish Patel. The Family will receive friends Monday from 12 noon until 1:00 P.M. at the Funeral Home.
Earle Rainwater Funeral Home in charge of arrangements for Mrs. Sherry Diane Kirby, who passed away Thursday.
Mrs. Windy Ann Campbell, age 46 of Summerville, Georgia passed away unexpectedly Thursday, November 28, 2024.
Windy was born in Kentucky on September 17, 1976, daughter of Larry Coleman Ray and the late Katherine Clark Ray. She had attended the Solid Rock Baptist Church and was a homemaker. She enjoyed watching TV and loved being around her grandchildren. In addition to her mother, Windy was preceded in death by a daughter, Charity Ann Mitchell and a brother, Chris Ray.
Windy is survived by her children, Autumn Ray(Oran Smith) and Haven Campbell; father, Larry Coleman Ray; brother and sister-in-law, Ernest and Robin Ray; grandchildren, Amelia Smith and Katherine Smith; nephew, Chris Ray; nieces, Candace Ray, Katherine Ray, Avinlee Ray and Sheena Guzman; and a number of additional nieces, nephews and extended family members.
Funeral Services for Windy will be held Monday, December 2, 2024 at 7:00 P.M. in the Chapel of the Coffman Funeral Home. The Family will receive friends from 5:00 P.M. until the funeral hour.
Coffman Funeral Home, Petitt Chapel is honored to be serving the family of Mrs. Windy Ann Campbell. Please visit www.coffmanfh.net to sign our online guestbook and post condolences.
Mr. Richard Teems, age 66, of Summerville, GA, died Wednesday, November 27, 2024, at Advent Health Redmond.
Mr. Teems was born March 8, 1958, in Summerville, GA, son of the late Auther Buster Teems and Mary Eleam Teems. He was employed with K & L Dawson Logging. Mr. Teems was also an avid hunter and fisherman.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by 8 siblings and 1 great-grandson; as well as a brother-in-law, Wallace Money.
Survivors include his sons, Tim Teems, Richard (Laura) Teems; daughters, Amy (Bo) Ray, Mamie (Shane) Russell, Tiffany (Joey) Dempsey; brothers, Ralph (Brenda) Teems, Ray (Martha) Teems, Ricky (Sheri) Teems; sisters, Peggy Money, Susie (Jimmy) Dawson; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, December 2, 2024, from the Mason Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Ray Teems and Pastor Jason Teems officiating. Interment will follow in Silver Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Bobby West, Tony Bannister, Kenneth Dawson, Lee Dawson, Danny McGraw, and Jimmy Vasser. Honorary pallbearers will be Bradin Suits, Cody Stewart, Landon Dempsey, Luke Hughes, Chris Lawson, and Lane Hughes.
Mr. Teems will be in state at Mason Funeral Home and the family will receive friends from 12:00 Noon until the hour of service on Monday.
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.
The Trion Bulldogs are in rare air. For the first time since 2015, the Bulldogs are in the quarterfinals of the GHSA state playoffs, better known as the “Elite 8”. Trion made it as far as the quarterfinals in both 2015 and 2012, but as the playoffs were structured at that time, Trion only had to reach the second round in the playoffs to get into the Elite 8. This year, Trion has advanced to the third round of the playoffs and the last time Trion reached the third round of the playoffs was way back in 2003, better know as the “Dome Team”.
The Bulldogs will face a team that have some recent history with in the playoffs in the Irwin County Indians. Tonight will be the 4th meeting between the two teams with all four of those meetings taking place in the playoffs. Trion won the first contest in the series back in 2012 but Irwin County has won two straight lopsided contests against the Bulldogs in 2013 and 2015. Their last meeting in 2015 was a quarterfinal matchup just like tonight that the Indians won 21-0.
There will be something unique about tonight’s game between the two teams. In each of the three previous meetings, Trion has had to make the four and a half hour trip to Ocilla, GA to play the Indians. Tonight will be the first time the Indians will have to travel to Sam R. McCain Stadium. Both Trion and Irwin County are the #3 teams from their respective regions and have had to pull upsets against higher seeded teams in each of the their two playoff victories this postseason. After Trion defeated Telfair County last Friday night, the Bulldogs were pulling hard for Irwin to upset Region 1 Champion Early County because an Irwin win would mean a home playoff game for the Bulldogs. Irwin County did just that by defeating Early County 28-20.
Irwin County is a proud program that has had a lot of success over the past decade. Irwin County has been a region champion in 8 of the last 11 seasons and won back to back state championship in 2019 and 2020. Tonight, Irwin County comes into the game ranked # 3 in the state while Trion is ranked # 7. Irwin County is 11-1 on the season with their only loss coming at the hands of Clinch County 34-28. Clinch County is currently ranked # 2 in the state and will be playing Bowdon tonight. Brooks County, Clinch County and Irwin County all ended up in a three way tie in Region 2-A and Irwin County ended up with the # 3 seed despite defeating the region champion Brooks County 17-14.
The winner of tonight’s game will advance to the Final Four and play the winner of Bowdon vs Clinch County in the semi-finals.
Due to GHSA rules and the fact that Trion High School is an NFHS member school, WZQZ will not be able to video stream tonight’s game from Sam R. McCain Stadium. However we will be audio streaming the game live on the WZQZ Facebook page and on the radio on 99.1 FM and AM 1180. Join WZQZ’s Paul Cavin, Jeremy Burke, cameraman Jim Warnock and engineer Sam Kohler for live coverage tonight beginning at 6:45 pm with kickoff to follow at 7:00 pm.