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Obits, Thursday, April 1st, 2021 April 1 funeral announcements Services for a Waverly man, 79 year old Paul Mardorf, are Saturday at 10:30am at Redeemer Lutheran church in Waverly. The service will be live-streamed on the church Facebook page. Burial in Harlington cemetery. Visitation is 4-6pm Friday at Kaiser Corson funeral home in Waverly, and an hour before services at the church. -- A Strawberry Point man, 89 year old Lowell Rodas, died Thursday. Private family services will be held at a la...

A Georgia city is replacing a Confederate monument with a statue of civil rights hero John Lewis By Maria Morava and Saeed Ahmed, CNN Updated 5:05 PM ET, Fri January 29, 2021 Crew members in Decatur, Georgia work to remove the Confederate monument brought down on June 19, 2020. (CNN)For 112 years, a 30-foot obelisk stood outside the courthouse grounds in the suburban Atlanta city of Decatur. Erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, it suggested the Civil War was about states rights...

A Confederate structure was taken down last year and in its place, officials now plan to erect a monument that honors the late John Lewis.

Hattie Thomas Whitehead remembers her time in Linnentown fondly.  She lived in the Black Athens community for the first 14 years of her life after her birth in 1948. A fourth generation resident, Thomas Whitehead spent her days playing softball, jump rope and jackstones with her six siblings and neighborhood friends.  The children knew to keep to themselves. A fence separated their neighborhood from the white neighborhood, a reminder that they weren’t welcome. Drivers sped up when Th...