Feeding the Needy on Christmas Eve

December 25, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

Just a month after preparing and delivering hot Thanksgiving Day meals to hundreds of underprivileged and underserved people in the community, members of the DeKalb Emergency Services and other caring volunteers did the same on Christmas Eve.

According to Blake Cantrell, spokesperson for the DESA, 830 meals were sent to homes across the county Saturday morning.

Cooking and food preparation started early at the county complex kitchen. Volunteers then loaded their personal vehicles with food trays and set out to deliver them to homes along the routes in time for the recipients’ noon time meal.

Feeding the hungry during Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve has become an annual effort of the DeKalb Emergency Services Association (DESA), in partnership with local businesses and volunteers.

“We want to thank all who supported the DESA in this effort including DeKalb Funeral Chapel, FirstBank, Wilson Bank & Trust, Smithville Bakery and Café, Kilgore’s Restaurant, Food Lion, Walmart, as well as others who prepared dressing, desserts and those who filled the trays and made the deliveries,” said Cantrell.

December 24, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

A Christmas Eve fire destroyed a home at 596 Hurricane Ridge Road,

DeKalb County Volunteer Firefighters were summoned to the home of Tania Ramsey Saturday at 12:42 p.m. where flames were reported to be showing through the roof. They were unable to save the home and its contents.

The cause of the fire is undetermined.

No one was home at the time. Ramsey was reportedly away on a trip.

Members of the Main Station, Liberty, Temperance Hall, and Cookeville Highway Fire Stations responded along with the tanker truck, DeKalb EMS, and the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department.

December 24, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

During the holidays many families pay tribute to their friends and loved ones, living and deceased, by making a donation in their name to the American Cancer Society to further cancer research and patient services. It’s called “Love Lights a Tree”.

In reality, it’s a tribute board located on the south grounds of the courthouse where names of honorees are displayed throughout the Christmas and New Year holiday season.

The DeKalb County Unit of the American Cancer Society seeks your support. Donations may be made now and the persons you honor or remember do not necessarily have to have suffered from cancer.

The names are in “honor of” and in “memory of” for a donation of five-dollars per name. Forms may be obtained at the local banks. For more information, contact Melanie Judkins at 615-464-7664, Renea Cantrell at 615-684-2688, or Gail Taylor 615-597-5936.

The names of 2022 Honorees are as follows:

Billy Adcock, Lisa Anderson, Diana Atnip, Kim Banks, Tracie Webb Baker, Era Mai Billings, Dorothy Bratcher, Harold Bratcher, Jean Cook, Andrew Jackson Dakas, Debi Depriest, Jennifer Carter Dunn, Earl D. France, Phyllis Hallum, Radley Hendrixson, Edie Hobson, Eddie Hobson, Beverly Jones, Jo Doris Johnson, Walter Johnson, Donald Knowles, Evelyn Martin, James Martin, Nate Martin, Cameron Miller, Lisa Taylor Moore, Jo Ann Newbell, Walteen Parker, Ronnie Redmon, Sr., Ann Rowland, Carolyn Sheets, Margie Smith, George Taylor, Gail Taylor, Nancy Napier Vafeas, Frances Waggoner, Sandra Wall, Phillip Washer, Richard Weidner, and Susan L. Young

Those in memory are as follows:

Jordan Thomas Adams, Linda Adcock, B. Akin, Frances Malone Akin, John D. Akin, Mai Akin, Bill Ambrose, Linda Armour, Jared Atnip

Margie Barrett, Alan Bradford,

Wallace Caldwell, Bertha Cantrell, David Cantrell, Donald Cantrell, Nelta Cantrell, Ernest P. Cantrell, Mattie Adcock Cantrell, Barry Cook, Bob Cook, James (Buddy) Cook, Jessie Cook, Pam Baker Cook, Rubye Cook, Eva Crook, Grady Crook, Bobbie Don Curtis,, Jimmy Curtis, Ralph Curtis, Roy “Pig” Curtis,

Harold Dawes, Elsie Driver, Tony Durso,

Homer Lee Ellis, Roberta Ellis,

Danny Foutch, Willie Foutch, Billy J. France,

Royce L. Givens, Jr., James Goodwin, Timothy Grandstaff,

Macon Haas, Donna Hafey, Brownie Haley, Frances Haley, Lucille Cook Harris, Bobbye Harrison, Esker Harrison, Eva Harrison, Barry Hayes, Greg Herron, Sr, Letitia Herron, Edward Hobson, Ronnie Hobson,

Amy Johnson, Annie Rhea Johnson, Calvin Jones, Earl Judkins, Len Judkins, Linda Judkins, Marie Judkins,

Lori Ann Kelsey, Donna Kay Knowles,

C.H. Lockhart, Jr. Donnie Lohorn, Fay Lohorn, Charles Loring, Mark Loring,

Ida Adkin Malone, Betty McMillen, T.C. McMillen, Amy Lynn Miller, Cleta Faye Murphy, Michael Louis Murphy,

J.W. Pack, Calysta Pedigo, Everett Pedigo,

Evelyn Ramsey, David Randolph, Greg Ray, David Redmon , Everett Redmon, Noel Lee Redmon, Odell Redmon, Sabra Jane Redmon, Vivian Redmon, Christine Reeder, Melvin Reeder, Dennis Rigsby, Kyle Robinson, Horace Rosson,

Zona Selby, Wayne Shuttleworth, Donald Smith, Nan Smith, Virgil Smith, Jordan Steinbach, Marlene Haas Stoglin,

Albert Taylor,  Buddy Taylor, Cora Taylor, Johnnie Agee Taylor, U.B. Taylor, Winnie Taylor, Shelby Tittsworth, Debbie Tuggle,

Green Wall, Maud Wall, Delton Washer, Houston Washer, Chris Webb, Charles Williams, Mike Williams, Richard Wilt, Anthony Wright

Georgie Young, Kenneth Young, and Marie Young.

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