Remembering the 31 lives lost during the Flood of 1994

July 5, 1994

— Teresa Beyah, 31, of Griffin, died in Spalding County when her car hit a washed-out section of road.

— Gloria Dixon, 16, of Rockdale County, was swept away while trying to rescue a friend’s dog from a flooded ditch.

— Marty Folsom, 35, of Bolingbroke and Lisa Shepherd, 25, of McRae died when their pickup truck fell into a sinkhole that opened up in a submerged parking lot in Macon.

— William Miller of Tifton was swept off Ga. Highway 87 in his car in Monroe County. His wife survived by clinging to a tree for more than nine hours.

— John F. Peavy, 54, of Experiment, Ga., died when his car hydroplaned and collided with a wrecker.

— Richard Rodgers, 20, of Stone Mountain, died in a two-car collision on a rain-drenched DeKalb County road.

— Jack Shiver, 40, of Fayette County, died when he went into Line Creek to tie a rope to a bridge to keep it from being pulled away.

July 6, 1994

— Josephine Anderson, 60, of Americus, was washed out of her car when it was swept into a creek.

— Douglas Kenneth Bassett, 32, of Macon, was washed off a train trestle as he tried to cross on foot.

— Oscar Brown, 84, of Americus, was washed out of his mobile home.

— Freddie Hawkins, 35, and his sons, Courtney, 8, and Kedrick, 16, were washed away in their pickup truck in Americus.

— Hilton Howard, 42, of Smithville, was washed out of his car in Americus.

— Kathy Rena Hurley, 35, and her son, John, 2, of Americus, were swept away in their car in Americus.

— Idell Jackson, mid-60s, of Americus was swept out of her house as she and her husband slept. He survived.

— Chad Jones, 18, drowned while riding an inner tube with three friends on the rain-swollen Towaliga River in Henry County.

— Eugene Marner, 40, his son, Kent, 10, of Cornettsville, Ind., and Roger Cornelius, 40, of Washington, Ind., were washed away in a tractor trailer near Americus.

— Walter Davenport Stapleton III, 17, of Sumter County, was stringing telephone lines on Lake Corinth when his boat capsized.

— Gloria Tatum, 28, of Americus, was believed to have been washed out of a car.

— Tomeka Woodham, 20, of Sumter County, was washed off the road in a car in Americus.

July 7, 1994

— Ishkabah Tanatrous Linkhorn, 28, of Albany, did not show up for work that day at an Albany steakhouse. His body was found July 10 floating and hooked on a fence at the rear of a Cochran Avenue home. Authorities did not identify the body until July 16 because fingerprinting equipment was under water. The death was ruled a drowning.

— William Wallace, 41, of Albany, was believed to have drowned that day as he searched for his mother who was safely housed in a shelter. He was swept into a drainage canal. His body was found July 19.

July 8, 1994

— Kason and Shabazz Mallory, both 4, of Jersey City, N.J., were washed away in their family car by flood waters of the Flint River in Albany.

July 13, 1994

— Pearlie Mae Brantley, 59, of Albany, was found floating in the kitchen of her home. After refusing to evacuate, she spent three days and two nights clinging to her husband and the refrigerator as he balanced on attic beams in the sweltering heat. On the third night, she went down. David, her husband of 38 years, managed to survive the attic’s heat for six days and seven nights, eating nothing and drinking brown flood water, before being rescued.

July 14, 1994

— Maureen Johnson, 71, of Dawson, died when her car hit a culvert on a washed-out, closed road in Terrell County.

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