(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Brenda Sue Overton, 62, of Roanoke will be Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Center Chapel Baptist Church with the Rev. J. D. Bearden officiating. Burial will follow at the adjoining cemetery.The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 18. Mrs. Overton…
(DOUGLASVILLE, Ga.) Onzell Lela Thompson, 83, of Douglasville, Ga., died Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, at WellStar Douglas Hospital. She was born May 16, 1927, in Heflin. Mrs. Thompson was a homemaker, a resident of Georgia for the past 48 years and a member of Central Baptist Church of Douglasville. Survivors include her daughter, Barbara Jean…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Mrs. Othell Knight Draper, 69, of Roanoke, will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Bro. Bill Prince Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Welcome Home Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home on Thursday,…
(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Henry Sanford “H.S.” Bradley, 95, of Wedowee will be Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, at 1 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Home of Wedowee Chapel with the Revs. David Phillips and David Holcombe officiating. Burial will follow in Bethel West Baptist Cemetery. Mr. Bradley died Monday, Dec. 13, at Wedowee Hospital. Mr. Bradley…
An Omaha man was arrested on Wednesday, charged with the murder of another Omaha man. According to Randolph County Sheriff’s Office investigator Gregg Dendinger, Alan Truman Higgins, 49, of 419 County Rd. 52, Woodland, is charged with capital murder. He is being held in Randolph County Jail without bond. On Monday afternoon at approximately 3:47,…
(HEFLIN) Patricia Joan Anthony, 41 of Heflin died at her home on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Funeral services for Ms. Anthony will be Friday, Dec. 17, at 11 a.m. at Tom Stutts and Son Funeral Home with the Rev. James Richter officiating. The interment will follow at 2:30 p.m. in Fairview Memorial Gardens in Stockbridge,…
(ALEXANDRIA) Funeral services for the Rev. William “Bill” “Pee Wee” Milstead, 69, of Alexandria, formerly of Lineville, will be Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Oak Grove United Methodist Church with the Revs. Billy Todd and Johnny Bonds officiating. Burial with military honors will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Rev. Milstead died Tuesday,…
Big men, little trikes. It brought a lump to my throat as tough guys wheeled the bright bicycles off trucks filled to capacity last Thursday. Sheriff Jeff Fuller, Rodney Walker and Sheriff-elect David Cofield wheeled them off the trucks into a building for safe keeping. They are donated by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department Rodeo…
The early goings of the 2010-2011 high school basketball season have given us some good hints at what these county teams may be doing for the rest of the year. The Handley boys are undefeated so far and looking quite formidable. Of course as I type this, a game at Central Coosa looms, which could…
The Handley Tigers remained undefeated after thwarting county foe Randolph County, 59-41, and area foe Marbury, 44-30, last week. Against the Tigers from Wedowee, Handley found a struggle in the first quarter with Handley leading only 20-15. Handley began to pull away in the second quarter, leading 33-19 at halftime. “We got some turnovers and…
The Wadley Bulldogs boys lost a pair of close games this past week while the Wadley Lady Bulldogs played their way into the win column against Donoho Monday night. Friday night, the Wadley boys fell to Horseshoe Bend in a 48-47 heartbreaker. “We played well I thought,” Wadley head coach Logan Cofield said. “We had…
An Omaha man was found shot to death in his truck Monday afternoon. According to Randolph County Sheriff’s Office investigator Gregg Dendinger, on Monday afternoon at approximately 3:47, RCSO received a 911 call about a person parked on County Road 645 near the High Shoals community, who appeared to be shot in the back. Deputies…
It’s been an eventful week in the Southeastern Conference with the addition of another Heisman Trophy winner and a welcome back to an old friend as the new coach of the Florida Gators. First, a couple of thoughts about the Heisman Trophy winner. Auburn’s Cam Newton was his same ebullient self in New York as…
The Handley Lady Tigers came away with a pair of important wins this week, defeating county rivals Randolph County and area opponent Marbury to improve to 4-3 on the season. Last Tuesday, Handley pressed its way to a win over Randolph County, 55-37. Randolph County kept it close through the first half, but couldn’t hang…
The Woodland Lady Bobcats suffered their first loss of the season sandwiched between a pair of wins over the last week. Woodland defeated Piedmont last Thursday, 57-32, to start the week’s competition off. The Lady Bobcats came out swinging in the first quarter, using their high-pressure defense to take a 12-3 first-quarter lead. They extended…
April Anthony spoke to a group of diabetics and their family members about how diabetes has become an epidemic disease, saying in just three to four years the numbers have increased from 20 million to 23.6 million. The family nurse practitioner who is in the Southern Family Health Care facility on Price Street said in…
The Randolph County Animal Shelter is playing Santa on Friday Dec. 24th! Wouldn’t it be a perfect gift for many of the shelter’s cats and dogs to have a home on Christmas morning? For this one day only, Friday, Dec. 24, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., you may come down to the Randolph County…
Randolph County Department of Human Resources Child Support Enforcement program recently won an award from the Alabama Child Support Association for its work for children. This county was singled out of all other counties in Alabama for having the largest increase in child support collections for a small county during the fiscal year of 2010.…
As you well know, this column occasionally takes off on flights of levity, but its underlying purpose is to be useful to its readers, especially those fortunate enough to live Down South. So in the spirit of usefulness, I am going to offer 10 pointers to the Baby Boomers, that crop of kids who magically…
The armadillo was about 30 feet away when my nine-year-old grandson spied him. Excitedly he asked his grandfather what to do. “Grab that rake and go get him,” said my husband Dennis. So Brock got his weapon and slowly edged toward the ball of shell and claws. As he got within 10 feet the armadillo…