{"id":218072,"date":"2025-02-27T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=218072"},"modified":"2025-02-27T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T00:29:12","slug":"former-avondale-estates-mayor-terry-giager-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=218072","title":{"rendered":"Former Avondale Estates Mayor Terry Giager Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The city of Avondale Estates is mourning the loss of former Mayor Terry Dean Giager, who passed away on February 18 at his home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giager, a dedicated public servant, played a key role in shaping the city, serving eight years in local government as mayor, mayor pro tem, and commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of Mayor and Commissioners, along with city staff, offered condolences to Giager\u2019s family, recognizing his contributions to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A longtime resident of Avondale Estates, Giager had a diverse career before entering public service. After earning a history degree from the University of Central Oklahoma, he spent years working in the medical and pharmaceutical industries before founding his own company, PharmSpring, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following his retirement in 2003, he remained active in the community, coaching baseball at Greater <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1318\">Atlanta<\/a> Christian School and later serving as the bookkeeper for Briarlake Baptist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giager is survived by his wife of 25 years, Jeanne Herring Giager, as well as his children and grandson. A memorial service will be held on March 1 at Briarlake Baptist Church in Decatur, followed by a reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to Briarlake Baptist Church or Greater Atlanta Christian School in his honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=21]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Avondale Estates is mourning the loss of former Mayor Terry Dean Giager, who passed away on February 18 at his home. Giager, a dedicated public servant, played a key role in shaping the city, serving eight years in local government as mayor, mayor pro tem, and commissioner. The Board of Mayor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":218074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[17324,17323],"class_list":["post-218072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-people","tag-greater-atlanta-christian-school","tag-terry-giager","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}