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Filename: B5-METRO-AJCD0117-3THRE created: Jan 16 2008 Username: SPEED7 Thursday, Jan 17, 2008 METRO 5 3DOT 5 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 5 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 3DOT File name: B5-METRO-AJCD0117-3THRE created: Jan 16 2008 Username: SPEED7 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ajc.com 3 Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008 B5 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 EDITH ANN BAXTER, 87, died Saturday. The body was cremated. A private service is planned; Cremation Society of the South, Marietta.

BOBBY ROSS, 57, died Saturday. Funeral plans will be announced; Knox Funeral Home. CHARLES DONALD TURLINGTON, 60, died Jan. 11. Graveside service, 11 a.m.

Friday, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Tifton; Bowen-Donaldson Funeral Home, Tifton. MORRIS WILLIAM WIESEN, 91, died Tuesday. The funeral was Wednesday; Jewish Funeral Care. CARROLL COUNTY LESA JANE RAGSDALE, 40, of Villa Rica died Sunday. The body was cremated.

Memorial service, 3 p.m. Monday, Couch-Garner Cole. DOUGLAS G. STREETMAN, 64, of Villa Rica died Wednesday. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Jeff Eberhart Funeral Home. MARY JOSEPHINE WHEELER TOLBERT, 79, of Temple died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Jones-Wynn Funeral Home, Villa Rica. MATTIE K.

WADE, 81, of Carrollton died Tuesday. The body was cremated. Memorial service, 4 p.m. Friday, Almon Funeral Home. CHEROKEE COUNTY RAY CLARK, 46, of Woodstock died Tuesday.

Graveside service, 11 a.m. Saturday, Mozley Memorial Gardens; Davis- Struempf Funeral Home. JOHN KARANOVICH, 77, of Acworth died Monday. The body was cremated. Memorial service, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Woodstock Funeral Home. JOAN BAILEY MOTES, 78, of Canton died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Sosebee Funeral Home. KIMBERLY DENISE ROSS, 41, of Canton died Monday.

The body was cremated. Memorial service plans will be announced; Woodstock Funeral Home. CLAYTON COUNTY BETTY C. KNIGHT, 72, of Jonesboro died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Horis A. Ward, Tara Chapel. WILLIAM JACOBSEN MANROSS, 4-month-old son of William R. and Ashley C. Manross of Jonesboro, died Monday.

Funeral, 7 p.m. today, Jonesboro First Baptist Church; Cannon-Cleveland Funeral Directors. WILLIE C. PEARSON, 79, of Jonesboro died Jan. 8.

Memorial service, 7 p.m. today, W.D. Lemon Sons, Morrow. EMMETT H. STANLEY 93, of Morrow died Sunday.

Graveside service, noon Saturday, Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens; Carmichael-Hemperley Funeral Home. COBB COUNTY JAMES THOMAS CLEARY, 85, of Acworth died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home. KEYON TUEMON CULLER, 28, of Austell died Sunday.

Funeral, 1 p.m. today, New Hope United Methodist Church; Hanley-Shelton, Marietta. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE DICKMAN, 97, of Marietta died Sunday. The body was cremated. No service is planned; Cremation Society of the South, Marietta.

CYNTHIA EDWARDS, 59, of Acworth died Jan. 9. Funeral, noon Friday, Faith Deliverance Ministries Church; Hanley-Shelton, Marietta. LEONARD WILBUR FARIST, 88, of Acworth died Tuesday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Friday, Collins Funeral Home. COWETA COUNTY MARY CAMILLA LANGLEY, 60, of Senoia died Sunday. Funeral, 3 p.m. Friday, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church; Carl J. Mowell and Son Funeral Home, Fayetteville.

LOUISE WILLIAMS SMITH, 72, of Newnan died Tuesday. Funeral plans will be announced; Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home. DeKALB COUNTY ERALDO VELASQUEZ MORALES, 32, of Chamblee died Jan. 6. Funeral plans will be announced; Lincoln Funeral Home.

