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Prominent community leader found dead in bathtub

Lydia Huggins Ivanditti, 63, was found dead in a bathtub inside her home. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
Lydia Huggins Ivanditti, 63, was found dead in a bathtub inside her home. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
By Raisa Habersham
Dec 5, 2016

The GBI is investigating after a prominent community leader was found dead inside her Eatonton home.

Lydia Huggins Ivanditti, 63, a previous director of the Plaza Arts Center in Eatonton, was found dead in a bathtub inside her home Friday afternoon along the 300 block of West Walnut Street, according to 13-WMAZ in Macon. She was found by a family member.

Authorities are investigating the death of a woman in Eatonton. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
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Ivanditti lived alone in her Putnam County home for the past four years, Channel 2 Action News reported.

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Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

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