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

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,