2 dead, 17 injured in Ky. school shooting
Barbara Ann Abrams
Barbara Ann Abrams, age 64, of Rome, passed away Sunday, January 21, 2018, in a local health care.
Barbara was born January 8, 1954 in Floyd County, a daughter of the late Ralph Woodard Abrams and Eunice Roberson Abrams. She was a member of Shorter Avenue Baptist Church. Barbara was preceded in death by her brothers, Ralph Abrams Jr., Charles Abrams, and Gary Abrams.
Survivors include her brother and sister-inlaw, Danny and Margaret Abrams, Rome; several nieces and nephews; and sisters-in-law, Lidia, JoAnn, and Terrie Abrams.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at Shorter Avenue Baptist Church with the Rev. Glen Clonts officiating. Interment will follow in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from noon until the service hour on Wednesday at Shorter Avenue Baptist Church, 1410 Shorter Ave., Rome, Ga. 30165.
Please visit our website, www.goodshepherdfh.net, to post your tributes and view a DVD on the life of Barbara Ann.
Parnick Jennings Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home, 2750 Shorter Ave., Rome, Ga. 30165, has charge of arrangements. SOUTH CHAPEL
Sandra Elaine Cauthen
Miss Sandra Elaine Cauthen, age 71, of Rome, passed away Saturday, January 20, 2018, in a local hospital.
Miss Cauthen was born in Floyd County, Ga. on July 2, 1946, daughter of the late Julius Henry Cauthen and the late Dicie Catherine Chandler Cauthen. She was also preceded in death by four sisters, Emily Cauthen, Odine Stagg, Elizabeth Rigdon, and Venora Williamon, and by a brother, Cecil Cauthen.
Survivors include a sister, Marie Eichman, Rome; a brother, Sephord Cauthen, and his wife, Shirley, Lindale; a sister-in-law, Willie Jo Cauthen, Rome; nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 27, 2018, at 4 p.m. in the Chapel at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel. The Rev. Jim Cook will officiate.
The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Saturday from 3 p.m. until the service hour.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Lindale, P. O. Box 26, Lindale, GA 30147.
Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements. Ruth Henderson Roach
Ms. Ruth Henderson Roach, age 101, of Rome, formerly of Lindale, passed away Tuesday morning, January 23, 2018, in a local health care facility.
Ms. Roach was born in Dekalb County, Ala. on January 4, 1917, but spent her formative years in Lindale. She is the daughter of the late George Macon Henderson and the late Rozzie Lee Hamilton Henderson. Ms. Roach was also preceded in death by four sisters, Grace Henderson Sisson, Bonnie Henderson Ware, Lila Henderson Callaway Youngblood, and Evelyn Henderson Tillery, and by four brothers, Ralph Henderson, Clifford Henderson, Paul Henderson, and Jack Henderson. She is survived by many nieces and nephews who she dearly loved.
Ms. Roach was employed for a number of years with Mead Paper Company while living in Atlanta. Following her move back to Lindale, she was employed with West Point Pepperell Manufacturing Co. until her retirement. She was a long-time member of Lindale United Methodist Church, where she was active in the “Prime Timers,” the church choir, the United Methodist Women, and was a member of the Pioneers Sunday School Class.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 26, 2018, at 4 p.m. in the Chapel at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel.
Her nephew, Barry Henderson will officiate. Private interment will follow later in Floyd Memory Gardens.
The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, on Friday from 2 p.m. until the funeral hour.
Memorials may be made to Lindale United Methodist Church, 3401 Maple Road, Lindale, GA 30147.
Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements. Ruth Henderson Roach
Mr. Dewey Shiflett, age 86, of Lindale, passed away Tuesday morning, January 23, 2018, in a local hospital.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time but will be announced later.
Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, South Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements. Lois Martin Bryant
Ms. Lois Martin Bryant, former Educator, age 97, of 204 Highcliff Rd., Rome, Ga., transitioned January 22, 2018. A complete arrangement will follow at a later date. Please keep the family in your prayers.
Care and direction entrusted to F.K. Jones Funeral Home.
Mother Pauline Anderson, age 92, of 1871 Kingston Hwy NE, Rome, Ga., transitioned January 21, 2018.
Graveside services for Mother Pauline Anderson will be held Thursday, January 25, 2018, at 2 p.m. at Mizpah Cemetery, 4053 Kingston Hwy Kingston, Ga. The family will receive friends from 12 noon until 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at F.K. Jones Funeral Home. Please keep the family in your prayers.
Care and direction entrusted to F.K. Jones Funeral Home.
