Services were at Jones Funeral Home chapel with interment at Providence Baptist Church Cemetery, Palmetto.

Survivors include a son, Dr. Joseph Edgar and Robyn McGee; brothers, Robert J. and Linda Reese, Thomas D. and Marsha Reese, and Edgar D. and Carol Reese; a sister, Linda and Billy McFarlin; grandchildren, Shane Brooks, Joseph McGee Jr., Shauna Brooks, Courtney Sennett, and Jeremy Brooks; great-grandchildren Sean, Connar, Chloe, Makagan, Kaylee, Alissa, and Tristen.

Jones Funeral Home, Newnan, was in charge.

James Marvin Cole

James Marvin Cole, 84, Sharpsburg, died Jan. 16, 2005. He was born April 3, 1920 in Sharpsburg, the son ofÊ Inis M. and Olive Bridges Cole. He was a veteran of the United States Navy in World War II, serving in the Atlantic and the Pacific from 1941 to 1945. He was a member of Sharpsburg Baptist Church where he was ordained as a deacon in 1938. He served on the Sharpsburg City Council for over 50 years and served on the board of Farmers and Merchants Community Bank for 12 years. He was a partner and proprietor of Bridges and Cole Store in Sharpsburg.

Graveside services were at Sharpsburg Baptist Church cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Watson Mills officiating.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret Elizabeth "Betty" Cole, Sharpsburg; a son, Clay and Rachel Cole, Sharpsburg; a daughter, Cheryl and Larry Hyde, Sharpsburg; grandchildren, Blue and Rhonda Cole, Bret Cole, and Cameron Hyde; and great-grandchildren, Erica Tate, Ethan Tate, and Ansley Cole.