(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Laura A. Brown, 88, of LaGrange, Ga., died Sunday, June 21, 2009, at Appling County Hospital in Baxley, Ga.Mrs. Brown was born May 20, 1921, in Randolph County, Ala., daughter of the late Mack and Minnie Crisler Stevens. She had lived in LaGrange most of her life and was a member of First…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Gary L. Cockrell, 64, of Wedowee, who died June 20, 2009, will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Iron City Baptist Church. Dr. Mike Holcomb will officiate and burial will be in Forestlawn Gardens. Mr. Cockrell will lie in state at the church from 10-11 a.m. on Tuesday. Mr. Cockrell was a…
(ROANOKE) Services for Ruth Hammons Hitchcock, 87, of Roanoke will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at Faith Baptist Church with the Rev. S.T. Janney and Rev. Bud Stiltner officiating. Burial will follow in Cedarwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June…
(LaFAYETTE) Jim Anglin, 85, of LaFayette died Thursday, June 18, 2009, at his residence. Services will be Saturday, June 20, at 1 p.m. at Jeff Jones Funeral Home, LaFayette, with the Revs. Bill Hand and Clifford DeLee officiating. Burial will be at LaFayette City Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home Friday from 5…
(ROANOKE) Minnie Tumlin Meigs, 82, of Roanoke died Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at her home. The funeral will be Friday, June 19, at 2 p.m. EDT in the chapel of Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home in Hogansville, Ga. The Rev. Sonny McCormick will officiate, and interment will be the Luthersville (Ga.) Cemetery. Mrs.…
(VALLEY) Carey Worth Philpott, 80, died Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at his home of natural causes. Services will be Saturday, June 20, at 2 p.m. EDT at Fairfax First Baptist Church. The Rev. Steve Garnett will officiate. Visitation will be Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Fairfax. He is survived…
(WADLEY) Services for Mrs. Frances Gray “Frankie” Taylor, 83, of Wadley will be Friday, June 19, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Hope Memorial Christian Church with the Rev. Bobby Burroughs officiating. Burial will follow in Forresters Chapel Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, June…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Carolee Ann Sanders, 37, of Roanoke will be Friday, June 19, 2009, at 11 a.m. at Cedarwood Cemetery with Bro. F. W. Sheppard officiating. Mrs. Sanders died Wednesday, June 17, at her home. Survivors include her father, David Sanders of Roanoke; her mother, Dorothy Sanders of Washington; two daughters, Melissa Sanders…
(WEDOWEE) A memorial service for Matthew Billy Fred Williams, 61, of Wedowee will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 27, 2009, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bruce Williams officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 11 a.m. to 1p.m. on Saturday, June 27. Mr. Williams died Wednesday, June 10,…
(LINEVILLE) Services for Eulene N. McDonald, 88, of Lineville will be Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Pine Grove Baptist Church with the Revs. Jim Barkley and Braden Morrison officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. McDonald died Tuesday, June 16, at her residence. A native and lifelong resident of Clay…
(PIEDMONT) Services for Mary Elizabeth Jarrell, 74, will be at 7 p.m., June 17, 2009, at Thompson Funeral Home and Crematory with the Rev. Tommy McCoy, the Rev. John Adams and Wayland Jarrell officiating. Burial will follow Friday, June 19, at 9 a.m. at Highland Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5-7 Thursday at…
Hulon Parrish feels like he is a blessed man. He was blessed to make it through World War II. He was blessed to meet his wife and have an almost 50-year marriage, and he was blessed to be 90 years old April 20. And he is blessed to still work a garden. Parrish planted his…
Roanoke City Schools held a called meeting Thursday to take care of some end of the school year personnel matters, budgetary items, and change orders on work at Knight-Enloe Elementary School. The board approved Superintendent Chuck Marcum’s change orders on work at KES in the amounts of $19,870 and $4,146. He said the original bid…
(ROANOKE) Tyrone “Ty” Hatcher, 46, a resident of Lucky Street, Roanoke, died Monday, June 15, 2009, at Atlanta Medical Center after a sudden illness. Services will be Saturday, June 20, at 1 p.m. at St. Paul Baptist Church, Roanoke, with the pastor, Rev. Jeffery D. Rosser, officiating and burial in Skyview Memorial Gardens, Welch. Public…
Wedowee’s own champion drag-boat racer, Bill Henderson, was in action again this past weekend at the Thunder on the Bay meet in Pisgah Bay, Ky. Henderson said it was one of the most competitive race weekends he can remember having. With racers from Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Phenix, Henderson said the field of competitors…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Pelham L. Wilkinson, 89, of LaGrange, Ga., died Monday, June 15, 2009, at Hospice LaGrange. Mr. Wilkinson was born Jan. 18, 1920, in Malone, son of the late John Kane Wilkinson and Martha Jane Hodge Wilkinson. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. Mr. Wilkinson was retired from…
The Roanoke Utilities Board authorized work to begin on the filter plant beginning Tuesday. They are asking people to conserve water on Wednesday and possibly Thursday and Friday. The filter plant will be off line while work is done and it takes a long time to refill the tanks. Operations supervisor Brent Wilson said at…
(CRAGFORD) Services for Virginia “Jenny” Griffin, 63 of Cragford will be Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 11 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Home in Ashland with the Revs. Edward Brown and Kenneth Fuller officiating. Burial will follow in Clay County Memory Gardens. Mrs. Griffin died Monday, June 15, 2009 at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham. A…
A Roanoke woman was killed in an early morning fire Wednesday. According to Roanoke Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bill Ford, the body of Carolee Ann Sanders, 37, was found by firefighters in the utility room near the back door. The fire at 203 Handley Ave. across from the old Palm Beach plant was reported at…
Railroads provided the steel thread that stitched a continent together during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the Southern Railroad shops at Spencer, N.C., were among the sewing machines that kept the trains on track. I wallowed in nostalgia last weekend when I joined more than 3,000 folks in Spencer for “Rail Days” at the…