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Eddy graduated from Columbus High School in 1968 and holds a bachelor's degree in Mortuary Science and Embalming from Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service in 1971. 

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Eddie has experience working in the funeral and mortuary business prior to serving as a Coroner.  

Eddie Lynwood "Buddy" Bryan is the Coroner in Muscogee County. He was elected to this position in 2012, and has served three terms. 

As of July 25, 2024, Eddie Lynwood "Buddy" Bryan did not have a website or any information online.

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- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

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