Thursday, May 17, 2012
The man behind more than a dozen Atlanta eating and drinking establishments died Wednesday after an eight-year battle with cancer.
Metro Atlanta lost a beloved community man Wednesday morning. Atkins Park owner Warren Bruno, 64, died after an eight-year battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife and four children. Bruno helped open Smyrna's Atkins Park Tavern with his friend, owner Kevin Drawe, in 2003. Drawe told Smyrna-Vinings Patch that proceeds from Atkin's crawfish boil last month benefitted the Georgia Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Bruno's honor. Bruno founded what is now known as Virginia-Highland Summerfest in 1983, the same year he purchased Atkins Park Tavern on N. Highland Avenue. He later helped open Orsmby’s on Howell Mill Road. Overall, Bruno was involved in more than a dozen eating and drinking establishments in Atlanta, but his…
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Members of the Smyrna Rotary Club mourn the loss of fellow Rotarian Ernie Keappler.
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Thursday, April 19
In Memoriam: E.W. "Ernie" Keappler, age 90, has passed away. Ernie was a long-time member of Smyrna Rotary and a former member of East Point Rotary. A Rotarian for more than 50 years, Ernie is remembered for his dedication to and support of the Georgia Rotary Student Program. He is remembered in Smyrna for his efforts to beautify the community and school campuses by planting hundreds of trees. Ernie was a Captain at Eastern Air Lines and a developer of commercial and residential properties and apartment communities. He was a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Will Watt Fellow. The "Ernie Keappler Scholarship" is awarded each year by the Rotary Club of Smyrna to a deserving student. A son, Bill Keappler, is a Smyrna Rotarian and a 2007 …
Monday, April 16, 2012
A member of American Legion Post 160 pays tribute to a man he only know through his garden.
I never had the privilege of either meeting or knowing the man. I never knew his name until this Saturday morning while returning from my usual attendance at the monthly country breakfast, American Legion Smyrna Post 160. However, as with countless others within Cobb County, I well knew and have admired his garden for many years. Anyone over the last twenty years who has ever traveled or traversed Church Road to and from South Cobb Drive, Smyrna, Georgia, knows of this man’s garden. One could not help but notice and gaze upon this sizable plot of land surrounded by thick woods upon which stood a grand tribute to gardening the old fashion way. There stately stood planted rows of every type vegetable to include tomatoes, stalks of corn, …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Visitation will be held for Zach Gamble at the Woodstock Funeral Home from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Funeral arrangements have been made for the Acworth Marine who died Sunday afternoon from head trauma suffered in Smyrna. The Woodstock Funeral Home will hold visitation for Zach Gamble, 34, Wednesday from 3 to 8 p.m. for friends and family. The funeral will be held at Woodstock First Baptist at 2 p.m. Thursday, and burial will follow at Rolling Hills Memory Gardens in Acworth next to Gamble's father, James. Gamble's body will lie in state an hour before Thursday's service so people can pay their respects. Survivors include Gamble's 7-year-old son, Luke; a sister, Nikki Gamble of Acworth; his mother and stepfather, Tina and Leon Robbins of Gainesville; and grandparents Bernice and Howard Cook, according to the obituary posted on the …
Monday, April 2, 2012
The funeral for the Campbell High School senior is Thursday, April 5, at First Baptist Church of Atlanta.
Tendai Nhekairo’s death made headlines, but it’s his laugh that will be most remembered by his classmates and teachers at Campbell High School. “Tendai was in many ways the fun-loving guy for a lot of people,” said Phil Sandifer, one of Nhekairo's football coaches. “All the kids, that’s what they’ve talked about: his smile, his jokes. He’s just a regular teenage boy that lived life.” According to Cobb County police, the Campbell senior was shot by a police officer Tuesday, March 27, after he attempted to feloniously assault an officer with knives. Officers were responding to a suspicious persons call at the teen’s apartment complex. The incident is still under investigation, and the officer involved has been placed on routine …
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Charles Collins, a Campbell High School and Auburn University alumni and former McEachern coach, was struck and killed by a car Thursday.
Editor's Note: Thank you to Ross Cavitt with WSB-TV for providing the attached photos. Charles Collins, who coached McEachern football for six years after playing for Auburn, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Canadian Football League, died Thursday after being struck by a car. Collins, 66, was walking across Atlanta Road about 7 p.m. near the Paces Ferry Road intersection when he was struck by a 2004 Chevrolet Silverado, Cobb police said. The driver, 25-year-old Nicholas W. Bryant of Carrolton, was not injured and is not expected to be charged. Collins, who lived in Smyrna, was taken to Emory Adventist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He came to McEachern in 1976 as a history teacher and head football coach right after his tenure as a …
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Beloved woman operated Smyrna-Vinings nonprofit organization that assisted those who had too much to drink receive a safe ride home.
With the arrival the New Year, Smyrna lost one of its true angels with the passing of Linda Pinto. Pinto died Sunday at her Smyrna home from complications due to pancreatic cancer. She was 62. Her body was donated to MedCure, a non-transplant tissue bank devoted to compassionate, ethical services that connect whole-body donors to medical research and education while providing innovation and opportunity for scientific medical advancements. The Brooklyn, N.Y. native is survived by her daughter, Ann Marie Matthews; son Michael Pinto; and six grandchildren, Brittany-Lynn, Carissa, Michael, Matthew, Janiece and Nadya. There will memorial life celebration on Thursday from 3 – 6 p.m. at Atkins Park Tavern in Smyrna. It was at Atkins Park …
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Atlanta Archbishop-emeritus John Francis, 83, the fifth archbishop of the Atlanta Archdiocese, died Friday night.
The funeral Mass for Atlanta Archbishop-emeritus John Francis Donoghue will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Buckhead. Archbishop Donoghue, 83, the fifth archbishop of the Atlanta Archdiocese, died Friday night, the Atlanta archdiocese said. The Archdiocese of Atlanta, located at 2401 Lake Park Drive in Smyrna, gave no information about the cause or circumstances of his death, but The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cited a report that he had grown increasingly weak in recent months. The AJC said that he regularly prayed at the cathedral at 2 a.m. His body will lie in state at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 353 Peachtree St. from 10 a.m. Wednesday until 10 a.m. Thursday. There will be a procession of …
Monday, October 10, 2011
She worked with seven mayors and dozens and dozens of council members in her 18 years in the Smyrna city clerk's office. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday at King Springs Baptist Church in Smyrna.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Emily Dunn, 23, was killed in San Francisco.
A memorial service for Emily Dunn, a 2006 Lovett School graduate and a former Buckhead resident, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Presbyterian Church, according to her obituary in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Lovett website. Dunn, 23, died Aug. 19 in San Francisco when she was struck by a municipal bus, according to a SF.streetsblog article about how she was remembered by residents of the city's Castro district, where the accident occurred. An honors graduate from Washington University in St. Louis, she had moved to San Francisco in July to work for Superfly Presents, a concert festival promoter, her obituary said. She loved working in the music industry, specifically concert festivals, according to the notice. At Lovett, …
G. Singleton
10:59 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
I always called him "Paw-Paw". I stopped many years ago to talk and get some garden advise and he always was the nicest man- never met a stranger. I wondered if the garden was just for his family, but he said "Come on down to the house and I'll show you my tomatoes". I met his family and now have become friends with them too. He did sell me some tomatoes but he gave me beans, potatoes, corn and … more ›