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Tim is from Watkinsville, Georgia and graduated from Oconee County High School. He is married to his wife, with whom he has seven children and 13 grand-children. 

Tim is the Advance Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Captain at the Lincoln County Office of Emergency Services, and previously worked as an EMT and firefighter. He also has experience working in the dry-cleaning industry for 26 years, and serving as the owner and operator for his own dry-cleaning business for 15 years. 

Tim Quarles is the current coroner for Lincoln County. 

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As of March 19, 2024, Tim Quarles did not have a website or any information online.

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Tim Quarles

Tim is from Watkinsville, Georgia and graduated from Oconee County High School. He is married to his wife, Sara, with whom they have seven children and 13 grand children. 

Tim currently is the Advance Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Captain at the Lincoln County Office of Emergency Services, and previously worked as an EMT and firefighter. He also has experience working in the dry-cleaning industry for 26 years, and serving as the owner and operator for his own dry-cleaning business for 15 years. 

Tim Quarles is the current Coroner for Lincoln County. 

As of March 19, 2024, Tim Quarles did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

- 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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