(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Roy Wafe Williamson, 89, of Roanoke will be at 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Larry Armstrong officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens.Mr. Williamson died Sunday, April 3, at Bethany House.Mr. Williamson is survived by his wife, Loree Wilder Williamson of Roanoke;…
(WOODLAND) Beverly Ann Vaughn of Woodland died Saturday, April 2, 2011. She was 57. Graveside funeral services will be Wednesday, April 6, at 2 p.m. EDT at Hillcrest Cemetery in Lanett. Mrs. Vaughn was born in Rock Hill, S.C., on Nov. 14, 1953, to the late Kenneth and Joyce Briscoe. Survivors include her husband, Stephen…
(FIVE POINTS) Funeral services for Roy Oliver Jr., 76, of the Welch community near Five Points will be Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, Welch, with the Rev. Mario McDaniel officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Mr. Oliver died at his residence on Friday, April 1. A Chambers County native,…
(RANBURNE) Lewis James “Jack” Gibbs Jr. of Ranburne died Friday, April 1, 2011. He was 76. Mr. Gibbs was born on March 22, 1935, in Carroll County, Ga., to Lewis Sr. and Flossie Smith Gibbs. He was a poultry farmer by trade. Survivors include his wife, Lillian Daniel Gibbs; his mother, Flossie Gibbs; his children…
(LaFAYETTE) Anthony Lewis Bailey, 31, of LaFayette died Sunday, March 27, 2011, in LaFayette. The funeral will be Tuesday, April 5, at 2 p.m. CDT at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in LaFayette with the Rev. Michael Stiggers, pastor, and minister Willie Eva Hicks officiating. Burial will follow at Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery, Abanda. Mr. Bailey…
(PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.) William Ralph Payne, 72, of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., died Saturday, March 26, 2011. A memorial service will be held in the chapel at Ponte Vedra Valley, Ponte Vedra Beach on Saturday, April 23, at 2 p.m. Following the service there will be a gathering of family and friends to celebrate…
A Roanoke man and two teenagers were injured in a two-vehicle accident on Wednesday morning near Roanoke. According to Alabama State Trooper public information officer Chad Joiner, the accident happened at 9:15 a.m. on Highway 22 at Clark Brothers’ Meats. Barry Joe McManus, 51, of Roopville, Ga., the driver of a 1999 Dodge 3500 dually…
The events at Randolph Medical Center have been a roller coaster ride the past few weeks, and Tuesday night’s called meeting of the board was nothing short of startling. On the advice of Attorney Lee R. Benton, Roanoke Health Care Authority voted to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy and selected him to handle it. The authority…
Last week’s Randolph Medical Center meeting offered some answers to displaced employees, and some success stories seemed to emerge from last week’s job fair. At the meeting a poignant moment was when human resources director Joe Davis, who was fielding many of the questions about retirement, insurance, getting what was needed to file unemployment, answered…
WEDOWEE–Wyolene Sikes of County Road 140, Wedowee, asked the commission during Thursday’s workshop meeting to rescind making it the truck route to Wedowee Quarry on Old Highway 431. She suggested using Old Highway 431 north and south because it was built to take heavier traffic. She also suggested other more direct access to Highway 48…
Work to improve the look of downtown has already begun but work by various groups will begin in earnest over the next two weekends. Any help for these community projects will be appreciated, the groups say. Sara Traylor-Drummond, with help from John Sutton, has already been improving the front corner of the First Baptist Church…
Streets Supervisor Donnie Cash told the city council at Monday’s meeting it would probably be cheaper and easier to not only tear down the old Snax Deli downtown but the buildings adjoining it on either side. If the adjoining parcels are not going to be repaired, he recommended abating them and tearing them down. Snax…
The pots and pans and kitchen utensils stood at ready. But, the Monday morning bustle of preparing lunch was missing. The only activity in the Randolph Medical Center kitchen was the group removing food from the freezers. RMC Department of Human Resources director Joe Davis watched sadly as Linda Hurst and her helpers removed the…
The state of Alabama, like states throughout the country, is in the midst of a budget-cutting exercise unlike any we have seen before. Cuts are coming to agencies and pro-grams that have not seen cuts before, and hundreds of state workers will lose their jobs. Education, accustomed to cuts in the past (proration) will see…
Carl Langley was one of the very few people who knew in advance about my first marriage. I had to cut him in on my plans because he was covering for me at the Aiken (S.C.) Bureau of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Herald during the week I was taking off for the honey-moon. My…
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE ALABAMA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Default having been made in the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jarrod S. Smith and Melanie A. Smith, joint tenants with rights of survivorship, husband and wife to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc acting solely as nominee for Opteum Financial Services, LLC, its successors…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of those mortgages executed by Joyce R. Cantrell on or about May 16, 2005, to First Bank, which said mortgages are recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Volume 480, Pages 754-760…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Greg Alsabrook and wife, Wendy Alsabrook, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Wilmington Finance, Inc., on the 14th day of March, 2006, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Nadine Prescott, an unmarried woman, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Molton, Allen, & Williams Mortgage Co. LLC, on the 9th day of May, 2006, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Glenn S. Hicks, an unmarried man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Avelo Mortgage, L.L.C. d/b/a Senderra Funding, on the 11th day of July, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…