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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1949
Page
7
Announcement is made of the engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Ozell Monk of Falkville to Mr. Wilton Fowler of Decatur. The wedding is planned for early July in a rural Alabama community, with both families cited in the notice.
The marriage of Mrs Edna Adams and Mr J Nervis Taylor occurred at the Lakeland Church of Christ in Lakeland Florida with Rev Tom Butler officiating. The reception followed hosted by elders and wives from two Lakeland churches of Christ. Mrs Taylor is a former Cullman County attendance supervisor and Haines City Elementary School teacher.
Miss Jean Legg daughter of Mr and Mrs W H Legg was recently initiated into the Phi Theta Kappa chapter at Athens College.
Marriage licenses listed for multiple couples across Crane Hill Huntsville and nearby towns with names such as Willie Von Kilgo Mary Mavery Nichols and Eva Ann Gray, plus a long Dorothy Dix advice column urging mothers to take vacations from child care to refresh their wearied, constant duties with a proposed substitute caretaking plan.
Mrs Mary Phillips 84 of Gadsden died June 22. Funeral services were held June 24 at 2 p.m. at Emens with Moss Service directing. Interment followed in Emens cemetery.
Funeral services for 76 year old Julia Ann Platt were conducted at Logan Methodist church on June 25 with Rev Richardson and associates officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. She was born May 29, 1873. Surviving are husband J T Plott three sons Willie Walter Plott and Berril Plott and three daughters Mrs Bell Mattox Claudia and Essie Plott.
Funeral services for Sanford Curtis Murphree 50 who died June 24 at 2 p m will be held at Hopewell Sunday June 26 at 2 p m with Rev M Manderson officiating assisted by Rev Gilbert Speake interment will be in Hopewell cemetery Mass service directing Surviving are his wife Mrs Gracie Murphree mother Mrs Martha Murphree one sister Mrs Bebe Lovell Cullman five half brothers Roy Cameron Marvin Cameron Grady Cameron Millard Cameron three brothers John M C ne and Albert Murphree one half sister Mrs Alice Martha For tenberry
Names listed as patients include Mrs. Mary C. Stricklin Gardendale Mrs. Trammel Lloyd Lacon Miss Montez Quick Hanceville M Maxine Moore Addison Mrs H E Ragsdale Cullman 5 and many others. Babies born this week include Brenda Gail Allbright Rhena Gwynelle Ner Barbara Jean Little Keith Martin Jones and more. Named places cover Cullman county plus nearby Baileyton Hanceville and Crane Hill.
Activities include hospital treatments and recoveries in Birmingham at Highland Baptist Hospital and Jefferson Hillman Hospital. Visits and travels noted involve Mrs Wesley Finney, Dr McLesters clinic patient J Robert Rosson, Mr and Mrs Raymond Yost at Gulf Shores, and Mrs W S Leeth heading to Atlanta. Grady Gorham back home after spinal operation at Jefferson Hillman Hospital. Families travel to Florida and Alabama for funerals and visits. Rev Charles Granade granted a year leave due to ill health with Pineapple visit planned.
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