Lieutenant Colonel (U.S. Army Retired) George William Brookshire, 86, of Dawsonville, died March 20, 2018. Bill was born July 28, 1931 in Hoschton, Georgia to the late William L. and Clarice Holland Brookshire. The family lived in Winterville and Madison, GA and he was a 1948 graduate of Madison High School. In the fall of 1948 he entered North Georgia College in Dahlonega and upon graduation in 1952 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry.