Lonnie B. Evans, 85, of Highway 22 East, Roanoke, died Wednesday, April 8, 2020, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika.Viewing will be Sunday, April 12, from 1 to 6 p.m.A graveside service will be Monday, April 13, at 1 p.m. at Skyview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in the Welch community. The Rev. L.B. Houston will officiate.Mr.…
(WEDOWEE) Graveside services for Charlie Will Parker Sr., 86, of Wedowee will be Friday, April 10, 2020, at 2 p.m. at Union Chapel United Methodist Cemetery with Pastor B.J. Jackson officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Mr. Parker died Tuesday, April 7, at Tanner-East…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Henry Michael “Mike” Crockett, 75, of LaGrange died April 7, 2020. He was born in Roanoke on Aug. 16, 1944, to the late James Henry Crockett and Laura Barrett Crockett. Mr. Crockett was the owner and operator of Crockett Brothers Wrecker Service Inc. He will be remembered as a loving husband and father.…
(ATLANTA) The funeral for Mary Jane Pool Hanson, 85, will be Thursday, April 9, at 1 p.m. at Murray Brothers Cascade Chapel in Atlanta. Live streaming video of service will be provided on www.mbfh.com. Interment will be at Forest Lawn Cemetery in College Park, Ga. Mrs. Hanson died on April 1. She was born Feb.…
Construction is continuing on the new bridge across Fox Creek on Highway 48 near the Clay County line. Rainy weather has delayed a lot of the construction, but steel supports are being put in the ground and work is continuing on the new road. It will be several months before the bridge is completed.
Drivers using LaFayette Highway to travel between Main Street and Highway 431 in Roanoke will have to find an alternate route for the foreseeable future. The city of Roanoke closed LaFayette Highway Friday night at the bridge that spans the railroad tracks due to a large hole that had opened up at the seam between…
Skeletal remains found in trailer PROVIDENCE – The skeletal remains of a man were found on Monday morning in a mobile home. According to the report from Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, a neighbor on the road said someone else told him there was a dead body in an abandoned trailer. A deputy responded to County…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a stay at home order on Friday of last week, which requires residents to shelter in place until April 30. There are some instances residents will be able to leave their homes, but according to the Alabama Department of Public Health, this will only increase the spread of the coronavirus.…
WEDOWEE – The county commission has further defined and tightened its policies for county employees in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown of the county courthouse and adjacent facilities. The commission met at an emergency called meeting Thursday to discuss a pair of resolutions that would set forth, in detail, how county employees are to…
WEDOWEE – Wedowee Town Council held their regular council meeting on Tuesday, but it was a first and not like any other meeting that had ever been held. After quite a bit of work by Police Chief Jay Stone, the council was able to meet online with a tool called Zoom. Those with microphones and…
Notice to Contractors Federal Aid Project No. HRRR-5619(251) RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA Sealed bids will be received by the Director of Transportation at the office of the Alabama Department of Transportation, Montgomery, Alabama until 10:00 AM on April 24, 2020 and at that time publicly opened for constructing the Guardrail Installations on CR-46 over Wedowee Creek…
Request for Qualifications The Town of Woodland is now requesting qualifications from engineering firms to provide federal grant engineering application services as well as design, surveying, and inspection services should a grant project be funded. This request will be effective through 2022. Factors to be considered in the award of this contract will include: Overall…
(WADLEY) Betty Pearson Momern,73, of Wadley died Friday, April 3, 2020, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham. Due to the current social gathering restrictions, there will be a private graveside service on Thursday, April 9, in Providence Cemetery in Milltown at 2 p.m. with the Rev. William Phillips officiating. Viewing will be at Vines Funeral…
(HEFLIN) Graveside services for Little Miss Caroline Leigh Brown, 3, of Heflin were Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at noon at Pilgrims Rest Church Cemetery with Bro. Keith Benefield officiating. Caroline died Friday, April 3, at Tanner East Alabama Medical Center in Wedowee. A Heflin native, Caroline was born Aug. 15, 2016, the daughter of Tabitha…
(WOODLAND) Della Irene Stephens, 84, of Woodland died Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. A New Site native, Mrs. Stephens was born July 22, 1935, the daughter of Alvin and Lorene Ivy Knoff Hutchson. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Wedowee, and worked as a teacher for the Roanoke…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Nell Landers Shelnutt, 94, of Roanoke will be Thursday, April 9, 2020, at 11 a.m. at Antioch Christian Church Cemetery with Bro. Scott Hannah officiating. Mrs. Shelnutt died Monday, April 6, at her residence. A lifelong resident of the Doublehead Community, Mrs. Shelnutt was born Aug. 5, 1925, the youngest child…
FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio – Betty Sue Edmondson Shaw, 90, of Franklin Furnace, Ohio, died Friday, April 3, 2020, at Best Care Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Wheelersburg, Ohio. Betty was born Nov. 17, 1929, in Woodland, Ala., to the late John Thomas and Hattie SmithEdmondson. Betty was retired as an assembly line worker for General…
(LINEVILLE) Austin Douglas “Doug” Pitts, 69, of Lineville died April 5, 2020, at his residence. He was born in Troup County, Ga., to Otis Daniel Pitts and Nannie Frances Blair Pitts. Doug, as he was known, was a U.S. Air Force Vietnam veteran with 12 years of service. Doug had lived in numerous places but…
(ROANOKE) Nancy Mae Hughley, 61, died Saturday, April 4, 2020, at her residence in Roanoke. Services for Ms. Hughley are pending. Ms. Hughley was born in Camp Hill on Feb. 18, 1958, to the late Ezra and Estella Spratling Hughley. Throughout her life, she resided back and forth between Camp Hill and Roanoke. She finally…
(DADEVILLE) Mrs. Dale Smith Chase, 78, of Dadeville died Monday, April 6, 2020, to join her Heavenly Father for eternity. She was born Oct. 26, 1941, in Opelika to Jake William “JW” Smith and Laverne Culpepper Smith. She was a 1960 graduate of Opelika High School and attended Auburn University. She was a longtime and…