(ASHLAND) Services for Sarah Anne Southers, 68, of Ashland will be Saturday, April 25, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Home Chapel in Lineville with Bro. Shane Spears officiating. Burial will follow in Ashland City Cemetery.The family will receive friends at Benefield Funeral Home in Lineville from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 24,…
(FRUITHURST) Willard Lee Walker, 82, died Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at Regional Medical Center. Service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at Fruithurst Baptist Church with the Revs. James Owens, Philip Morris, Brandon Owens and Grover Robinson officiating. Mr. Walker, a lifelong resident of Cleburne County, was a U.S. Army veteran of World…
(WEDOWEE) Lessie Williams, 73, a resident of King David Turner Road, Wedowee, died Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at Randolph Medical Center, Roanoke. Services for Mrs. Williams will be Saturday, April 25, at 2 p.m. at Antioch Baptist Church with the Rev. R.L. Heflin officiating and burial in the adjoining cemetery. There will be a one-hour…
(ROANOKE) Ida Mae Turman, 81, of Roanoke died Saturday, April 18, 2009, at Randolph Medical Center. Ms. Turman who was born Sept. 5, 1927, in Harris County, Ga. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church, Bacon Level. Surviving are three daughters, Kathy McCray, Nita Lane and Trudie Turman of Roanoke; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren;…
Need a job? There are people to help at the second annual Randolph County Job Fair Friday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at El Bethel Baptist Church, about 8 miles south of Wedowee and about 4 miles north of Roanoke on U.S. Highway 431. You might not find a job but you…
Wadley PTO’s 11th annual Dash-N-Bash will be this Saturday, April 25. Festivities begin at 9 a.m. at Wadley High School Gym. Runners may register for the race at 8 a.m. At 9 the race begins in front of the gym. Funland opens at 10. In Funland you will find sucker pull, duck pond, pie in…
DeJarvis Leonard, division engineer with the Alabama Department of Transportation, brought a phalanx of ALDOT staff members with him last Thursday to answer questions about the proposed realignment of Alabama Highway 22 at Main Street to U.S. Highway 431. Leonard, who is in the Alexander City ALDOT office, said, “We are working very closely with…
(WEST POINT, Ga.) John Wesley Williams Sr., 91, of West Point, Ga., died April 17, 2009, at his residence. Funeral services will be Thursday, April 23, at 1 p.m. at Bethlehem Baptist Church in West Point with the Revs. Willie T. Edmondson, Stanley Tucker, Tommy Gilbert and Larry Williams and deacon Eugene Wright officiating. Burial…
Arrests Willie Hatcher, 51, of 382 Lucky St., Roanoke – failure to appear in court (child support) – April 17 Donny Joe Fowler, 35, of 31 County Rd. 437, Graham – failure to appear in court (driving with a suspended license) – April 17 Brian N. Knight, 26, of Five Points – two counts of…
The Handley Tigers ended their season at the hands of top-ranked Alabama Christian in the first round of the playoffs Friday in Montgomery. Handley head coach Kevin Smith said that Alabama Christian was everything they expected them to be. “They definitely lived up to their number-one ranking in my opinion,” Smith said. Alabama Christian defeated…
The Randolph County Commission passed a proclamation making April Child Abuse Prevention Month in Randolph County. Tim Birt of the Tri-County Children’s Advocacy Center said, “Our caseload goes up when financial times get grim.” Last year 95 new cases of child abuse were investigated in Randolph County. The Department of Human Resources in conjunction with…
(LAFAYETTE) Eddie Frank Wright, 68, of LaFayette died Friday, April 17, 2009, at George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley. Services will be Thursday, April 23, at 1 p.m. at Silmon/Seroyer Funeral Home in LaFayette with the Rev. Terry Magby officiating. Burial will follow at Handy Cemetery. Mr. Wright is survived by four daughters, Tammy…
Scientists are tinkering with a drug that could let you edit your memories. That sounds like a promising development. Crimson Tide football fans would love to erase from memories that long series of losses to Auburn and that incredible loss to Louisiana-Monroe a couple of seasons ago. We Georgia Bulldog fans would like to edit…
Last Saturday was pretty much spring football day in the SEC, with nine teams holding annual spring football games. These games have gotten to be almost as big a day for fans at each school in respect to attendance as anything else. Sure the fans like to get previews of their teams, but most fans…
Throughout history there have been a number of great rivalries. United States and Russia. Hatfields and McCoys. Capulets and Montagues. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Auburn and Alabama. Paper and plastic. Well this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway could see the emergence of the next great rivalry—PETA members versus NASCAR fans. Never has a more volatile…
This week the education budget is front and center for the Legislature. The governor submitted his final version of his school spending plan, and now it is time for the House and Senate to get to work. While it seems pretty far along in the session for the budget to come up, the delay was…
RANDOLPH COUNTY LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the debt secured by that certain mortgage executed by JERRY HANSEN, Mortgagor(s) to Small Town Bank, Mortgagee, on July 26, 2007, said mortgage being recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County, Alabama on July 30, 2007 in…
Conventional wisdom among adults holds that if you get young people to dress “appropriately,” pride in appearance will spill over into all aspects of their lives. Following this line of reasoning, you reach the conclusion that if you can keep children from dressing like they live under an overpass, or in a cell-block, or in…
A reader brought to the Leader office on Monday an email he had printed out, wanting us to help spread the word about our cell phone numbers being released to telemarketers next month. “You will start to receive sales calls” and “YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS” screams the email. And of course it…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NELLIE M. NEELY, DECEASED NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY EXECUTRIX Ancillary Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 13th day of April, 2009, by the Hon. George Diamond, Judge of the Probate Court of Randolph County, notice…