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Filename: D15-METRO-AJCD1005-3THRE created: Oct 4 2008 Username: SPEED2 Sunday, Oct 05, 2008 METRO 1 5 3DOT 1 5 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 1 5 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 3DOT File name: D15-METRO-AJCD1005-3THRE created: Oct 4 2008 Username: SPEED2 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ajc.com 3 Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 D1 5 DEATHS FUNERALS Our policy: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution strives to make this list a complete record of deaths in the metro area and of selected deaths elsewhere. Please ask your funeral home or cremation society to call us at 404-5265342, or fax us at 404-5267517. These listings are free. For a family-placed death notice, for which there is a charge, have your funeral home contact our paid notice department at 404-526-5271.

Compelling life stories every day. Find news obituaries and family-placed death notices from the past 30 days, send or read condolences online and search obituary archives. ATLANTA STEPHEN DAVIS 19, died Sept. 27. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Monday, First Missionary Baptist Church; R.W. Andrews Mortuary. HENDERSON WARD, 86, died Saturday. The body will be cremated. Memorial service will be announced.

Cremation Society of the South, Marietta. ON AJC.COM CARROLL COUNTY OPAL FAYE BAGWELL, 88, of Carrollton died Friday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Martin Hightower Heritage Chapel. CHEROKEE COUNTY JOEY JAMES, 18, of Canton died Saturday.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Huey Funeral Home. GEORGE FRANK STONE, 58, of Canton died Saturday. The body was cremated. Memorial service, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Huey Funeral Home. HILDRED WEST, 66, of Ball Ground died Saturday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Sosebee Funeral Home. COBB COUNTY ALVIN AKRIDGE, 77, of Marietta died Friday.

The body will be cremated. Memorial service will be announced. Cremation Society of the South, Marietta. SHIRLEY L. DOSS, 79, of Acworth died Friday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. today, Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home. CINDY FORD, 86, of Smyrna died Saturday. Funeral plans will be announced. Davis-Struempf Funeral Home.

Continued on D16 Dr. Joseph Gayles Jr. accomplished many things during his long career, but the item that topped his was his part in creating the Morehouse School of Medicine. As a chemistry professor at Morehouse College in the early 1970s, Dr. Gayles led feasibility studies that resulted in $3 million in federal funding to support the start-up of the medical school.

Gayles played a key said Dr. Louis Sullivan, the former U.S. health and human services secretary who was founding dean and president of Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Gayles was a team player and very intense and to the plan to start the new medical school for minorities, Dr.

Sullivan said. Dr. Gayles, 71, died of heart failure Thursday at his home in southwest Atlanta. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cascade United Methodist Church.

Murray Brothers Funeral Home of Atlanta is in charge of arrangements. Dr. Gayles was reared in Birmingham and earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry and mathematics from Dillard University in New Orleans. He then earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Brown University.

He worked at research lab for about three years before going to Morehouse to teach. From 1977 to 1983, he was president of Talladega College in Talladega, before returning to Morehouse School of Medicine to become vice president of institutional advancement until 1996. Dr. Gayles enjoyed keeping up with politics, playing with his grandchildren, painting and taking photographs, said his daughter, Monica Dorsey of Fairburn. often would carry two she said.

Other survivors are a son, Jonathan Gayles of Atlanta; and two grandchildren. Kirsten Tagami By KIRSTEN TAGAMI For the past nine years, Anne Colgin of Atlanta sent Thanksgiving cards to 1,200 friends and acquaintances. In part, it was her way of expressing thanks that her breast cancer was in remission, said her husband, Robert Colgin. It also was typical of her outgoing, highly organized personality to send cards to that many people, said her friend, Elizabeth Buttimer of Bowdon. was the epitome of organized, and she used that skill as a strategic business planner and in her responsibilities as a Ms.

Buttimer said. Mrs. Colgin became a banker at a time when very few women entered the starting in 1966 as the female in the management training program of the former Fulton National Bank of Atlanta. She later co-founded a marketing research company for the services industry. All the while, she volunteered for various causes and hosted elegant parties, keeping track of her food and drink preferences on her computer, said Ms.

Buttimer. managed to keep a delicate balance between being a lady and being a career she said. Mrs. Colgin, 64, died Sept. 22 of breast cancer at her Buckhead home.

A memorial service will be 2 p.m. Friday at the Cathedral of St. Philip. H.M. Patterson Son, Spring Hill Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Colgin was reared in Burlington, N.C., but her family had roots in Georgia. Her great- grandfather was James Milton Smith, governor from 1872-1877. She earned an economics degree from Hollins College before entering the banking Like other women of her generation, Mrs. Colgin was brought up to be a homemaker, Ms.

Buttimer said. used to talk about how we were born between two worlds, because somewhere along the way the rules and expectations changed, and we were expected to have careers. Anne was a pioneer in she said. When Mrs. Colgin started working in the industry, bankers allowed to have hair below their collars, so she twisted her long hair into a chignon, Ms.

Buttimer said. In 1981, Mrs. Colgin co- founded Synergistics Research where she held the title of president. The Atlanta- based company provides consumer and small business marketing research for the services industry. She retired from the company in 1999, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.

