Dunwoody Crier - September 22, 2022

Dekalb School Board pushes back

is fundamentally racist” or teaching “race scapegoating.”

By STEPHANIE ALLEN newsroom@appenmedia.com

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The Dekalb County Board of Education has unani mously and indefinitely pushed back a vote for a policy on “divisive concepts” required under a new Georgia law.

In April, the Georgia Legislature passed a “Protect Students First Act,” aimed at reducing discussion of “divisive concepts” — largely involving race — in the class room. Divisive topics include teaching stu dents that “The United States of America

Other examples of “divisive concepts” given by the law are the concept that a race is superior to another, that a person because of his or her race is racist or that a person should feel guilt over their race.

As a part of the new law, local school boards are required to have a “complaint resolution policy,” which would be an av enue for potential violations to be reported.

DeKalb County School Board member Joyce Morley immediately voiced her op position to the law, both because it limits a teacher’s ability to instruct as well as limits discussion surrounding race.

“We need to teach our history, all the history of all the people, the Holocaust,

everything that took place,” said Morley. “And if we can’t talk about it, if we can’t talk about sexism and all of those things like that — it’s real— then who are we? I can’t go along with this policy.”

Crisis call line logs high use in first weeks

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ATLANTA — While data collection is still in the early stages, the 9-8-8 Georgia Steering Committee informed the public of trends seen in the first 45 days of the program’s rollout at a Sept. 7 webinar.

“Just over 50 days ago we took the first steps down a long road towards transforming Georgia’s crisis system and making it easy for those experienc ing a behavioral health crisis to know who to call in an emergency,” said Judy Fitzgerald, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) commissioner.

In 2020, Congress designated the new 9-8-8 dialing code to be operated through the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Beginning July 16 of this year, individuals in crisis could call or text 9-8-8 for 24/7 care.

“The similarity to 9-1-1 was a mes sage to everyone, saying the behavioral health crisis needs to be at the fore front here,” Fitzgerald said. “I think that’s certainly how we feel it’s a game

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The DeKalb County Board of Education discuss whether to implement a complaint policy required by the state for a new law on “divisive concepts.” Members ended the night by agreeing to indefinitely postpone a vote on the policy and await legal council.

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changer for stigma.”

Georgia has been ahead of the curve. Residents have already had the ability to use Mobile Crisis Services by calling the Georgia Crisis & Access Line (GCAL) at 1-800-715-4225. The single-dial call, created over 15 years ago, provides help to those in crisis as well as those seeking information on behavioral health.

The 10-digit number is still operation al, but the new three-digit number makes it easier to seek help. Calls are directed to the same Georgia call center.

All 9-8-8 calls are answered by mas ter’s-level behavioral health professionals and are supervised by licensed profession als, DBHDD Director of ASO Coordination Anna Bourque said. All are trained in the Columbia scale, which is a suicide risk as sessment, as well as LOCUS (Level of Care Utilization System).

Because of easier access, the feds pro jected that Georgia’s crisis demand would double in the first year, Fitzgerald said. To mitigate being overwhelmed, the govern ment decided against mass marketing. Instead, 9-8-8 has been targeted toward specific high-risk groups.

With federal cautionary projections, capacity is a concern.

“We’re going to be really thought

During the first 30 days of the crisis emergency hotline, more than 30 percent of callers were Black/African American, which is the largest identified population by race.

police response.

During the first 30 days of the 9-8-8 rollout, about 10 percent of active rescue calls were made by people under age 18.

During the same period, the prelimi nary data shows that Georgians in rural southern counties reached out for mental health and substance use crisis support at higher rates than their urban counterparts.

For example, residents in Webster County reached out at twice the rate than residents in Fulton County.

Georgia’s 9-8-8 steering team also pre sented data on crisis episodes by gender and race, comparing 9-8-8 call data with the Georgia 2020 Census.

ful and strategic about how we’re going to build capacity based on that data,” Fitzgerald said.

Considering the program was imple mented only some 50 days ago, findings are preliminary. But, a number of trends have been observed.

Georgia answers to the first goal in SAMHSA’s five-year vision: By 2023 over 90 percent or more of calls would be answered in-state. In the first 45 days, 97 percent of calls were answered in-state.

