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Tamela holds an associate's degree in funeral science from the Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science and a degree in business from the University of North Georgia. She lives in Towns County with her 3 children. She is a member of the North Mt Zion Church of God. 

Tamela currently works as a funeral director and mortician at the Banister Funeral Home and as the vice president of American TeleCenters.

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Tamela Cooper currently serves as the Towns County Coroner. She was elected to this position in 2020 and is serving her first term. She previously served as a deputy coroner at the Towns County Coroner Office. She was appointed to this position in 2013. 

As of July 25, 2024, Tamela Cooper 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. 