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IN LOVING
Lois B. Lantz
July 8, 1928 - March 16, 2019
Ms. Lois B. Lantz was born in Union City, Indiana,
onJuly 8, 1928, and died March 16, 2019. Her funeral
se ewas held March 18, 2019 at First Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ), Macon with the Reverend
Will Johnson, officiating. A graveside service was held
in Greenville, Ohio, at a later date.
Professor Lantz earned a Master of Music in Piano
Performance at Indiana University, Bloomington. She
was very active in Sigma Alpha Iota and Pi Kappa
Lambda, the National Honor Society for Musicians.
She taught at Tift College from 1950 to 1987 and at
Mercer University from 1987 until 1996. She retired
from Mercer in 1996 as an Associate Professor of Music
Emerita. A large group of students remember with
great admiration her exceptional ability as a performer
and her depth of knowledge as a teacher. Her students
at Mercer found her Music Appreciation courses not
only interesting but very demanding and very reward-
ing. Tift Alumnae enjoyed her skill as an accompanist
on trips to Europe, Carnegie Hall, and large and small
hamlets around Georgia.
Professor Lantz was a member of various professional
organizations. She served as president of MTNB, with
its state and local affiliates. She was chair of the piano
division of GMEA. She was a member and served as
the president of the Macon Music Club.
Miss Lantz served as an organist and pianist at Ma-
con's Woodland Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
and First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) for
several years. She served as an elder at First Christian
(Disciples of Christ). She was a member of both For-
syth Book Club and First Baptist Church Book Club.
Professor Lantz was preceded in death by her parents,
the Reverend Earl Lantz and Mrs. Neva Hedrick Lantz.
Her survivors include a host of friends and two second
cousins.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 2306 Vin-
eville Avenue, Macon, GA 31204 or to the Lois B. Lantz
Scholarship (established by one of her students) 1501
Mercer University Drive, Macon, GA 31204.
Please visit www.monroecountymemorialchapel.com
to express tributes.
Monroe County Memorial Chapel had charge of ar-
rangements.
April 5, 1949 - March 8, 2019
Forsyth - Funeral Services for Ms. Linda Nell Walker
Ee gton were held Wednesday, March 13 at St.
Paul A.M;E. Church, Smarr. Burial was in the church
eme tcry.
i urvivors indude two sons Edmond Barkley (Cher-
tesia) ~d Damien Barkley; sister Janice Jones; brother
l~eS Walker, 4 grandchildren and a host of other
relatives and friends.
i[T emar) Funeral Home in Forsyth was in charge Of
arrangements.
McArthur Brown
September 28, 1968 - March 8, 2019
Forsyth - Funeral Services for McArthur Brown
were held Friday, March 15 at St. James Baptist
Church. Reverend Rufus J. Whafley officiating. Burial
was in Rest Haven Cemetery.
Freeman Funeral Home in Forsyth was in charge of
arrangements.
nnie Mae Moore
], 1922- March 13, 2019
]:uliette- Funeral services for Fannie Mae Moore
Were:hdd Monday; March 18, 2019 at Mt. Zion Mis-
s~h~ Baptist Church, Bolingbroke. Burial was at Job
ChaiSel A.M.E. Church Cemetery.
Survivors include her 5 children, Carolyn (Harry)
Chambliss, Estelle (Nathaniel) Chambliss, Alonza
(~sha) Moore, Jr Wallace (Samantha) Moore,
P~ia~Moore-Scott; 15 grandchildren, 18 great-
~d~dren and a host of relatives and friends.
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JUST THE WAY IT IS by SJoan Oliver
I
good to be a Democrat or a liberal
,because you can make idiotic state-
,ments and get away with it, and even
considered brilliant by our dishon-
est media. The tragic, mosque shooting
in New Zealand provides a
perfect example. Last week
a crazy leftist, trying to fo-
ment radat hatred, killed 50
people in a terrible shooting
at two mosques in Christ-
church. It was a horrific
tragedy. However, a greater
tragedy is the denial of the
troth. The TRUTH is the
gunman is to blame - no-
body else. Yet, within hours
of the shooting, dishonest
American politidans and
our dishonest media blamed
- wait for it they blamed
Trump and the NRA for the
killings. The killings were
carried out by an Aussie in New Zealand
with weapons purchased there, but show-
ing their Trump Derangement Syndrome,
Dems (Senator Blumenthal (D-CT)) and
the media (CNN, Vox) blamed President
Trump. Just when you thought Dems can-
not possibly get more stupid, they prove
you wrong and get more stupid. Itb good
to be a Dem because you get away with
making idiotic statements.
