Hillary Clinton’s pledge: Steady hand at ‘moment of reckoning’
Delegate Ruth Demeter of Rome calls it a ‘powerful’ night.
SOUTH CHAPEL
Johnny Fred Carter
Mr. Johnny Fred Carter, age 69, of Rome, passed away on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at a local hospital.
Mr. Carter was born in Calhoun, Georgia on June 5, 1947, son of the late Fred Carter and the late Jean Dyer Carter. He was a 1965 graduate of Calhoun High School and was a veteran of the U. S. Army serving during the Vietnam War.
Johnny was an American musician, songwriter, recording studio owner, and record and TV producer. In the late 1980s he created a syndicated radio program called Yesterday in Gospel Music. In 1988, Johnny formed The Classics Quartet, which traveled professionally for three years, and produced as well as hosted the syndicated TV program Sing To The Lord in 87 markets. He was inducted to the Tri State Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
Survivors include his wife, Jeanette Shiflett Carter, to whom he was married on August 4, 1975; four sons, Dustin Odom and his wife, Jennifer, Todd Odom, Jeff Carter and Kenny Carter; six grandchildren, Luke Odom, Joshua Carter, Anastasia Ramsey, Veronica Carter, Kaitlyn Eaton and Allison Carter; two great grandchildren; two sisters, Sandra Rollins and Lynn Greene; nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 30, 2016, at noon in the Chapel at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, with Dr. Rodger Whorton, Rev. Mikel Garrett and Rev. Brandon Bruce officiating. Interment will follow in Floyd Memory Gardens.
The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Saturday from 10 a.m. until the service time. At other hours, they will be at their respective residences.
Pallbearers are asked to assemble at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and include: Active: Dave Patterson, Charlie Tinsley, Lamar Greene, Randy Mincey, Lee Burke, Cell Ramey and Hector Navarrete. Honorary: Johnny’s many friends and gospel singers.
Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements. Johnny Fred Carter Wayne Atchley
Mr. Wayne Atchley, former Sheriff and police officer, age 70, of Rome, passed away at his residence.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, at 2 p.m. at The Church at Northside, with the Rev. Dewey Atchley and the Rev. Jerry Branton officiating. The family will receive friends at The Church at Northside, 75 Floyd Park Road, Rome, Ga. 30165, on Monday, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Interment will follow in the Morning View Cemetery. A full obituary will run in a later edition of the Rome News-Tribune.
Good Shepherd Funeral Home is in charge of the funeral services for Mr. Wayne Atchley. James Ancel Vines
Mr. James Ancel Vines, age 94, of Rome, passed away Wednesday, July 27, 2016, in a local health care.
Mr. Vines was born April 22, 1922, in Cherokee County, Alabama, son of the late Smith Vines and Nora Lissie Bagley Vines. He was a Deacon and Usher at Shorter Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. Vines was retired from Rome Paper Company, and was a veteran of the United States Army serving during WWII.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Polly Posey Vines; daughter, Peggie Vines Carr; brothers, Hoyt, J.T., and Dewey Vines; sisters, Annie Ruth Bennett, and Mildred Vines.
Survivors include, grandson, Brad (Shelley) Carr, Duluth; granddaughter, Lisa (Mike) Boone, Cumming; great grandchildren, Bradley and Maggie Carr, Rachel and Mitchell Boone; special niece, Laura “Sally” Gamble; several nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 30, 2016, at Parnick Jennings, Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Skip Myers officiating. Interment will follow in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 10:30 a.m. until the hour of the services on Saturday, at Parnick Jennings, Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home, 2750 Shorter Ave. Rome, Ga. 30165.
Pallbearers include the following gentlemen, Mitchell Boone, Mike Boone, Brad Carr, Bradley Carr, Jeff Gamble, and Oliver Mitchell.
Please visit our website, www.goodshepherdfh.net to sign the online guest book.
Parnick Jennings, Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Delegates from Rome at the Democratic National Convention said they were overwhelmed Thursday when Hillary Clinton accepted the presidential nomination, the first woman to lead a major U.S. political party.
“This is the sixth ‘last night’ of a DNC convention I have been blessed to attend, and I have always been filled with joy and anticipation. But this time is far more moving — changing the face of American leadership forever,” said Wendy Davis, a superdelegate who is also a Rome city commissioner.
Ken Fuller, a local attorney and former state senator, and Ruth Demeter, a Canada native who became a U.S. citizen in 2012, served as Northwest Georgia delegates.
“I knew the night would be powerful, but I have been moved from the very start,” Demeter said. “Three new citizens led the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Confronting a “moment of reckoning,” Clinton cast herself as a unifier for divided times and a tested, steady hand to lead in a volatile world.
“We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against,” she said in excerpts released ahead of her speech. “But we are not afraid. We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have.”
Clinton’s national convention address followed three nights of Democratic stars, including a past and present president, asserting she is ready for the White House.
Thursday night she was making that case for herself on the convention’s final night.
Acknowledging Americans’ anxieties, Clinton vowed to create economic opportunities in inner cities and struggling small towns. She also said terror attacks around the world require “steady leadership” to defeat a determined enemy.
The week’s most powerful validation came Wednesday night from
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during the final day of the Democratic National Convention.
Ruth Demeter (left) and Wendy Davis of Rome smile Thursday at the Democratic National Convention. Photo contributed by Ken Fuller
Ken Fuller (right) of Rome speaks with Rep. Hank Johnson of Atlanta at the DNC.
President Barack Obama, her victorious primary rival in 2008. Obama declared Clinton not only can defeat Republican rival Donald Trump’s “deeply pessimistic vision” but also realize the “promise of this great nation.”
A studious wonk who prefers policy discussions to soaring oratory, Clinton has acknowledged she struggles with the flourishes that seem to come naturally to Obama and her husband, J. Scott Applewhite / The Associated Press Photo contributed by Wendy Davis
former president Bill Clinton. She’ll lean heavily on her “stronger together” campaign theme, invoking her 1996 book “It Takes a Village,” her campaign said.
Indeed, the Democratic convention has been a visual ode to those mantras: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman. A parade of speakers — gay and straight, young and old, white, black and Hispanic — cast Trump as out-of-touch with a diverse and fast-changing nation.
On the convention’s closing night, Clinton sought to reach beyond the Democratic base, particularly to moderate Republicans unnerved by Trump.
Former Reagan administration official Doug Elmets announced he was casting his first vote for a Democrat in November, and urged other Republicans who “believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party” to do the same.