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Obituaries
Ethel Bianchi
Ethel Wilcox Bianchi, 79,
passed away peacefully at her
residence on Wednesday, Nov.
21. She was a lifelong resident
of Brunswick.
Ethel’s business career in finance and insurance spanned
more than 50 years and included Shelander-Berry and
Cowden Insurance, the Garlington Group, and Coastal
Underwriters. She was very
well known for her work ethic
and loyalty to her employers and customers. She was a
charter member of the Glynn
County Association of Business Women.
Ethel’s educational accomplishments in the industry are
too numerous to mention. Of
note, she was one of the first
three women in Glynn County
to receive a Georgia Property
and Casualty Insurance license.
Ethel was a charter member of
Altama Presbyterian Church,
and also served on the Salvation Army Advisory Board.
A memorial service will be
at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at
Altama Presbyterian Church
with the Rev. Bert Kramer officiating. Visitation will follow
the memorial service.
Honorary pallbearers include
the Poole Sunday School class,
Dr. Moores and staff, and Dr.
Limberg and staff.
Survivors are a daughter,
Carol Ann Bianchi of Brunswick; four sons, Timothy Christopher Batten of Brunswick,
John A. (Katherine) Bianchi of
Wylie, Texas, Thomas (Janis)
Bianchi of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, and Joseph (Eileen) Bianchi of Bainbridge, N.Y.; four
grandchildren, Elizabeth, John
David, Amy (Matt Henchey)
and John Richard.
She was predeceased by her
husband, John Bianchi.
In lieu of flowers, the family
requests memorial donations
be made to Altama Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund or
to the American Cancer Society.
Family-placed obituary
The Brunswick News November 23, 2012
Donald Floyd
Donald Robert Floyd, 62, of
Brunswick died Saturday in a
boat accident at Altamaha Regional Park in Everett City.
Mr. Floyd was born Sept. 12,
1949, in Bacon County and had
been a resident of Brunswick
for the past 20 years. He loved
fishing and hunting. He was a
avid photographer.
He was preceded in death by
a son, Robert Patrick Floyd.
Survivors are his wife, Judy
Byars Floyd of Brunswick; two
sisters, Shirley Collins of Jacksonville and Jackie Gillespie of
Gainesville; and several nieces
and nephews.
A celebration of Donald’s
life will be at 11 a.m. Saturday
at the Altamaha Regional Park
with a reception and lunch
to follow at Everett Baptist
Church.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral
Home and Oglethorpe Crematorium are in charge of local
arrangements.
Family-placed obituary
The Brunswick News November 23, 2012
Sarah Moses
Sarah Brooks Moses of Brunswick died Nov. 15, 2012, at the
Hospice of the Golden Isles.
A funeral service will be at 11
a.m. on Saturday at Jerusalem
Missionary Baptist Church.
Interment will follow at Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
Cemetery.
Hall, Jones and Brown Funeral
Home is in charge of the arrangements
The Brunswick News November 23, 2012
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Clinton Whitfield
Clinton Whitfield died Nov. 15
at Hospice of the Golden Isles.
Funeral services will be held at
10 a.m. Saturday in the Harrison
Grant Chapel of R.L. Jones &
Sons Funeral Home with the Rev.
Eddie Turner officiating. Burial
will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Visitation will be held Friday at
131 Winter Chase Drive.
R.L Jones & Sons Funeral
Home is entrusted with the arrangements.
The Brunswick News November 23, 2012
Samuel L. Williams Jr.
Samuel Lee Williams Jr. of
Brunswick died Tuesday at Hospice of the Golden Isles.
A funeral service will be held
at 3 p.m. Saturday at Emmanuel
Baptist Church, St. Simons Island.
Interment will follow at Union
Memorial Cemetery, St. Simons
Island.
The Brunswick News November 23, 2012
Cedric S. Daniels
Cedric S. Daniels died Nov. 13
at Southeast Georgia Health System.
Funeral services will be held
at 1 p.m. Saturday at Zion Rock
Missionary Baptist Church, 3200
Gordon St., with the the Rev.
James C. Edwards officiating.
Burial will follow in Greenwood
cemetery.
The body will lie in state one
hour prior to the service. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.
Friday in the Harrison Grant
Chapel of R.L. Jones & Sons Funeral Home.
R.L. Jones & Sons Funeral
Home is entrusted with the arrangements.
The Brunswick News November 23, 2012
Area deaths
Herman James Coleman died
Tuesday at Southeast Georgia
Health System.
Brunswick Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
Elzie Cook of Darien, died
Thursday at his residence.
Brunswick Memorial Park Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Madelene Sims Fisher, 69,
died Wednesday at the Southeast
Georgia Health System in Brunswick.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by R.L. Jones &
Sons Funeral Home.
Deaths elsewhere
LOS ANGELES — Deborah
Raffin, an actress who ran a successful audiobook company with
the help of her celebrity friends,
has died. She was 59.
Raffin died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA
Medical Center, her brother, William, told the Los Angeles Times.
