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Linda Bachna
Linda Bachna, age 63, died Monday, September 10, 2007.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Williams Funeral Home Chapel.
Ms. Bachna was a native of Beaufort, S.C., grew up in Savannah, but lived in San Francisco, Calif. most of her life. She had made her home in Baldwin County for the past three years. She was a retired paralegal and a member of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include her mother and stepfather, John and Billie Lee of Milledgeville; her stepmother, Dorothy Ratliff of San Carlos, Calif.; two sisters, Janice Bachna of Milledgeville and Judy Davis of Loganville; three brothers, Johnny Lee of Wetumpka, Ala., Jimmy Lee of Epworth, and Joe Lee of Macon; devoted aunt and uncle, N.C. Holland and wife Earline of Statesboro.
The family will receive friends Tuesday, following the service.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Hospice Care Options, 811 N. Cobb St., Milledgeville, Ga. 31061.
View the Memorial Page and sign the online guest book at www.williamsfuneralhome.net.
Williams Funeral Home and Crematory has charge of arrangements.
Fred English
SPARTA - Fred English, age 95, of 320 Boone Road died Monday, September 10, 2007 at his residence.
Warren Bros. Mortuary in Sparta has charge of arrangements.
Isaac Jones Sr.
Isaac Jones Sr. of 1202 Oconee St. died Saturday, September 8, 2007 in a Putnam County hospital.
The family may be contacted at the residence of Annie M. Ward, 132 Youngblood Rd., and Elizabeth Burke, 1425 Irwinton Rd.
Slater’s Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Lewis Nicholson
THOMASTON - Lewis Carl Nicholson, age 92, died Friday, September 7, 2007 at a Thomaston health care facility.
Services were at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Chapel of Coggins Funeral Home. The Rev. Chuck Byron officiated. Burial was in Crystal Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Nicholson was born on April 18, 1915 in Gilmer County to the late Dallas and Pernie Nicholson. He was a self-employed truck driver for over 20 years. Mr. Nicholson served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a member of the Baptist Faith.
Survivors include a daughter, Sue Drake and husband Freddie of Milledgeville; three sons, Richard Nicholson and wife Anita, Ronnie Nicholson and wife Kathy, and Donald Nicholson, all of Thomaston; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
The family received friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Coggins Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Lottie Vickers
Lottie Adams Vickers, age 89, went to her Heavenly home on Saturday, September 8, 2007.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Watts Funeral Home with the Rev. Dollie Harrell officiating. Burial will be in Palatka Memorial Gardens, where Lottie will be laid to rest beside her husband.
Mrs. Vickers was a resident of Palatka for more than 60 years before moving to Milledgeville in 2002. She was a member of the Penicostal Revival Center. Lottie is preceded in death by her beloved husband, Willie Vickers; a daughter, Joyce Trayler; a great-grandson, Ashton Williams; and a granddaughter, Cynthia Zeagler Alford.
Survivors include a daughter, Linda Head of Milledgeville; five grandchildren, Darla Zeigler Kennedy of Pomona Park, Michael Hollowell of Keystone Heights, Stacy Goodwin Avant of Milledgeville, Alecia Hudson of Palatka; and Chris Head of Athens; seven great-grandchildren, Amber Sheffield, Allie Kennedy, Lyndsey Blackwelder, Mathew Hudson, Marie Hudson, Emma Avant, and Abby Avant; and two great great-grandchildren, Kayla Sheffield and Corey Sheffield.
The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Watts Funeral Home Chapel.
Memories and condolences may be sent to the family at www.wattsfuneralhomes.com.
Watts Funeral Homes, Inc. in Florida has charge of arrangements.
Mary Ethridge
Mary Avis Hall Ethridge, age 94, died Monday May 14, 2007. Services will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of Moores Funeral Home with the Rev. Ralph Story officiating. Burial will be in Sand Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Ethridge was a native and life long resident of Baldwin County. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert S. and Mary Jane Smith Hall; her husband, Shelby Ethridge; and two brothers, Melvin Hall and Nevins Hall. She was a member of Mt. Pleasand Baptist Church.
Survivors include two brothers, Lewis S. Hall of Milledgeville and John Francis Hall of Gordon; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Moores Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Robert Mann
Robert Wellesley Mann died June 16, 2006. Graveside services will be 4:00 PM Thursday at Memory Hill Cemetery with Father Michael McWhorter and Father Tim Gadziala officiating.
Robert Wellesley Mann, of Lexington, Massachusetts, was a pioneer in engineering design and education, and in rehabilitation and biomedical research. His research achievements were recognized by his election to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, one of only seven individuals so recognized. He supervised more than 300 M.I.T. theses, many of whose recipients now serve as senior faculty at institutions around the world.
A Brooklyn, New York native, Mann was proud of his education at Brooklyn Technical vocational high school. He was employed as a draftsman at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City before and after World War II military service where he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Southwest Pacific theatre. He entered M.I.T. as a freshman on the G.I. Bill in February of 1947. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1950, his Master’s in 1951 and his Doctor of Science in 1957. He joined the M.I.T. Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1953, became full professor in 1963, was appointed Germeshausen Professor in 1970 and then Whitaker Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 1974, an endowed chair he occupied until July 1992. He became Whitaker Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer, following his 41 years at M.I.T.
As an educator, Professor Mann transformed the design curriculum in Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T. in the 1960s by displacing traditional machine element subjects and machinery laboratories with project oriented approaches that involved his students in the entire design process from specification and conception through modeling and analysis, representation, fabrication and test. His approach was formalized at M.I.T. in the 1970s as the “Course 2.70 Design Contest”, decades later by numerous national design contests now run at the secondary school level.
As chair of the Committee on Authentic Involvement in Engineering Design of the National Commission on Engineering Education he organized four national conferences on engineering design education. His research was largely realized through his supervision of M.I.T. undergraduate and graduate student projects, including 155 bachelors, 104 masters and 52 doctors theses, with many of the latter authors now serving as engineering faculty, and many others in industry. He is the author and co-author of over 400 publications, and named inventor on four patents.
Mann’s penchant for innovation evolved along diverse paths that evidenced a convergence of engineering, design, research and ultimately medicine. At M.I.T. through the 1950’s, he conducted research and development of air-to-air missile components with an emphasis on internal power systems, including the solid propellant, turbo alternator power supplies for Sparrow I and III, subsequently applied in the Hawk ground-to-air missile. During the same period, he followed early digital computer and graphics display research at M.I.T. and combined his draftsman and design experiences with this computer awareness by inaugurating the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) project at M.I.T. in the late 1950s.
By the 1960s, his research evolved to focus on technology to ameliorate human disabilities resulting from physical handicaps. Mann organized and led a group that addressed the communication, mobility, recreational, and vocational needs of blind persons. Outcomes included English-to-Braille computer translation and production systems and electronic mobility aids for blind travelers. His rehabilitation research then expanded to embrace the musculoskeletal system with the demonstration that brain signals could control a prosthesis replacing an amputated limb, the “Boston” arm. His recent studies of skeletal joints and osteoarthritis, together with related computer-aided surgery, explicated the biomechanical role of cartilage and include the only measurements of pressures on and in cartilage in vivo in the human hip.
Mann founded in 1975 the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation which he directed, along with the Harvard-MIT Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, until he assumed emeritus status in 1992.
Dr. Mann’s work in design and rehabilitation was recognized nationally and international1y, having served on the Ordinance Advisory Committee of the National Security Industrial Association and was chairman of the Department of Defense Advisory Group on Missile Auxiliary Power Systems. He was a member of the National Commission on Engineering Education and founder and chairman of its Committee on Authentic Involvement in Engineering Design. He served on the Committee for the Application of Computer-Aided Design of the American Ordnance Association.
As his research shifted to biomedical and rehabilitation engineering he joined the Advisory Committee of the National Braille Authority. In the National Research Council he was a member of the Committees on the Skeletal System and Prosthetics Research and Development and founder and chair of the latter’s Subcommittee on Sensory Aids. He served on the NRC Committee on the National Needs for the Rehabilitation of the Physically Handicapped, on its Commissions on Life Sciences and on Strategic Technology for the Army, and its Committee on Space Biology and Medicine. In the Institute of Medicine Dr. Mann was on the Board on Health Sciences Policy and he co-chaired the study “New Medical Devices - Invention, Development and Use” published by the NAE/IOM. He served on the Scientific Review Board in the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served on the board or served as associate editor of engineering and biomedical engineering journals.
Dr. Mann served as Director and President of the Carroll Center for the Blind, Trustee and President of the National Braille Press, and as Consultant on Engineering Science at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He also served on the Board of Overseers of Youville Lifecare, and on the Corporations of the Mount Auburn Hospital and the Perkins School for the Blind.
With his wife, Margaret’s passing in 2002, Professor Mann assumed her role in the charitable trust and foundation of her cousin, Flannery O’Connor, internationally renowned for her short stories, novels and letters. Professor Mann served as Co-Trustee of Mary Flannery O’Connor Charitable Trust and as Chairman of the Flannery O’Connor - Andalusia Foundation, Inc.
Professor Mann’s contributions were acknowledged by M.I.T. through the award of two endowed chairs and his designation as the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Awardee in 1983-84, established to “recognize extraordinary professional accomplishments of full-time members of the M.I.T. faculty.” That same year, Mann also served as President of the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of M.I.T., only the second faculty member to so serve this century. In 1995, M.I.T. named him as the inaugural recipient of their Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award.
He was elected a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering. He received the Gold Medal of the ASME and the Goldenson Award for Outstanding Scientific Research in Technology for Cerebral Palsy and the Physically Handicapped, was the inaugural recipient of the ASME H.R. Lissner Award in Biomedical Engineering, and was honored by many other awards and recognitions.
While an M.I.T. undergraduate, Professor Mann met Margaret Ida Florencourt, who then was a Research Engineer at M.I.T. on Whirlwind, an early digital computer; they were married in September 1950. Their son, Robert W. Jr., M.I.T. S.B.’75, S.M.’77, has been a senior executive of several national and international airlines and now conducts his own airline industry analysis and consulting business in Port Washington, NY; he and his wife Susan have two sons and a daughter. Professor and Mrs. Mann’s daughter, Dr. Catherine L. Mann, Radcliffe/Harvard A.B.’77, M.I.T. Ph.D.’84, served in policy advisory positions in Washington at the Federal Reserve Board and Institute for International Economics and is now a Professor of International Economics and Finance at Brandeis University she and her husband Randy Hartnett of Great Falls, VA.
Harold Connell
TOOMSBORO -
Harold Eugene Connell, age 79, died Saturday, October 6, 2007.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Salem Methodist Church Cemetery.
Mr. Connell was a native of Laurens County and made his home in Wilkinson County. He was retired from Central State Hospital and was an Army Veteran of World War II. He was the son of the late Leonard A. and Lenoie Mercer Connell. He was a member of the Toomsboro Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Hazel Couey Connell of Toomsboro; a daughter, Gail Mills and husband Frederick of Irwinton; a brother, Edward Connell of Toomsboro; three sisters, Doris Prosser of Milledgeville, Shirley Fountain of McIntyre, and Francis Moody of Dublin; and a grandson, Allen Mills.
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Moores Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Jon Michael League
Seattle - Jon Michael League, age 44, died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday, December 5, 2007.
Services will be in Seattle, Wash.
Jon was born December 17, 1962 in Atlanta, the son of Bob and Pat League. He was a long time resident of Milledgeville and attended Georgia Military College. He married Georgia League in 2002.
Survivors include his wife of Seattle, Wash.; a son, Robert Jack League of Atlanta; a daughter, Nicole Doree League of Atlanta; a granddaughter, Aubree Jade League of Atlanta; his mothe, Pat Friend of Clinton, Wis.; his father, Bob League and wife Jeanne of Flowery Branch, Ga.; a sister, Amy Klug and husband Eric of Lake Geneva, Wis.; a niece, Kelsey Reece of Lake Geneva, Wis.; a newphew, Jack Christopher Klug of Lake Geneva, Wis.; and a very special best friend and mentor, his uncle Jim Sparks of St. Mary's, Ga.
Jon was preceded in death by his brother, James Christopher League; his grandparents; and his great-grandparents.
In lieu of flowers and memorials, the family wishes donors to sign an organ donation form in Jon's memory.
Peoples Memorial Associates of Seattle, Wash. has charge of arrangements.
Richard Turner
SANDERSVILLE - Richard Turner of 405 M.L.K. Jr. Drive died Wednesday, December 5, 2007 in a Sandersville hospital.
Mr. Turner was a well known and respected civil rights leader with the SCLC and NAACP in Washington County and surrounding counties.
The family may be contacted at the residence.
M.C. Smith Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Peoples Funeral Home has charge of courtesy announcement.
Perry Foster, Jr.
Sparta - Perry Foster, Jr., age 50, of 88 Shady Oak Drive, died Friday, November 30, 2007 at his Sparta residence. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Sparta with burial in the church cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Eunice Foster of Sparta; two sons, Jenry Lee Hunt of Milledgeville and Tommy Lee Hunt of Greensboro; three daughters, Brenda Watkins and Rosellen Hunt, both of Sparta, Mary Ross of Milledgeville; his mother, Mary Bell of Sparta; nine sisters, Mildred Boyer, Susie L. Culver, Mary Cummings, Julia Mae Foster, Delois Foster Bell, all of Sparta, Mary L. Fosterand and Mary Alice Webber of Florida; five brothers, Jimmy L. Foster, Arthur L. Foster, Walter L. Foster, Sammy L. Foster, and Anderson A. Foster.
Ingram Brothers Funeral Home of Sparta has charge of arrangements.