IN 2015, Kate Steinle was murdered
in San Francisco (a sanctuary city) by an
illegal who had been deported numerous
times. July 2018, Bahena-Rivera, an file-
gal, murdered Mollie Tibbett in Iowa. (Ri-
vera lived in a sanctuary ci~) Last week,
Carlos Carranza, also an illegal, murdered
Bambi Larson in California. Carranza
had been arrested a dozen times, and
each time ICE put a retainer request on
him so that he would be held until they
could pick him up. However, California is
a "sanctuary state." So, each time Carranza
was arrested, instead of taming him over
to federal authorities, the police released
him. These are just three of the many
Americans murdered by illegals in recent
years. Other than Dems and liberals,
who's surprised that dangerous iUegals are
violent? (Note - every dty and state that is
designated a "sanctuary" is controlled by
Democrats.)
5/oan
AGAIN, IT'S good to be a Democrat
because you're held to a different standard
than are Republicans. Dems are held to
a much lower standard, if they're held to
any standard at all. On every issue, the
media allows Dems to say
the most ridiculous things
(i.e. Trump is respon-
sible for the shooting in
New Zealand) orto get
away with conduct for
which they would crucify
Republicans. A Dem can
be a racist and will receive
a gentle hand slap, as was
l]han Omar (D-MN) last
week after her anti-Semitic
comments. In contrast,
a Republican receives a
lifetime "racist" brand for
similar comments.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE,
every Dem in the country fully supports
open borders, amnesty for all illegals,
and sanctuary dries and states. Every
Dem supports harboring, not deporting,
dangerous illegals. Dems literally have
blood on their hands in that harboring
dangerous illegals leads to people getting
killed. If Republicans supported a policy
that caused people to get killed, w&t never
hear the end of it. Not so with Dems.
dV, murders an American, the media
puts zero blame on Dems, despite the
idiotic policies that lead to those deaths.
Again, it's good to be a Dem.
ANYONE REALLY care ffa few
Americans get murdered by illegals? The
illegals aren't killing that many people;
plenty more where they came from.
Right? I ask because everyone needs to
know the cavalier attitude the Dems have
for your safe The Dems happily trade
a few murdered women for the future
votes ofillegals, should illegals ever get the
vote. And yes, Dems are working hard to
grant the vote to illegals. Very ironic, for
two years now, the Dems have screamed
about "foreigff' influence in the 2016
election and that we must protect the
sanctity of our elections; yet they actively
support "foreign" illegals voting in our
elections. Do the Dems and libs actu-
ally understand the word '%ypocrite?"
Ifillegals were murdering prominent
Dems, would the Dems be so callous and
openly supportive ofillegals remaining in
the country? I think not. It's good to be a
Dem
WHO REMEMBERS the Keep
America Beautiful advertising campaign
of the 1970's? One of the most successful
public service announcements (PSA) of
all time featured Chief Iron Eyes, a Native
American, shedding a single tear over
litter that had been thrown at his feet.
That PSA was so successful that everyone
who saw it still remembers it over 45 years
later. HopefullTg everyone is shedding
tears over the trash along our county
roads.
SEVERAL WEEKS ago my artide was
about all the litter that is everywhere in
the county. To combat the litter around
our Bolingbroke neighborhood, my
wife and I committed to deaning up a
2.5-mile stretch of Pate Road from North
Wesleyan Drive to 1-75. Apparently, that
article hit a chord as many people agree
with me. I received more responses to
that arfide than to any previous artide.
All responses were positive, several telling
me what they were doing (or planned to
do) in their part of the count. Good to
know that others are doing their part to
more needs to be done. Following are
some suggestions to continue our efforts
to keep Monroe County litter free:
First, let's encourage EVERYONE to
become part of the effort.
