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It’s January 2018, and that means many Americans are already several days into their New Year’s resolutions. However, it’s never too late to make changes toward a more productive year. Make Money Matter Save for the Holidays Why Now? As of January 1, there are 357 shopping days left until Christmas 2018. Teach kids about money Why now? Children as young as 9 or 10 can list the back-to-school items they want to buy and ther prices. Compare the total to what you are willing to spend. Establish a budget for the season and tell kids they can spend...
Cleo Bolar, 67, of Atlanta, formerly of Atmore, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 at Wellstar Hospital in Douglasville, Ga. Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date with Turner Funeral Chapel....
The Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office is currently investigating the death of a Mobile County resident who apparently died after being shot by a friend while hunting. Officers were dispatched to the hunting club property off Prestwood Bridge Road in the Huxford community about 9 a.m. Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies and officers with Alabama Game and Fish are investigating the incident. See Thursday's edition of the Tri-City Ledger for more details....
Marilyn Edwards Branch, 68. died Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 in Fairhope, Ala. Mrs. Branch was a native of New Orleans and former resident of Bratt, Fla. who has resided in Atmore for the past 48 years. Employed as bookkeeper at the Presbyterian Church of Atmore, she was a member of the Bratt First Baptist Church. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 17, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Delbert Redditt officiating. Burial followed at Godwin Cemetery with Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Branch is survived...
Lena Byrd, 73, of Huxford, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 in Mobile. Mrs. Byrd was born September 2, 1944 to Frank Wallace and Mandy Heatcote Johnson and was a homemaker. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 10, at Sullivan Cemetery with Sis. Helen Stewart officiating. Burial followed with Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Byrd is survived by one son, James “Jimmy” Byrd, Jr., of Atmore; two daughters, Ann Johnson and Louise Johnson Brown; one sister, Maxine Johnson Welch of Rabon, Ala.; and six grandchildren. Mrs. Byrd was pre...
Alan Blake Clark, Sr., 70, died Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 in Mobile. Mr. Clark was a native of Pensacola and spent most of his life in Gulf Breeze and Pensacola, and has resided in Booneville, Ala., for the past 13 years. He was of the Methodist faith. Mr. Clark is survived by one son, Alan Blake (Rikki English Clark) Clark, Jr. of Booneville; one daughter, Angelique B. Clark of Booneville; and seven grandchildren. Mr. Clark was preceded in death by his wife, Debbie Clark; his parents, Albert and Lillian Clark; and other extended family members....
Melvin Findley, 85, died Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 in Pensacola. Mr. Findley was a native and lifelong resident of Century. He was an RN for 35 years with various local hospitals and nursing homes and a member of Poplar Dell Baptist Church. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 14, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral home with Rev. Mitch Herring officiating. Burial followed at Flomaton Cemetery with Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home directing. Mr. Findley is survived by two daughters, Brenda Jernigan of Byrneville, Fla. and Cathy (Jack)...
Glenda Kay Gilliam, 66, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Mrs. Gilliam was a lifelong resident of the Bay Minette and Perdido area. She was a retired from Vanity Fair as a seamstress for many years, and a member of Hall's Fork Assembly of God Church. The funeral was held at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 13, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral home with Pastor Shawn Major and Sis. Helen Stewart officiating. Burial followed at White Cemetery with Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Gilliam is survived by her husband of 47 years, Larry Gilliam of...
Bobbie Maurine Sims Hadley, 87, died Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 in Mobile. Mrs. Hadley was born Oct. 5, 1930, in Potts Camp, Miss. Raised in Huxford, Ala., she finished high school and moved to Miami where she worked at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in the dietary department. She later moved back to Atmore, where she became employed at Greenlawn Hospital as the manager of the food service department. Working many years in hospitals and nursing homes, she retired. After retirement, she became a cafeteria manager for a new school in Baldwin County for...
Bobby Paul “Big Man” Morrison, 55, of Frisco City, Ala., died Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 in Monroeville. Mr. Morrison was born Feb. 26, 1962, to Waymon and Betty Mae Pearson Morrison in Atmore. A member of Crosspoint Church, the was employed as a truck driver most of his life and was an avid mule skinner. The funeral was held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 6, at Crosspoint Church with Pastor J.T. Guyton officiating. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery with Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home directing. Mr. Morrison is survived by his wife, Genie Womack Mor...
Stephany Marie Kizer Peterson, 51, died Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018 in Perdido Key, Fla. Mrs. Peterson was born September 29, 1966 to James P. and Marie Kizer at U.S. Marine Corps Air base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The family moved from Hawaii to California, then to assignments in the U.S. and Vietnam, California, North Carolina and Virginia over the next 12 years, spending much of their summers in Atmore. Her father retired in 1978 and the family moved to Atmore, where she attended Escambia County Middle School then Escambia County High School....
Mitzie Forte Pimperl, 85, of Bay Minette, died Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. Mrs. Pimperl was born Nov. 1, 1932, to Lonnie and Jessie Bryars Forte in Baldwin County. A homemaker, she was a member of Perdido Baptist Church. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 7, at Atmore Memorial Chapel with Bro. Henry Wilson officiating. Burial followed at Perdido Baptist Cemetery with Atmore Memorial Chapel directing. Mrs. Pimperl is survived by four sons, John Pelham (Judy) Pimperl and Timothy Byron (Laurie) Pimperl and Elliot Tremaine (Amy) Pimperl,...