In that same vision, 80 percent or more of individuals will have access to

rapid crisis response by 2025. And, by 2027, 80 percent or more of individu als will have access to community-based crisis care.

Since the rollout, GCAL has received 476 calls that resulted in active rescues for those whose lives were believed to be in danger.

An active rescue is an incident where call agents have a significant enough con cern for a person’s immediate health and safety that they must engage with the local 911 center to trigger an EMS or

The Census data showed that most crisis episodes were self-identified females, while the other 48 percent were “Other.” Meanwhile, over 50 percent of 9-8-8 crisis calls were from self-identified males. Dawn Peel, the director of DBHDD Office of Crisis Coordination, said the difference might be that men are less likely to reach out in typi cal out-patient services and are more will ing to reach out to an anonymous hotline.

On race, the Census data showed most individuals who had crisis episodes were White. Meanwhile, over 30 percent of call ers were Black/African American, which is the largest identified population by race. Peel said there has been an increase in suicide attempts and death by suicide for the Black population since 2020.

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Stage Door’s 49th season presents ‘Ordinary Days’

DUNWOODY, Ga. — Stage Door Theatre will start its 49th season of live theatre with its first musical since the pandemic.

“Ordinary Days” by Adam Gwon is a widely celebrated, four-person, sungthrough musical that aligns with Stage Door’s goal of bringing a wider variety of recognizable entertainment and quality modern works to the Dunwoody com munity.

Keena Redding, a well-established At lanta director, actor and playwright, will direct the production. She has worked with OutFront Theatre, ARTstation, Georgia Ensemble Theatre and Horizon Theatre.

Stage Door has enlisted actors Jared Brodie, Anna Holland, Frankie Marasa V, Suzanne Stroup, Sara Joyce Hack and Triumph Gardner. They have performed at various theatres from the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, Aurora Theatre, Center for Puppetry Arts to Off-Broadway and OutFront Theatre.

Set in New York City, the musical fol lows four characters, Claire, Jason, War ren and Deb, exploring how their ordi

nary lives connect in amazing ways. The international hit has seen performances and revivals in Australia, Paris, London, Ireland, Ontario and Off-Broadway.

“Ordinary Days” will run from Sept. 30-Oct. 16. Performances are Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m., with 2:30 p.m. matinees on Sundays. Tickets are $15-$35 with general admission seating.

Tickets can be purchased online or through Stage Door’s box office inside the Dunwoody Cultural Arts Building at 5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Road. Four differ ent subscription boxes are also available.

All packages this season are “Flex” packages, meaning access to three, four or five shows in the season and the abil ity to select specific dates later or mov ing the dates free of charge. They also include the option to reserve specific seats in the otherwise general admission seating plan.

For questions or more information on ticket pricing and subscription options, contact the box office at FOH@stagedoor theatrega.org.

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Dunwoody School teachers of the ’50s and ’60s

out at home of my snapping my fingers at her.” His mom taught at Dunwoody School for 25 years.

Ardyce Uzzel taught at Dunwoody School and later at DeKalb Christian School. Nichols remembers babysitting Uzzel’s son.

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Dunwoody School was the only elementa ry school in Dunwoody in the 1950s and 1960s, located where the Dunwoody Library and Spruill Center for the Arts are today. These are a just a few memories of the teach ers shared by Bonnie Smith Nichols, Gail Gillespie Turner, Larry Jordon, Larkin Head and Chris Austin.

Nichols and Turner recall that Polly Davis played the piano for all the school events and at Dunwoody Baptist Church. When Principal Elizabeth Davis retired, Polly Davis (no relation) wrote special lyrics about Principal Davis to the tune of Bicycle Built for Two. The entire class sang it at the principal’s retirement party.

Larry Jordon and Bonnie Smith Nichols remember Louise Coman, a strict teacher who sometimes used a ruler for discipline. Coman lived with the Head family just a little south of the school on Chamblee Dunwoody Road for two years, according to Larkin Head. Head said having her in the home was not always ideal but did help when he had homework questions.

It was a surprise to him and the entire school when Coman called him up to the front of the auditorium one day to sing Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” while she played the piano. He also recalls that Co man had a 1953 or 1954 Ford, but never drove the car.

