Lamar-Monroe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sappington, Homer Arthur January 8, 1991
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Barnesville Herald-Gazette, Wednesday, 16 January 1990, page 3
Gen. Sappington
     Brigadier Gen. Homer Arthur Sappington, 95, of 149 Holmes Street, died 
Jan. 8 in Barnesville.
     He was a native of Monroe County, son of the late Henry Newsome 
Sappington and the late Quintine Owen Sappington.  Gen. Sappington was a 
graduate of Gordon Miliary Institute and had a distinquished [sic] military 
carerr which began when he joined the Barnesville Blues as an enlisted man 
with the U. S. Army in 1914.  He became a sergeant during the Mexican border 
war in 1916 and was promoted in World War I and World War II.  He retired as a 
colonel and was later awarded the rank of honorary Brigadier General by the 
National Guard.  The local National Guard armory was dedicated the Homer A. 
Sappington National Guard Armory in his honor last September.
     He was an active member of the First United Methodist Church and was 
chairman of the building committee when the sanctuary was rebuilt after a 
destructive fire.  Until recently, he was an active member of the American 
Legion and the Barnesville Rotary Club.  Gen. Sappington was the only 
surviving charter member of the Rotary Club at the time of his death.  He was 
a postmaster for some 10 1/2 years until his retirement.  Gen. Sappington was 
the Barnesville-Lamar County citizen of the year in 1984.  His son, Rear Adm. 
Merrill Sappington, preceded him in death in 1983.
     Survivors include his wife, Allie Means Sappington of Barnesville; a 
daughter, Althea Bergtholdt of Hyannis Port, Mass. and three grandchildren 
also survive.
     Funeral services were held Jan. 11 in the First United Methodist Church.  
The Rev. David Naglee officiated.  Burial was in the Owen-Sappington family 
cemetery in the Redbone Community of Lamar county.
     Haisten Funeral Home in Barnesville was in charge of arrangements.

Additional Comments:
Homer Arthur Sappington was born 28 September 1895 and married Almeda "Allie" 
Elizabeth Means on 28 August 1918 in Monroe Co., GA.

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