This year’s All County basketball teams are chock full of talent from around the county.The Handley Tigers led the way with seven players selected to the first teams, including the boys’ All County co-MVPs, Malcolm Thomas and Randall Thompson.Woodland had three players selected to the first teams, including MVP, Courtney Strain.Wadley tied with Woodland with…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Edsel Mitchell, 78, of Wedowee will be Thursday, March 20, 2008, at 1 p.m. at Mt. Grove Baptist Church, with the Revs. Clause Bennett, Donald Spradlin and David Taft officiating. Mr. Mitchell will lie in state one hour at the church before the service. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr.…
(ANNISTON) Services for Bob Hand, 80, of Anniston will be Thursday, March 20, 2008, at 11 a.m. at K.L. Brown Memory Chapel, with the Rev. C.C. McCain, Dr. Roland Brown, the Rev. Jim Simpson and Dr. Don Carroll officiating. Interment will be at Forestlawn Gardens. The family will receive friends on Thursday from 9:30 a.m.…
(REX, Ga.) Jimmy Weaver, 46, of Rex, Ga., died Sunday, March 16, 2008, at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta. Services will be Saturday, March 22, at noon at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Wadley, with the Rev. Cornelius Reese officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Nadine Weaver of Rex, Ga.; his…
(LANETT) Lawrence Velpo Lipham, 82, of Lanett died Sunday, March 16, 2008, at George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley. Services will be Tuesday, March 18, at 2 p.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Revs. Terry Prestridge and Jimmy Norred officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery. Mr. Lipham…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Howard D. Triplett, 87, of Wedowee will be Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at 2 p.m. from Pinetucky Baptist Church with the Revs. Donald Triplett and Steve Dempsey officiating. Mr. Triplett will lie in state at the church for one hour prior to services. Burial will follow at the adjoining cemetery. The family…
(OXFORD) Services for Frances Jewell Cox, 80, of Oxford will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 13, 2008, at Miller Funeral Home & Crematory with Dr. Mike Holcomb and Dr. Don Cox officiating. Burial will be at Forestlawn Gardens. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Cox died…
(WOODLAND) Services for Dwain A. Cantrell, 70, of Woodland will be Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Highway Congregational Methodist Church, with the Revs. Vernon Willis, Scott Whaley and Wayne Jetton officiating. Mr. Cantrell will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Dennis Atkinson, 64, of LaGrange, Ga., died Thursday, March 13, 2008, at the West Georgia Medical Center. He was born Sept. 25, 1943, in Randolph County, Ala., son of the late Judson Cary and Jonnie Brown Atkinson. He retired from Milliken and Company and was an avid fan of Nascar and the Atlanta…
(FRANKLIN, Ga.) Services for Willa Dean Osborne, 83, of Franklin, Ga., formerly of Roanoke, will be Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Revs. S.T. Janney and Noel Forrester officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Birdie Mae Brand, 89, of LaGrange, Ga., died Wednesday, March 12, 2008, in Cohutta, Ga., after an extended illness. She was born Sept. 1, 1918, in Randolph County, Ala., daughter of the late Rufus and Lucy Bowen. She was a founding member of the United Pentecostal Church in LaGrange and retired from Callaway…
(ANNISTON) Funeral services for Emmett O’Neal Daniel, 95, formerly of Newell, will be 1 p.m. Monday, March 17, 2008, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. James Benefield officiating. Burial will follow at Smyrna Cemetery in Newell. Mr Daniel died at his residence Friday, March 14. He is survived by his wife, Myrtice Daniel…
(WOODLAND) Services for Annie Fay Cox, 80, of Woodland were Saturday, March 15, 2008, at 3 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Ricky Cummings officiating. Burial was in the Daniel Family Cemetery. Mrs. Cox died Thursday, March 13, at Roanoke Healthcare. Mrs. Cox is survived by two daughters, Shirley Geter and Helen Philips…
(WOODLAND) Graveside services for James Levi “JL” Langley, 86, of Woodland will be Saturday, March 15, 2008, at 10 a.m. at the Oak Grove Church of Christ Cemetery, with the Rev. Bobby Burroughs officiating. Mr. Langley died Wednesday, March 12, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Mr. Langley is survived by two sisters, Myra Mangum…
(SMITH STATION) Services for Frank Edward “Bud” Barnes Sr. of Smith Station will be Friday, March 14, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, Roanoke, with Minister Frank E. Barnes Jr. and Minister Steven Patrick Barnes officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from…
WADLEY — On Wednesday, March 12, citizens arrived for a Wadley council meeting but council members were absent. They were in Town Clerk Marsha Poe’s office snatching papers off of a fax machine as they arrived. Asked what was going on they said a temporary restraining order had been granted and they could not legally…
(ROANOKE) Services for Clintis Wilson “Peg” Hurley, 91, of Roanoke, will be Friday, March 14, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Liberty Grove Congregational Methodist Church, with the Rev. Gary Henderson and the Rev. Paul Messer officiating. Mrs. Hurley will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the…
The Handley Tiger softball team scored a big 11-1 win over county rival Randolph County Monday. The game was close until the fourth inning when things fell apart for Randolph County on the defensive end. “In the fourth inning we had two errors which generated a lot of those big runs,” Randolph County head coach…
WEDOWEE – “We’ve got to treat all the developers the same and have continuity and total enforcement,” said Randolph County engineer Burrel Jones. With enforcement of state subdivision regulations set to go into effect next week, the Randolph County engineer sat down with The Randolph Leader last week to discuss the standards. The Alabama law…
A Virginian, a veteran, an advocate for veterans, Jerry Nelson led a normal 8 to 5 workday existence for most of his life. When it changed was when he walked out a door in New Mexico and began walking across America. His life changes such as quitting his job and his divorce freed him and…