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Savannah Now, Democrats seek coroner’s post

James is a native of Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from Gupton Jones Mortuary  of Science College and from Savannah Technical College with a master of Cosmetology. He and his wife Lisa have four children and nine grandchildren. He attends First Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church.

James is the owner of Sylvania Funeral Homes, Inc.

James Vernard Flowers’s ran for coroner in 2020, but did not win. 

As of March 19, 2024, James Vernard Flowers’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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James Vernard Flowers

As of May 4, 2024, James Vernard Flowers’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- 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. 

The chief medical examiner for the county