OBITUARIES

Lucia Margaret Johnson,

4, of Lindale, died June 13, 2017. Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the arrangements.

Kristin D. Van Meter,

33,

of Rome, died June 13, 2017. Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, North Chapel, has charge of the arrangements.

Larry Lamar Wilkins Sr.,

68, of Silver Creek, died June 14, 2017. Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the arrangements. Hearn officiating. The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, North Chapel, on Friday, June 16, 2017, from 1:00 p.m. until time for the service.

In lieu of flowers the family respectfully requests memorial donations be made in honor of Kristin to the Cancer Navigators, 310 W. Tenth Street, Rome, Ga., 30165, or www. cancernavigatorsga.org.

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

Miss Lucia Margaret Johnson, age 4, of Lindale, passed away on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at an Atlanta medical center.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel.

Mr. Larry Lamar Wilkins, Sr., age 68, of Silver Creek, passed away on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in a local hospital.

Mr. Wilkins was born in Floyd County on July 20, 1948, son of the late Marion Robert Wilkins and the late Alice Georgeann Robinson Wilkins. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army serving during the Vietnam War. He was a retired employee and a Correction Officer with Floyd County. He was a member of Doyle Road Baptist Church, where he played the bass guitar. He was an avid Georgia Tech sports fan.

Survivors include his wife, the former Patricia Ann Childers, to whom he was married on March 21, 1970; a daughter, Maranda Harper, and her husband, Joey, Rome; a son, the Rev. Larry Wilkins, Jr., and his wife, Beth, Rome; a sister, Kathryn Morales, Lindale; a brother, M. E. (Buddy) Wilkins, and his wife, Evelyn, Lindale; five grandchildren, several nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, June 16, 2017, at 11 a.m. at Doyle Road Baptist Church. The Rev. Earl Vaughn and the Rev. Kirby Moore will officiate. Interment will follow in Floyd Memory Gardens with full military honors accorded by the American Legion Post 5 Honor Guard.

Mr. Wilkins will lie in state at Doyle Road Baptist Church on Friday from 10 a.m. until time for the service.

The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Thursday from 5 until 7 p.m. At other hours, they may be contacted at the residence.

Pallbearers serving are asked to assemble at Doyle Road Baptist Church on Friday at 10:30 a.m. and include Jermaine Roberts, Doyal Minter, William Akins, Max Evans, Chris, Jo Jo, and B.J. Garrett.

Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements. The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A UPS employee opened fire inside one of the company’s package delivery facilities in San Francisco on Wednesday, killing three co-workers and then himself as officers closed in and workers ran frantically into the streets, police and company officials said.

Fleeing a barrage of gunfire, some workers sought refuge on the roof of the 4-story facility and others ran outside and pounded on the windows of a public bus, witnesses said.

“They were banging on the bus and they were screaming, ‘Go! Go! Go!’” said Jessica Franklin, 30, who was riding the bus to work when it made a regular Eric Risberg / The Associated Press

San Francisco police in the foreground and UPS workers in the background stand outside a UPS package delivery warehouse where a shooting took place Wednesday.

stop in front of the UPS facility. “As they got on the bus, they were all ducking.”

Two other United Parcel Service employees were wounded in the shooting that prompted a massive police response in one of the city’s industrial neighborhoods, about 2 miles from downtown San Francisco, Assistant Police Chief Toney Chaplin told reporters.

Officials, UPS employees and witnesses described other scenes of chaos as shots rang out during a morning meeting before drivers were sent on their delivery routes.

Neighbor Raymond Deng said he heard up to eight rapid gunshots.