Nichols and Jordon remember the exhausting, long day in 1957 when Louise

Coman took her second grade class on a trip aboard the Man O’ War passenger train to Columbus, Georgia. The students rode a bus to watch parachute training at Fort Benning and then visited Phenix City, Alabama before returning to Atlanta.

Ruth Shippey Austin taught at Dun woody School for several years. Nichols recalls her as a “wonderful teacher who went out of her way to do everything she could for the students.” Austin married

John Austin, one of the children of early Dunwoody teacher Nettie Austin. When Principal Elizabeth Davis had a heart at tack in 1959, Ruth Austin stepped in as acting principal.

Chris Austin is one of the children of Ruth and John Austin. One day when he was a student in her class, he snapped his fingers when he knew the answer to a question. “I remember the instantaneous reaction in the classroom and the later fall

Dunwoody School teachers beginning in the 1930s are well documented by an nual records held in the archives of Dun woody Preservation Trust at DonaldsonBannister Farm. Below are the records from four years. If you were student of any of these teachers, share your memories by writing to me at pasttensega@gmail.com.

Teachers from 1956: Janey Garrett, grade 1; Louise Coman, grades 2 and 3; Mary H. Lee, grades 4 and 5; Kittie Garner, grades 6 and 7; and Elizabeth Davis, principal.

1957: Janey Garrett, grade 1; Louise Coman, grades 2 and 3; Mary H. Lee, grade 4; Eugene Antley, grade 5; Kittie Garner, grades 6 and 7; Marianna Wil liams, physical education; and Elizabeth Davis, principal.

1958: Janey Garrett, grade 1; Louise Coman, grade 2; Francis Faulkner, grades 3 and 4; Ruth Austin, grades 4 and 5; and Dorothy Blakeman, grades 6 and 7.

1959: Ruth Austin, grades 5 and 6; subs for grades 1 and 2; Emily Cox, grade 3; Ruth Lindsey, grade 4; Louise Thornton, grades 6 and 7; and Elizabeth Davis part time grade 7 and principal.

Award-winning author Valerie Big gerstaff is a longtime columnist for Appen Media and the Dunwoody Crier. She lives in Sandy Springs. You can email Valerie at pasttensega@gmail.com or visit her website at pasttensega.com.

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This 1957 class of second and third graders at Dunwoody School line up in front of scenery they often used for school plays. On the left is Principal Elizabeth Davis and on the right is teacher Louise Coman. The girl to the left of the student hold ing the class sign is Bonnie Smith Nichols.

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A WWII hero lived among us, Part 1

Ordinary people sometimes do ex traordinary things. At times, heroes may live conventional lives among us without our knowing of their selfless acts nor the sacrifices or suffering they may have en dured. Charles Edwin Mansell (1917 – 1996) was such a person, a modest farmer who did heroic deeds as a member of the Greatest Generation in World War II. Here is his story.

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One of seven children, Charles was raised on a farm in Roswell where High way 9 and Crossville Road meet. He at tended a one-room school in Roswell and subsequently Milton High School. He was energetic and always looking for excite ment. He joined the Army in 1939 along with his two younger brothers Pete and Hugh.

Charles’ first overseas assignment was Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. A natural athlete, he participated in track, swimming and taught boxing. He was on duty at the base gate on the morning of December 7, 1941, when Japanese air craft attacked.

“As soon as I saw red balls on the wings, I knew we were in for a lot of trouble,” he recalled years later, accord ing to his second cousin Linda Martin. The plane flew so low that Charles saw two airmen sitting in the cockpit. He was credited with downing one of the attack ing aircraft but suffered a concussion and permanent hearing loss in one ear from the explosions during the attack.

Sgt. Mansell was sent to Guadalca nal in September 1942 where he par ticipated in the first major invasion of a Japanese-held island. He remembered that the American troops lacked sufficient equipment to fight with in the early days. Charles suffered shrapnel wounds in his left shoulder and chest from mortar fire but quickly rejoined his unit when they were ordered to move north. Four pins in his shoulder forced this southpaw to learn to write with his right hand.

The following summer President Roosevelt called for volunteers for an elite outfit that would operate behind Impe rial Japanese Army lines in Burma. The Japanese had conquered Burma two years earlier. Charles joined the group of nearly 3,000 men led by Gen. Frank D. Merrill. Its formal name was The 5307th Composite Unit Provisional. Its code-name

Above, A natural athlete, Charles Man sell participated in track, swimming and boxing at Hickam Airforce Base in Hawaii in 1940. He was on duty when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. This photo shows members of the track team. Charles, on the right, was a cross-country runner.

