“Southern women are born with special genes to truly wrap your well-being in their heart.”

Those are words spoken to me by a special person whose life touched so many. Though she took no credit for all of the things she did and lives she touched, my friend Judge Joni Tidwell Haldeman was the absolute personification of the Heart of the Community.

I can’t remember the first time I met my friend. Memories are hazy. I believe it was a reenactment of the lives entombed at the Old DeKalb Cemetery...