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Mrs.
Marie Lois Coffey Moore, age 72, of Crooked Creek Road, Young Harris,
GA passed
away, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at her home following an extended
illness. Marie was born in Marble, NC, on
January 5,
1939, daughter of the late Luther and Mary Bell Queen Coffey. She was preceded in death by her husband
Pastor William Ray Moore in 2001 and son, James Moore in 1968.
Mrs. Moore is survived by her son, Johnnie Moore of Florence, SC,
daughter,
Jeannie Moore of TX, grandchildren Johnnie Moore, Jr., Julia Mustakas
and
Dustin Ballew, brothers, Howard Coffey and wife Martha, and Dale
Coffey,
special friends, B.J. Hunter and Rheta McConnell, several nieces and
nephews.
Memorial services were held Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 2 p.m., at
Mission
Hill Baptist Church with Rev. Darin Shuler, Rev. Homer Wilson and Rev.
Johnnie
Moore, Jr. officiating. Music was by
Mission Hill Choir, Korn Sisters and Larson Sisters. In
lieu of flowers make memorials to Mission
Hill Baptist Church or The Moss Cemetery Fund.
Mountain
View Funeral Home of Blairsville is in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send
condolences on line at www.mountainviewfuneralhome.com.
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Congressman
Edgar Lanier Jenkins of Jasper
died Sunday following a brief illness.
Born in
1933 in
Towns County, Jenkins attended Young Harris College, was a veteran of
the
United States Coast Guard and graduated form the University Of Georgia
School
Of Law. Upon graduation, he became an
Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and then
entered
the private practice of law in Jasper.
He was also a staff member and long time confidante of
Congressman Phil
Landrum, also of Jasper. Jenkins was
elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1976 and
served with
distinction for 16 years. Notable in his
service in the House was his election to House Ways and Means Committee
as a
freshman Member. His leadership on
behalf of the textile, apparel and poultry industries, focusing on
global air
trade, was a legislative highlight of his career, along with numerous
tax
revisions reducing capital gains and inheritance taxes and insuring
equity for
all taxpayers. He authored comprehensive
soil and water conservation laws and wilderness protection statues for
the
Chattahoochee National Forest.
He was
the sole
non-chair appointed to the Joint Committee on Iran Contra which
investigated
the trading of weapons to Iran when such was not authorized by the
United
States Congress. The Almanac of American
Politics described him as “one of the smartest operators on Capitol
Hill.”
Honoring
the
Congressman’s service to the people of north Georgia, 23,000 acres of
the
Chattahoochee National Forest were designated the Ed Jenkins National
Recreation Area.
Family
members
include his wife, Jo Jenkins of Jasper and two daughters, Janice
Jenkins
Anderson (Larry) of Roswell and Amy Jenkins Dotson of Jasper and two
grandsons,
Sam and Drew Dotson. Brothers and
sisters are Charles and Bonnie Jenkins, Kenneth Jenkins, Marilyn and
James
Homer Thomasson, and Ella and Tom Battle, all of Blairsville, and Patti
and
Bobby chambers of Gainesville. He was
preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Evia Jenkins of
Blairsville. A childhood friendship with
fellow Towns
County native, Zell Miller, was nurtured through seven decades.
Visitation
will be
held Friday, January 6th at Cagle Funeral Home in Jasper from 4 until 8
p.m. Funeral services will be held
Saturday,
January 7th at 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church of Jasper. He will lie instate at Antioch Baptist Church
of Blairsville from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 8th and will
be
interred in the Antioch Church Cemetery at 3 p.m. with military honors.
Honorary
pallbearers
will be members of his Gideon Sunday School class as well as members of
the
United States Congress.
In lieu
of flowers,
the family requests that memorial gifts be made to one of the following: First Baptist Church of Jasper, 198 East
Church Street, Jasper, GA 30143, Good Samaritan Health and Wellness
Center, 175
Samaritan Drive, Jasper, GA 30143’ Young Harris College, Ed Jenkins
Scholarship, Post Office Box 275, Young Harris, GA 30582.
Cagle Funeral Home, 364 East Church Street, Jasper, GA 30143 (706-692-6615) is in charge of arrangements.