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HOGANSVIUZ
HOME NEWS - MAY 24, 2001
Big Memorial Day On 'rap
ALMOST TIME - Memorial Day is Monday and a big memorial service is set for
Calvin Hipp Park in Hogansville for 8 a.m. Everyone is welcomed to come and
pay tribute and remember those who gave their lives for America.
Hogansville's Chamber 6f4ommerce
Committee is hosting the largest Memorial
Day celebration in years. The service, Which
begins at 8 a.m. on Monday, May 28th,
involves many aspects of the Hogansville
community.
Ms. Stacy Spinks 1 sing the National
Anthem. The Rev. Ms. Carolynn Cameron,
sister of one of the fallen, will give the
Invocation. The Troup County Sheriff's
Honor Guard will post the colors and pro-
vide a 21-gun salute. Four members of the
American Legion Post 152 representing the
four major services will lay a new wreath
provided by the Post. Donald Neese, a US
Navy veteran, will give the Benediction. The
McKibben Funeral Home will provide seat-
ing for the special guests and trumpeter
David McKibben play" Taps.
New to the service this year will be the
roll call of Hogansville's Honored
Servicemen conducted by Tommy Thrower.
The sacrifice of both the servicemen and
their surviving families and friends will be
recognized. A good number of family mem-
bers and some out-of-town friends are
expected to attend.
In addition to the salute to the fallen and
their families, Mike Johnson, former
Hogansville mayor, is arranging a recep-
tion at Flag Bank followfng Monday morn-
ing's Memorial Day Service. Ingles and Flag
Bank will provide the provisions. Exhibits
and displays of memorabilia associated with
the servicemen honored on the war memo-
rial will be available for examination before
and after the services. The bank is located
next tO Calvin Hipp Park and the memori-
al. Flag Bank will use this exhibit to kick
off a permanent display honoring
Hogansville's veterans.
Chamber of Commerce President Joan
DeMarrais points out that everyone is wel-
come to attend both the service and the
reception.
Those having memorabilia for the dis-
plays, please contact Bill or Mary
Stankiewicz at 637-9497 or bring the mate-
rial to their shop at 200 East Main Street.
Vwtnam Vets Return to Honor C'c ,ztsin
Two soldiers who were with Hogansville's Pfc. Robert Lee
Cousin when he was killed in Vietnam June 8, 1968, are expect-
ed to attend Memorial Day Services in Hogansville May 28 at
the town's war memorial on Main Street.
Sgt. Richard Drapczuk of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, had been
searchmg, uuccessfully, for Pfc. ousin's family since the
day' RObo't'g'6ody was flown out of the battle area where he
was killed. "I've been waiting 30 years to pray at Robert's grave,"
t Sgt. Drapczuk said. "I never got to say goodbye to Robert after
we loaded his body on the Medevac helicopter. By the time the
Battalion got back to base camp, Robert and all his personal
possessions were on the way to the States."
Members of Robert's unit regularly get together at the
Vietnam Wall ha Washington and in each other's homes to remem-
ber those who died, and to aid and comfort their families.
Robert's last name bad been incorrectly spelled "Cousins"
instead of the singular Cousin, and all efforts to locate his fam-
ily were fruitless until an article in the West Georgia Beacon
brought them together earlier this year.
Former Spec. 5 Jimmy Galloway of Greenville, North
Carolina, carried Robert about 100 yards away from the spot
where Rrt was fatally wounded as he prepared to fire his
mortar at attacEingvi(Cdri'sbldiers. The Company had been
told to prepare to abandon its dead to try to save the survivors.
Spec. 5 Galloway said, "I knew he wouldn't have left me back
there, alone." And, although Robert was probably already dead
from loss of blood and shock, Galloway carried him to where
the Company was regrouping and trying to save itself.
Robert was the son of Turner and Elsie Cousin of Hogansville.
His brother, Nathaniel Cousin, lives in the family home at 208
Poplar Street. Robert is buried at St. Mary Church, and was a
graduate of the former West End High School, Hogansville.
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Revival Starts June 3
By Mae Towns
Revival services for Mountville United
Methodist Church will be held Sunday, June 3,
through Tuesday, June 5. Social hour and a light
meal is at 6:00 p.m. with revival beginning at 7:00
p.m.
The Reverend Dr. Mark Spence, pastor of Faith
seven, and preached his first sermon at 1S years
of age at his home church on Youth Day. He has
been serving God for 16 years, the first 10 as a
Minister of Music, and the last six as an ordained
minister of the Gospel.
The guest minister earned a Bachelor of Music
Degree from the University of Georgia and both
Master's and Doctorate of Theological studies for
Anderson Baptist Seminary.
Baptist Church of Moreland, will be the guest min-'\\;
ister.
The Reverend Dane G. Wagner, pastor of the
Mountville UMC, invites everyone to come for
"anointed preaching, special music, food and fel-
lowship each night."
Special music will be presented by the follow-
ing: Sunday, Faithful Four; Monday, Moreland
Community Singers; Tuesday, Tapestry. Rev.
Wagner will serve as song leader and Nick Johnston
as pianist.
Dr. Spence is a native'of Gainesville, and was
reared in Sugar Hill. He became a Christian at aide
He has served four churches: Grace Church in
' Atlanta, Union Hill Baptist in Alpharetta, The First
tist Church of Broxton, and for the past four
rs, Faith Baptist Church in Moreland.
He and his wife, Carla, are the parents of two
children: Christi, seven years old and Russell, one
year old.
Pastor Dane Wagner announced, "Plan on
attending the revival and being blessed!"
Mountville UMC is located in MountviUe on Ga.
Highway 109 East - ten miles from LaGrange.
Organized in 1828, Mountvllle UMC is in the old-
est settlement and highest point in Troup CounW.
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FRIENDLY
TURF - Big Jim
Hamili (I)shares
a smile with
Simon
Yearwood at
the Hoofer's
Gospel Barn
last Friday
evening. Hams
was lead singer
for the
Kingsmen
before retiring.
Now he is the
host at the
Gospel Bam.
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