She was diagnosed with the blood
cancer about a year ago.
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian best-selling author Bryce
Courtenay has died of stomach
cancer. He was 79.
His publisher Penguin Group
said Friday that the South Africanborn writer died at his family home
in the Australian capital Canberra
late Thursday surrounded by his
family and pets.
Courtenay had a successful
career in advertising before writing his first novel, “The Power
of One,” which was published in
1989 when he was 56. The story
became a movie.
His 21st novel, “Jack of Diamonds,” was published this
month.
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Thanksgiving Day
November 22, 1940
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Cars and Trucks are piled on Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas
Thursday. The Texas Department of Public Safety says at least 35
people have been injured in a more than 50-vehicle pileup.
Massive car pileup
fatal for two drivers
Associated Press
BEAUMONT, Texas — Two
people died and more than 80
people were hurt Thursday when
at least 100 vehicles collided in
Southeast Texas in a pileup that
left trucks twisted on top of each
other and authorities rushing to
pull survivors from the wreckage.
The collision occurred in extremely foggy conditions at about
8:45 a.m. Thanksgiving Day on
Interstate 10 southwest of Beaumont, a Gulf Coast city about 80
miles east of Houston.
A man and a woman were
killed in a Chevy Suburban SUV
crushed by a tractor trailer, the
Texas Department of Public Safety told KFDM-TV.
Officials at Acadian Ambulance service said at least 51
people have been taken to area
hospitals and at least eight are
critically hurt.
According to DPS, a crash on
the eastbound side of the highway
led to other accidents in a danger-
ous chain reaction. There were
multiple crashes on the other side
of the highway as well.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Rod Carroll told The
Associated Press the fog was so
thick that deputies didn’t immediately realize they were dealing
with multiple accidents.
“It is catastrophic,” Carroll said.
“I’ve got cars on top of cars.”
I-10’s eastbound lanes were reopened Thursday evening after
more than eight hours.
Texas Department of Public
Safety trooper Stephanie Davis
told KFDM that two people in
an SUV died after the crash. She
said at least 100 cars and trucks
were involved in the accident.
Carroll said uninjured drivers
tried to help as authorities sorted
through the wreckage.
“It’s just people helping people,”
Carroll said. “The foremost thing
in this holiday season is how other travelers were helping us when
we were overwhelmed, sitting
and holding, putting pressure on
people that were injured.”
Coretha P. Myles, RN, CADC
Momma
We love and miss you!!
Gina, Teresa, Scotty,
Carla, Grand and
Great Grandchildren
Bell Elizabeth Austin
Wishing you a Happy Birthday
11/20/31
6/8/11
We celebrate this day with
you with joy and lots of
smiles, remembering our
good times and our bad.
You are always talked about
in our conversation.
We miss you, We love you,
We Praise your name.
We Love You Always
Ronnie (Michele), Kathleen, Mary, Carolyn,
William Jr., Richard (Cheryl).
Post office testing
same-day delivery
By HOPE YEN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Emboldened by rapid growth in e-commerce shipping, the cash-strapped
U.S. Postal Service is moving aggressively this holiday season to
start a premium service for the Internet shopper seeking the instant
gratification of a store purchase:
same-day package delivery.
Teaming up with major retailers, the post office will begin the
expedited service in San Francisco on Dec. 12 at a price similar to its competitors. If things
run smoothly, the program will
quickly expand next year to other
big cities such as Boston, Chicago and New York. It follows
similar efforts by eBay, Amazon.
com, and most recently Wal-Mart
Stores Inc., which charges a $10
flat rate for same-day delivery.
The delivery program, called
Metro Post, seeks to build on the
post office’s double-digit growth
in package volume to help offset
steady declines in first-class and
standard mail. Operating as a
limited experiment for the next
year, it is projected to generate
between $10 million and $50
million in new revenue from deliveries in San Francisco alone,
according to postal regulatory
filings, or up to $500 million, if
expanded to 10 cities.
The filings do not reveal the
mail agency’s anticipated expenses to implement same-day
service, which can only work
profitably if retailers have enough
merchandise in stores and warehouses to be quickly delivered
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery
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to nearby residences in a dense
urban area. The projected $500
million in potential revenue, even
if fully realized, would represent
just fraction of the record $15.9
billion annual loss that the Postal
Service reported last week.
But while startups in the late
1990s such as Kozmo.com notably failed after promising instant
delivery, the Postal Service’s vast
network serving every U.S. home
could put it in a good position to
be viable over the long term. The
retail market has been rapidly
shifting to Internet shopping, especially among younger adults,
and more people are moving from
suburb to city, where driving to a
store can be less convenient.
Postal officials, in interviews
with The Associated Press, cast
the new offering as “exciting” and
potentially “revolutionary.” Analysts are apt to agree at least in
part, if kinks can be worked out.
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Tuesday November 27, 2012 - 7:30 P.M.
St. Simons Presbyterian Church
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