FORSYTH COUNTY BARBARA HERRING BROOME, 76, of Cumming died Monday. Funeral, noon Saturday, McDonald and Son Funeral Home. FULTON COUNTY MARILYN SWEAT, 54, of Milton died Monday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Alpharetta First United Methodist Church; Northside Chapel Funeral Directors.

GWINNETT COUNTY GAYLORD ELLISON, 80, of Loganville died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Loganville. S. JOHN JOHNSON, 89, of Buford died Tuesday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Flanigan Funeral Home. ROSIE MAE JORDAN, 86, of Snellville died Friday. Funeral, 11 a.m. today, Gregory B.

Levett Sons Funeral Home, Gwinnett Chapel. ROBERT ANDREW POLLARD, 85, of Snellville died Saturday. Memorial service, 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Springs Retirement Community; Tom M. Wages, Snellville Chapel.

DENNIS SNEED, 58, of Loganville died Wednesday. Funeral, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Loganville. HALL COUNTY LOIS E. COOK, 72, of Chestnut Mountain died Wednesday.

Funeral plans will be announced; Flanigan Funeral Home. DEBBIE ESTRADA, 51, of Flowery Branch died Tuesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Flanigan Funeral Home. GROVER HOGAN, 67, of Gainesville died Tuesday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Memorial Park Funeral Home. HENRY COUNTY LINDA KATHLEEN PRIMO, 59, of Stockbridge died Monday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, H.M.

Patterson Son, Spring Hill. JOYCE SMITH, 80, of McDonough died Tuesday. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. today, Parrott Funeral Home. ROCKDALE COUNTY BARBARA J.

DeRISI, 56, of Conyers died Tuesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Wheeler Funeral Home. JAMES R. PARKER, 83, of Conyers died Monday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. today, Henry Funeral Home. WALTON COUNTY MARY ANN GOWER, 76, of Monroe died Monday. The body was cremated. Memorial service plans will be announced; Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Loganville.

GEORGIA CHARLES RICHARD BENNETT, 61, of Cherry Log died Monday. Funeral, 2 p.m. today, Bernhardt Funeral Home. PAULA ZAJAM BOWMAN, 59, of Newton died Jan. 9.

The body was cremated. Memorial service, 2 p.m. Saturday, Travelers Rest Free Will Baptist Church; Parker-Bramlett Funeral Home. JAMES PERRY DYER, 84, of Blairsville died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Choestoe Baptist Church; Cochran Funeral Home. NELLIE RUTH MUNN FORTNER, 65, of Braselton died Monday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, White Plains Baptist Church, Jefferson; Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel. JOHN H.

FRANKLIN, 44, of Auburn died Wednesday. Graveside service, 2 p.m. Friday, Pine Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Midtown, Flanigan Funeral Home. OKEY H. JACKSON 79, of Talking Rock died Tuesday.

Funeral, noon Friday, South Canton Funeral Home. IRWIN ALEXANDER McQUEEN 71, of Cornelia died Wednesday. Memorial service, 11 a.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church, West Jefferson, N.C.; Stewart. BILLY HAROLD PENNINGTON, 69, of Pendergrass died Tuesday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Memorial Park Funeral Home. GLENN E. RADCLIFF, 74, of Resaca died Wednesday. Graveside service, 2 p.m.

Friday, Chandler Cemetery; Thomas Funeral Home. FRANCES MOORE ROBERTSON, 87, of Athens died Monday. The body was cremated. A private service is planned; Lord Stephens Funeral Home. MICHAEL RAY SEALS, 46, of Dalton died Wednesday.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Ponders Funeral Home, Dalton. GEORGE WAYNE TITUS, 88, of Pendergrass died Tuesday. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Memorial Park Funeral Home.

G.W. WALLACE, 79, of Bethlehem died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Bethlehem United Methodist Church; Carter Funeral Home. J.B.