Betty Jean Price, 75, of Flomaton, died Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 in Pensacola. Mrs. Price was born in Century and had been a resident of the Flomaton community where she was a homemaker and member of Little Escambia Baptist Church who was also a talented seamstress. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 15, at Little Escambia Baptist Church with Rev. Jonathan Hill and Dr. Larry Patterson officiating. Burial followed at Little Escambia Church Cemetery with Flomaton Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Price is survived by one son, Jonathan Price of...
Kathryn Lee Reynolds, 89, of Atmore, died Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018 in Pensacola. Mrs. Reynolds was born Aug. 11, 1928, to Oliver Eugene and Drusilla Lee Knight in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A homemaker, she was of the Christian faith. The funeral was held at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 6, at Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Sonny Willingham officiating. Burial followed at Serenity Gardens with Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Reynolds is survived by two sons, Earl (Bobbie) Reynolds and Christopher Allen Reynolds, both of Atmore;...
Infant Myles Rusty Kaufmann died shortly after Dec. 31, 2018. Infant Kaufmann was born Dec. 31, 2018 to Rusty and Stacia Kaufmann in Little Rock, Ark. A memorial service was held on Friday, Jan. 5, at Southern Harbor Mennonite Church in Davisville with Min. Verle Peters officiating. Infant Kaufmann is survived by his parents of Walnut Hill; two grandparents, Galen and Rosalie Schmidt, of Walnut Hill; and five great-grandparents....
Warlords, gun battles and dead Americans in Mexican border towns. The story may sound like a headline from the newspapers or cable news networks but it actually happened nearly 100 years ago during the Mexican Revolution which was endured by our neighbors south of the border. The spill over effect of the war brought the United States Army into northern Mexico and made Pancho Villa, Black Jack Pershing and George Patton household names. Francisco “Pancho” Villa, was born in 1877 in San Juan del Rio, State of Durango, Mexico. Villa was rep...
If you have any interest at all in your family history I suggest that you start talking to the older members of your family, they will be the one best sources of your family history. Along with talking to family members and using the tools available on the internet such as websites and computer programs, also try the DNA. If you do try the DNA besides doing the test on yourself you might want to get others in your family tested. I got my mother a test after I did mine and her results are a good bit different from mine. I was able to find severa...
The most important things required to sustane life are air, food and water. We have a maximum of three minutes without air, being without food mostly depends on how much the body can feed off itself, but being without water usually causes the giving up of the ghost around a week or so at the most. I don't want to test any of those things. As a child of intense curosity I did try holding my breath to see if it would kill me. It didn't, but I saw gnats behind my eyelids before I stopped and staggered about. Mama slapped my thighs into running. My...
Barring weather delays, Chuck Day said he hopes to drop the first green flag at the Tri-County Speedway on April 14 at his new dirt track, located at the intersection of Highway 31 and Old Highway 31 in the Pollard-McCall area. Day said his plans for the 29-acre spot call for multiple uses, that could include carnivals, rodeos and more. "It's going to be family oriented fun for the entire area," Day said. He said his plans are to hold 12 car races a year, with five classes of cars, at the new...
Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff Grover Smith was one of 49 sheriffs across the state named in a lawsuit claiming the sheriffs have refused to produce public records to see whether or not the sheriffs personally profited from funds they received to feed inmates in their county jails. When contacted Wednesday, Sheriff Smith said he has not seen a copy of the lawsuit. The suit was filed Jan. 5 by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. Smith said...
Flomaton residents made their annual march along Martin Luther King Drive Monday morning to honor to Dr. King's birthday. Cities across the area took pause Monday to pay tribute to Dr. King and his dream of racial quality. For more, see Page 7-A....
Makayla Smith, aka 'Flomo Klown' and 'Shoota Cllown', pleaded guilty to one count of making a terrorist threat and will avoid jail time, but will be on probation for 60 months with the stipulation that she is banned from social media during her probation period. Smith was 22-years old when she and three juveniles were arrested in September, 2016, when threats were made on Facebook that forced a lockdown of Flomaton schools and put other schools on high alert. Smith was arrested along with a...
“Jay can take a step back and allow its minions to make phone calls,” was the statement made by Pace resident and Jay business owner Lori Elder to council members Tuesday night at Jay's council meeting. Elder is referring to her attempts to get the permits required by Santa Rosa County, she said she was told that 'Jay has its own way of doing things' by employees in Milton and felt she is “being railroaded” by Jay council members while she has been trying for five years to open Opie's, a coffe...
Where's some of that global warming when you need it? The past few days have been brutal. I talk a lot about being prepared for hurricanes. The same can be said about winter storms that most of us are not used to. The difference between the hurricane and the winter storm is you're not going to freeze to death when a hurricane hits. A friend of mine, who lives in Birmingham, got stuck about 10 to 15 years ago when a winter storm put its grip on the city and he lost electricity in a house that...
Housing and feeding inmates has been an issue since we began housing and feeding inmates. It's like everything in government, we want criminals behind bars but we don't want to pay to keep them there. Feed them bread and water and make them turn big rocks into little rocks with a sledge hammer. That's fiction, not reality Sheriff Grover Smith is one of 49 Alabama sheriffs who has been named in a lawsuit claiming he's not turning over documents that show whether or not he personally gained from leftover money intended to feed inmates. That quest...
