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Engagements
Mary Kate Tucker '22 to Gabe Pallo '24 on October 19, 2024
Kylie Madison Neal '23 to Austin "Rhett" Mixon '24 on August 29, 2024
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Jack Richards '23 to Lindsey Camille Green '24 on June 30, 2024
Len Spivey '23 to Emma Grant on December 27, 2023
Joanna Shoger '24 to Josh Hembree on June 11, 2024
He came to LaGrange College in 1989 as an English professor, a position he held until his retirement in 2015.
While at LaGrange, Dr. Williams served as chair of the cultural enrichment committee and coordinated the Georgia Author of the Year Awards in 1991 and 1992.
In his retirement, he has been working as an instructor and mentor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Williams also writes fiction, non-fiction, plays, essays and film scripts. In 2003, he received the Georgia Writers’ Georgia Author of the Year Award for his first novel, “Lake Moon.” His most recent project was co-writing the screenplay for “Fried Chicken Day,” a production filmed in LaGrange. Other publications include “End Times” and “Atlanta Pop in the 50s, 60s and 70s: The Magic of Bill Lowery.”

Weddings
Kendra Janine East ’09 to Ed Crowder on November 4, 2023
Evan Brasselle '15 to Luke Elder on August 17, 2024
Ashlan T. Bloodworth '18 to Corbin Lawver on May 18, 2024
Danielle “Jeris” Johnson '18, M'20 to Jack Layrisson '22 on June 22, 2024
Maura Helena Webb '20, M'23 to Salvatore Catalano M'20 on November 1, 2023
Madelyn Lee Battle '22 to Lucas Smith on October 5, 2024
DeMarcus J. Formbly '22 to Alexis Simmons '22 on July 7, 2023
Matthew John Eden '23 to Bailey Anne Boswell '24 on September 29, 2024


In Memoriam
Ms. Matilda "Tillie" Adams Woodall '43
Mrs. Elsie Carmichael Boyd '44
Mrs. Jane Ellen Summers Speers '47
Mrs. Martha Morgan Stanley '49
Mrs. Georgia Callaway Towns '49
Mrs. Aloha Davis Young '53
Mrs. June Monfort Wilkerson Ferguson '56
Mrs. Grace Brand Foster '62
Mr. Porter Pierpont Morgan '62
Mrs. Betty Brown Bledsoe '63
Mr. David Warren Corless '66
Mrs. Anne Neese Garrett '67
Mrs. Norma Kent Allgood '68
Mrs. Mary Ann Henry Kirven '68
Mrs. Kay Chestnut Shell '68
Mrs. Mary Clair "Kiki" Carmichael Brownlow '74
Mrs. Martha Ramey Dove '74
Mr. Robert "Bob" Taft Smith '74
Mr. Roy Beckwith "Arch" Archer III '79
Mrs. Sarah Jean Palmer Culpepper '82
Mr. H. Pope Richter M'82
Mrs. Virginia James Berry '85
Mrs. Paula Lewis Potts '90
Ms. Sheneka D. Lynch-Lewis '03
Mr. Michael Allen Anderson, staff
Dr. Samuel G. Hornsby, faculty
Mrs. Ann Allen Morgan, faculty
Reverend Helen Freeman Henry, friend


Longtime
Dr. Hornsby came to the college in 1966, after earning his Ph.D. from Auburn University and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Georgia. A Phi Beta Kappa member, he retired in 2004 and is cited by many alumni as a “favorite” and “life-changing” professor.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years,