Beth Buffington Hood said her father looked better than he had in years and was making a "textbook" recovery from triple bypass surgery last week.
Funeral services for Buffington, who graduated from East Hall High School and served in the U.S. Army before the Vietnam War, are set for 2 this afternoon at Gainesville First United Methodist Church.
The years-long legal battle, which was settled this spring, centered on ownership of six-tenths of an acre on Lebanon Church Road off Gillsville Highway (Ga. 323).
Growing up, Hood never called Buffington 'Dad.' Instead, she called him Sonny her whole life. She said although her father had a temper, he also was generous and well-respected.
Hood said her father loved to have company over, when he would share stories of moonshining and farming. "The stories he told, I'll be able to tell my children."
She remembers waking up early on Saturday mornings with sister Ginger Folger when they were young to "make the rounds" with their father. "We'd jump in his pickup truck and off we'd go," Hood said.
Hood, who now has her own poultry and cattle farm on the Oconee River in Gillsville, is keeping the family's farming tradition alive for the generations to come.
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