HOGANSVILLE HERALD THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2016
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Geneva Oliver Maxwell
13, 1937 - December 13, 2016
14-Year Hogansville Resident
Mrs. Geneva Oliver Maxwell, 79, of Heflin, Alabama, passed
away, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at her home.
Born January 13, 1937 in Tallassee, Alabama, Mrs. Maxwell
was the daughter of the late John Ray Oliver and Fannie Mae
Guy Allen. She lived in Hogansville for 14 years before mak-
ing her home in Helfin four years ago, was a member of
Macedonia Baptist Church in Ranburne, Alabama, and loved
crocheting and playing bingo.
Survivors include her husband, Pete Maxwell of Heflin;
daughters and sons in-law, Betty Ann Hill and Billy .White of
Heflin, and Tracy and Greg Cronic of Corinth; sons and daugh-
ter in—Iaw, Charles Ray Sears of Graham, AL and Kerney Swann
and Sandra Medlin of Roanoke, AL; brothers and sisters in.-‘law,
Billy Wayne and Cathy Allen of West Point and James and
Dianne Allen of Hogansville; sisters, Flora Walters of LaGrange
and Betty Jean Smith of Eastman; twelve grandchildren; and
ten great-grandchildren, including a special great granddaugh-
ter, Star Moreno. In addition to her parents she was preceded
in death by a daughter, Patty Lacky; granddaughter, Cambie
Sears; great-granddaughter, Selena Moreno; brother, John
Oliver, Jr.; and a sister, Ruby Lemerle Oliver.
A memorial service was 2:00 p.m., Saturday, December 17,
in the Chapel ofClaude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home,
with Reverend Chad Burdette and Reverend Debbie Dollar offi—
ciating.
Condolences may be
www.mckibbenfuneralhome.com
expressed at
Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home was in charge
of arrangements.
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Fes tive Fun
Facts About
Chris tmas
The first artificial
Christmas trees were made
by. Germans out of dyed
goose feathers. .
Each year, more than
three billion Christmas cards
are sent in the United States
alone.
If you gave all of the gifts
mentioned in “The Twelve
Days of Christmas,” you’d
give a total of 364 gifts.
The tallest Christmas
tree ever cut was a 221-foot
Douglas fir that was dis-
played in 1950 at the
Northgate Shopping Center
in Washington.
The world’s longest
Christmas stocking meas-
ured 106 feet 9 inches long,
and 49 feet 1 inch wide. It
weighed as much as five rein-
deer, and held almost 1,000
presents. The stocking was
made by the Children’s
Society in London on
December 14, 2007.
Christmas trees have
been sold in the United States
since 1850.
The British wear paper
crowns while they eat
Christmas dinner. The
crowns are stored in a tube
called a “Christmas crack-
er.”
Christmas became an
official US. holiday in 1870.
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Debra Aldridge, Owner
Amanda Summers, Stylist
Casey Mema, Stylist
Thanksgiving, Christmas, And Toilet Paper
“Celebrating the first
holiday following the death
of a close loved one has a
way of making you more
keenly aware of your own
mortality and the things,
places, and people in your
life that really matter. It has
been aptly said that life is
like a roll of toilet paper
the closer you get to the end
- the faster it goes! While I
have absolutely no plans of
checking out any time soon,
I realize that my roll of toi-
let paper is more than half
gone and is picking up
speed daily! Momma’s
death has made me realize,
more than any time in my
life, we only have today.
Therefore, whatever I want
you to hear me say, I must
say today - before my roll
of toilet paper runs out!
Therefore, as the patriarch
of this family, I thought it
entirely proper and fitting
to use this occasion to tell
you for what I am thankful.”
The paragraph above is
the opening statement of a
letter I wrote to my wife,
children, and grandchildren
as part of our Thanksgiving
celebration in 2005.
Momma had just died. In
the letter ~I tried to explain
to them how much I love
them and how proud I am of
them.
