(ATLANTA) Homegoing services for L.C. Lancaster will be Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, at 11 a.m. EDT at Mt. Ephraim Baptist Church, Atlanta, with the Rev. Dr. R.L. White, pastor, officiating. Interment will be at Stephen’s Mission United Methodist Church, Wedowee.Herschel Thornton Mortuary, Atlanta.
(ATLANTA) Homegoing services for Edward Herring of Atlanta will be Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, at noon CDT at Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church in Woodland, Ala., with the Revs. Anthony Sims and Craig McClure officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The wake will be Thursday from 6-7:30 p.m. at 1st Iconium Baptist Church…
(CRAGFORD) Graveside services for Marilyn Crowder, 74, of Cragford will be Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, at 2 p.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens with Chris Gay and Pastor Jamie Taylor officiating. Ms. Crowder died Monday, Oct. 21, at West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange. A Reno, Nev., native, Ms. Crowder was born on March 1, 1939,…
(DAYTON, Ohio) Claud Bell Sr., 76, of Dayton died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at H.H. Roberts Mortuary with the Rev. Jamison Hunter officiating. The family will receive friends from 10-11 a.m. Interment will be at Dayton National Cemetery. He was born Dec. 30, 1936, in…
Ashland is the next destination point for an historic traveling exhibit from Washington, D.C. that begins Nov. 2 and runs through Christmas Day. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Old Adams Drugstore on the square in downtown Ashland. In conjunction with the exhibit, the City of Ashland…
Handley High School Drama Department will perform the Hans Christian Andersen story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” next week. All Roanoke City Schools elementary children from kindergarten through sixth grade will see the show. There will be one evening performance of this timeless tale of vanity and deceit. A performance will be offered on Tuesday night,…
Mayor Mike Fisher said he had received several calls about what alcohol taxes were bringing in, so he would announce what has been brought in from April to September. Alcohol taxes for liquor, beer and wine are $50,202.99 so far. Business licenses to sell alcohol are $5,924. The lost revenue that went to dry counties…
Engineer Greg Thompson announced to the Roanoke Water, Sewage, Gas, and Filter Plant Board at its Monday meeting that, “I’m going to be changing jobs. This is my last day with AME.” He has worked for the board at least 10 years as the local representative of Alabama Municipal and Environmental Engineers, Inc. and is…
POSTPONEMENT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having being made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Carron Meadows Sparks, a single woman, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), as nominee for Pensacola Guarantee Mortgage, dated June 15, 2007, and recorded June 27, 2007, in Mortgage Book…
Southern Union’s Theater Department will present the Oscar Wilde satire, Lady Windermere’s Fan, on Oct. 22, 23, 24 and 26, at 7 p.m. in Brazeal Auditorium on SU’s Wadley Campus. First published in 1893, Wilde’s comedy ridicules the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage. The story revolves around Lady Windermere’s belief that her husband…
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE ALABAMA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Default having been made pursuant to the terms of that certain mortgage executed by Daniel E. Gunter and Katrina D. Gunter, wife and to New South Federal Savings Bank, dated March 4, 1999, said mortgage being recorded in Book 378, Page 126 in the Office of the…
RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE OF SARAH EADY BROWN, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 15th day of Oct., 2013, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of the Probate Court of Randolph County, notice is…
The other day I watched grown women dressed in evening gowns go for a sunset swim in the Gulf of Mexico. Let me explain, if I can. If you are one of my regular readers you may recall that in July, my 97-year old mother had a fall, and after…
Each night before I retire, I place my walking cane in a place where I can retrieve it easily. I place my hearing aid in its battery recharger. I place my partials in an overnight receptacle, and my eyeglasses on the bedside table. I don’t undress for bed; I disassemble. This nightly ritual would be…
Gov. Bentley has requested Atty. Gen. Luther Strange open an investigation into the questionable activities unveiled by forensic auditors who have been probing financial problems at Alabama State University in Montgomery (ASU). The attorney general, however, has properly shifted that duty to the district attorney of the 24th Judicial Circuit in northwest Alabama, Chris McCool,…
It’s put up or shut up time for three county football teams as Wadley, Woodland and Handley will take the field Friday with their playoff lives on the line. It would be an admirable accomplishment for teams that have had their share of struggles this season, but that’s a glass-is-half-full assessment. In an anomaly of…
After losing two straight games in heartbreaking fashion, Woodland head coach Larry Strain figured it was time to change things up a little bit. Woodland won the coin toss at the beginning of the game, and instead of his typical practice of deferring to the second half, Strain opted to take the ball first. The…
The RCHS Tigers snapped a four game losing streak with a dominant 38-0 win over Horseshoe Bend Friday. Elijah McFarland’s first pass of the game was intercepted, but the quarterback bounced back to have a productive night as he completed 6-of-8 passes for 70 yards and a touchdown and rushed four times for 20 yards…
Handley head coach Mike Battles admitted it would have taken one thing for his team to beat Dadeville Friday. “Perfection,” he said. The Tigers didn’t get it, however, as they fell to ninth-ranked Dadeville 40-0. “They’ve got a good football team. We knew it coming in,” Battles said. “Against tough football teams you’ve got to…
Wadley scored the game’s first touchdown, but the Bulldogs were not able to sustain that success as they fell to Loachapoka 41-6 on Friday. The win gives Loachapoka the region title and puts Wadley in a must-win situation this week at Notasulga. If the Bulldogs lose to Notasulga they will be eliminated from playoff contention.…