Monday, January 30, 2012
Jay Ingram, who died Friday after being hit by a car, was a fixture at the North Atlanta Soccer Association.
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Monday, January 30
Two visitations will be held Monday for Jay Ingram, a longtime coach with the East Cobb-based North Atlanta Soccer Association. Ingram died on Friday after being struck by a car while jogging near his Kennesaw home. The visitations will take place from 2-4 p.m. and from 6-9 p.m. at the Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home, 2950 North Cobb Parkway, Kennesaw. Ingram's funeral is 2 p.m. Tuesday at Living Hope Lutheran Church, 3450 Stilesboro Road, Kennesaw. The service will be outside due to an expected heavy turnout. Ingram, who was 32, most recently coached a NASA Under-12 girls Academy team at the organization's Metro Park facilities on Paper Mill Road. According to his NASA bio page, Ingram had been a coach with the organization since …
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The East Cobb orthopaedic surgeon who founded the high school's sports medicine program will be remembered Thursday at Raider Valley.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Walton High School is holding a memorial service Thursday night for orthopaedic surgeon Hugh C. McLeod III. McLeod, 61, died of leukemia Friday in Houston, according to an obituary published by the Staunton, VA, News Leader. The Mississippi native and University of Mississippi graduate was the founder of East Cobb’s Atlanta Orthopaedic Specialists and established the sports medicine program at Walton High. The high school’s Hugh C. McLeod Wellness Complex and Sports Medicine Center was named in his honor in 2001. The memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday inside Raider Valley. His family has asked for memorial contributions to be made to the wellness complex, the Georgia chapter of the Arthritis Foundation or the Lymphoma & …
Friday, March 11, 2011
Josh Wittes, 16, a Temple Kol Emeth congregant, died Thursday.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Lassiter High School sophomore Josh Wittes, 16, died early Thursday morning, surrounded by family and friends, after several days in a coma. A native of Marietta, the Northeast Cobb resident is survived by his parents, Rob and Kelly Wittes; brother Zack; his twin, David; and his grandparents, Grace Garrison and Hermine and Jerry Wittes. Other survivors include aunts, uncles and cousins Brian Wittes, Margaret Pawlik, Kevin Pawlik, Yvonne and Alan Jaslove, Cara and Matthew Jaslove, Dustin and Ximena Valdez, and Ryker Valdez, as well as family friends and godparents Margaret and Josh Berry, Claude Nafziger, and Lordes and Fred Muller. Josh attended Mountain View Elementary School and Simpson Middle School before Lassiter. He played many …
