Bedridden woman wins trip to Zoo Atlanta
SOUTH CHAPEL
Jimmy Leveck Gray
Mr. Jimmy Leveck Gray, age 61, of Silver Creek, passed away on Saturday, April 1, 2017, at his residence.
Mr. Gray was born in Floyd County, Georgia on August 29, 1955, son of the late John L. Gray and the late Ruth Riordan Gray. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Mickey Gray. Mr. Gray was a graduate of Coosa High School and worked for almost 30 years for Asta Industries in Acworth where he worked as a machinist, designed and engineered parts, and was a welder. He was a member of the Pleasant Valley South Baptist Church, Lindale Lodge #455 F.&A.M., Rome Shrine Club, York Rite, Low 12 Club, and the Etowah Chapter #33 O.E.S.
Survivors include his wife, the former Joyce Marie Brown, to whom he was married on November 10, 1974; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Valley South Baptist Church with the Rev. Billy Fricks officiating. Interment will follow in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens with the Lindale Lodge #455 F.&A.M. conducting Masonic rites.
The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Monday from 6 until 8 p.m.. At other hours, they will be at the residence.
There will be a called communication of the Lindale Lodge #455 F.&A.M. on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. for the purpose of attending the funeral service.
Pallbearers are asked to assemble at the church on Tuesday at1:30 pm and will be members of the Lindale Lodge #455 F.&A.M.
Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements. Cinda Lou Thompson
Funeral services for Cinda Lou Thompson, of Rome will be held Monday (this evening) at 8 p.m. at Good Shepherd Funeral home Chapel, with Dr. Ralph Jenkins, officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until the hour of the service this evening.
Parnick Jennings, Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
A bald eagle sits out on a limb to the right of its nest in a large pine tree overlooking the Etowah River near where a new boat ramp is being put into the river by Bartow County officials.
ATLANTA (AP) — Bedbound for about a year now, Delores Dobson does not venture outdoors much.
So, the patient at PruittHealth Home Health in Flowery Branch let her mind wander far and wide when asked to make a wish that might come true.
Her first thought was skydiving despite a fear of heights. “I thought if it was possible to somehow be on the oxygen and I could go in a suit, why couldn’t I go on the back of someone who skydives and have that ride?” Dobson said. “(But) I figured there was no way in the world that someone could hold on to me.”
Instead, the 79-year-old Flowery Branch woman opted to lean toward her love of animals and ask to visit a zoo.
Her request was granted through PruittHealth Home Health’s partnering program Second Wind Dreams.
“We provide dreams for patients,” said Terri Fain, a patient care coordinator at PruittHealth.
Each of PruittHealth’s offices in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida receives money to make a wish come true for a patient.
“We interview the patients and then look at all the different dreams and take a poll and pick one or two, depending on what the dreams are and what we are looking at for the cost,” Fain said.
She said granting the wish not only provides patients with an adventure, but is an opportunity to make the public more aware about the geriatric population.
Dobson was selected as the winner of this year’s Second Wind Dreams. Her prize was a trip to the zoo Friday in Atlanta.
“This one I think is going to be our most extravagant so far for our office,” Fain said. Doug Walker / Rome News-Tribune
The Georgia State Patrol responded to a wreck Sunday afternoon in Bartow County at Hall Station Road and CCC Road. The driver of a GMC Sierra said he was southbound on Hall Station Road trying to turn left on CCC Road when he struck a tree. The driver said he swerved to miss a flock of turkeys, according to Trooper Dexter Mitchell. The driver was taken to jail, Mitchell said, and a female passenger required treatment. No names were available Sunday. Doug Walker / Rome News-Tribune