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Long-time Mayor Of Allenhurst Passes Away
Re-elected mayor Thomas Hines is sworn in Monday eveing by Liberty County Probate Judge Nancy Aspinwall
Re-elected Allenhurst Mayor Thomas Hines shown being sworn in by Aspinwall, years ago, Hines passed away Aug. 12, 2021 - photo by Tiffany King

Thomas Hines, the long time mayor of Allenhurst has passed Thursday afternoon in Savannah.

Hines’s daughter Kimberly Berg said her father passed away after being hospitalized for the past month in Memorial Health University Medical Medical Center in Savannah.

Berg said her dad died of acute intestinal complications.

Prior to becoming mayor in 2004, Hines was also the fire chief of the Walthourville fire department. Right after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, Hines and a band of firefighters made the trip to New York to drop supplies and assist fellow firefighters. Hines was 59.

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