(STATESVILLE, N.C.) Services for Elmer Warner Cromie, 63, of Statesville, N.C., formerly of Roanoke, will be Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 2 p.m. at Forest Home Christian Church, with the Rev. Stoney Halsey officiating. Burial with military honors followed in the church cemetery. Mr. Cromie will lie in state at the church for one hour…
(ANNISTON) Services for W. Wendell Knight, 83, of Anniston will be Saturday, June 18, 2005, at 11 a.m. at Brown & Kughn Memory Chapel with Dr. Roland Brown and the Rev. C.C. McCain officiating. A graveside service will be at 3 p.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens in Roanoke. The family will receive friends Friday from…
(ROANOKE) Elizabeth Potts-Pittman, 63, of Roanoke died Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at Columbus Regional Medical Center, Columbus, Ga. Services will be Saturday, June 18, at 1 p.m. at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Delta, with the Revs. Craig McClure and Robert Welch officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be at Clark Memorial…
(VALLEY) Lula Bernice Mitchell Smith, 92, of Valley died Tuesday, June 14, 2005, at Lanier Memorial Nursing Home in Valley. Funeral services will be Thursday, June 16, at 2 p.m. at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Frank Lyons officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Smith is survived…
(NEWELL) Services for John Henry Watts, 70, of Newell will be Friday, June 10, 2005, at 11 a.m. at Union Baptist Church, with the Revs. Steve Dempsey and David Prestridge officiating. Mr. Watts will lie in state at the church one hour before the service. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Watts died…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Annie Lois Grant Moore, 91, of Wedowee will be Saturday, June 18, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Fredonia United Methodist Church with the Revs. Russell Williams and Tony Gunter officiating. Mrs. Moore will lie in state two hours before the service at the church. Burial will follow in Ava United Methodist Church…
(ROANOKE) Services for Herbert Hoover Yerta, 76, of Roanoke will be Saturday, June 18, 2005, at 4 p.m. at Milltown Baptist Church with the Rev. Blake Lockhart officiating. Mr. Yerta will lie in state for one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow at Milltown Cemetery. The family will receive friends at…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Sarah Fetner Messer, 70, of Wedowee will be Monday, June 20, 2005, at 11 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with Bro. Mike Holcomb and Bro. C.E. Lipford officiating. Burial will follow in Ava United Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends Sunday, June 19, from 3 to 9 p.m. at the…
(DADEVILLE) William J. Lashley, 78, of Dadeville died at his home on Thursday, July 16, 2005. Services will be at Jeff Jones Funeral Home, LaFayette, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 18, with entombment at Resthaven Mausoleum in Lanett with Terry Harris officiating. Visitation will be at the funeral home Friday from 6 to 8…
Hurricane season begins. I have this corkboard map that I use to trace the route of storms — different colored pushpins for each one. By November the lines they follow run in all directions. Usually. Except last year. Last year the lines converged on Florida and Alabama. First there was Bonnie (green pins), which appeared…
Alabama’s Republican state senators, like Democrat Gerald Dial has done each time there is a special session of the Legislature, have pledged to return their salaries for the upcoming special session to the state coffers. They should, because it was their filibuster of a bill that would require campaign financing disclosure that kept the Senate…
Lydia Renee Royster, 42, of Lanett was arrested on June 13 and charged with writing a bad check. Alisa Blackburn of Cooledge Street in Wadley was arrested on June 11 and charged with three counts of failure to appear in court (writing a bad check). Brandon Lynn Cushing, 24, of 939 County Rd. 80, Heflin,…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed to Prestige Mortgage Company, Inc. on April 23, 2001, by Charles R. Jones, A Married Man, joined by his wife, Mary E. Jones, and recorded in Mortgage Book 413, Page 22; said mortgage was transferred and assigned to North…
RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ERA KNIGHT, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Era Knight, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 9th day of June, 2005, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons…
The Wadley softball team may have struggled on the diamond this past season, but one of the team’s best players has found recognition as one the best student-athletes in the state. Mandy Pinkard was named among eight regional winners in the Scholar-Athlete division of the Bryant-Jordan scholarship program and was honored at the awards banquet…
WEDOWEE – Randolph County Commission approved a site for the new Randolph County Health Department. Several weeks ago, representatives from the state visited Randolph County and toured several potential plots of land in both Roanoke and Wedowee. During Monday’s commission meeting, chairman Lathonia Wright said that the state health department had picked the Harold Wilson…
After winning the first game of a doubleheader against an inspired Tigers team by just two runs, the undefeated Pirates of the 11-12 year old Roanoke Little League needed just one more win to finish their second straight undefeated season. But the Tigers and centerfielder Ruben Foster had different ideas. Foster capped a remarkable 3-run,…
Randolph County Board of Education handled numerous personnel items at its regular meeting Monday, including the resignation of the Wedowee Middle School principal. The board accepted the resignation of Larry McQuiston, WMS principal. The board transferred Phil Padgett to Wadley High School to teach agribusiness in the morning and continue to teach building construction at…
WADLEY – A fire has destroyed the roof of two separate residences in a duplex in Wadley. A 911 call was made around 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon reporting smoke coming from the duplex residence of 140 and 142 Randolph Circle in Wadley. The house is part of the Lineville Housing Authority’s Randolph Avenue Apartments.…
APAC-Southeast, Inc. hereby gives notice of completion of a contact with the Alabama Department of Transportation for construction of Project No. ST-056-0022-003, in Randolph County. This notice will appear for four consecutive weeks beginning on June 15, 2005, and ending on July 6, 2005. All claims should be filed at P.O. Box 7850, Oxford, Alabama…