(WADLEY) Graveside services for Terry Lawrence Wilkinson, 78, of Wadley will be Saturday, April 4, 2020, at 2 p.m. at Pine Grove Cemetery with the Rev. Paul Wilson officiating.Mr. Wilkinson died Thursday, April 2, at UAB Hospital in Birmingham.A Wadley native, Mr. Wilkinson was born Oct. 7, 1941, the son of Andrew and Nellie Camp…
(STATESVILLE, N.C.) Theodore Louis Edwards, 84, died Saturday, March 28, 2020, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. A private burial was held Monday, March 30. A celebration of life will be held at a future date. Ted was born Oct. 14, 1935, in Union City, Tenn., to the late Dalton Bryant and Deane Elizabeth Woodson…
(ROANOKE) Sherry Bowen, 68, of Roanoke died Friday, April 3, 2020, at WellStar West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange. The family will have a private funeral service, and a celebration of life service will be held at a later date. A lifelong Randolph County resident, Ms. Bowen was born in LaFayette on Dec. 3, 1951,…
(LINCOLN) Graveside services for Hoyt Taylor Bowen Jr., 75, of Lincoln, formerly of Roanoke, will be Wednesday, April 8, 2020, at 2 p.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens with Curtis Sessions officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Bowen died Saturday, April 4, at his…
(WADLEY) Clemedean Pearson Staples, 76, of Wadley died Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Due to the current social gathering restrictions, their will be a private graveside service on Saturday, April 4, in Provident Cemetery, Millbrook, at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Douglas Jones officiating. Public viewing will be at Vines…
(ROANOKE) Robert Lee Watkins, 73, of Roanoke died Sunday, March 29, 2020, at Traylor Nursing Home. Graveside services will be Friday, April 3, at 1 p.m. at Stateline Baptist Church Cemetery, 112 Glenn Rd., Franklin, Ga., with the Rev. Ronnie G. Jones and Rev. L.B. Houston officiating. Viewing will be Thursday from 1 to 6…
In my final game as a high school athlete 25 years ago our baseball team won the third game of a state championship series to win our third straight state championship. And I can tell you without hesitation that if my opportunity to play that game had been taken away from me, I would have…
The storms that swept through the northern half of the county Tuesday left two of the county’s high school football facilities in need of repair Hulond Humphries Stadium on the RCHS campus in Wedowee sustained the most extensive damage after one of the light poles snapped near the base and fell onto the home side…
The barn at the Hendon family farm in the Rock Stand community was left bare when the storm came through. The tin from the roof is in a crumpled pile on the other side of the building. John Hendon was in the workshop area of the building and ducked under a steel table when the…
COVID-19 arrived in Randolph County, with two confirmed cases cropping up over the last week. But the healthcare facilities in the county – most notably Tanner Medical Center of East Alabama in Wedowee – have already been carrying out their plans for how to care for infected patients. Tanner has combined the resources of five…
Quiet intruder walks in couple’s bedroom A Louina Street couple was awakened after midnight on Thursday of last week with a man standing in their bedroom. According to the report from Roanoke Police Department, the resident first heard his dog barking, and then a man walked into their bedroom. The resident asked the man what…
WADLEY – Wadley Town Council got together for a called meeting last Thursday to address concerns of the coronavirus. Mayor Donna McKay stated she had been in constant, close contact with the League of Municipalities and the Governor’s Office for guidance on emergency response to the virus outbreak. After a brief discussion, the council voted…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jeremy Wade Striblin and Cassandra G. Striblin, husband and wife, originally in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Hometown Mortgage Services, Inc., on the 3rd day of February, 2006, said mortgage…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEBORAH M. ASH, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Deborah M. Ash, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 25th day of March, 2020, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…
PROCLAMATION OF THE MAYOR REGARDING THE INITIAL COVID-19 RESPONSE PLAN FOR THE TOWN OF WADLEY, ALABAMA WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 11-47-130 of the Code of Alabama (1975), “All cities and towns in this state shall have the power to maintain the health and cleanliness of the city or town within its limits and within the…
ORDINANCE 03-26-20 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF WADLEY, ALABAMA, TO PROVIDE FOR AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK WHEREAS, on March 9, 2020, the Director of the World Health Organization described the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic; WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, the President of the United States issued a “Proclamation on Declaring…
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Town of Woodland is now requesting proposals from qualified firms to provide professional grant application services & grant management services which will be effective through 2022. Services required shall include all grant application services as well as the overall administration of the federal projects upon grant award in accordance with all…
(WOODLAND) Jesse Thomas Elders Jr., 87, of Woodland died Friday morning, March 27, 2020. A private graveside service was held Monday, March 30, at 11 a.m. at Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in Woodland with the Rev. Tony Morris officiating. He was born June 23, 1932, in Columbia, S.C., the son of the late Jesse Thomas…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Doris Carr Andrews, 78, of Roanoke will be Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at 2 p.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens with Bro. Conner Moon officiating. Mrs. Andrews died Sunday, March 29, at Traylor’s Nursing Center in Roanoke. A lifelong Randolph County resident, Mrs. Andrews was born in Cullman on Feb. 17, 1942,…
(WEDOWEE) Eulette Seegar, 97, of Wedowee died Saturday, March 28, 2020, at her residence. A Randolph County native, Mrs. Seegar was born Oct. 24, 1922, the daughter of Steven Angus and Mattie Wilson Shaw. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wedowee, where she was a member of Joy Knapp Sunday School,…