Mr. Ewell Atwater Sr., age 51, of 19 West Dr., Apt. A, Rome, Ga., transitioned January 20, 2018. Services for Mr. Ewell Atwater Sr. will be held Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 12 noon at Kingdom Church International. Mr. Atwater will lie in state from 11 a.m. until the funeral hour. Keep the family in your prayers.
Care and direction entrusted to F.K. Jones Funeral Home. TODAY
will meet today at 3 p.m. in the second floor Conference Room, suite 207, of the Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave.
The Floyd County Board of Commissioners Administrative & Finance Committee will meet Thursday at 8 a.m. in the second floor conference room, Suite 207 of the Floyd County Administration Building, 12 E. Fourth Ave.
will meet at 6 p.m. at the Charles C. Parker Senior Center, 1325 Kingston Highway. The pro demonstrator will be Mark Sillay. The public is invited.
on at 7 p.m. as part of the Berry College Cecil B. Wright III Integrity in Leadership lecture series. The lecture will be held in the Krannert Ballroom at Berry College, 2277 Martha Berry Highway, and is free and open to the public. Whitman served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. She was the 50th governor of the State of New Jersey from 1994 until 2001.
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Women’s Information Network will host a “Human Trafficking Meets Healthcare: An Opportunity for Intervention” seminar by Dr. Jordan Greenbaum on from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Georgia Northwestern Technical College, Building H, 1 Maurice Culberson Drive. Admission is $10 and includes lunch. To register visit infoforwomen.org, call 706-506-2000 or email baker8483@comcast.net.
will be held Jan. 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Rome High School, 1000 Veterans Memorial Highway, in the Commons Area. Parents and students may meet with grade-level guidance counselors and visit different teachers and classrooms to explore their interests. They will have a session on their dual enrollment program. Transportation will be available. Check the RHS website for bus route. Contact Mrs. Jackson at 706-235-9653 by
if you will need childcare or an interpreter.
The Pepperell High School Class of 1955
will meet at the Landmark Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway, on at 11:30 a.m.
will be held at 6 p.m. at the Western Promenader’s Square Dance Club, 327 Woods Road. Singles and couples are welcome. For more information call Dick or Jewell at 706-409-2311 or Margie or Darrell at 706-232-4970. Rivers Throwdown on
inside the Unity Christian School gym. The first workout will begin at 8:30 a.m. Last year over 50 teams of four from around the region participated. This is a fundraiser the CrossFit, located inside the school, does for the athletics department every year. The public is invited.
will meet at 9 a.m. at Ryan’s Steakhouse on Shorter Avenue. For more information call 706-291-2327.
and their longtime classmates will meet for their winter quarterly social at 5 p.m. at the Adairsville Inn in Adairsville. For more information call Linda Meers McFry at 706-295-4605 or Judye Green Wood at 706238-2545.
To list an event email RomeNewsTribune@RN-T. com or call 706-290-5252. To have an event listed in Roman Record as well, please send it at least 10 days in advance.
BENTON, Ky. — A 15-yearold student killed two classmates and hit a dozen others with gunfire Tuesday, methodically firing a handgun inside a crowded atrium at his rural Kentucky high school.
“He was determined. He knew what he was doing,” said Alexandria Caporali, who grabbed her stunned friend and ran into a classroom as their classmates hit the floor.
“It was one right after another — bang bang bang bang bang,” she added. “You could see his arm jerking as he was pulling the trigger.”
He kept firing, she said, until he ran out of ammunition and took off running, trying to get away. Police arrested their suspect moments later, leading him away in handcuffs to be charged with murder and attempted murder. Authorities did not identify the gunman responsible for the nation’s first fatal school shooting of 2018, nor did they release any details about a motive.
Kentucky State Police Lt. Michael Webb said detectives are looking into his home and background.
“He was apprehended by the sheriff’s department here on site, at the school, thankfully before any more lives could be taken,” Webb said.
Seventeen students were injured, 12 of them hit with bullets and five others hurt in the scramble as hundreds of students fled for their lives from Marshall County High School. Many jumped into cars, or ran across fields and down the highway, some not stopping until they reached a McDonald’s restaurant more than a mile away. Parents left their cars on both sides of an adjacent road, desperately trying to find their teenagers.
“No one screamed. It was almost completely silent as people just ran,” said Caporali, 16. She said most students knew what to do because they are drilled throughout the year on how to respond to an active shooter at school.
The two fatalities were 15 years old: A girl died at the scene, and a boy died later at a hospital, Gov. Matt Bevin said, adding that all of the victims are believed to be students. The dead boy was among five young men, including three with gunshot wounds to the head and one shot in the chest, who were flown about 120 miles to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.