Mrs. Jones
Mrs. Jeanette Goss Kirk Jones, age 82, of Bremen, passed away Sunday, July 16, 2017.
She was born in Polk County, May 8, 1935, daughter of the late Reverend Jett E. Goss and Frances Roberson Goss.
Mrs. Jones was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bremen.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Gene Kirk; three sisters, Mildred Amerson, Geraldine (Jeri) Terry Schmid, Sara Chandler Over De Vest; a brother, Howell Goss; nephew, Gregory Amerson and a great nephew, Shayne Terry.
Survivors include her husband, Reverend William E. ‘ Junior’ Jones Jr. of Bremen; five daughters, Gina Kirk of Miami, FL, Karen Kirk, Bremen, Susan and Mike Reyher of Bremen, Lisa and Scott Evans, Bremen, Anita and Gregg Yancey of Carrollton; granddaughters, Moriah Kirk, Emily Yancey and Maggie Yancey; three sisters, Fay Tarbush of Powder Springs, Annie Gray, Rockmart, Linda and Bill Singleton of Rockmart; brothers, Joe and Judy Goss, Don ‘Gene’ and Brenda Goss, Charles and Janice Goss all of Cedartown and a sister- in- law, Emma Spinks of Rockmart, nieces, nephews and other relatives also survive.
The family received friends at the Hightower Funeral Home of Bremen on Thursday evening, July 20, 2017.
Funeral Services were conducted on Friday, July 21, 2017 at 11 a.m. from the First Baptist Church of Bremen with Brother Herman Parker, Reverend Fred Cook and Mr. Gregg Yancey officiating. Music will be furnished by the Kirk Girls accompanied by Maxine House.
Interment followed in Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery.
Hightower Funeral Home of Bremen had charge of the services.
Visit both freemanharrisfunerals.com and liteseyfh.com to extend personal condolences to the family and to sign the online guestbook.
This announcement is honorably made locally for the family and friends by the Lester C. Litesey Funeral Home of Cedartown and Freeman Harris Funeral Home of Rockmart.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Landau, the chameleon- like actor who gained fame as the crafty master of disguise in the 1960s TV show "Mission: Impossible," then capped a long and versatile career with an Oscar for his poignant portrayal of aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in 1994's "Ed Wood," has died. He was 89. Landau died on July 15 of unexpected complications during a short stay at UCLA Medical Center, his publicist Dick Guttman said.
"Mission: Impossible," which also starred Landau's wife, Barbara Bain, became an immediate hit upon its debut in 1966. It remained on the air until 1973, but Landau and Bain left at the end of the show's third season amid a financial dispute with t he producers. They starred in the Britishmade sci-fi series "Space: 1999" from 1975 to 1977.
Landau might have been a superstar but for a role he didn't play — the pointy-eared starship Enterprise science officer, Mr. Spock. "Star Trek" creator Gene Rodenberry had offered him the half-Vulcan, half-human who attempts to rid his life of all emotion. Landau turned it down.
"A character without emotions would have driven me crazy; I would have had to be lobotomized," he explained in 2001. Instead, he chose "Mission: Impossible," and Leonard Nimoy went on to everlasting fame as Spock.
Ironically, Nimoy replaced Landau on "Mission: Impossible."
After a brief but impressive Broadway career, Landau had made an auspicious film debut in the late 1950s, playing a soldier in "Pork Chop Hill" and a villain in the Alfred Hitchcock classic "North By Northwest."
He enjoyed far less success after "Mission: Impossible," however, finding he had been typecast as Rollin Hand, the topsecret mission team's disguise wizard. His film career languished for more than a decade, reaching its nadir with his appearance in the 1981 TV movie "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island."
He began to find redemption with a sympathetic role in "Tucker: The Man and his Dream," the 1988 Francis Ford Coppola film that garnered Landau his first Oscar nomination.
He was nominated again the next year for his turn as the adulterous husband in Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors."
His third nomination was for "Ed Wood," director Tim Burton's affectionate tribute to a man widely viewed as the worst Hollywood filmmaker of all time.
"There was a 10-year period when everything I
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