Andy Crawford, a prosecutor who has litigated cases in Barrow, Banks and Jackson counties, announced plans Tuesday evening to run for Superior Court Judge in the Piedmont Judicial Circuit.
Column: Remembering Gainesville pharmacist, Jo Ann Adams Harris Blackwood
In the first season of “The Andy Griffith Show,” a young lady druggist came to town to run her uncle’s drugstore.
Her name was Ellie Walker and she was played by Elinor Donahue, who had just finished a long run on the series, “Father Knows Best.”
Ellie’s arrival created quite a stir in Mayberry. It particularly disturbed senior citizen Emma Brand who was quite upset when Ellie refused to sell her some pills. Emma brought a dime to pay for them, just as she did with Ellie’s Uncle Fred.
When Jo Ann Trapnell Adams graduated from the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy, she was just 20 years old. In fact, she graduated on her birthday on June 12, 1947.
Just over two years later, she and her husband Bob moved to Gainesville where she took a job at Piedmont Drug Store, becoming the first female pharmacist in the city. Adams and Charlie Johnson opened Riverside Pharmacy in 1954 where she spent more than three decades filling prescriptions until her retirement in 1986.
Adams, a native of Bulloch County in South Georgia, died Tuesday, Feb. 16 a the age of 93.
Private funeral services will be held for family members. Arrangements are being coordinated by Memorial Park Funeral Home- Riverside Chapel.