Once a week, police the trash for 100
yards in front of your house on BOTH
SIDES of the road.
County Commissioners, please ask
the workers at the garbage/recycle centers
to clean the trash and litter within several
hundred yards of their recycle center.
Trash is particularly bad around the
garbage centers.
Finally, I suggest April 6 be a county-
wide cleanup day; call it a pre-Earth Day
event. I'm going with April 6 because
easier to see the litter before the grass,
weeds, and briars get too thick.
Sloan Oliver of Bolingbroke is a retired
Army officer. Email him at sloanoliver@
earthlinknet.
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By Richard Dumas
forsyth@mymcmer
An Inman, S.C. man was
arrested after he allegedly
broke into a Hwy. 83 North
home on Feb. 28.
Rodney Heath Stmsser,
39, was charged with first
degree burglary
and taken to the
Monroe County
hil.
According to the
incident report, at
about 9:28 p.m
Deps. Paul Stewart
and Willie Barkley
and Cpl. Jacob
Robins, all of the STRASSER
Monroe County
Sheriff's Office,
went to a Hwy. 83 North
home about a burglary in
progress. The home's male
resident, Firoz Jalia, told
Stewart that when he arrived
home, he found an un-
known man, later identified
as Stmsser, inside his home.
Jalia said he then went to a
n "
e*ghbor s home where he
called 9 - 1-1.
Robins and Barkley then
kicked down the front door
and entered the home. They
saw Strasser had tried to bar-
ricade the door shut using a
wooden chair and a tall cabi-
net that was lying on its side
with several glass shelves
broken. Deputies then
found a bedroom window
was busted and glass was
also broken out of the back
door. Deputies then found
in the comer of the badoTard
a blue Econoline van with
a South Carolina tag, and
Strasser was stand-
ing at the opened
driver's side door.
Robins pointed his
gun at Strasser and
ordered him to the
ground, and Stms-
ser complied and
was handcuffed.
Stmsser told
deputies he was at
his brother's home
and heard chil-
dren screaming in the crawl
space beneath the house.
Stewart asked Strasser why
he was in the backyard, and
Stmsser replied that he was
getting tools out ofhis van
so he could enter the crawl
space from inside the home.
Dispatchers determined
a van In the backyard was
registered to another man,
identified as William Noblin,
but Strasser said he bought
it several months prior. The
van contained a small dog,
which Strasser said was his.
Deputies also found a storm
door in the van, which
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Strasser said he got out of a
dumpster behind a Chinese
restaurant. Deputies then
contacted Monroe County
Animal Control to take pos-
session of the dog.
Meanwhile, Jalia told dep-
uties that when he arrived
home from work, he noticed
a light inside his home was
on. He said he then un-
locked and opened the front
door and found broken glass
on the floor. Jalia said Stras-
ser, who was wearing glasses,
then entered the living room
and told Jalia he needed to
leave his own home. Jalia
said he then drove over to
the neighbor's home to call
9-1-1.
As deputies took Strasser
to the Monroe County Jail,
the case was then tamed
over to Inv. Rhonda Seck-
inger. Deputies found tire
prints near the front
dow. Deputies also found on
the back porch red-handled
bolt cutters, a yellow-han-
dled screw driver and blue-
handled pliers. They found
lying on the porch a red jack
handle with blood on it and
also discovered a gray t post
driver lying on the ground
next to the crawl space, lalia
said none of the tools found
at the scene were his. Jaffa
also said furniture had been
moved around inside the
home, and a door inside the
home was on its side: All
of the tools were taken into
evidence.
In Memoriam of George "Dexter" King
Dec. 30, 1968 - March 20, 2018
"May the Works I've Done Speak for Me"
~~ w~ ~~
Those special memories of you
will always bring a smile
Jf only l could have you back
for just a little while
Then we could sit and talk again
just like we used to do
you always meant so very much
and always will do too
The fact that you're no longer here
will always cause me pain
but you're forever in rny heart
until we meet again 1
Love,
Morn, Ruth Parker; wife Gwendolyn King,
children, grandbaby Brooklyn, e~ family
