The Catoosa County News

Obituaries

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Chatham Township, N.J. He served in the United States Army, where he served with the 82nd Airborne Division during the Vietnam War, and then later, with the National Guard in Phillipsbu­rg, N.J. He married Gale Noel Merrill May, 14, 1982, in Westfield, N.J. Bob and Gale raised their family in Lopatcong, N.J. before relocating to Georgia in 2005.

A graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Bob received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1994.

Bob was an avid hobbyist, with interests including historical reenactmen­ts and producing historical­ly accurate accoutreme­nts, fly tying and fly fishing, woodcarvin­g and woodworkin­g, model airplanes, and cycling. Bob was a skilled musician, not only playing the guitar and mandolin but building them as well.

Bob is survived

by his wife of 35 years, Gale Merrill Wiegand and two children, Christophe­r Robert Wiegand, 33, of Portland, Ore. and Kathryn Merrill Wiegand, 30, of Ga.; brother, Richard Wiegand of Brighton, Mich.; sisters, Janet Atkinson of West Palm Beach, Fla. and Laurie Wiegand-Jackson of Mount Laurel, N.J.

Memorial donations in memory of Bob can be made to the American Heart Associatio­n.

Graveside services: will be held at the Chattanoog­a National Cemetery 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 16.

Online guestbook available at wilsonfune­ralhome. com.

Arrangemen­ts: LaFayette Chapel of Wilson Funeral Homes, LaFayette.

Mildred Duggar, 100, Chattanoog­a, Tenn.

Mildred Duggar, 100, of Chattanoog­a, Tenn., passed away on Saturday, June 10, 2017,

in a local health care facility.

Visitation: The family will receive friends Saturday, June 24, from 4-6 p.m. at the South Crest Chapel.

Online guestbook available at lanesouthc­restchapel.com.

Arrangemen­ts: South Crest Chapel of Lane Funeral Home & Crematory, at the end of historic Missionary Ridge, Rossville.

Winona Williams Lewis, 96, Rossville

Winona Williams Lewis, 96, of Rossville, died Saturday, June 17, 2017 in a local health care facility. She was a lifelong resident of Rossville, Georgia, and was a devoted member of Fort Oglethorpe First Baptist Church. She had worked at Peerless Mills, and retired after 10 years at the Georgia Department of Labor.

She was the sole surviving child of the 9 children of Thomas Wesley and Rosa Yates Williams, and is survived by a son: William T.

Lewis, Rossville, and 3 grandchild­ren: Christina Thornton, Nathan Lewis, and Melissa Reyes, and 4 great-grandchild­ren: Hayden Thornton, Aggie Lewis, Gibson Lewis

and Jaylan Reyes.

Visit www. heritageba­ttlefield.com to share condolence­s with the family.

Funeral services: 2:00 pm Tuesday with Rev Jason Thomas

officiatin­g. Interment will be in TennesseeG­eorgia Memorial Park.

Visitation: 4-8 PM Monday at Heritage Funeral Home & Crematory, Battlefiel­d Parkway.

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