WILLIAMS, 91, of Calhoun died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Salem Baptist Church; Max Brannon Sons Funeral Home. BRYCE PERRY WOODALL, 93, of Oglethorpe died Tuesday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

today, Oglethorpe Baptist Church; Watson-Mathews Funeral Home. ON AJC.COM By KAY POWELL Ted Trombetta viewed ordinary objects differently, even when he looking through his loupe. He designed custom diamond rings, created folk art landscapes for his model train set, built koi ponds and retro toys into fanciful gewgaws. was not a run-of-the- mill said his son Robert Trombetta of Roswell. At his shop, Jewelry Repair in Tucker, Mr.

Trombetta was a natural at setting diamonds and appraising gems, his son said. He designed diamond rings for his customers and brought their own sketches to life. Mr. ongoing artistry was the ring he gave his wife, Yvonne Trombetta, at their 1946 wedding. wedding ring was a real his son said.

would get updated through the years. He would add diamonds or rearrange the stones. He was totally in love with her until she She died in 2000. The memorial service for Theodore T. Trombetta, 86, of Suwanee and formerly of Atlanta, is 5 p.m.

today at Bill Head Funeral Home, Duluth Chapel. He died of pneumonia Sunday at Heartland Hospice in Dunwoody. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Trombetta moved to Atlanta and was setting about 100 diamonds a day for a wholesale jeweler here. Eventually, he and Bob Beasley of Tucker, with whom he had worked for 10 years, opened Jewelry Repair in 1973.

Mr. Trombetta, noted for selecting unique ring designs, was equally skilled at setting diamonds he could barely see to working with a six-carat gem, said Mr. Beasley. In more than 50 years of marriage, Mr. Beasley said, Mr.

Trombetta was always doing something special for his wife to surprise her, and it usually involved a diamond. sat side by side for 40 years and never said a cross word to each Mr. Beasley said. really amazing. He was really a When he setting diamonds, Mr.

Trombetta worked in his garden, until the early morning hours at his Lake Lanier house and designed and built koi ponds. as to why all the koi in his pond at Lake Lanier disappeared, Mr. Trombetta ured out that a heron had swooped down and eaten them. Undeterred, he devised protective netting to keep the herons away and restocked his pond, his son said. After retiring years ago, Mr.

Trombetta was in his garage into the wee hours tinkering with his HO-gauge model trains. car allowed in his son said. he got older, the model trains became his His deftness as a gem setter was an asset in working on his model train, where a typical boxcar is 6 inches long and inches tall. was a detail kind of Mr. Beasley said.

you can set small diamonds you even see, you can do that kind of detail Mr. Trombetta was forever adding objects to the landscape around his train tracks. that meant to be together, he kind of put together to give it a folk-art his son said. He rigged up a motor on an airplane to over his trains and a balloon that picked up people along the tracks. was a junkie as far as cute little toys and dolls, oddball stuff, that he would his son said.

loved to shop at the dollar stores to see what he could scrounge kid never got out of Mr. Beasley said. Survivors include two other sons, Ted Trombetta of Decatur and Paul Trombetta of Helena, two brothers, Orfeo Trombetta of Tampa and Ben Trombetta of Highland Park, N.J.; a granddaughter; and two great- grandchildren. OBITUARIES Family photo Ted Trombetta had a natural talent for setting diamonds. He relaxed by near his Lake Lanier house.

He also built koi ponds. And he loved model trains. SUWANEE Ted Trombetta, gem of a person, designed jewelry Spending measure for Fulton By D.L. BENNETT Fulton County commissioners on Wednesday approved more than $671 million in general fund spending for 2008, with a heavy emphasis on human services and prosecuting and jailing accused criminals. In all, commissioners agreed to spend more than $215 million for the justice system and more than $167 million for human services, including housing programs, health centers and drug treatment.

Other major expenses in the budget that began Jan. 1 include $35 million for libraries, $38 million for building maintenance and $61 million for administrative and support agencies. The budget is roughly the same as last which came in at $675 million. The 2008 plan anticipates about $627 million in revenue. Commissioners will cover the by pulling more than $43 million from savings an amount similar to what commision ers used to balance the books in 2007.

