>rge Edward Powers of Hint Hill and Washington. Virginia

>rge Edward Powers of Hint Hill and Washington. Virginia broke the binds of earth to stroll the cts of gold on Saturday April 24, 2004 He was in the company of numerous friends and his adoptamily when his journey began. >rge was bom January 14.1947. the second son of the late John Harold and Mary Catherine Long /ers and brother of the late John Harrison Powers. v leaves here a beloved niece. Leslie Powers, her mother. Nancy, and a favorite cousin. James iman as well as cherished friends Mike and Diane Gadwill. the children of Lyle and Dorothy tor: Becky. Eleanor, and Raye his selected family: and Nathan Burke, his surrogate son. >rge was born on a farm he came to love, without this world's material goods, but into a family rich he faith. George's first love was farming, especially raising pigs and Brahma cattle. It was during school days that George figured out he wanted to use his head to "get off his feet and on his seat ', proudest accomplishment was going to school to learn to operate and he invested his experience skills in the co-workers he counted as friends at the S.W. Rodgers Construction Company where >roudly and competently operated heavy equipment. George a stranger was a friend he hadn't met yet. He often declared he could talk to anybody, and lid. To have George for a friend was to have a friend for life. vices in celebration of his life were held at Chester Gap Baptist Church at 11 a m. on Tuesday. April 2004. George's pallbearers were employees of the S.W. Rodgers Construction Company. Pastor, ieorge was laid to rest in the family plot at the Orlean Cemetery to await the rapture. rs. So it is in this spirit that w e suggest you make memorial contribution to Hospice of the Rapidan, iglon Volunteer Rescue Squad. PO Box. Washington. VA 22747. of final arrangements