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Funeral director Ward J. Edwards (February 28, 1930 – March 24, 2024) was an American politician. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993.
He was an alumnus of the University of Georgia and worked in the field of general insurance. He was a member of the firm Turner Wood & Smith Insurance, in Gainesville. Wood served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1966 to 1989 and was a Democrat. [1] [2] [3] He was married to Helen Thrasher. [4] Wood died on April 27, 2019. [5]
The Fred Ward Memorial Show was an annual professional wrestling memorial event produced by the Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) promotion, which was held from 2004 to 2009. The show was held in honor of Fred Ward, a pioneering wrestling promoter who controlled the central Georgia wrestling territory for over 30 years, [ 1 ] who died on May ...
The Mayor of Gainesville is, for ceremonially purposes, receipt of service of legal processes and the purposes of military law, official head of the city of Gainesville, Florida and otherwise a member of, and chair of, the city commission, required to preside at all meetings thereof. The mayor is also allowed to vote on all matters that come ...
Harvey Ward was elected to district 2 of the Gainesville City Commission in 2017, narrowly avoiding a run-off. He was re-elected in 2020 with more than two-thirds of the vote. Term-limits prevented Ward from running for a third term. He ran to be mayor of Gainesville and was elected by more than 5,000 votes.
In 1982 the Frank J. Knight Center was dedicated. This is home to many PE classes, basketball, volleyball, and school assemblies. In 1990 a stadium was built for football and soccer. Nicknamed "The Dungeon," the official name of the facility is "Billy Ellis Memorial Stadium," after a former principal who died of cancer.
An untowered airport, Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport is a popular general aviation airport that covers an area of 292 acres (118 ha) and contains two asphalt paved runways: 5/23 measuring 5,500 by 100 ft (1,676 by 30 m) and 11/29 measuring 4,001 by 100 ft (1,220 by 30 m).
Gary Lamell Ward (born December 6, 1953) is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1979 to 1990 for the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers.