Bobby Doerr

Jerry Maurice Lansdell,

77, of Rome, died Nov. 12, 2017. Good Shepherd Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.

Will A. MacDonald,

95, of Rome, died Nov. 12, 2017. Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the arrangements.

Katherine Louise Shirey McBurnett,

78, of Armuchee, died Nov. 13, 2017. Salmon Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements. SOUTH CHAPEL

Will A. MacDonald

Mr. Will A. MacDonald, age 95, of Rome, passed away Sunday, November 12, 2017, in a local health care facility.

A funeral Mass for Deacon MacDonald will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Friday, November 17, 2017, at 10 a.m. with Father Rafael Carballo officiating, assisted by Deacon Stuart Neslin. Private entombment will follow later in Eternal Hills Memory Gardens in Snellville, Ga.

The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Thursday evening from 5 until 7 p.m.

A complete obituary will be included in the Friday edition of the Rome NewsTribune.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 911 N. Broad Street, Rome, Ga. 30161.

Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements. Jerry Maurice Lansdell

Jerry Maurice Lansdell died at home in Rome, Ga. on November 12, 2017 at the age of 77.

He was born June 20, 1940 in Rome, Ga., one of eleven children, and was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. Charles Lee Lansdell Sr. and Mrs. Ella Mae Wescott Lansdell; siblings, Martha Jane Lansdell, Delores Morgan, Mary Barnes, Sandra Bruce, Charles Lee (Sonny) Lansdell Jr., Leonard (Brother) Lansdell; daughter, Lori Nicole Lansdell. Jerry served in the United States Air Force from 1958 until 1970 in various locations in the US and abroad and was a veteran from the Vietnam War and Korean Conflict. Afterwards Jerry became a professional welder and pipefitter working out of Local 766 Plumbers and Steamfitters Union in Rome, Ga. After retirement from the Union, Jerry was employed at Floyd Medical Center as a security officer and courier. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends

He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Melba Lansdell, to whom he was joined in marriage on July 2, 1994. He is also survived by his siblings, Margaret Hammond, Gerald (Nancy) Lansdell, Roy (Francis) Lansdell, and Benny (Joyce) Lansdell; his sons, Christopher (Debbie) Peeden, Donnie (Tammie) Lansdell; daughters, Cindy (Jim) Young; Judy (David) Axley; grandchildren, Christopher Peeden, Ryan Peeden, Luke Lansdell, Zachary Lansdell, Rebecca Lansdell, and Robbie Lansdell.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, at Good Shepherd Funeral Home with the Rev. David Harper officiating. Interment will follow in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until the service hour on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at Good Shepherd Funeral Home, 2750 Shorter Ave., Rome, Ga. 30165.

Please visit our website, www.goodshepherdfh.net, to post tributes and view a DVD on the life of Jerry Lansdell.

Parnick Jennings Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home has charge of Mr. Jerry Lansdell’s arrangements. 2516 New Calhoun Highway NE 706-291-9472 www.salmonfuneralhome.com

Katherine Louise Shirey McBurnett

Mrs. Katherine Louise Shirey McBurnett, age 78, of Hawkins Road, Armuchee, Ga., died Monday afternoon following an extended illness.

Mrs. McBurnett was born March 31, 1939 in Rome, Ga. daughter of the late Andrew Jackson Shirey and Mary Leona Hammonds Shirey. Mrs. McBurnett was a homemaker, member of New Armuchee Baptist Church and the Joy Club.

In addition to her parents Mrs. McBurnett was preceded in death by two sons, Randy and Lamar Barnes; a brother, Billy Wayne Shirey; and sister, Martha Ann Williams.

Survivors include her husband, Edward W. McBurnett, to whom she was married October 9, 1984; three daughters, Vickie Joyce Brown, Rome, Nancy Jeanette Barnes, Rome and Julie Melinda Tudor, Summerville; grandchildren, Christopher Robert Suits, Brandelyn Misty Martin, Austin Lee Long, Garrett Lee Tudor, Steven Lamar Barnes and Heather Kerns; great-grandchildren, Andrew Robert Suits, Frank Tanner Martin, Cooper Lee Long, Hayden Kerns and Zaylan McCanally; two brothers, Huey Lee Shirey and Kenneth Ray Shirey; three sisters, Phyllis Ann Dodd, Betty Sue Pitts and Faye Rosell Popham; a number of nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Carl Sidwell Chapel of the Salmon Funeral Home with Dr. David Howard officiating. Interment will follow in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens.

The family will gather Wednesday at Salmon Funeral Home where they will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. At other hours, the family may be contacted at their respective residences.

Pallbearers are asked to meet at Salmon Funeral Home on Thursday at 1:45 p.m. and include Kenneth Drain, Stacey Tudor, Corey Biggers, Dickie Vaughn, James McBurnett, and Shane Lindsey.

Please join Mrs. McBurnett’s family in celebrating her life by visiting www. salmonfuneralhome.com to post tributes and share memories.

The staff of Salmon Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Katherine Louise Shirey McBurnett.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Bobby Doerr, the Hall of Fame second baseman dubbed the “Silent Captain” of the Boston Red Sox by longtime teammate and friend Ted Williams, has died. He was 99.

Doerr died in Junction City, Oregon, the Red Sox said Tuesday in a statement. The Red Sox said Doerr had been the oldest living major league player.

“Bobby Doerr was part of an era of baseball giants and still stood out as one himself,” Red Sox owner John Henry said in the statement. “And even with his Hall of Fame achievements at second base, his character and personality outshined it all. He will be missed.”

Signed out of the old Pacific Coast League on the same scouting trip that brought Williams to Fenway Park, Doerr played 14 seasons with the Red Sox and joined his fishing buddy in the Hall of Fame in 1986. He had a .288 lifetime average and helped the Red Sox to the 1946 World Series.

The nine-time All-Star often forgave his more accomplished friend for his storied anger. “Ted couldn’t understand mediocre, see. And I was in that mediocre class,” Doerr told AP on his 90th birthday in 2008, which the governor of Oregon declared Bobby Doerr Day. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (right) looks to a monitor displaying previous questioning by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., from Sessions’

A Floyd County woman is facing felony drug charges after she reportedly threatened children playing at the Callier Forest Apartment complex.

According to Floyd County Jail records:

Sierra Nicole Lofton, 24, is accused of yelling at three chilren playing basketball at the complex, 131 Dodd Blvd., Monday and threatening

confirmation hearing on Jan. 10, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in Washington. to stab and shoot them.

When police arrived, she kept trying to walk away despite orders to stay. She repeatedly threatened to kill the officer arresting her, creating a disturbance loud enough to bring residents out from their apartments to see what was happening.

At the jail, officers discovered by her chair a small bag of methamphetamine Carolyn Kaster / AP

that wasn’t there when she sat down.

Lofton gave one of the apartments as her address but she was booked as living at 209 Wilkerson Road.

She is charged with four felony counts of terroristic threats and the felonies possession of marijuana and bringing drugs past the jail guard line. She’s also facing misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.

Lofton was being held without bond Tuesday night.

Diane Wagner, staff writer