A friend to many remembered at local business

  • Photos by Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent “Ponytail Mike” Asherbranner loved the flea market business and was good at finding items others could not. Last year, he was found examining an object in one of his shops at Decker’s Flea Market.
    Photos by Anngee Quinones-Belian/Staff Correspondent “Ponytail Mike” Asherbranner loved the flea market business and was good at finding items others could not. Last year, he was found examining an object in one of his shops at Decker’s Flea Market.
  • Nakoda Abernathy stands in the doorway of her father’s shop at Decker’s Flea Market during his memorial service on May 28.
    Nakoda Abernathy stands in the doorway of her father’s shop at Decker’s Flea Market during his memorial service on May 28.
Ranger – If anyone has ever been to Decker’s Flea Market at 75 Blairsville Highway, at some point they have run into James Michael Asherbranner, known affectionately as “Ponytail Mike.” He was a…

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