Right, Members of Merrill’s Marauders enter the jungle trail in Burma in 1944.

was Galahad. The group quickly became known as Merrill’s Marauders. They trained in the jungles of central India. Then, in February 1944 marched hundreds of miles through the Himalayan Mountains and Burmese jungles carry ing their equipment and supplies on their backs and on the backs of pack mules. Once in Burma they coordinated closely with a Chinese force. Often outnumbered, the Marauders fought five major battles and 30 minor engagements in the jungles of Burma for five months, The hard-won

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Decorator Showcase at Southern Comforts Consignments

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The Dunwoody Woman’s Club is pleased to partner once again with Southern Comforts Consignments, Inc. for the 2022 Dunwoody Home Tour. The Home Tour is set for Wednesday, October 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition to three beautiful homes, this year’s tour will feature a decorator showcase. We are proud to announce the return this year of everyone’s favorite designer, Marc Jones, The Consignor’s Designer. Marc will host “DESIGNING FOR YOUR BEST LIFE” in the Dunwoody location of Southern Com forts Consignments. There will be two events with Marc, one at 10:15 a.m. and one at 12:00 p m. You don’t want to miss these presentations as Mr. Jones shares his love of design and his musical talents. Seating is limited so guests are encour aged to sign up in advance at style. southerncomforts.com or by calling 770901-5001. Southern Comforts is located at 2510 Mt. Vernon Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338, in the Mt. Vernon Shopping Cen ter and is the will call location for Home Tour tickets purchased online.

Southern Comforts will have a special gift for each Home Tour guest who visits the store that day. In addition, there will be a raffle for gift certificates and gift bas kets during the events. Southern Com forts has been Dunwoody’s favorite fur niture store for over 19 years with home furnishes and accessories arranged into vignettes to help customers feel at home as they browse gently loved furniture at prices much lower than retail. And you can take it home with you-no waiting!

Home Tour tickets are $30 in advance and $35 on tour day. Tickets are avail able now and can be purchased three ways:

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Marc Jones, The Consignor’s Designer will return this year. Marc will host “DE SIGNING FOR YOUR BEST LIFE” in the Dunwoody location of Southern Com forts Consignments.

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All profits of the Home Tour are used to implement the club’s charitable initia tives. We appreciate your support. Buy your tickets today!

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capture of the critically important Japa nese airfield at Myitkyina (Mitch-in-a) and subsequent capture of the fortified town of Myitkyina in 1944 by the Marauders was their most significant victory which played a vital part in the war.

Only 130 Marauders of the origi nal 2,750 were still fit for duty after the capture of Myitkyina. The field hospital re ported that “many of the Marauders were seriously ill and they were so tired, dirty, and hungry that they looked more dead than alive. They suffered from exhaustion, malnutrition, typhus, malaria, amebic dysentery, jungle sores, and many other diseases resulting from months of hard ship in the tropical jungle.”

In September 1944, Charles was transferred back to the United States. He spent the remainder of the war as first sergeant in charge of a POW camp in Louisiana where German prisoners of war were held. While in Louisiana, Charles married Montez Haley (1918–2005) a neighbor and childhood friend with whom he had carried on a correspondence throughout his military service.

Charles was wounded four times. He was injured by mortar fire in the shoulder and chest in Guadalcanal and by machine

U.S. ARMY/PROVIDED

Left, This is the patch worn by Merrill’s Marauders during the World War II Burma campaign against Japanese forces. The all-volunteer unit was heavily outnum bered, but in the end defeated the Japa nese at a very high human cost.

Left, In May 2022 the U.S. Mint issued a bronze replica of a Congressional Gold Medal also issued in May honoring Mer rill’s Marauders to ensure “that the U.S. will never forget the sacrifices of the Merrill’s Maraud ers.”

COURTESY U.S. MINT/PROVIDED Left, Gaunt and malnourished Members of Merrill’s Marauders walk across a bridge across the Tanai River in Burma in 1944. Mules had to ford the four-foot-deep river.

