IN RE: DOLLYE MARIE POKE, DECEASEDADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMSLetters of Administration on the estate of Dollye Marie Poke, deceased, having been granted to Pamela D. Taylor on the 12th day of April, 2007, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against…
(WOODLAND) Services for Robert “Murphy” Wilson, 79, of Woodland will be Thursday, April 26, 207, at 2 p.m. at Prospect Congregational Methodist Church, with the Rev. Donald Spradlin and the Rev. Ridley Parmer officiating. Mr. Wilson will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow at Gray Hill Church…
(ROANOKE) Services for Mary Ethel Cox Bonner Handley, 92, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, April 24, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Roanoke First United Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Mann and the Rev. Paul Messer officiating. Burial will follow at Cedarwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends at her residence (330 Guy Street) from…
(OPELIKA) Dorothy Clifton, 78, of Opelika, formerly of Five Points, died Wednesday, April 18, 2007, at Care Center of Opelika. Services will be at Sweet Home Baptist Church, Five Points, on Monday, April 23, at noon, with the Rev. L.B. Houston officiating. Interment will be at Skyview Memorial Gardens, Roanoke. The remains will lie in…
(ROANOKE) Services for Glennie Elizabeth Hester, 79, of Roanoke will be Monday, April 23, 2007, at 11 a.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Richard Richie officiating. Burial will follow at Cedarwood Cemetery. Mrs. Hester died Friday, April 20, at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. Survivors include her husband, Hulette Hester of Roanoke;…
(DEKALB, Ill.) Melba Keeble Dill, 86, of DeKalb, Ill., died Saturday, April 21, 2007, in Kishwaukee Community Hospital DeKalb. Born Nov. 11, 1920, in Roanoke, Ala., she was the daughter of John and Pearl Swann Keeble. Melba received a bachelor’s degree from LaGrange College. After graduation she taught voice in the Music Department at LaGrange…
(WOODLAND) Services for Ruth Alice Langley, 82, of Woodland, will be Saturday, April 21, 2007, at 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Roanoke with Father Frank McGuire officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends Friday, April 20, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs.…
Sgt. Jerome Holloway is Wedowee’s own Rudy Reuttiger. Holloway shares many characteristics with Rudy, the undersized, hard-working football player from Notre Dame whose life story was made into a movie. Holloway played football at Randolph County High School in the early 1990s under head coach Ron Watters and graduated in 1993. He didn’t see much…
Arrests John Michael Cavender, 34, of Heflin was arrested on April 12 and charged with felony DUI. William Cleveland Green, 18, of 5329 County Rd. 51, Newell, was arrested on April 13 and charged with second-degree theft and breaking and entering a vehicle. He is accused of taking an amplifier, two speakers and a speaker…
Roanoke police arrested and handcuffed Assistant Fire Chief Ron Cameron and firefighter Jimmy Johnson Friday, put them in orange inmate uniforms and locked them in jail. This was just for a few minutes though, before they were freed to make phone calls to beg for bail money. Police officers and Johnnie Mae “by the book”…
MONTGOMERY — State Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, has introduced a resolution calling on the Alabama Legislature to issue an apology for slavery but it has not had the impact he desired. Sanders said he felt the resolution would “speed the healing process” among blacks and whites, but the word “healing” didn’t come to mind when…
Inspired by the recently released fundraising book for the Randolph County Historical Museum Inc. and by his 1957 class reunion last weekend, Tommy Moore donated items to the museum Tuesday. His father, Eugene Moore, was a cotton buyer, classer or grader for the old Handley Mills and preserved many items over the years. Tommy Moore…
WOODLAND – A Randolph County Homeland Security response exercise will be conducted on Saturday in Woodland beginning at approximately 9 a.m. The full-scale exercise will be a two- to three-hour emergency response drill to an incident scenario. The scenario will unfold in varying time periods as directed by the controller and evaluation team. The changing…
Wadley’s road to the playoffs got a little narrower after a disappointing 13-3 loss to area foe Fayetteville last Thursday. After defeating Fayetteville in their last meeting, Wadley head coach Jim Striplin said the team was confident in their ability to win again. “They just came out and outplayed us this time,” Striplin said. A…
Southern Union dropped three of its last five games, all against a strong Alabama Southern squad. The Bison took down Snead State in a two-game series to start the week. They won the first game 8-3 and the second game 2-0. Game two saw a spectacular start from pitcher Stephen Yates, who had been injured…
NOTICE is hereby given that a bill substantially as follows will be introduced in the 2007 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama and application for its passage and enactment will be made: A Bill to Be Entitled An Act Relating to Clay, Randolph and Chambers Counties; to exempt all ambulance service providers from the…
(LINEVILLE) Funeral services for James Lynward Mitchell, 75, of Lineville will be April 18, 2007, at 11 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Home Chapel in Lineville with the Rev. Jim Arnall officiating. Burial will follow in Christiana Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Mitchell died Monday, April 16, at the Clay County Hospital. He was a native of…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. CV 2007-051 WILLIAM L. HEARD AND VIRGINIA HEARD PLAINTIFFS Vs. One acre of land located in the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 31, Township 21, Range 11, Randolph County, Alabama, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point where the paved road which runs said forty…
In recent years different interest groups have put together questionnaires and sent them out to politicians. They do this for the not-so-subtle-purpose of revealing where those surveyed fall short of the standard set for them and expose the short-fallers so supporters of the group doing the polling can vote against them. In other words, intimidation.…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ESTATE OF THURMAN ELLIS HARVEL, DEC. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Letters of Testamentary of said deceased have been granted to the undersigned on the 10th day of April, 2007, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against…