Fashion designer, artist, and mentor, Marigail McCreary Mathis, of Florence, Alabama, ended a courageous battle with cancer on April 20, 2010. Known in the Shoals area, in fashion circles, and to her friends simply as "Marigail," her presence will continue to be felt in the many lives she touched. Marigail was born to Bill and Mary Neal McCreary. After two...
Vernon E. Watkins Trinity Vernon E. Watkins, 86, ended his wonderful storytelling days and left his old oak tree in the holler on Sunday, April 18, 2010. He was preceded in death by his wife, Eveline Frances Campbell Watkins, and leaves behind four surviving children, Glenda Pruitt, Hal Watkins, Deborah Watkins and Christle Blair, as well as seven grandchildren, 13...
Mr. Herbert Brown, 96, Vero Beach, FL. Passed away Sunday, April 18, 2010. A graveside service will be held Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM at Florence City Cemetery with full military honors. Officiating will be Rev. Gary Teachey and Mr. Larry Marshall. Herb was a veteran of WWII serving as a 1st Lieutenant, Artillery, United States Army. He...
Mavis Ilean Bates Decatur Funeral for Mavis Ilean Bates, 81, of Decatur will be Thursday, April 22, 2010, at 3 p.m. at Ridout's Brown-Service Funeral Home with Rich Thompson officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Bates, who died Sunday, April 18, 2010, at Summerford Nursing...
Bobbye Sue Hagood Hatton Funeral for Bobbye Sue Hagood, 82, of Hatton will be Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Elliott Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Scotty Brackin officiating. Burial will be in Ferguson Cemetery. Visitation will be two hours prior to the service. Mrs Hagood, who died Sunday, April 18, 2010, was born January 15, 1928, in...
Lucille Washburn Hicks Decatur Funeral for Lucille Washburn Hicks, 91, of Decatur will be Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Ridout's Brown Service Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Johnny Sims officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Hicks, who died Saturday, April 17, 2010, at USA Healthcare,...
Wilfred Dean Spencer Decatur Funeral services for Wilfred D. "Will" Spencer of Decatur will be Friday April 23, 2010, at St John's Episcopal Church with Rector Richard Lawson officiating. Visitation will be 9:30 a.m. in the Parish Hall of the Church, service to begin at 11 a.m. in the Sanctuary. Internment after the service will be held in the garden....
Louise Richardson Lancaster, age 89, passed away on Sunday, April 11, 2010, at Noland Hospital, in Montgomery, AL. Born on March 16, 1921, she was a long-time resident of Florence and a member of Sherrod Avenue Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her husband, Melvin Lancaster, and her mother and stepfather, Margaret & Dumont Moore. Survivors include...
Eugenia "Jean" Sanders, age 90, of Killen, passed away on Friday April 9, 2010 at Shoals Hospital. Funeral service will be on Monday April 12, 2010 at 11 am at Killen First Methodist Church with Bryan McIntyre officiating. The family will receive friends at the church from 10 am until 11 am. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in...
Mrs. Leola Alice Braun Zimmer, born November 1, 1921 in Covington, Louisiana, passed away Friday, April 9, 2010, in Florence, AL. Her family will hold a private service. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Diana and Charles Edward Joubert, of Florence, AL; grandchildren, Andrew and Joan Joubert, of Los Angeles, Ca, and Anne-Marie and Shawn Stacy, of Knoxville,...