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gun fire in a leg in Burma. He received a purple heart, four Bronze Stars, two Silver Stars and two Presidential Unit Citations. He suffered from serious illnesses, but he never gave up. His daughter Connie Smith

recites words he wrote in a letter home: “I’m fighting until the war is over because I want to come home a free man in a free country.”Connie has carefully and lovingly preserved many letters and other remem

brances of her father.

To be continued.

Bob is Director Emeritus of the Milton Historical Society. You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net.

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The courage of therapy

Therapy is hard. If you’ve ever taken those first steps through a therapist’s doors, then you know how heavy it can feel. Stepping through those doors means that you’re willing to say that something in your life isn’t working. You’re saying, “I need help”; a transformative and counter-cultural statement in a society that tells all of us that we must be enough, all on our own.

Starting therapy takes courage. It takes courage to sit with a therapist and let them hold a mirror up to your life. It takes courage to look at the things you don’t want to. It takes courage to be willing to acknowledge that you, like all of us, are human and imperfect.

As a therapist, I never take for granted the courage and resiliency that

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Therapy is hard, but it’s worth it. When you can be vulnerable and take that first step, it opens you up to deeper healing, self-awareness, ac ceptance, and meaning. It starts the journey from “I’m not enough” to “I’m doing the best I can, and that’s ok”.

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OPINION

LEWIS J. WALKER, CFP

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born on April 21, 1926. In 1951 at age 25 she became Queen of England upon the death of her father. Writ ing in The Wall Street Journal, 9/10/22, Peggy Noonan listed “Queen Elizabeth’s Old-School Virtues,” the bedrock underpinnings for her success and well-deserved tributes and adula tion upon her passing.

While you are not destined to be queen or king of a country, you are the “ruler of yourself” and an influencer of those around you, be it your family members, fellow workers, teammates, centers of influence...in short, all you come into contact with on your life’s journey. The virtues listed by Ms. Noonan as key to Queen Elizabeth’s success and recognition of a “life welllived” are foundational to true charac ter development.

Consider what it means to be age 25. The year this writer turned 25 in August 1963, I was a young and newlyminted Air Force transportation officer, with no idea that before the year was out, I’d be in Vietnam in the middle of a war. While that was not the same as a young woman suddenly becoming ruler of a country, I had to deal with major uncertainties, the possibility of instant death while making on-thefly decisions. The young queen had to grow up fast, as does any soldier, sailor, or airman, male or female, in a war zone. Lessons in leadership and teamwork are best learned early in life.

The first old-school virtue listed by Ms. Noonan applicable to young Eliza beth was, “She accepted her life with

grace.” No matter where you are on the road of life, you will be called on at times to handle the tough, the difficult, things not of your liking or choosing, with grace, courtesy, and dedication. It’s called “leadership.” It’s called “step ping up.” Ask anyone who has been a caregiver for an infirm loved one. How you handle the bumps and detours on your journey to the hereafter is what will be remembered.

Said Noonan, Queen Elizabeth II “did what she said she’d do.’’ With the leaders of the realm at St. James’s Pal ace the young monarch declared fidel ity to the happiness and prosperity of her peoples declaring, “I pray that God will help me to discharge worthily this heavy task that has been lain upon me so early in my life.”

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung said, “You are what you do, not what you say you will do.” Understand the power in delivering on a promise, especially when the going gets tough, as it will in any significant journey,

in a marriage, the raising of children, the building of a career or business, a spiritual quest, any role where you are looked to as a leader, a positive example. There are always elements of sacrifice, of perhaps giving when you think you have no more to give.

Elizabeth’s appeal to God on that day in 1951 at St. James’s Palace illus trated a bedrock virtue. Noonan noted, “She was a woman of faith.” Faith in God, belief in a higher power to which you are and will be accountable, faith in redemption and the promise of ever lasting life, and above all, belief in the power of forgiveness when we stumble, is the “great sustainer” during chal lenges.

Dan Sullivan, The Strategic Coach, told me as a student of his, to “always make my future bigger than my past.” That year in Vietnam I saw how quickly death and severe injury can come, even to the young and the fit. At some point, many of you will be called on to care for a failing spouse, parent, grand parent, or other loved one, and some of you are caregivers now, learning lessons about selfless love and giv ing. If you are the one being cared for, the promise of everlasting life in the company of the angels and saints and our Lord Savior is the sustainer, the knowledge that the pain and suffering will end and forever be no more. Even at the end of life on earth, there’s a fu ture beyond anything you can imagine. To not believe that is the saddest thing this writer can conceive of.

