(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Clara Bell Jane Daniel Nix, 92, of Roanoke will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church with the Revs. Ricky Emory, S. T. Janney, Jim Head and Bud Stiltner officiating. Mrs. Nix will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial…
(WOODLAND) The funeral for Wylodene Jeanette Freeman Herren, 67, of Woodland will be Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Taylor’s Crossroads Church of Christ, Roanoke, with Bro. Donald Thompson and Bro. Harry Cobb officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Herren died Wednesday, Oct. 20, at her residence. Mrs. Herren is…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Carl Hubert Owens, 67, of Roanoke, will be at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Clifford DeLee officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home on Thursday, Oct. 21. Mr.…
The intervention of Roanoke’s Jack’s Restaurant employees helped save a woman being kidnapped by her estranged husband on Wednesday morning. According to Roanoke Police Chief Adam Melton, the employees reported the possible kidnapping at approximately 11:22 a.m. after a woman enter the restaurant and told them she was being held at gunpoint by her husband.…
(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Lewis Lane Steed, 87, of Wedowee will be Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, at 1 p.m. at Morrison Chapel Methodist Church, Heflin, with the Rev. Frank Rasbury officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Steed died Wednesday, Oct. 20, at his residence. Mr. Steed is survived by his wife, Mildred…
(OPELIKA) Katie Joe Cash Robertson Norris died Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010, at Arbor Springs Nursing Home in Opelika. Mrs. Norris was born Feb. 11, 1919, in Cragford, the first of five children born to Joseph Jackson Cash and Iola Truehart McCormick. Her siblings were Rosie Mae Cash Cofield, Henry Grady Cash, Dorothy Virginia Cash Hicks,…
(WEDOWEE) Mrs. Velmar Wright, 88, a resident of County Road 44, Wedowee, died Thursday evening, Oct. 14, 2010, at Wedowee Hospital. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 1 p.m. at Friendship Baptist Church, 5979 County Rd. 26, Wadley, with the pastor, Rev. Calvin Trammell, Bro. Henry Nelson and Rev. William Crawford, officiating, and…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Paul Pirkle Jr., 42, of Roanoke will be at 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, at Big Springs Baptist Church with the Rev. Scott Whaley officiating. Mr. Pirkle will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining church cemetery. The family will…
Even hampered with injuries on offense and defense, the Woodland Bobcats were able to post another impressive region win over LaFayette, 41-12 Friday night in Woodland. The Bobcats used a variety of players at new positions to thwart the LaFayette upset threat. “We were basically trying to survive,” Woodland head coach Larry Strain said. “We…
(WOODLAND) Funeral services for Judy Ward, 55, of Woodland will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. J.D. Bearden officiating. Burial will follow in Welcome Home Baptist Church Cemetery, Roanoke. The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. at the funeral home on Tuesday, Oct. 19. Mrs.…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CIVIL ACTION NO: CV10-78 ROBERT RICHARD; RICHARD’S ALABAMA LAND INVESTMENT CO., INC. & ALABAMA LAND & PET CEMETERY PLAINTIFFS VS. A certain parcel of land located in Randolph County, Alabama and more particularly described as follows: Ten (10) acres in the SW corner of the NW of the NE, Section 16, Township…
The first-trimester theatre of class of Handley High School has been hard at work rehearsing “Dearly Beloved.” Dearly Beloved by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten is a story of a completely dysfunctional but lovable Texas family in the throes of another series of life-changing events. The Futrelle Sisters, Frankie, Honey Raye and Twink,…
WEDOWEE – Circuit Judge Steve Perryman began the fall circuit court term Monday, but he sent the jurors home after the defendants set for trial pleaded guilty. Assistant District Attorney Amy Newsome said there are no other cases to be tried this week, and the judge dismissed the jury until next week. “The guilty pleas…
A Roanoke man was injured in a motorcycle accident on his road on Wednesday of last week. According to the report from Roanoke Police Department, Artis Bernard Trammell, 34, of 2478 County Rd. 79, was traveling east on County Road 79 when his 2008 Suzuki left the roadway on the westbound lane, went into a…
The Handley High School Community Studies class walked in the footsteps of Capt. William Anderson Handley on Friday, Oct. 15. Since the students were already familiar with the history of Capt. Handley in Roanoke, the field trip began at Concord Primitive Baptist Church on Highway 22. Under the leadership of their teachers, Merredith Sears and…
(MONTEVALLO) Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Billie Ruth Frost Spain, 83, died on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010, after a brief illness with cancer. Mrs. Spain was born Oct. 4, 1927, to Walter Shrider Frost and Mary Caroline Johnson Frost in Montevallo. Jimmy and Billie Spain were married on Jan. 31, 1947, in Montevallo and…
Chambers County, created in 1832, embraces the southernmost hills and streams of the Piedmont Plateau and sections of the Chattahoochee River to the east and the Tallapoosa River to the west. Cotton cultivation and textile manufacturing propelled the trajectory of the first 150 years in the county. In a new pictorial history book by the…
The Ole Miss Rebels recently decided on a mascot to represent them on the sidelines. They chose a bear. I’m sure it’s an Ole Miss thing and that few teams outside Oxford would understand the meaning, but a bear? And I can hear the Rebel fans now shouting back at me, an Auburn fan: What…
The Wadley Bulldogs were right in the thick of it against Loachapoka Friday night. Until the wheels fell off in the fourth quarter at least. Wadley fell to Loachapoka 21-14 in a region contest with major postseason implications. “We didn’t execute all game long,” Wadley head coach Jamie Abrams said. “I thought we played a…
COUNTY OF RANDOLPH PROBATE COURT THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY RAMPY HOLLOWAY, DECEASED NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Letters of Administration on the Estate of Dorothy Rampy Holloway, deceased, having been granted to Barbara Jean Murphy and Jimmy T. Murphy on the 18th day of Oct., 2010, by the Honorable George Diamond,…