(WARNER ROBINS, Ga.) William D. “Smitty” Smith Sr., 91, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011.Memorial services were at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, at McCullough Funeral Home.Mr. Smith was born Sept. 28, 1919, in Carrollton, Ga. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II, and was retired civil service from Robins…
(TUSCALOOSA) Eunice B. Cooley, 85, died Friday, Aug. 5, at her residence. Services were at Usrey Brown-Service Funeral Home Monday, Aug. 8, at 10 a.m. Dr. Curtis Kelley officiated. Burial was at Pine Hill Memorial Park. Cooley was born and raised in Wedowee in a family of five girls and three boys. She married and…
(DECATUR) Graveside services for Vennie Spradlin Garner, 89, of Decatur will be Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, at 2 p.m. at Noon Day Christian Church, Wedowee. Mrs. Garner died Saturday, Aug. 6, at Falkville Health Care Center. Mrs. Garner was born Jan. 18, 1922, the daughter of Robert Seburn and Alice Maudie Bolt Spradlin. She was…
(ALEXANDER CITY) John Tomas “Tom” Radney of Alexander City died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. A native of Wadley, born June 18, 1932, he graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor of science in education and a master’s in history in 1952. He earned a juris doctorate from the University of Alabama in 1955 and was…
WELCH–A high-speed chase followed a burglary in the Welch community of northern Chambers County and resulted in the arrest of three suspects. Chambers County Sheriff Sid Lockhart reported that on Thursday, Aug. 4, deputies responded to a burglary call in the Welch community. The victim gave an accurate description of the vehicle, and deputies notified…
(JACKSON, Ga.) Larry Hugh Wilson, 67, of Jackson, Ga., died Aug. 2, 2011. Funeral services for Larry will be Saturday, Aug. 6, at 11 a.m. EDT at Bethany Baptist Church in McDonough, Ga., with the Rev. Al O’Quinn officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Larry was born in Roanoke, the son of the…
(LaFAYETTE) Carter Heard 83, of LaFayette died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, at George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley. The funeral will be Monday, Aug. 8, at noon at Pine Grove United Methodist Church in Five Points wiht the Rev. Cecilia Broome officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Mr. Heard was born Jan.…
(OPELIKA) Dallas M. McLendon, 83, of Opelika was born in Wedowee on Aug. 14, 1928, and died at her home on Aug. 4, 2011. She was a member of Shady Grove Christian Church. She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Van McLendon; two sisters, Estelle Hart and Melvaline Whittington; three brothers, X.E. Mitchell,…
(ANNISTON) Funeral services for Anna L. Grady Sims, 75, of Anniston will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, at Murray Temple CME of Anniston with Thoughts and Expressions with pastor Cleveland Moore of Murray Temple CME and pastor Carlton Phillips of Friendship Baptist Church. Burial will be in Dogwood Trails Memorial Gardens in…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Terri Lynn Exum, 59, of Roanoke will be at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Frank Foster Jr. and Chris Mitchell officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens. Mrs. Exum died Aug. 4 at East Alabama Medical Center. Mrs. Exum was born Sept.…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Terresa Halsey Cummings, 48, of Roanoke will be at 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011, at Welcome Home Baptist Church with the Revs. J.D. Bearden, Billy Puckett, Ricky Cummings and Dr. Jim Gunnill officiating. Mrs. Cummings will lie in state at the church one hour before the service. Burial will follow…
Regardless of what happens to the closed and bankrupt Randolph Medical Center, Roanoke citizens can expect to see a medical facility opening here. Regional Medical Center (RMC) of Anniston, which earlier this year bought the Roanoke Rural Health Clinic from Randolph Medical Center and now operates it, has plans to build another facility here. RMC…
Parents looking to buy back to school items can save substantially this weekend during the sales tax holiday. So can anyone who needs clothes, shoes, notebooks, pens or computers. The sales tax holiday runs from 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 5, to midnight on Sunday, Aug. 7, just days from the August 11, start of school…
The work on renovating and enlarging the Roanoke Senior Center on the site of the old swimming pool building on West Point Street is complete except for the final walk through. It is not considered finished until the “punch list” is done and there is a final inspection. Then, a ribbon cutting/grand opening will be…
Beginning this week, The Lighthouse Soup Kitchen will open a satellite location in Wedowee on a trial basis. “We have known that the need was there ever since we opened our kitchen in Roanoke, and our goal has been to see it accomplished,” Linda Hurst said. She is director of the program in Roanoke. Every…
“If we’re going to be in the business, we have to provide suitable dumpsters,” said Commissioner Doyle Allen. He made the motion to purchase some new dumpsters for approximately $19,000, to be paid for with capital improvement funds. This will have to be bid out. Commissioner June Waldrep wanted to renovate the old dumpsters by…
Randolph County Schools and Roanoke City Schools all will begin on Thursday, Aug. 11. Both schools systems have scheduled a number of orientations and open houses to prepare students, parents and faculty for the new school year, some taking place this week. For a complete schedule of activities at each school see the August 3…
From Roanoke, Alabama to Arcadia, Wisconsin, a search of newspaper web sites turns up numerous stories of rural hospitals in trouble. In the cases of Roanoke and Arcadia those stories tell of the closings of their hospitals. We naturally feel we deserve to have a full-service hospital–because we always have. Randolph County Hospital (Randolph Medical…
This past week The Birmingham News editorialized about the obscene practice Alabama and a few other states still have, which forces judicial candidates to raise money to be elected and then allows them to rule on court cases that involve those from whom the judges have sought and received campaign money. The practice simply does…
I hereby take an oath that after this column I will not write about Michelle Bachmann’s announcement that after praying she got “a sense from God” that she should run for president of these United States. Besides, she is from Minnesota, and what little I know about religion in that state comes from Garrison Keillor’s…