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OBITUARIES
Richard H. Harris, Jr.
MOULTRIE, GA –– Richard H. Harris, Jr, 37, of Moultrie, passed away on December 30, 2023 at his residence.
Cobb Funeral Chapel has been entrusted with the arrangements. Please sign the online guestbook at www.cobbfuneralchapel.com.
Kyle Walker
SPARKS, GA –– Kyle Walker, 30, died on Monday, January 1, 2024, in Valdosta, Georgia.
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Clyde Olin Loiacono
MOULTRIE, GA –– Clyde Olin Loiacono, 65, of Moultrie, passed away on Wednesday, January 3, 2024.
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Debra Sue Allen Barfield
MEIGS, GA –– Debra Sue Allen Barfield, 60, of Meigs, passed away on January 4, 2024, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.
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Judy Hall Roberts Annis
MOULTRIE, GA –– Judy Hall Roberts Annis, 72, of Moultrie, passed away on Fri- day, January 5, 2024, at Colquitt Regional Medical Center.
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Christine Butler Cortes
MOULTRIE, GA –– Christine Butler Cortes, 86, of Moultrie, passed away on Friday, January 5, 2024, at Colquitt Regional Medical Center.
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Larry Myers
MOULTRIE, GA –– Larry Myers, 80, of Moultrie, passed away on Saturday, January 6, 2024, at his home
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Benjamin Brian Byrd
MOULTRIE, GA –– Benjamin “Ben” Brian Byrd, 16, of Moultrie, passed away on Saturday, January 6, 2024.
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Leila Chesnutt Stallings
MOULTRIE, GA –– Leila Chesnutt Stallings, 92, of Moultrie, passed away on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at Colquitt Regional Medical Center, with family by her side. Baker Funeral Home has been
entrusted with the arrangements.
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Brenda Ann Johns
PRATTVILLE, AL –– Brenda Ann Johns of Prattville, Alabama passed away peacefully in her sleep on January 7, 2024 at the age of 75.
Baker Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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RADICAL LIVING By Abigail Wakefield
“God is light, pure light; there’s not a trace of dark- ness in Him. If we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we’re obviously lying through our teeth - we’re not living what we claim.” - [excerpted from1John1-TheMes- sage].
The construct that God has darkness in Him needs deconstruction. We may say “Oh no, I don’t believe God has any darkness in Him,” but do we believe that He is a God of wrath? Do we be- lieve that He is sitting in judg- ment of us? Do we believe that we have to perform per- fectly in order to receive His pleasure with us? And con- versely, that if we fail or fall down in our behavior that we must work our way back into fellowship and favor with Him?
My generation grew up on hellfire and brimstone preaching that was designed to scare hell out of us. We were taught that we would go to hell if we didn’t pray the “sinner’s prayer” and then be dutiful in Bible reading,
things that separate us from Him, not against us per- sonally. Until we understand that, we will not have the as- surance that we need that we are ALWAYS His Be- loved. When Adam sinned in the Garden, God went look- ing for him. “Adam, where are you?” It certainly wasn’t because He didn’t know, but because He wanted Adam to realize where he was. Adam was fearful and in hiding
from his Creator. As humans, that is what we do when we feel like we are at odds with God. We separate from Him, not the other way around. He is always seeking restoration of relationship and a dis- mantling of the lies the enemy feeds us. Our flesh causes us to run from God rather than to Him when our behavior is less than it
Ann Lee Friedlander
MOULTRIE, GA – Ann Friedlander, a long- time resident of our community passed away peacefully on January 6, 2024, at her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was ninety years old.
Mrs. Friedlander was born Ann Lee Grover in Providence, Rhode Island, on September 2, 1933, the daughter of Morris
Grover, a physician, and Frances Williams Grover, an educator. She spent her early years living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Later she, her mother and brother, moved to Miami, Florida where she continued her education. She was accepted to begin college at the University of Miami in the fall of 1952, but on a blind date, at the age of 18, met her future husband the late Herman Friedlander. After a whirlwind romance, they were married on November 18, 1952, and made their home in Moultrie. She remained in Moultrie the rest
of her life.
Through the years, she became a true “Southern lady”, woven
into the fabric of life in the Moultrie community. She was active in civic and charitable organizations including: the Moultrie Service League, the Volunteer Arts Alliance, the hospital Pink Ladies, Morn- ing Glory Garden Club, the Federated Guild, and the Junior Woman’s Club. Ann was instrumental in creating the impetus for the renovation of the old high school which became the Colquitt County Arts Center. She was also involved in raising funds for the YMCA. For Colquitt Regional Hospital, she continued in the tradi- tion of her late husband Herman, and her son Kirk, with the passion to do everything she could to benefit the hospital. She assisted the committee through the years in the recruiting of physicians, graciously offering her home and Southern hospitality to prospective and new physicians which contributed to bringing a high quality of medical care to her beloved hometown.
She was also active in Friedlander’s Department stores, the family retail business. The main store graced the downtown Moultrie square for many years. Her impeccable taste and panache were recognizable not only in her own style, but as well as in store mer- chandise. She regularly went on buying trips to New York and Atlanta to stock the stores. She was the ultimate “personal shopper” before the phrase was used. She organized benefit fashion shows bringing her love for fashion to the community.
She traveled extensively with Herman and after his death, continued to take their children and grandchildren on special trips. She was a devoted daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and great-
grandmother. She was caring, loving, compassionate, and will be missed beyond words by her family and friends.
Survivors include her children Ellen Blumenthal (Bob) of Miami, Scott Friedlander (Alex) of Fernandina Beach, and Kirk Friedlander (Cheryl) of Moultrie; grandchildren Emily Blumenthal (Greg Rago) of Boston, Ashley Blumenthal of Brooklyn; Hanna Friedlander of Seattle, Lauren Friedlander of New York, and David Friedlander of Athens, great granddaughter Sylvie Rago of Boston, and brother Judge Robert Grover (Elaine) of Miami.
Her family will be forever indebted for the tender, loving care provided by Cynthia Gamble, Rita Hayes, and Tamika Williams.
Funeral services will be at 11:00 on Thursday, January 11, 2024, at the Friedlander Memorial Gardens in Moultrie. The Reverend Hugh B. Ward, a longtime family friend, will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the: Colquitt County Arts Center Foundation
401 7th Avenue S.W.
Moultrie, Georgia 31768
(www.artscenterofmoultrie.com) Food Bank of Colquitt County
(www.colquittfoodbank.org/donate/) Colquitt Regional Medical Center Foundation
(www.colquittregional.com/home/foundation/make-a-gift/) May her memory be a blessing.
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church attendance, and tith- ing. That is a presentation of the Gospel that necessitates an angry God, a big man with a stick. We were taught that He sent Jesus to die and that it pleased Him to kill Him for the rest of us. What about the passage that says when Christ died, God was “in Him, reconciling the world to Himself”?
God’s wrath is against the
should be.
The judge ‘in a courtroom
with a gavel ready to sen- tence us to life in prison’ is a western church mentality of the “judgment of God coming to the church” that is erro- neous. He judges our men- talities, and He asks us to judge our mentalities, for those are what keep us from receiving the truth of His love. It is the “goodness” of
God that leads us to repen- tance, not the wrath. Who do you know who has ever re- sponded positively to wrath rather than grace and mercy?
He wants to empower us to carry the fullness of His light into all the earth. We will do thatsuccessfully when we have disabused ourselves of the fallacy that our relation- ship with Him is
predicated on our behavior and not Himself.
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