Rosalie Sorrels

NORTH CHAPEL

Kristin D. Van Meter

Mrs. Kristin D. Van Meter, age 33, of Rome, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ following a courageous battle with cancer.

Kristin was born in Rome, Ga. on March 4, 1984, daughter to William Lamar Davis and Terri Echols. Kristin’s life on this earth was centered on her husband, life partner and best friend, Bruce, and the light of her life, her two-year-old son, “Little Bruce”. Words cannot express the light she shone upon these two and the love she had for both of them and the love they have for her. She was proud of her sisters, Mimi and Kelli, and bragged to everyone about the time they had taken for her during her illness. Her stepsons, niece and nephews were always a great source of love for Kristin, and her pride for their accomplishments and the fine young people that they are was immense.

Kristin was an integral part of her and her husband’s purebred livestock operation and livestock consulting business. She enjoyed and was a natural at showing cattle around the country at venues large and small, including Louisville, Denver, Fort Worth, Houston, Pensacola, Tampa, Miami and many, many more where she had countless friends and acquaintances. Kristin was a whiz at the computer and office work associated with the livestock consulting business and routinely handled complex matters for clients from Nebraska to Florida and all across North America. Nobody ever could or ever will handle catalog production and running the office at a purebred livestock auction like Kristin, and her smile at the checkout table will be forever missed. Although she did not grow up on a farm, she loved working with cattle and quickly learned to handle all tasks that go along with farm work on a purebred cattle operation and had become an expert doing these tasks that she found so enjoyable.

Survivors include her husband, R. Bruce Van Meter, Armuchee; son, Bruce Anderson “Little Bruce” Van Meter, Armuchee; two step-sons, Eli and Gabe Van Meter, Rome; father, William Lamar Davis and his wife, Janice, Rome; mother, Terri Echols and her husband, Don, Rome; sisters, Kim “Mimi” Carlock and her husband, Brian, LaFayette, and Kelli Gonzalez and her husband, Luis, Rome; mother-in-law, Mary Frances Van Meter, Rome; two brothers-in-law, Steve Van Meter, Dallas, and James Curtis Van Meter, Jr. and his wife, Megan, Rome; her beloved niece, Gabby Gonzalez, Rome; and beloved nephews, Jaylon Gonzalez, Cash Gonzalez, Christian Carlock, Seth Carlock, Tristan Carlock, Max Van Meter. Other “family”, “Grandpa” Jay and “Grandma” Phylis Anderson, St. Paul, Neb.; “Uncles” Warren Garrett, Canton, Tex., Andy Peterson, Pensacola, Fla., and John Howard, LaFayette, also survive.

A memorial service will be held in the Chapel at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, North Chapel, at 4 p.m. on Friday, June 16, 2017, with the Rev. Chris Kristin D. Van Meter

BOISE, Idaho — Rosalie Sorrels, a Grammy-nominated folk singer and native of Idaho who recorded more than 20 albums and performed at top folk festivals around the country, has died. She was 83. Sorrels died in Reno, Nevada, at the home of her daughter, Holly Marizu. Marizu said Wednesday that her mother had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016 and had dementia. A cause of death hadn’t been determined. Sorrels’ marriage broke up in 1966 and she started performing on the road, traveling across the country with her five children rather than go on welfare, Marizu said.

“There weren’t a lot of options for women in the 1960s,” she said. Still, Marizu recalled having fun most of the time.

“We got to live in all sorts of really cool places. There were times where we went to three or four different schools in a school year,” she said. Sorrels’ albums “Strangers in Another Country” and “My Last Go Round” were nominated for Grammys. The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate for the third time in six months, providing its latest vote of confidence in a slow-growing but durable economy.

The Fed also announced plans to start gradually paring its bond holdings later this year, which could cause long-term rates to rise.

The increase in the Fed’s short-term rate by a quarter-point to a stilllow range of 1 percent to 1.25 percent could lead to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses and slightly better returns for savers.

The Fed foresees one additional rate hike this year but gave no hint of when that might occur.

The overarching message the Fed sent Wednesday was an upbeat one: It believes the U.S. economy is on firm footing as it enters its ninth year of recovery from the Great Recession, with little risk of a recession.

Though the economy is growing only sluggishly and though inflation remains chronically below the Fed’s 2 percent target, it foresees improvement in both measures over time.