Lastly, Ms. Noonan said about the queen, “She understood her role.” From the beginning “she understood that in the tumultuous 20th century the idea of continuity itself was a gift to her country. She had to be reliable, and was.” At the Words of Remem brance at your Celebration of Life, whether you were a wife, husband,

dad, mother, father, brother, sister, grandparent, leader in business or in any other role in life, the greatest tribute will be that you executed your assigned role with grace and fidelity, that you showed up, you knew the difference between a job and a role, no matter how big or small. You could be counted on, and you delivered. You were reliable.

In the end game, a life well lived will not be measured by financial success and popular adulation. God’s defini tion of “net worth” is far different from worldly measures. Old-school virtues never go out of style.

Lewis Walker, CFP®, is a life cen tered financial planning strategist with Capital Insight Group; 770-441-3553; lewis@lewwalker.com. Securities & advisory services offered through The Strategic Financial Alliance, Inc. (SFA). Lewis is a registered representative and investment adviser representative of SFA, otherwise unaffiliated with Capital Insight Group. He’s a Gallup Certified Clifton Strengths Coach and Certified Exit Planning Advisor.

No matter where you are on the road of life, you will be called on at times to handle the tough, the difficult, things not of your liking or choosing, with grace, courtesy, and dedication.

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Jean (Chapman) Kane (1939 – 2022) In Memoriam

Judith “Judy” Jean (Chapman) Kane passed away Friday, September 2, 2022 in Roswell, GA at the age of 83. She was born February 18, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois to Bertram and Helen Chapman, the eldest of three children.

Judy met the love of her life, Joseph Kane, while they both were working at TIME Magazine, and they were married in 1963 in Scarsdale, NY. Over the next two decades, Judy and Joe found themselves moving frequently around the United States - a result of Joe’s work. From Miami to Atlanta (or “Atlanta One,” as the family referred to it as), to Northern Virginia, then onto Los Angeles, before eventually settling back in Atlanta (“Atlanta Two”) in 1985.

Judy was devout in her Catholic faith, involved in programs at her church and charitable activities in her community. Judy was an active member of the

Dunwoody Woman’s Club for many years, and she enjoyed representing their Conservation Program at holiday toy drives and events in support of schools, teachers, and community first responders.

Judy is survived by her four sons, Christopher Thomas (and Susan) of Seattle, WA; Gregory Marquis, Joseph Timothy, and Jason Philip of Atlanta, GA; grandchildren Shannon Marie, Melissa Anne, Kristen Judith, and Jonathon Joseph; great-grandchildren Sofia Rose and Vivian Kane; her brother Douglas M. of Albuquerque, NM.

She was preceded in death by her husband of nearly 60 years, Joseph John Kane just one year prior, as well as her sister Martha Jane Chapman and her parents, Bertram and Helen.

A Funeral Mass will be held Friday September 23, 2022 at 2 o’clock at All Saints Catholic Church in Dunwoody.

Mary M. Pfrangle In Memoriam

Mary M. Pfrangle, known for her friendly smile and lively spirit, closed her eyes for the last time on July 12, 2022, with her daughter by her side. She was born Mary Margaret Markel, on March 23, 1925, in Aurora, Illinois. In 1972, after raising her family in Wisconsin and near Boston, Mary moved to Dunwoody, Georgia. She worked in the Emergency Room of Northside Hospital for 23 years and after retirement, volunteered as a baby-rocker at Northside and the Scottish Rite Hospital, Children’s Health Care of Atlanta. She made many friends in the area, especially at Dunwoody Wells Questers

and at the Dunwoody Baptist Fitness Center, where her dedication to fitness made her an unintentional role model. An informal Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, September 30 at the Memorial Chapel of the Dunwoody United Methodist Church. No flowers, please. Donations to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (formerly Scottish rite Hospital) at www. give.choa.org are welcomed.

Condolences and memories may be sent to Pfrangle Family, 300 Johnson Ferry Rd NE, Unit A-203, Sandy Springs, GA 30328.

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