Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Whitehead, George Stevens January 24, 1946 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Christine Crumley - Brown http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003050 October 22, 2006, 9:35 pm Danielsville Monitor, 1 February 1946 SERVICES HELD LAST FRIDAY FOR GEORGE S. WHITEHEAD George Stevens Whitehead, 50, former resident of Carlton, died last Thursday at the Veterans Facility in Bay Pines, Florida. Services were conducted from the Carlton Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Mr. Whitehead is survived by his father, Walter E. Whitehead; two brothers, Joe Whitehead, Chicago, IL; sister, Miss Martha Whitehead, Carlton; five nieces ad nephews. He was born January 26, 1896 and attended Gordon Institute in Barnesville before entering the University of Georgia in 1912, where he was such a brilliant student it is doubtful if his scholastic achievements have ever been equaled. He completed the Batchelor of Arts degree course in three years and graduated in 1915. The next year he completed work for, and received his Master of Arts degree. While at the University he was a leader, not only in scholastic attainments but also in various campus and student activities, being especially outstanding in public speaking. He was one of the most popular students in his class. Mr. Whitehead was a member of Phi Beta Kappa national honorary scholastic fraturity, and went to Endgland as a Rhodes Scholar, studying at Balliol College, Oxford University. He also held a teachers diploma from the University of California and an LLB from LaSalle Extension University. During 1917 - 1919 he served in the armed forces of the nation in the First World War with distinction as a Second Lieutenant. Later he was an Associate in the Departent of Public Speaking at the University of California and in 1927 took up the practice of law in Burlingame California, where he resided at the time he became ill. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/madison/obits/w/whitehea5570gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb