Over the past couple of weeks I’ve taken a preliminary look at how the SEC East and West divisions might shape up this season. Today, I want to look at the players who are going to make that happen. This week the SEC football Media Days are taking place and at the end of the…
(COLLEGE PARK, Ga.) Hazel Ward of College Park, Ga., died Tuesday, July 17, 2012. She was 88. Funeral services will be Thursday, July 19, at 2 p.m. EDT at Bethlehem Campground UMC in Graham, Ala. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday, July 18, from…
BOWDON, Ga.) Stanley Alexander Nuckolls of Bowdon, Ga., died Monday, July 16, 2012. He was 64. Memorial services will be at Midway Community Church on Dot Road in Bowdon on Thursday, July 19, 2 p.m. EDT. The Rev. Couch Whitley will officiate and Jake Holloway will offer a eulogy. Prior to the memorial service, Mr.…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Erika Elizabeth Ivey, 20, of Roanoke will be at 2 p.m., Thursday, July 19, 2012, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Steve Dean officiating. Burial will follow in Cedarwood Cemetery. Miss Ivey died Tuesday, July 17, at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. Miss Ivey was born May 24, 1992, the daughter…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Billy Joe Smith, 81, of LaGrange, Ga., died Monday, July 16, 2012, at Florence Hand Nursing Home. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday at Hunter Allen Myhand Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Lane Farley and Sonny Kent officiating. Interment will follow in Shadowlawn Cemetery. Mr. Smith was born Dec.…
(PALMETTO, Ga.) Flay Serl Richardson, 75, of Palmetto, Ga., formerly of Roanoke, died July 10, 2012, at Country Gardens Assisted Living Facility. A memorial service was at 2 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 15, at the funeral home. He was a U.S. Army veteran and was a Local #85 Sheet Metal Union employee. Survivors include…
(WOODLAND) Funeral services for Melinda Ann Holloway Nolen, 47, of Woodland will be Monday, July 16, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with Rev. Donald Spradlin officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, Wedowee. Mrs. Nolen died Friday, July 13, at Wedowee Hospital. Mrs. Nolen was born April 29, 1965,…
(FRANKLIN, Ga.) Annette Adamson Massa, 77, of Franklin, Ga., died at her home on Saturday, July 14, 2012. Funeral services for Mrs. Massa will be Tuesday, July 17, at 2 p.m. at Tom Stutts and Son Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Lynn Janney officiating. The interment will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens in Rock…
(HEFLIN) Ralph Edward Hicks, 71, died Thursday, July 12, 2012, at Regional Medical Center. Memorial services will be held at Macedonia Church, 123 County Rd. 927, Heflin, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 17. Mr. Hicks a native of Vance, and had been a resident of Randolph and Cleburne counties for the past 14 years.…
(ALABASTER) George Michael Williamson, 65, of Alabaster died July 11, 2012. His hometown visitation, funeral service and Masonic burial were Saturday, July 14, at Pleasant Grove Christian Church in the Union Hill community. Mike was born in Troup County, Ga., and grew up in LaFayette, Ala. In 1973 he and his wife Royce relocated to…
(ALABASTER) Wilma Jane Morrison Patterson, born Nov. 16, 1947, died July 6, 2012, at Chandler Health and Rehab in Alabaster. She is survived by her daughters and son-in-law, Jerrie Patterson and Linda Patterson and husband Billy Anderson, all of Pelham; two grandchildren; sisters, Ann Morrison of Gulf Shores and Arlene Pace of Bremen, Ga. Ms.…
In a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Opelika, District Judge Russell Bush ruled there was sufficient evidence to send the case against Desmonte Leonard in front of a grand jury. Desmonte Leonard was arrested in connection with the June 9 shooting deaths of Roanoke native and former Auburn football player Ladarious Phillips, former Auburn football player…
At approximately 8:45 Thursday morning one side of a cable bridge on the SIFAT (Servants In Faith And Technology) campus between Wedowee and Lineville failed, causing that part of the bridge to fall into Mad Indian Creek and resulting in injuries to several young people who were on the bridge. Apparently someone’s shoe fell over…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Iris Cline Duffie, 82, of Roanoke will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, July 14, 2012, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Bud Stiltner and Billy Watts officiating. Burial will follow in Levens Baptist Church Cemetery, Wedowee. Mrs. Duffie died Wednesday, July 11, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Mrs. Duffie…
PERU, Ill. – Nelda Lorene Naumann, 89, Peru, Ill., formerly of Granville, Ill., died Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at Manor Court, Peru. Her funeral was at 2 p.m. Friday, June 22, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Peru. The Rev. Roger Helgren officiated. Burial was in Granville Cemetery. Nelda was born Aug. 1, 1922, at home in…
LAKE WEDOWEE–A Lake Wedowee home was destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon. According to Barfield Volunteer Fire Department Chief Rusty Miller, the home belonged to Dianne Craft of County Road 2811, which is in west-central Randolph County near Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. It was reported at around 2 p.m. Craft told firefighters she turned a…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Emory Joe Mapp, 69, of Roanoke will be at 2 p.m., Thursday, July 12, 2012, at Fellowship Baptist Church with the Revs. Shannon Mapp and Ben Milam officiating. Mr. Mapp will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining church cemetery. Mr.…
You may have seen John Houston in passing as you drive through downtown Roanoke. He is busy working and explaining to the crew how certain tasks should be done. A Roanoke native delivered by Dr. Chester Primm, he now lives in Malone. And despite the incredible Southern heat, he is glad to have his job…
“Randolph County Animal Shelter has reached a huge milestone in its five years of operation! On July 3rd we had our 1000th and 1001st adoptions,” manager Debbie Moncrief said. Marjorie Medsker and her sister, Charlotte Folkening, made the nine-hour drive from their home in Indianapolis, Ind. to Wedowee to adopt Broc, a three-month-old Black Mouth…
City elections will be coming up quickly with July 17 at 5 p.m. the deadline to qualify across the county. A surprise qualification was Wadley Mayor Jim Dabbs, who was counting the days until he left office but has changed his mind about running. “I just had so many people ask me to run again.…