As an adult I’m thankful
for special family days like
Thanksgiving and
Christmas. On these days,
if only for a little while, we
can stop the toilet paper roll
from spinning and enjoy the
moment called “today.”
Many of “life’s little
moments” are created on
these special days
moments that will be forev-
er frozen in time and etched
in our memories. These are
the good-ole-days of our
lives.
For most adults,
Christmas is a time when
we reminisce about family
and the innocence of child-
hood. Somehow, if for just
a little while, we are magi-
cally able to recapture that
innocence.’ In doing so, we
find a sense of belonging,
self-worth, and acceptance
that we find no other place.
As we gather, we find the
smells and sounds strange-
ly familiar. We laugh and
cry over the same old sto-
ries and rehash tales of
events that occurred long
ago. And like an old worn
coat, we snuggle deeply into
the comfort, joy, and famil-
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Wishing you a. jolly good time whatever you do.
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Columnist
iarity that only home and
family brings. Through this,
we forever immortalized the
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Sadly, for some,
Christmas is not a happy
time of year. It is not a time
of cheer. It is not a time of
peace on earth and good will
toward men. It is, in fact, a
time of deep loneliness, sad-
ness, and despair.
I think pain somehow
makes it proper and fitting
that Christmas is celebrat-
ed in winter. You see, in
nature, winter represents
the season in which most
plants become dormant; the
skies turn greyer; the dark-
ness is longer, and the tem-
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perature is the coldest. In
these bleak conditions it
becomes very easy for a
sense of hopelessness to set-
tle in. But the gift of
Christmas is that into the
pain of humanity’s hopeless
season the angels
announced the birth of Hope
to a bunch of shepherds.
.Hope was born of a virgin.
Mary called Him Jesus. I
call th-Lord!
As long as our roll of toi-
let paper continues to spin,
the seasons of our lives will
continue to change.
Sometimes it’s spring; some-
times it’s summer; some-
times it’s fall, and sometimes
it’s winter. But even in the
dead of winter when things
are at their bleakest God
gives Hope. Hope was born
on Christmas day. And as
long as Hope is in this world
we have the assurance that
spring will come.
The truth of life is this -
at some point the roll of toi—
Phorto Submltted
Callaway
Elementary students who had perfect attendance during
the second quarter were in a drawing for a prize. One stu-
dent from each grade level won either a Karaoke Machine,
an Android Tablet, or a Razor Scooter. The winners are :
front row, left to right: Kayden Harris, Tyjah Johnson, Rodney
Turner, and Thomas Yeanrvood; back row: School Guidance
Counselor, Britt Wood, DiamondAndrews, KaziahAndrews,
and School Principal, Amy Thornton. Not pictured is Rickey
vaughn.
City Sets Holiday
By ANDY KOBER
Closings
The Christmas and New Year’s holiday closing schedule
for city hall has been released.
In celebration of Christmas, Hogansville city offices will
be closed from Friday, Dec. 23 until Tuesday, Dec. 27.
For New Year’s, city offices will be closed from Friday,
Dec. 30 until Tuesday, Jan. 3.
Claude A. McKibben&Sons
Funeral Home
208 Johnson Street
Hogansville, Georgia
706-637-8623
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let paper runs out for each
of us. ‘ Only then can the
beauty of the sum of all our
life-seasons be appreciated.
When the last sheet leaves
the roll in the life of a per-
son we love, it is then we
simply bow our head, thank
God for the privilege of hav-
ing known this person, and
find comfort through Jesus
our Hope that springtime
will come. Thank God that
, into the pain of humanity’s
hopeless season Hope was
born. His name shall be
called Immanuel - God with
us!
Merry Christmas!
Brother Aaron
Aaron McCollough is an
area missionary with the
area Baptist Association
which serves Harris,
Meriwether and Troup coun—
ties. He is a resident of
Hogansville.
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For your trust in us,
we are deeply grateful.
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