Coastal Courier, Liberty coroner to serve as president of Georgia Coroners Association

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Reginald graduated from East Laurens Comprehensive High School in East Dublin and the Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science. Reginald is a widower, and has six children including four daughters and two sons.

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Reginald served as the district chair of the Georgia Funeral Directors Association. He also serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Hospital Authority Board at Liberty Regional Medical Center and an executive board member of the Academy of Graduate Embalmers. He is a member of the Midway Middle School board council. Reginald is currently the Vice President and General Manager at Dorchester Funeral home. 

Reginald Pierce is currently the coroner in Liberty County and has held this position since 2005.

As of June 15, 2025, Reginald L. Pierce, Sr did not have a website or any information online.

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Reginald L. Pierce, Sr

- 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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