Lamar County GaArchives News.....Lamar buries four stalwarts January 16, 1991
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Barnesville Herald-Gazette January 16, 1991
By Walter Geiger
     During the eight-day period from Sunday, Jan. 6 - Sunday, Jan. 13, 
Barnesville-Lamar County quietly buried four of the pillars of this community.
     The first to go was Frances Holmes Graves, a descendant of Josiah Holmes 
who helped found the city of Barnesville.  Mrs. Graves died Jan. 6.
     Mrs. Graves was a longtime employee at both Aldora Mills and Gordon 
College.  She served the Carnegie Library diligently as a turstee [sic] and 
chairman of the trustees for many years.  Her most recent honor was being 
named Mrs. Heritage Inn for 1990.
     One day later the community lost another longtime leader when Charles 
Emory Walker, 90, passed away.  Mr. Walker spent 42 years at the William 
Carter Company here, advancing to the high stations of plant superintendent 
and, subsequently, general manager.
     Mr. Walker was well-known here and he was a fixture keeping up his 
Thomaston Street yard until not long before his death.
     On Jan. 8, the highest ranking military officer in Barnesville-Lamar 
County passed away.  Brigadier General Homer A. Sappington, who died at age 
95, began his military career when he joined the Barnesville Blues in 1914.
     He went on to fight in the Mexican Border War, World War I and World War 
II.  His military career was culminated last September when the new national 
guard armory here was named in his honor.
     Certainly, there has been no greater leader in the history of Barnesville-
Lamar County than Gen. Sappington.
     And, finally, on Jan. 11 we lost one of our most beloved citizens with 
the passing of Evelyn Griffith Bush who wrote the Barnesville Personals in The 
Herald-Gazette and The News-Gazette before it for over 50 years.
     Mrs. Bush, who died at age 94, had also been a correspondent fo the 
Atlanta and Macon newspapers in addition to serving the Carnegie Library as 
librarian and a trustee for over 50 years.
     Mrs. Bush, who was revered by all here on the newspaper staff, also 
served as the executive director of the local chapter of the Red Cross for 
many years.
     "These people were the pillars of our community.  Whenever we needed 
advice or information, these were the people we looked up to," one local 
citizen was heard to remark after one of the last week's four significant 
funerals.
     While we have no shortage of groomed leaders to take up the banner, each 
of these people will be sorely missed here in our community.

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