When Metter High School Senior Matt Jordan was called to the school to meet with the principal, he wondered what was going on.Â
As a dual-enrolled student at Georgia Southern and a work-based learning participant, Matt has had no classes on the MHS campus during his senior year, so he was really confused as to why he had been summoned.Â
He walked in and saw MHS Principal Ellis Strobridge with a serious look on his face.Â
Matt thought to himself, âOK, what have I done?â
After a few moments, Strobridge broke into a grin and told the young man that he was being named the STAR student for the MHS Class of 2021!Â
Obituary - May Jones Hooks Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel
The morning of Wednesday, February 24, May Jones Hooks slipped peacefully from this troubled world to be welcomed at heaven’s gate by her Savior, her loving husband and family members who had gone before.
May was born at home in Candler County on July 22nd, 1926, the third of four daughters of Carson and Patriel May Jones.
The four girls grew up on the family farm, sharing one bedroom. After graduation from Metter High School in 1943, she attended Georgia State College for Women (Georgia College), where she enjoyed participating in the College Choir Guild and was chosen for the school Acapella Choir, which toured all over the country.
Obituary - Randy Wayne Hackle Kennedy-Brannen Funeral Home, Metter Chapel
Randy Wayne Hackle of Cobbtown and Statesboro, devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather; retired farmer, bait-and-tackle salesman and mechanic, left this life Sunday evening, January 3, 2021, after hospitalization for a brief but intense illness. He was 71.
A graduate of Metter High School and Swainsboro Tech, Randy applied skilled hands and a keen mind to continue learning and doing new things throughout his life. From turning family cars into street rods and powering up CB radios in the 1970s and 80s to setting up a machine shop, where he milled blocks of steel into precision target rifles in the 90s, he pursued hobbies with an intensity that turned some of them into near professions.