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Details of memorial services for Vandiver

By The Associated Press
Posted 3:05AM on Wednesday 23rd February 2005 ( 20 years ago )
<p>Details released Tuesday about memorial services for former Georgia Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver, who died Monday evening:</p><p>Wednesday</p><p>_11 a.m., casket is received at the west entrance of the state Capitol by Gov. Sonny Perdue, other state officials and an honor guard and is taken to the Capitol Rotunda, where a brief memorial service will be conducted.</p><p>_11 a.m. to 2 p.m, the former governor will lie in state, guarded by units of the Georgia Army National Guard, Georgia Air National Guard and Georgia State Patrol.</p><p>_2 p.m., the casket is taken to a waiting motorcade at the west entrance for a return to Hamby Funeral Home in Lavonia.</p><p>_6 p.m. to 8 p.m., the Vandiver family receives mourners at the Hamby Funeral Home.</p><p>Thursday</p><p>_11 a.m., funeral services will be held at Lavonia First Baptist Church, 5681 Vickery St., Lavonia, led by the church's pastor, Dr. Larry Finger, and former pastor, Rev. Richard Bilski.</p><p>_Interment will be at the Lavonia City-Burgess Cemetery.</p><p>Memorials</p><p>In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in his memory to Lavonia First Baptist Church, PO Box 47, Lavonia, Ga., 30553, or Lavonia Carnegie Library, 28 Hartwell Rd., Lavonia, Ga., 30553.</p>

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