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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1972
Page
13
This morning Keller Memorial Bridge river reading was 20.08 with sea level at 554.38. Sunday’s high 94 at 3 pm and low 68, average 81. Today partly cloudy and warm with 50 percent rain chance this afternoon. Extended outlook shows scattered thundershowers mainly north Wednesday and Thursday with highs in the upper 80s and lows in the mid to upper 60s.
Funeral services for John Wesley Corbin aged 54 will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Guntharp Funeral Home Chapel with Robert Slack and C. L. Mitchell presiding. Burial follows in Roselawn Cemetery. Survivors include widow Ossie Mae Corbin of Decatur, a step-daughter Elsie Mae Spain of Decatur, two step-sons Robert Cowan of Muncie Indiana and William Cowan of Decatur, sister Gussie Po indexter of Natchez Mississippi, and ten step-grandchildren.
Funeral services for 78 year old Mrs. Ethel M. Lovelady of Miami Florida who died Saturday were scheduled for Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Guntharp Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Decatur Cemetery. Surviving are husband W V Lovelady three sons W V Lovelady Jr Garlon Lovelady Hugh Lovelady a daughter Martha Jane McCowing a brother Arthur McCord and a sister Bernice Loggins Pallbearers were Phil Mitchell James Ratliff Herbert Neher E B Rainey Charles Mitchell and Horace Mitchell.
Default on March 31 1959 mortgage by Grover F Bice and Margaret K Bice to Realty Company recorded in Morgan County Alabama. National Life Insurance Company as transferee will sell Lot 2 Block 3 Western Gardens Subdivision at public outcry to highest bidder for cash September 15 1972 at Decatur courthouse. Federal tax liens subject. Proceeds go to debt and foreclosure costs. Attorneys THOMAS TALIAFERRO FORMAN BUSA MURRAY.
A long list of admissions and dismissals at Decatur General and related hospitals. Names include James M Jones, Sheila Maxwell, Adley Johnson, Mona Lisa Harvell, Thomas Wilson Sr, Renee (judge), Maggie Shikle, Clarence Copeland, Ronald Morgan, Pamela Hin, Audie Wulf, Rebecca Ann Smith, Gary Pollard, Mrs Mahion Dean and many others across Decatur Athens Hartselle Cullman Hillsboro Trinity and surrounding areas. Births noted for Decatur General Hospital include several couples.
An ABA public service feature discusses how age and frailty affect will validity. It cites a 90 year old father and an 86 year old woman, noting courts may doubt competence but often preserve the elderly decedent’s testament. It emphasizes prudent estate planning and potential tax or cost issues when no will exists.
Kay DeKalb of Hartsette Alabama will arrive in Atlanta August 29 for the Miss National Teenager Pageant. She was Miss Congeniality at Miss Alabama Teenager in Montgomery last February and will compete on September 1 after a five day pageant with rehearsals tours of underground Atlanta and greeting ceremonies with Mayor Sam Massell. The Morgan County High School graduate and former cheerleader will attend Samford University.
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