Commissioners agreed on most issues Wednesday, splitting mostly on using money collected countywide to pay for services for south Fulton County. Commissioner Robb Pitts grilled police and public works about why they had $4.2 million and $7.5 million, respectively, in the general fund rather than a separate fund for services provided only to unincorporated south Fulton. are you doing countywide for $7 Pitts asked. are doing nothing countywide for $7 said Public Works Director Angela Parker. are performing maintenance and repairs in unincorporated south However, only Commissioner Lynne Riley joined Pitts in opposing having all residents continue to pay for the services.

When unincorporated areas spanned most of north and south Fulton, county argued that public works improvements ben all county residents. But with four new cities created in the past two years, that unincorporate region is to a small area in south Fulton holding less than 5 percent of the coun population. On Wednesday, no one offered any argument for continuing to force all county residents to pay for road work in south Fulton other than a legal ruling that was written long before the four cities were formed. Meanwhile, Fulton police Chief Cassandra Jones said her handles permits, and library security with for $4.2 million. The agency gets another $15 million for police work in south Fulton.

New County Manager Zachary Williams promised to review budgets, staffing and the work of various departments this year. would anticipate building next budget in a way that takes into account some of those issues up Williams said. METRO Fulton to fund Nichols trial By BETH WARREN After delays and much debate, the death penalty trial of Fulton County Courthouse rampage suspect Brian Nichols is expected to resume by mid-March or earlier. Fulton County commissioners removed a major obstacle when they voted Wednesday to spend $125,000 from the general fund to help restart the case, involving the March 2005 slaying of a judge, court reporter, sergeant and federal agent. Commissioners view this as an exceptional case and plan on allocating money for every death penalty defendant or more money for Nichols, said Fulton County spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt.

Commissioners had been upset over the delays, blamed on a lack of money for defense team. The trial judge, Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller, promised commissioners that if the board would allocate $125,000 for mental health expenses, the trial would begin in 45 days. Nichols has pleaded not guilty but his attorneys are preparing to use a but mentally defense, claiming Nichols control himself when he killed the four victims. Commissioners Bill Edwards and Tom Lowe previously said they spend a dime on the Nichols case, complaining about the $1.5 million attorneys already have spent. But on Wednesday, Edwards was one of commissioners who voted to give team the money, while Lowe vote.

Reached after the commission meeting, Edwards declined to discuss why the measure passed, citing the privacy of executive session. Commissioners discussed the issue in private citing the pending lawsuits the survivors have against the county before voting in public. Commissioner Lynne Riley was the lone holdout. She sent a letter to the trial judge last week criticizing him for appearing to lobby for the defense. Critics say ban on saggy pants a racial trigger By ERIC STIRGUS Critics of a proposal to ban saggy pants in Atlanta asked City Council members Wednesday to scrap the legislation, saying any such law could lead to racial by police of African-American men.

ordinance will be nothing but another punitive measure to target black said one critic, Reginald Muhammad, during a 90-minute public hearing at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. Councilman C.T. Martin, who wrote the legislation, disputed the notion at the meeting, attended by about two dozen people. The councilman said he write the legislation to punish those who wear saggy pants, but to start a conversation about its impact on young people. Martin put the legislation before the City Council in late August after hearing from teachers and some residents who complained about seeing people wearing pants so low it exposed their underwear.

The idea quickly garnered interest from cities such as Baltimore and Dallas, and worldwide media attention. City Council members formed a task force last year to study the issue. While sagging pants are the point of the proposed legislation, other types of revealing clothing might also be addressed. Johnny Jones, 20, a who lives in Decatur, argued the ban would encourage racial pro of young, black men. He said in some neighborhoods, some young people wear their pants low to blend in, hoping not to be perceived as weak and viewed as a crime target.

used as a survival Jones said of wearing saggy pants. Martin said he was surprised by the comments. Jones was appointed to the task force at the end of the meeting. Some complained the legislation lends itself to too much interpretation. much of the underwear can be asked Muhammad.

Benetta Standly, an organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, said the group would the legislation if approved by the City Council. Councilwoman Joyce Sheperd is hosting a from 7 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday to hear from young people about the legislation. It will be at the Rosel Fann Recreation Center, 365 Cleveland Ave..