The Woodland Bobcats finished the 2012 season a yard shy of the state semifinals, and they return all but three starters from that team for the upcoming season. Those credentials led to the Bobcats landing at No. 10 in the class 2A preseason football poll published by the Alabama Sports Writers Association last Wednesday.Woodland head…
I like countdowns, mostly because there’s usually something really good at the end of them. For my money there’s nothing like counting backwards and then starting an entirely new year, watching something rocket into space or finding out David Letterman’s No. 1 unsafe toy (“the Hold Your Breath Game, by Milton Bradley”). The summer is…
(ROANOKE) Jonathan Lamar Hendricks, 25, of Roanoke, formerly of Heard County, Ga., died at his home on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. The funeral will be Thursday, Aug. 15, at 2 p.m. at Glenn Baptist Church in Franklin, Ga., with the Revs. Mike Watson and Dennis Meeks officiating. The interment will follow at Big Springs Baptist…
(ROANOKE) Hulda Sims Pike, 68, of Roanoke died Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, at her residence. The funeral will be Thursday, Aug. 15, at 2 p.m. at Fredonia Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Pike was born in Alabama Aug. 24, 1944, to Floyd Hurston and Willie Exa Daniel Sims. She was a…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Alma May, 89, of Roanoke will be Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, at Midway United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wedowee, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Zenus Windsor and Raymond Edmondson officiating. Miss May died Monday, Aug. 12, at Wedowee Hospital after a short illness. A Randolph County native, Miss May was born…
(DOUGLASVILLE, Ga.) Maxine House, 72, of Douglasville, Ga., died Saturday evening, Aug. 10, 2013. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 14, at Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel, Carrollton, Ga., with Dr. John Pennington and the Rev. Danny West officiating. Burial will follow in Lowell Methodist Church Cemetery. Mrs. House was born…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services with military honors for George Dean Pollard, 71, of Roanoke, will be Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, at 10 a.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Frank Foster Jr. officiating. Mr. Pollard died Saturday, Aug. 10, at Wedowee Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Annette H. Pollard of Roanoke; two sons, Dean F.…
(OXFORD) Funeral services for Artis G. Daniel, 81, of Oxford were Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, 2 p.m. in the chapel of Miller Funeral Home. Bishop Jerry Irwin and the Rev. Don Maddox officiated. Burial followed in Forestlawn Gardens. Mrs. Daniel died Friday, Aug. 9, at Meadowview in Pell City. Mrs. Daniel was a native of…
(WOODLAND) Funeral services for Ridley Gladston Prescott, 83, of Woodland will be Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, at Providence Baptist Church with the Revs. Wendell Ford and Tony Morris officiating. Burial will follow in Providence Baptist Cemetery. Mr. Prescott died Thursday, Aug. 8, at his residence. A Randolph County native, Mr. Prescott was born on Sept.…
(BREMEN, Ga.) William Kermit Shadrix, 86, of Bremen, Ga., died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. Memorial services will be Monday, Aug. 12, at 5 p.m. EDT at Hutcheson’s Memorial Chapel. Mr. Shadrix was born in Carroll County, Ga., on May 8, 1926. He was the son of the late Samuel Kemp Shadrix and the late Vera…
(STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.) Charles Ray “Chuck” Simmons died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, in his Stone Mountain, Ga., home. A memorial service for Mr. Simmons will be at Wages and Sons Funeral Home, Stone Mountain, at 11 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 11. Born in St. Louis, Mo., on Nov. 23, 1944, he was the son…
(WEDOWEE) Ben Strickland, 82, of Wedowee died at his home on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. He was born on Aug. 14, 1930, in Cleburne County. Mr. Strickland retired from Carolina Freight. Survivors include his wife, Joyce Strickland; two sons and daughters-in-law, Ronnie and Sue Strickland and Jerry and Becky Strickland; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and…
(BOWDON, Ga.) Luther Neal Beam of Bowdon, Ga., died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. He was 89. The funeral will be Saturday, Aug. 10, at 2 p.m. at Bowdon Baptist Church. Bro. Keith Rammage and Bro. Darryl Jones will officiate. Eulogies will be offered by Luther’s sons, Jack and Larry. Bro. Benny Boggus will provide the…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) James Cecil Langley, 85, of LaGrange, Ga., died on Aug. 6, 2013, at Hospice LaGrange. The funeral will be Friday, Aug. 9, at 2 p.m. EDT at Baptist Tabernacle Church, LaGrange, with the Rev. Jimmy McMillian officiating. Interment will follow at Marseilles Cemetery, West Point, Ga. Mr. Langley was born Dec. 10, 1927,…
(ORANGE PARK, Fla.) Sarabob Parker Londeree, 90, died July 30, 2013. Graveside funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, in the Garden of the Fountain at Jacksonville Memory Gardens, Orange Park, with Pastor Jeff Smith officiating. She was born on March 22, 1923, in Wedowee, but had resided in Orange Park…
BIRMINGHAM) Funeral services for Allen Michael Mitchell, 21, of Birmingham, formerly of Roanoke and Eufaula, will be Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Tim Teague officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. Mr. Mitchell died Tuesday, Aug. 6, at his home. Mr. Allen was born Aug.…
(ROCK HILL, S.C.) Graveside service for Victor Anthony Deaton, 48, of Rock Hill, S.C., will be Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, at 3 p.m. at Darian Cemetery in Daviston. Mr. Deaton died Monday, July 29, at his residence. He was born Nov. 20, 1964. He is survived by his daughter, Tricia and husband of Birmingham; son,…
They’ll go down as the best baseball team Randolph County High School has ever had. As the team kept winning playoff series and getting closer and closer to their wildest dreams becoming reality, their head coach developed a go-to saying that served as motivation. “No one remembers the team that went to the (insert playoff…
During a busy school board meeting last week members viewed the reconfiguration of the Knight Enloe Elementary School entrance, heard a presentation on the annual audit by CPA David Denton and approved personnel changes for the upcoming school year. The board viewed the changes it had approved following last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre…
WEDOWEE–An inmate at Randolph County Jail escaped around noon Saturday, spent part of the night in hiding somewhere and stole a dump truck before being captured less than 48 hours later near Bowdon, Ga. Roger Dale “Monk” Gosdin, 47, was incarcerated for third-degree burglary and first-degree theft. He was working as a trusty doing laundry…