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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1968
Page
3
Funeral services for Mrs. Lona Jean Craig 82 of 710 S Main St who died Tuesday in Lawrence County Hospital will be announced by Elliott Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Dutton 75 of Hartselle will be at Mt. Tabor Methodist Church with Peck Funeral Home directing burial in the adjoining cemetery. Survivors include five daughters and four sons with 39 grandchildren and 42 great grandchildren. She was a Mt. View Baptist Church member. Pallbearers will be grandsons.
Funeral services for Estelle Hensley 70 of Falkville will be at 2 30 p m today at Eastside Baptist Church Falkville with Rev Perry Speegle and Rev Esse Estes officiating Burial will be in Lebanon Cemetery Peck directing Survivors include sister Dora Gibson three nephews E C Gibson W P Gibson Albert Gibson a niece Lorene Gibson a great niece Mrs Sarah Widner and three great nephews Herman Gibson Howard Gibson and Billy Ray Gibson plus 12 great great nephews and nieces Pallbearers listed as Herman Gibson Cecil Widner Arville Ralph Bill Maxwell Bud Garnett Gerald Halbrooks Hensley a Morgan County native had lived in Virginia 37 years.
Funeral services for David Franklin Harrison, 74, of 1219 West Market Street Athens, were held at 2 p.m. today at Market Street Church of Christ with A J Rollings and Donald Osborne officiating. Burial followed in Rose Hill. Mrs Flossie C Harrison, Athens, is his widow. Survived by three daughters Dore ne Elders Athens, Katherine Griggs Elkmont, Betty Harrison Athens. two grandchildren and three great grandchildren. a brother O J Harrison of Lester.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Oden 81 of Eva were held at Rock Creek Baptist Church with Rev. Vernon Smallwood officiating. She died Tuesday at a local aging home. Burial followed in the Rock Creek Cemetery. Survivors include seven children, four brothers and four sisters.
Mayor J Gilmer Blackburn proclaims August 15 Youth Day in Decatur to honor the Christian folk musical Good News by the Senior High Choir of First Baptist Church. The free 8 p.m. performance at Decatur High School Auditorium is sponsored by the Good News Committee as part of a summer Indiana tour.
The Rev. John Appleton age 33, pastor of Opelika First Baptist Church, is named director of the student program for the Alabama Baptist State Convention. The executive board approved a 1969 budget of 6.58 million dollars, mostly for world missions.
The Baldwin County sheriff's office reported a 17 year old from Tensaw drowned Tuesday at Boat Yard Lake near Tensaw Alabama.
Variable cloudiness with warm humid conditions. Widely scattered showers and a few thundershowers today tonight and Thursday. Winds under 10 mph, gusty near storms. Rain chances 40 today 20 tonight and Thursday. Highs 86 to 90 today and 92 to 96 Thursday. Low 70 to 74 tonight. Sunset 7:51 p.m. Sunrise 5:58 a.m. Arcturus and Spica visible in western sky.
River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 21.26. Sea level reading 555.56. TVA lake levels include Chickamauga 680-6 Pickwick 412.5 Guntersville 593.6 Whitesburg 556.9 Wheeler 555.7 Wilson 506.1. Tuesday high 88 at 3:30 p.m. low 73 at 3 a.m. today. Temperature at 8:15 a.m. today 80 with rain recorded later.
Daily Records notes births: Mr and Mrs Ronnie McNutt Mont ton have a son at Lawrence County Hospital. Mr and Mrs Vernon Horton Town Creek also have a son at Lawrence County Hospital. Mr and Mrs W C Bates welcome a daughter at Cullman Hospital. Indians Study Abroad survey shows nearly 20 000 Indians abroad for study in science with most in the United States Britain and West Germany.
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