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Atkins was born in Pickens County, Georgia on August 16, 1933. [3] He attended Mercer University and served in the United States Army. [3] Atkins was a pharmacist. [3] [4] He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1983 [3] to 1994. Atkins died in Marietta, Georgia on June 30, 2024, at the age of 90. [5]
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
Albany is home to Sowegans SC, an amateur soccer team founded in 2023 and competing in the Gulf Coast Premier League. The team hosts home matches at Westover Comprehensive High School. [68] Craft Axe Throwing Albany brought the sport of axe throwing to Albany in 2019. The sport has continued to grow and enhance Albany's community.
Jul. 7—ALBANY — Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, about 300,000 remain with us, and their numbers are dwindling by about 300 each day.
Its county seat of Albany, Georgia is located on the Flint River, which was originally the chief means of transportation for shipped products. Albany was later served by seven railroad lines, adding to its significance as a market center. The city was a center of the Civil Rights Movement, particularly during the early 1960s.
The seven British cadets killed at Darr and Turner Field, were interred at Albany's Crown Hill Cemetery. A granite monument and flagpole erected by the Albany American Legion Post 30 mark the graves today. On December 11, 1941, the Defense Plant Corporation bought the school from Mr. Darr for $408,000 and the airfield was called Albany Army ...
Ferguson was born in Dallas, Texas. [1] In 1990, he played Ponyboy Curtis in the television series adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. [3]His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper ...
The Albany metropolitan area, officially the Albany metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is a metropolitan statistical area consisting of five counties in the U.S. state of Georgia: Baker, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, and Worth.