GREEN, Roy
Police have arrested nearly a dozen people who police say are believed to have been connected to multiple pharmacy burglaries in the Atlanta area
Mr. Roy Lee Green, 82, a well-known resident of the Resaca Community, died at his residence on Sunday, February 14, 2021, while surrounded by his loving family.
Mr. Green was born in Bradley County, TN on October 13, 1938, son of the late Oscar and Martha Howard Green. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a sister, Geraldine Morgan and her husband Lee, brothers-in-law, Henry Weller and Roy Flowers; two half-brothers and onehalf sister. Prior to his retirement he owned and operated Resaca Grocery, was a graduate of Cohutta High School, a veteran of the United States Army, a member of Sugar Valley Church of God, a member of the Dalton Masonic Lodge #105 F&AM.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret Louise Green to whom he was married for 63 years; daughter, Angela Louise (Randy) Lewallen; sons, Michael Lee (Cyndi) Green, Johnny Lamar Green; grandchildren, Hailey Marie (Tyler) French, Michael Seth Green, Meagan Elizabeth Darnell, Johnna Rae (Daniel) Sivley, Jonathan Gabriel, Matthew David and Caroline Grace Lewallen; several great-grandchildren; sister, Wilma Flowers, Patsy Weller; three half-brothers; nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, February 17th at 2:00 PM from the chapel of Max Brannon & Sons Funeral Home. Inter
Last week I wrote about how all people are of the human race. I believe this to be true. That being proclaimed, another truism is that human beings make mistakes. Some don’t admit to it, but if you are human, you make mistakes.
I’ve been ruminating over all the mistakes I’ve made in my lifetime. I gotta tell ya, I have made a lot and some are humdingers. When I was a little kid, I liked to run…everywhere. In truth, I’m kinda like that now, but at my age, I slowed to a small gallop. Anyway, I decided to run down this road which was at the top of a hill.
Did I mention that I was a bit of a klutz from an early age? Running down the hill at a pretty fast clip…I was also a fast runner…my feet tripped over each other and I fell. The thing is, my body didn’t stop. It slid down to the bottom on small pieces of gravel. My pathetic little chest was a mass of scrapes, scratches, and road burn. My shirt was in shreds. When I came in the house, Mom took one look at me and said, “What did you do this time?” She immediately commenced to wash off the dirt and clean up my wounds. She also put merthiolate on them. That stuff was red and had alcohol in it. Yes, it burned. And it was later banned because it also contained mercury. I’m thinking Mom was a bit of a sadist.
When I made mistakes as I got older, they were generally doozies. Colleges back in the day notoriously had bunches of dogs on campus. They were generally owned by professors and other residents in the area. One little female dog seemed to be a stray. She hung around our dorm and we all kind of adopted her. I think we called her Susie, but I’m not sure on that.
As with all female animals, she went into “season.” Every male dog within 50 miles (it seemed) honed in on her. She hid under bushes and such. I felt sorry for her and thought it might be a good idea to bring her into a safer place. She always came to me and when I called her, she came right to me along with about 20 male dogs. They appeared to not like me because they started growling and nipping at my ankles. They were big dogs, too. One was a St. Bernard.
My sister was a senior that year. I was a freshman. I should have known better. My sister heard the commotion outside a side door and beckoned me to come to her. Of course, Susie followed. I was really scared. She opened the door, grabbed my hand, and yanked me in. Susie came with me and my sister slammed the door shut. I kid you not. Those dogs started jumping at the door and snarling. It was like some Stephen King book. I learned to be more cautious with canines and situations of the heart.
Back some five years ago, I wasn’t paying attention to what It was doing. It had been raining. I was taking a bag of garbage out. Hayden offered to take it for me, but I said I’d do it. The next thing I knew, I’m airborne and slammed my leg into a concrete slab at the bottom of the steps of our front porch. I was stunned. My left leg was behind me and I reached around and pulled it in front of me.
I probably shouldn’t have done that, but I’d fallen before in my life and it seemed the right thing to do at the time. Then I tried to get up. It wasn’t happening. I was puzzled and my leg hurt pretty badly. Finally, I started yelling for help.
They all came at once. The family was visiting to see a play I was in. Yep, that evening was to be the final performance. It didn’t happen. All performers in plays say “Break a leg” for good luck. It just became a standing joke for me and still is. At the hospital when I asked the doctor if I could use a wheelchair to be in the play. he looked at me as if I’d taken a leave of my senses and firmly said, “No.”
Sean Dietrich, a southern writer and a favorite of mine, quoted his mother the other day. She used to say, “Tomorrow is a day without mistakes in it.” To me this is a good thought. It gives me hope to not do dumb things, to not make silly mistakes, but I’m human. The human race is full of mistakes made. People just need to remember that tomorrow doesn’t have any mistakes…yet.
DECATUR, Ga. — Police have arrested nearly a dozen people who police say are believed to have been connected to multiple pharmacy burglaries in the Atlanta area.
DeKalb County police arrested 11 people after a tracking device in a pill bottle led them to a home in northwest Atlanta, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. DeKalb County police spokeswoman Michaela Vincent said the arrests happened around 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
“It is believed that the individuals are connected to a number of pharmacy burglaries in DeKalb County and the metro area,” Vincent said.
Hours earlier, around 2 a.m. Sunday, police arrived at a Publix pharmacy to find the front doors and roll-down pharmacy gate had been forced open, according to a police report. The store manager told officers she’d closed about half an hour earlier.
“The suspects took an undetermined amount of pharmacy narcotics,” an officer wrote in the report.
Police did not immediately release the names of those arrested, and it wasn’t immediately clear how many pharmacy burglaries might be connected. Vincent described the investigation as “very active.”