OBITUARIES

chapel of Good Shepherd Funeral Home with Rev. Kirby Rowland officiating. The family will receive friends from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. with the service following. Interment will follow at Oaknoll Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Souder’s grand children, great-grandchildren and two special young men, Luke Richardson and Gage Davis will honor Mrs. Souder as pallbearers.

Flowers are accepted, however, family request donations to Fair Haven Missionary Baptist Church Youth Ministry, 674 County Road 189, Cedar Bluff, Alabama 35959, in Mrs. Souder’s memory.

Parnick Jennings, Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home is honored to be serving the family of Margie Jean (Lanier) Souder.

Acworth, Georgia

Gerald H. McChesney Jr.

Gerald H. McChesney, Jr., age 68, son of Dr. and Mrs. G.H. McChesney, died March 15, 2016.

He is survived by son Erich (Mary) of Virginia Beach, Va. and sister Virginia of Rome.

He will be interred at Georgia National Cemetery on Monday, May 2 at 10 a.m. Funeral Home

Newnan, Georgia

George Bradley Burkhalter

George Bradley Burkhalter, 97, of Newnan, formerly of Rome, Ga., passed away Thursday, April 28, 2016, at his home at Wesley Woods of Newnan-Peachtree City.

Bradley was born April 14, 1919 in Rome, Ga. He was the son of the late William Isaac Burkhalter and Gladys Gardner Burkhalter.

Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 48 years, Helen Davis Burkhalter, his wife of 17 years, Charlotte Murdock Burkhalter, and his brothers William Isaac Burkhalter, Dr. James Herbert Burkhalter.

He graduated from Rome High in 1936, where he served as President of his senior class. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1947, where he received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

He served his country for three years during World War II as a navigator on a B-17 with the 8th Army Air Corp and the 92nd Bombers Squad. He was based in Paddington England where he flew 35 missions, two of which were on D-Day.

He received the distinguished flying cross, the air medal with three clusters and the Presidential Unit Citation with three clusters. He was associated with Battey Machinery Company for 35 years, where he served as manager of the electrical department until his retirement in April 1989. He joined The Rome Exchange Club in 1950 where he was a past president and the oldest living member. In 2009 he was made a lifetime member of The Exchange Club and past president of the Coosa Valley Fair. For many years he was a member of the Second Avenue Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon. Later in life he became a member of the First Baptist Church.

Condolences can be expressed online at www. mckoon.com The graveside service in Rome is Monday, May 2, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Myrtle Hill Cemetery, near the tomb of the known soldier, with Dr. Floyd Roebuck officiating. Flowers are welcome or memorial contributions can be made to The Exchange Club of Rome Family Resource Center, P.O. Box 1668, Rome, Ga., 30162. The memorial service in Newnan is Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at 2 p.m. in the Thompkins Auditorium at Wesley Woods of NewnanPeachtree City with Rev. Sharon Edgar officiating.

He is survived by his daughter, Betsy Burkhalter White and her husband Michael and Charlotte’s children, Jane Murdock Heaberlin, Don Murdock and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

McKoon Funeral Home & Crematory, 38 Jackson St, Newnan, Ga., Wanda Crook Wainright

Wanda Crook Wainright, 10-17-1930- 4-28-2016 went home to be with the Lord. Family night will be Monday Night May 2 from 7 to 8 p.m. at Miller and Richards Oaknoll Chapel Funeral Home. Graveside service will be on Tuesday May 3 at 1 p.m. in Oakland Cemetery with the Rev. Skip Myers of Shorter Avenue Baptist Church. Oaknoll Chapel Funeral Home.

Miller and Richards Oaknoll Chapel Funeral Home and Cremation Services is honored to serve the family of Mrs. Wainright, please visit www. oaknollchapel.com to leave a condolence message or share your memories. NORTH CHAPEL

Jonathan Casey Lyle

Mr. Jonathan Casey Lyle, age 36, of Rome, passed away Thursday, April 28, 2016.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time but will be announced later.

Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, North Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements.

Tommy Kono

HONOLULU (AP) — Tommy Kono, who took up weightlifting in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans and went on to win two Olympic gold medals for the United States, has died. He was 85. Kono died Sunday in Honolulu, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced. His daughter, JoAnn Sumida, told The New York Times the cause was hepatic encephalopathy caused by cirrhosis of the liver.

He was born Tamio Kono in Sacramento, California in 1930.

Kono was a frail, asthmatic 14-year-old when a neighbor first gave him a dumbbell at the Tule Lake internment center in Northern California, where he lived with his family for most of World War II.

He packed on 15 pounds of muscle by the time he left the camp in 1945.