Obituaries
Emmanuel Tabernacle Pastor Dies
The Rev. Dwight Graves also led the Cobb County chapter of the SCLC.
The Rev. Dwight Graves, the pastor of Northeast Cobb's and chairman of Cobb County's SCLC chapter, died Tuesday morning at age 64 at .
Graves founded Emmanuel Tabernacle in 1997 and led it through several moves that eventually brought the congregation to Northeast Cobb off Sandy Plains Road, according to the church's website.
A native of West Virginia, Graves , retiring as a senior master sergeant in 1990, South Cobb Patch reported in a for the religious and civil rights leader.
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In addition to his chairmanship of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Cobb, Graves' community activism in the past year included , convicted in July of vehicular manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of her son, and a rally for student JerMichael Hundley, expelled from after a fight in August 2010.
Funeral arrangements are pending from Hanley-Shelton Funeral Directors.
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