Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-10-11
The Death CT Mr..
John |. Herring
Is A Shock To His Friends And
Community

The city of Triton and the whole
OF T 1T County has been in mourning
since the sudden neNs of his brief i'll
ness and death cast a cloud over the
entire community, which has for so
long been the field of John L. Herr
ing's labors. His fatal heart attack
occurred at the opening of the festi-
vltles OF reception at the A. NJ
School wher the Kiwanls Club were
hosts to the teachers. Mr.. Herring al
ways a leader in every public affair
and movement was on this occas ON
in the receiving line when suddenly
seized with an attack that was feared
from that instant to be fatal one.
However the next day for few
hours some hope was entertained for
his recovery but not for long. The
second seizure proved fatal and the
gloom of great loss settled over
those both near and far who had felt
the strength of his personality and
the kindness of his genial disposition.
For more than thirty-five years his
closest interests have been in and
about Triton, having married in De-
cember of 1886, Miss Martha Greene
who was Tiff farmers daughter.
From his earliest youth spent in
Worth County Mr.. Herring had shown
marked literary taste and the limit
ed education that the village schools
of that time and place provided inn
PEELED him to the keenest search and
relish for all books that private librar-
les OF the commun ty afforded.
1t was natural bent that led him
into newspaper work some twenty
nine years ago, his first enterprise be-
ing partnership publication of the
I ifton Weekly Gazette with Mr.. B.
T. Allen now of Pearson. Except for
a short period spent in Tampa with
Mr.. Pleasant Stovall, then ed tor of
the Tampa Morning Tribune and
again for brief interval on the Sa-
vannah Morning News, his work on
the Gazette has been continuous thru
all these years and he was virtually
owner of it at his death. Through the
columns of tbs paper he has been
loya'ly and zealously booster for the
wire grass section of Georgia.
In every public work that would
benefit his community as in every
benevolent work for humanity, his
heart was in it and his pen and his
columns carried the colors. AS a
writer his sketches of South Georgia
which appeared weekly in the Savan
nah Morning News and in the Ga
zette under the title of Saturday Night
Sketches, were SO popular that they
were used by newspapers far and
near and this led him to collect them
in book form in 1918 and second
edition of these is now under con-
sideration by his sons
In 1914, MFR. Herring launched .he
Daily Gazette in which he has had
associated with him several of his sons
who will carry it on.
Tie personal loss sustained by the
many who knew and loved John L.
Herring was in evidence in the vast
throng of mourners in attendance at
the funeral services of Monday, held
in the First M. E Church, many COM
ing from distant places and in the low
ing and intimate eulogy of his manly
virtues and his Christian graces, ex-
pressed by his pastor; in the lavish
floral gifts that banked the altar and
the walls; in the tremulous
tones of the singers who could scarce
ly restrain their emotions; and in the
overwhelming sorrow of the bereaved
family all of whom have kept in close
touch with their father even in their
business connections, and who in con-
sequence will feel the loss of his pres
ence the more.
Nearly two hundred cars followed
the departed one to his last resting
place, another mark of love for him
and of sympathy for the bereaved fam
lily which includes his beloved wife,
and their ten children, L. B., Leroy,
Mrs. Pauline Rogers, ]. G., G. N, R.
S, H. E., Nichols Peterson, Martha
Rebecca and Mary Banks, with several
grandchildren, nephews and nieces
,,.ho recidn L., rTiEtnt,