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   Lam W. Haygood
   Elberton
      Lam W. Haygood, 78, of 235A College Ave. died Tuesday, Sept. 8,
   1998.
      A native of Franklin County, Mr. Haygood was a son of Annie Segars
   Haygood, Hartwell, and the late Russ Haygood. He was twice married,
   first to the late Myrtice White Haygood. A Marine Corps veteran of
   World War II, he was a retired auto body repairman and a member of
   West End Baptist Church.
      Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Strickland Funeral Home,
   Hartwell, with the Revs. Wayne Durden and Lloyd Shepherd officiating.
   Burial will be in Mount Olivet Church of God Cemetery.
      Survivors include his wife, Ruby Mae Thornton Haygood; two
   daughters, Patsy Sanders, Hartwell, and Alice House, Elberton; three
   sons, Ray Haygood and Jimmy Haygood, both of Hartwell, and Fleet
   Bannister, Canon; two sisters, Ruth Chatham, Carnesville, and Sara
   Williford, Hartwell; four brothers, Donald Haygood and Jerry Haygood,
   both of Hartwell, and Frank Haygood and Johnny Haygood, both of
   Toccoa; two sisters, Ruth Chatham, Carnesville, and Sara Williford,
   Hartwell; 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
      The family is at the home of Ray and Barbara Haygood, 1784 Will
   Bailey Road, Hartwell, and will receive friends 7-9 p.m. today at the
   funeral home.
   Linda Sisson
   Union Point
      Linda Welch Sisson, 57, of 109 McKinley Drive died Monday, Sept. 7,
   1998.
      A native of Butts County, Mrs. Sisson was a daughter of Helen
   Welch, Union Point, and the late Wilson Welch. She was an assistant
   pre-kindergarten teacher, a correspondent for the Herald Journal, a
   member of First Baptist Church, where she was a Sunday School teacher
   of children's class 1-3 for 26 years and a member of WMU, and
   treasurer of the Garden Club of Union Point.
      Services will be at 11 a.m. today at First Baptist Church with the
   Rev. David Key officiating. Burial will be in Worthville Baptist
   Church Cemetery, Jackson.
      Survivors, in addition to her mother, include her husband, Henry
   Sisson; and a son, Jim Sisson, Union Point.
      Pallbearers will be deacons of First Baptist Church.
      Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church Building Fund.
   Joyce O'Neal Teskey
   Athens
      Joyce O'Neal Teskey, age 84, of Athens, Ga., Chicago, Ill., Pierre,
   S.D., and the Top Bar O Ranch in South Dakota, died Friday, September
   4, 1998, at home in peace after suffering a stroke on July 28, 1998.
      Joyce is survived by sons, Thomas, of Paisley, Fla., and Robert, of
   Athens, Ga., and daughters, Mary, of Columbia, Md., and Dawn, now of
   Paisley, Fla. Grandchildren are Ann Marie and Charles Teskey,
   Elizabeth and Steven Hepple and Joseph and William Teskey.
      Born on the Top Bar O Ranch in South Dakota, Joyce graduated from
   Pierre High School and then from the University of Minnesota. Upon
   graduation she served as a social worker in Des Moines, Iowa, and
   Chicago, Illinois. She later changed careers and became an editor for
   Who's Who in America. After marrying Joseph Teskey of Chicago, she was
   not only a mother to her own three children, but to many from Division
   St. YMCA and Camp Channing as well as many foster children, the last
   of which was Dawn, who she later adopted and raised for 33 years. Dawn
   now resides in Paisley, Fla., with Thomas and his family. Joyce served
   her different communities, friends and family well - we will miss her.
      A memorial service will be held at Beech Haven Baptist Church in
   Athens, Ga., on Friday, September 11, 1998, at 7 p.m. As per her
   wishes, her ashes will be spread across the Missouri Breaks in South
   Dakota.
      Bridges Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
   Rembert Tillery
   Madison
      Rembert Boyd Tillery, 76, of 1860 Greensboro Highway died Tuesday,
   Sept. 8, 1998.
      A native of Fannin County, Mr. Tillery was a son of the late Ethel
   Evans and S.C. Tillery. He was a retired owner of Nu-Art Printers.
      Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Madison Church of God with the
   Revs. Brenda Trammell and Jim Chamberlain officiating. The body will
   be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Buckhead City
   Cemetery.
      Survivors include his wife, Fannie B. Tillery; two daughters, Jean
   Tillery Triplett, Madison, and Ginger Tillery Cloud, Logansville; a
   son, Dean Tillery, Madison; a sister, Retha Brown, Madison; seven
   grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
      Simmons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
   Monroe Lattimore
   Daytona Beach, Fla.
      Monroe Lattimore of 1357 Illinois St., formerly of Athens, died
   Monday, Sept. 7, 1998.
      Mack & Payne Funeral Home will announce arrangements.
   Laurence H. Walker
   Athens
      Laurence H. Walker, 91, of 301 Parkway Drive died Tuesday, Sept. 8,
   1998.
      Bridges Funeral Home will announce arrangements.
   
                                      
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