Obituaries for Wednensday, Jan. 23, 2008
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Mr. Guinn Allen
&8220;Sandy&8221; Sanderson
Jones &8212; Mr. Guinn Allen &8220;Sandy&8221; Sanderson, 83, died
Jan. 19, 2008.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Irma Jean Sanderson; grandson, John Blue; great-grandson, Taylor McFadden; and brothers, Darrell Sanderson and Thomas Sanderson.
Surviving are his sons, David A. (Ann) Sanderson, Charles K. (Judy) Sanderson and Wesley (Julie) Sanderson; daughters, Stephanie (Danny) Blue, Marcia Ezelle and Melvia (Dwayne) McKinley; brother, Lafayette (Frances) Sanderson; 16 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, in the chapel of Selma Funeral Home with the Rev. Walter Johnson officiating.
Interment will be in New Live Oak Cemetery with Selma Funeral Home directing.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be Rusty Headley, James Frederick, Jackie DeLoach, Josh Locke, Scott Burt, Gerald Jordan, Joseph Bedsole and Justin McKinley.
Mr. Sanderson enjoyed hunting, fishing, playing the harmonica and juice harp.
He was a longtime employee of Bush Hog LLC.
He served in the U. S. Army and was a World War II veteran.
He was a member of the American Legion Post 1983.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to Jones Baptist Church Building Fund, P. O. Box 7, Jones, AL
36749.
Please visit http://www.selmafuneralhome.com to make online condolences to the family.
Mrs. Alva Lee
Burnsville &8212; Memorial services for Mrs. Alva Lee Lansdell, a retired health care worker, will be held at a later date.
Mrs. Lansdell, 76, died Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, at Regency Hospital of Meridian, Miss.
Survivors include three daughters, Gloria Wallis of Town Creek, Donna Bryant and husband, Steve, of Burnsville, and Pamela Terry and husband, Mike, of Fayette; one son, Charles Lansdell and wife, Stephanie, of Hartselle; 12 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two sisters
Jimmie Wilson of Decatur, and Martha Smith of California.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Alvin and Effie Williams; and sister, Elosie Osburn.
Final entrusted to Barham Funeral Home, Meridian, Miss.
Ms. Betty Pernell
Ms. Betty Pernell, 45, died on Saturday, Jan.
19, 2008, at Jackson Hospital, Montgomery.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date by Miller Funeral Service.
Ms. Mary E. Adams
Ms. Mary E. Adams, 45, died on Sunday, Jan.
20, 2008, at Vaughan Regional Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date by Miller Funeral Service.
Mrs. Sara Gross Alison
Minter &8212; Mrs. Sara Gross Alison, 85, died Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, at a local hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday at St.
Paul&8217;s Episcopal Carlowville, with the Rev. Louis Skipper officiating and Lawrence Brown-Service Funeral Home directing.
Mrs. Alison is survived by her daughters, Ellen Alison Rutherford (Jeff) of Kenner, La., and Charlotte Lockwood Alison of Minter, grandchildren, Sara, Ashley, and Alison Rutherford of Kenner, La., sisters-in-law, Mary Alison of Minter, Evelyn Alison of Minter, Henrietta Boykin (Claude) of Huntsville, goddaughter, Catherine Boykin of Madison, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Lockwood Alison.
Mrs. Alison was a WWII veteran, having served in the Army at the Pentagon and at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center. She was a graduate of the University of Alabama, and taught home economics for several years in Lowndes and Dallas Counties.
Pallbearers will be her nephews.
The family requests no flowers. Memorials may be made to St.
Paul&8217;s Episcopal Church in Carlowville.
Infant Boy Latham
Infant Boy Latham died on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, at Vaughan Regional Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date by Miller Funeral Service.
Mr. Latrel A. Walker
Mr. Latrel A. Walker, 28, resident of Selma, died
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008, at Vaughan Regional Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date by Miller Funeral Service.
Mr. Luther L. Huntington
Mr. Luther L. Huntington, 54, resident of Selma, died Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, at Vaughan Regional Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date by Miller Funeral Service.