(ROANOKE) Services for Dessie Simpson Dodgen, 94, of Roanoke will be Monday, May 19, 2008, at 3 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Fitzgerald Brown and Billy Puckett officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens.The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sunday.Mrs. Dodgen died…
(WADLEY) Services for Bernyce Edna Reed, 96, of Wadley were Monday, May 19, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Abanda Baptist Church, with the Rev. Brian Lee Yates officiating. Burial was in Wadley Cemetery. Mrs. Reed died Saturday, May 17, at Roanoke Health Care Center. Survivors include three grandsons, Randy Coker of LaFayette, Mike Coker of…
(ROANOKE) Services for Eric Wayne Kelley, 49, of Roanoke were Sunday, May 18, 2008, at 3 p.m. at Highway First Congregational Methodist Church, with Bro. Gerald Sheppard and Bro. Donald Spradlin officiating. Burial was in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Kelley died Friday, May 16, in Wedowee. Mr. Kelley is survived by his wife, Charlene Mitchell…
(GRIFFIN, Ga.) Mrs. Murscal Johnson, 84, of Griffin, Ga., died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at Christian Ministries Hospice. Mrs. Johnson was born in Roanoke on August 15, 1924, to the late Daniel Henderson and the late Pallie Stoke Henderson. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Sanford Enloe Johnson; and five daughters, Annette…
(RANBURNE) Mrs. Myrt Lee Hand died on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, at her residence. She was 83. Mrs. Hand was born on April 18, 1925, in Randolph County, to the late Joe V. and Pearl Butler Heard. She was a homemaker and a dedicated member of Gold Ridge Baptist Church. She was also a member…
(ROANOKE) Services for Dessie Simpson Dodgen, 89, of Roanoke will be Monday, May 19, 2008, at 3 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Fitzgerald Brown and Billy Puckett officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sunday. Mrs.…
(DAWSONVILLE, Ga.) Janice Evelyn Couch, 65, of Dawsonville, Ga., died Thursday, May 8, 2008. Survivors include her husband of 44 years, William Couch of Dawsonville; son Michael Couch of Jasper, Ga.; four brothers Jimmy Mulkey of Franklin, Ga., Floyd Mulkey of Jonesboro, Ga., Alvin Mulkey of Valley and Virgil Mulkey of Roanoke; two sisters, Phyllis…
Wadley and Randolph County are scheduled to play in New Site, Ala. at Horseshoe Bend’s stadium at 7 p.m. Thursday. If the game is postponed due to weather, the game will be played Monday at 7 p.m. in New Site. Woodland and Horseshoe Bend will play Friday night at 7 p.m. in New Site also.…
(DOUGLASVILLE, Ga.) Ruth Hembree Morris, 72, of Douglasville, Ga., died Tuesday, May 13, 2008. A Douglas County, Ga., native, Mrs. Morris was born Jan. 2, 1936, in the Fairplay community, the daughter of the late Johnny Hembree and the late Mrs. Alma Kimball Hembree. She married John Horace Morris on Nov. 10, 1967, in Carroll…
The Southeastern Conference is going to have a new coaching look to it this fall. It’s not at the top, although Arkansas will look new with Bobby Petrino running the show and Ole Miss will be led by a new face in Oxford, but not a new one for the SEC, with Houston Nutt in…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Maybelle Edmondson Massey, 82, of LaGrange, Ga., died Sunday, May 11, 2008, at Hospice LaGrange. Mrs. Massey was born Aug. 15, 1925, in Roanoke, daughter of the late Gus and Bell Zona Edmondson. Mrs. Massey was a member of Louise Baptist Church and was a homemaker. Survivors include three sons, Gary Massey and…
(WOODLAND) Bessie S. Joiner, 91, of Woodland died May 9, 2008. Services will be Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. CDT at Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church in Woodland. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Walker Funeral Home, Carrollton, Ga.
On May 6 at Southern Union State Community College in Wadley, 22 graduates were presented plaques during the Leadership Randolph County graduation ceremony. The graduating class includes Lori Daniel, Jill Rivers, Ruth Brooks, Julie Thompson, Penny Pool, Russell Robinson, Elaine Goodman, David Johnson, Chad Norred, Dorothy Tidwell, Pat Truitt, Lisa Gay, Linda Frosolono, Virginia Laney,…
There is only one day left in the 2008 regular legislative session, which ends on May 19. It has been a productive session for the House, where we have passed major reforms and bills that will make Alabama better. The House passed a landmark measure that will ban pass-through pork, the process where line items…
The Wadley Bulldogs and the Randolph County Tigers each have two things on their minds this spring. The first is how spring practice sessions will translate to Friday nights this fall. The second is each other. Wadley and Randolph County will face off for a full-fledged jamboree game to put a punctuation mark on spring…
A meeting of the Roanoke City Council has been set for Thursday at 4 p.m. to deal with the mayoral issue and with the city airport runway approach. Mayor Spec Bonner announced his resignation on Thursday but it must be submitted in person to the council, none of whom were at Thursday’s meeting, or in…
The Randolph County Tigers will have a new head coach prowling the sidelines next season after their head coach of seven years, Pat Prestridge, resigned at the April 21 Randolph County Board of Education meeting. Prestridge’s resignation will be accepted at the May 19 school board meeting, according to Randolph County High School principal Byron…
A program to flush the city’s water lines stopped by last year’s historical drought has been restarted in certain areas of the city, according to city of Roanoke Utilities Operations Supervisor Brent Wilson. Last week they flushed the worst areas including the streets of Pool, Maple, Chestnut, Woodland, Pershing, Schuessler, Louina, Bradley, West Point, Cannon,…
The total raised at the Bike Hike Warm-Up Beach Party on Friday was $36,717. Of that amount, $3,430 came from the auction, $540 from the cookout and $32,727 from riders and business donations. Winners of the best beach attire contest were: first place – tie between Officer Jo Wilson and “Hula Mae” Harvel; second place…
Sometimes I wonder what my Civil War ancestors would think about the many ways we go about honoring their memory. Best I can tell from his refusal to attend any Confederate reunions, my great-grandfather would think that it all, or at least a good part of it, is a bunch of silliness. Now I know…