Mrs. Colgin enjoyed growing roses and had 40 varieties in her garden. She was interested in architecture, and she was an opera buff and had served on the board of the Atlanta Opera, her husband said. Other survivors are brothers Samuel Moore of Burlington; Thomas Moore of Warrenton, and Allen Moore Jr. of Wilmington, N.C.

OBITUARIES Business founder thanked hundreds Dr. Joseph Gayles Morehouse visionary ATLANTA ATLANTA new re department ready to roll By DOUG NURSE On Tuesday, the new Johns Creek Fire Department takes over from Fulton County the protection of 65,000 residents and businesses. a process almost two years in the making, with launch dates pushed back time and again as organizers worked through funding needs, staff ing requirements, equipment availability, and contractual obligations with Fulton County. The latter has provided coverage for the city until the municipal Fire Department was ready. The Johns Creek department plans to do things a little differently from Fulton County.

Instead of responding to emergency calls with just pumper trucks, it may send rescue vehicles and pumpers, depending on the severity of the situation. will be increased for safety and effectiveness, and most of the time, paramedics will ride on each vehicle. Employee experience ranges from two to 28 years of service. There will be 24 paramedics and 12 Georgia Search and Rescue including three instructors. was very happy with said Chief Joey Daniels, a former Fulton County battalion chief who served north Fulton.

bring a lot to the table. We have a lot of experience and skills, including medical care and technical rescue. good for The department will have newer and more equipment. Each vehicle will have advanced life-support equipment that provides the highest level of pre- hospital emergency care. Each vehicle also has sophisticated heart monitors that can send EKG readings to the hospital so the doctor knows what to expect.

The rescue vehicles will carry special equipment for respiratory emergencies. METRO A LOOK AT THE JOHNS CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT Stations: 3 Station 1, formerly Fulton County Station 12, on Medlock Bridge Station 2, formerly Fulton County Station 20, at Shakerag Station 3, formerly Fulton County Station 8, at Newtown 78 22 from Fulton County 11 from DeKalb County 3 from Gwinnett County 10 from Sandy Springs 7 from Atlanta 6 from East Point 4 from Clayton County 3 from Henry County 1 each from Milton, Hall County, Forest Park, Carroll County, Cherokee County, Austell, Gainesville, Portsmouth, Walker County, a military Paulding County, Dawson County Administrative and support personnel: 2 per shift: 21 to 24 per shift under Fulton County: maximum of 16 Equipment Johns Creek Two ladder trucks Two rescue trucks Three pumpers A mobile air unit trailer to air bottles A battalion chief SUV A rescue boat Fulton County Two ladder trucks Three pumpers A van to air bottles A battalion chief SUV Annual budget: $9 million JOHNS CREEK Old hands help museum take wing By TUCKER McQUEEN A etired Lockheed Martin mechanic slides under the wing of a C-141 and drills holes for structural repairs. Former co-workers stand around him, offering advice. In the shadow of the giant plane, Randy Shepherd and his co-workers work 25 to 30 hours each week, bringing it back to life. It will take several years to restore the fuselage, cockpit and right wing enjoy the camaraderie with these said Shepherd, 67.

of the men here were in my crew when we worked on The retirees, ages 66 to 77, are helping the Aviation Museum and Discovery Center get off the ground. Construction on the $14 million museum, at South Cobb Drive and Atlanta Road, will start in two to three months. Last year, the retirees spruced up a small corporate jet. The C-141B Starlifter, which is just over 39 feet high and 168 feet long, is a bigger challenge. The planes were donated as exhibits for the museum.

The C-141, which took Bob Hope to Vietnam to entertain troops 40 years ago, sat idle at Lockheed for 12 years before it was rescued for the museum. Bill Paden, a former engineer, said debris had blown into the plane over the years and parts rusted. The group is rebuilding the right wing. guys can it. They can he said.

tricks of the trade they know is Paden, 72, said the project has made him a new man. Doing engineering work again has made him more mentally and physically. Andy Moore, 77, shares his enthusiasm. The work gets him up in the morning and out of the house. The former structures engineer loves the satisfaction of putting the C-141 back together.

Lori Cowie, executive director of the museum, said the retirees save the museum $5,000 to $10,000 each week they work. dedication and expertise is she said. run the restoration The $14 million museum will have 10 planes, from vintage bi-planes to Lockheed workhorses. A facility for programs and education is scheduled to open in mid- 2009. A foot museum building will follow in about three years.

The retirees approve of the focus on teaching children technology through aviation. Moore likes the idea of children wanting to do the work he loved for 44 years. Paden said the men are having a ball working to make the museum a reality. Renewing old friendships and sharpening dormant skills is added incentive. you do anything in retirement, you waste it Paden said.

has revitalized Photos by BOB ANDRES Bill Paden (top) surveys the interior of a C-141B that he and other retirees are restoring for the Aviation Museum and Discovery Center in Marietta. Don Dykes (above left) works inside an unattached wing as Randy Shepherd watches. Retirees help rehabilitate planes for center in Marietta devoted to the aviation industry.