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passed away Friday, July 12, 2019.
Funeral services were held Monday,
July 15, 2019, at Maynard Baptist
Church. Rev. Matthew Bishop of—
ficiated Interment was private in
Monroe Hills Memorial Gardens.
Alana was born Aug. 25, 1993
in Spokane, Washington. She was
a graduate of Mary Persons High
School.
Survivors include her children,
Jayla Becton, Jayce Becton and Tegan Green; parents,
Nikki and Jonathan Banks and Clint and Kathy Burch;
siblings, Abigail Banks, Matthew Banks and Brady
Burch; grandparents, John Harriman, Butch and Linda
O’Daniell, Sid and JoAnna Banks and Jacque Banks.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to
Promise of Hope, Dudley Georgia, 1257 Wayne Road,
Dudley, GA 31022.
Please visit www.monroecountymemorialchapel.com
to express tributes.
Monroe County Memorial Chapel had charge of ar-
rangements.
BIRCH
Samuel Munforcl
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Forsyth - Funeral services for Mr. Samuel Poke
Munford, 84, were held Wednesday, July 10, at 2 pm.
at Straight Street House of Prayer Holiness Church,
Forsyth. Burial was in Rest Haven Memorial Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Tuesday from 5-7 pm.
at the funeral home.
Freeman Funeral Home, Forsyth was in charge of
arrangements.
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July l7, 2019
New concrete plant under way
Work has begun on a
new $2.5 million Fowler
Flemister Concrete plant
on College Street in For—
syth with plans to open
next month.
“There’s a lot of poten—
tial and great people in
Forsyth,” said McKenzie
Davenport, co—owner of
Milledgeville-based Fowler
Flemister. “We like the
welcoming environment
here and the people have
.been fantastic. They’re very
energized and motivated to
get things done and like to
see progress. We’ve been to
some towns where they’re
against development, but
Forsyth has done a good
job seeing what’s on the
horizon and putting people
in place to be a part of
that.”
Fowler Flemister bought
35 acres off College Street ’
for its plant, and plans to
use only about half of the
land while selling the rest.
Davenport said they’ll
hire 8- 10 employees at the
plant and that the building
should be delivered 'soon.
Fowler Flemister is one
of two concrete companies
building plants in For-
syth, as Reaves Concrete
of Valdosta is building
a plant in the Hwy. 18
industrial park Davenport
said they’re excited to be
in competition with them
and said it’s a great oppor-
tunity for all of them.
Davenport said Fowler
Flemister is 60 years old
having been built by his
Mackenzie Davenport ot Fowler Flemister Concrete shown
at the company's new plant going up off College Street.
wife’s grandfather. Now his
brother-in-law and he have
joined the company to
grow it into the future.
“We’re kicking butt and
giving direction to these
guys and moving it into
the next generation,” said
Davenport.
Davenport said they like
to locate their plants in
small towns where they
like to get highly involved
in the community.
Man charged with slamming .
into deputy with stolen vehicle
By Richard Dumas
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A Lithonia man was
arrested for slamming a
stolen truck into
the back of a
Monroe County
patrol car during
a traffic stop on
Patrol Road on
July 13.
According
to the incident
report, at about
3:47 am, Dep.
Tyler Rodgers
of the Monroe County
Sheriff ’5 Office was notified
by dispatchers of a white
2017 Ford F-150 driving
recklessly on I-75 South.
A Clayton County deputy
PHILLIPS
trailed the truck and told
dispatchers the truck was
fleeing Henry County
deputies and running other
vehicles off the road. Rodg-
ers saw the truck
exit 175 South at
Exit 186, and Mon—
roe County Dep.
Christian Sawley
tried to approach
the truck from the
passenger side.
However, the
truck instead head-
ed westbound on
Tift College Drive
’ before turning onto Patrol
Road and braking aggres—
sively. The truck then ac-
celerated and rammed into
the back of Sawley’s station-
ary patrol car. Rodgers then
drove directly behind the
truck in an attempt to pin
it in, and the truck spun
its tires to flee. Rodgers
then exited his patrol car
and pointed his gun at the
truck’s driver, identified as
Vantrece Samuel Phillips.
When Phillips refused to
exit his vehicle or show his
hands, deputies removed
the driver from the vehicle
and put him on the ground.
When Phillips continued to
keep his hand on his waist-
band, Rodgers hit Phillips
three times. Phillips finally
put his hands behind his
back and was handcuffed.
Fulton County dispatch-
ers told deputies the
truck was stolen from a
downtown Atlanta secu-
rity guard. Deputies found
inside the truck a prescrip-
tion bottle with another
man’s name on it.
Phillips, 18, was taken to
the Monroe County Jail,
where he was 'charged with
aggravated assault on a law
enforcement officer, fleeing
or attempting to elude,
damage to government
property, theft by receiv—
ing motor vehicle, failure
to maintain lane, making
an improper right turn,
improper use of center turn
lane, making an improper
left turn, aggressive driving,
reckless driving, failure to
exercise due care and a seat
belt violation.
Sawley was not injured.
Forsyth man died in Dominican Republic ’3’
Much of the reporting in
this story is courtesy of WSB-
TV in Atlanta.
The of a Forsyth
man who died in the Do—
minican Republic in March
is speaking out about his
death for the first time, in the
wake of similar American
deaths on the island
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ing on the island with his
sister, Nyesha Willis, also of
Forsyth, on March 17. The
oflicial cause of death was
listed as “respiratory issues,”
according to his mother,
Melody Moore, who spoke
with ABC News.
Tammy Jester of Forsyth,
manager of the Cotique
Boutique, said that Jester is
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her cousin and confirmed he
was from Forsyth.
Moore said her son called
her the night before he died
and seemed to be in good
spirits.
“They had a good day.
Saturday, they went out, they
explored. They said they
had a good day,” she told the
Atlanta—based station WSB—
TV.
According to WSB, Moore
said her son made a remark
about drinking a soda that
didn’t taste right
Moore told ABC News —
that early the 'next mom—
ing she got a call from her
daughter, who said Jester had
“just dropped to his knees
and started throwing up
blood.’ ’
Moore said she instructed
her daughter to call the
police, but it was too late. By
4:40 am, Jester had died.
Jester’s sister toldWSB that
he had lupus, but it’s unclear
whether the autoimmune
disease had anything to do
with his death.
His body'Was returned to
his family in Georgia, and
Moore said she didn’t have a
toxicology report conducted
at the time because the
reports of other deaths, in the
country had yet to emerge,
ABC News reported Now
she believes that her son’s
death may be connected to
the others.
She said that she had called
the FBI and that an inves-
tigator has added her son’s
name to a list of Americans
who had died in the country
recently.
Moore said she “would like
to know the truth” about her
son’s death.
The State Department con- ‘
firmed to ABC News that it
was aware of Jester’s death.
Officials have said that
despite increased media
attention, there has been no
“uptick” in American deaths
in the country.
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