CIVIL ACTION NO: CV09-016EMMETT JOHNSON AND WIFE, ILONA JOHNSONPLAINTIFFSVS.A certain parcel of land located in Randolph County, Alabama, and being recently surveyed by Irwin Lance Turner, AL Reg. #24030 and being further described as follows:A parcel of land located in the SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 3, Township 20 South, Range 11…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA ESTATE OF CELESTINE B. HEARD, DEC. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Letters of Testamentary of said deceased have been granted to the undersigned on the 5th day of Feb., 2009, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate…

(ROANOKE) Services for Theo Burke, 87, of Roanoke will be Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bill Boggan officiating. Burial will follow in Green’s Chapel Methodist Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Mr. Burke…

(ROANOKE) Services for Jewell Prather Rushing, 83, of Roanoke, will be Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Bethany Lime Congregation Christian Church with the Rev. Stanley Yarbrough and Rev. Stoney Halsey officiating. Mrs. Rushing will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens.…

STATE MAINTENANCE PROJECT NO. 99-504-690-000-701 RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA MAINTENANCE Sealed bids will be received by the Director of Transportation at the office of the Alabama Department of Transportation, Montgomery, Alabama, until 10 a.m., February 27, 2009, and at that time publicly opened for construction the following: Bridge coating on SR-1 (US 431) at Wedowee Creek…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by William R. Terry and Bessie Terry, to Ameritrust Mortgage Company, on the 25th day of April, 2003, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Book 444, Page 637;…

Default having been made in the terms of that certain mortgage from Chris Jeffers, to McIntosh Commercial Bank, dated December 27, 2007, recorded January 2, 2008, in Mortgage Book 526, Page 514, and re-recorded June 5, 2008, in Mortgage Book 533, Page 116, in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama,…

(OXFORD) Graveside services for A. Frank Smith, 68, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, at Anniston Memorial Gardens. Mr. Smith died Thursday, Feb. 5, in Gadsden. Survivors include daughter, Donna Pendleton of Boulder, Colo.; sons Buddy Smith, Michael Smith, Ronny Smith, John David Smith, all of Birmingham; mother Ola Mae Smith of…

(WEDOWEE) Services for Delphine Pate Watters, 90, of Wedowee will be Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, at 1 p.m. at Ava United Methodist Church with the Rev. Richard Smith and Rev. Gary Henderson officiating. Graveside services will follow in Evergreen Cemetery in Sylacauga at 3 p.m. Mrs. Watters will lie in state at the church one…

(ROANOKE) Sandra Bledsoe Ware, 53, of Roanoke died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at Randolph Medical Center, Roanoke. Services will be at First Missionary Baptist Church, 549 Riley Street, Roanoke on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at noon, with the Rev. Gregory Sutton officiating. Interment will be at Skyview Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Welch. The remains will lie in…

(WEAVER) Services for Pattie Glean Wiggins, 73, of Weaver were at Chapel Hill Funeral Home Chapel at 1 p.m., Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, with the Rev. Scott Whetstone officiating. Burial will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Wiggins died Friday, Jan. 30, at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Wiggins is survived by her husband,…

(ROANOKE) Services for Eurtis Puckett, 89, of Roanoke, were Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Donald Spradlin officiating. Burial followed in Mt. Grove Church Cemetery, Wedowee. Mr. Puckett died Thursday, Jan. 22, at his home. Mr. Puckett was born March 30, 1919, son of Cecro and Eva…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated December 30, 2004, executed by RONALD STACY PRESNAL and DEBORAH ANN PRESNAL, to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS” ) Solely as nominee for FIRST BANK MORTGAGE A DIVISION OF FIRST BANK OF GEORGIA, which mortgage was recorded on…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Mark S. Swindle, married and Jeanne Swindle, married, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Primary Capital Advisors LC, on the 31st day of January, 2006, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…

My friend Betty Gacek saw the report on the tube about the single mother in California who gave birth to octuplets to go with the six kids she already had. “The question raised in my mind,” Betty e-mailed me, “is how a single mother who lives with her parents, and has six children already, managed…

Three young Roanoke residents were arrested during the raid of a meth lab on Wednesday of last week. According to Roanoke Police Chief Adam Melton, officers executed a search warrant at 740 Omaha Rd. where they found methamphetamine and components used to make methamphetamine. The resident of the house, Donald Eugene Scott, is charged with…