Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1805-1967 - 1814-1935
Billy Junior Peoples
57, food server
TRINITY -- Funeral for Billy Junior Peoples, 57, of Town Creek, will be Friday at noon at Parkway Funeral Home with the Rev. Lenord Nolen the Rev. Bob Coleman officiating.
Burial will be in Emenfield Cemetery in Addison. The family will receive friends tonight from 6 to 9 at the funeral home.
Mr. Peoples died Wednesday, May 16, 2001, at Decatur General Hospital. He was born Jan. 12, 1944, in Lawrence County, to Willie Peoples and Mary Peoples. He was a food distributor at the Wallace Center and was formerly employed at Alabama Pallet Co. in Town Creek. He was a member of Living Faith Holiness Church.
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Peoples; six daughters, Charlotte Jackson of Guntersville, Linnie Peoples of Tennessee, Debbie Cadle of Geraldine, Loretta Peoples of Indiana, Laura Dishaw of Tennessee, Katie Peoples of Florida; six stepsons, Morris Stephens, Stony Stephens, Randy Scott and Tony Scott, all of Hatton, Roger Scott and Bobby Scott, both of Trinity; one stepdaughter, Brenda Kirby of Decatur; his stepmother, Leiler Peoples of Moulton; two brothers, Harlen Peoples of Addison and Hansel Peoples of Tuscaloosa; two sisters, Opal Gibson of Florida and Lorene Mendez of Kalamazoo, Mich.; two half-sisters, Olena Tius of Moulton and Shelby Jean Gibson of Hartselle; one stepbrother, James Gibson of Florida; one stepsister, Marie Borden of Moulton; 19 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and 14 step grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be John Douglas, David Douglas, Ray Parker, Joey Downs, Ronnie Price and Jimmy Kirby.
Eltie Malone Wallace
83, homemaker
TUSCUMBIA -- Funeral for Eltie Malone Wallace, 83, of Cherokee, was to be today at 2 p.m. at Harris Chapel Baptist Church of Cherokee with the Rev. Jeff Davis and the Rev. Morris Kennedy officiating.
Burial will be in Harris Chapel Cemetery with Morrison Funeral Home directing. The body will be in the church one hour before the service.
Mrs. Wallace died Tuesday, May 15, 2001, at her home. She was born July 13, 1917, in Colbert County to Pleas Vincent Malone and Lottie Burns Malone. She was a homemaker and a member of Harris Chapel Baptist Church. She was the widow of Albert Lee Wallace and the great-grandmother of Zackery Wallace and Daniel Ray.
Survivors include two sons, Jimmy Wallace of Cherokee and Albert Wallace Jr. of Decatur; two daughters, Pat Harrison and Jeanette Taylor, both of Cherokee; one brother, Spencer Malone of Cherokee; two sisters, Edna McCorkle of Tuscumbia and Tempie McCormick of Birmingham; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were to be Rod Wallace, Randy Meadows, Andy Wallace, Darren Wallace, Dennis Wallace, David Wallace, Patrick Taylor and Heath Taylor.
Zachary Cole Walls
HARTSELLE -- Funeral for Zachary Cole Walls, 2, of Hartselle will be Friday at 3 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home with the Rev. Hal Daigre officiating.
Burial will be in Hartselle Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends tonight from 6 to 9 at the funeral home.
The child died Wednesday, May 16, 2001, at Hartselle Medical Center. He was born Dec. 21, 1998, in Morgan County to David Scott Walls and Loretta Ann Simmons Walls.
Survivors include his parents of Hartselle; one brother, Nicholas Walls of Hartselle; two sisters, Danielle Walls and Jessica Perkins, both of Hartselle; his grandparents, Clarence and Dene Walls and Horace Ray and Rhonda Simmons, all of Hartselle.
Virginia Feild Watson
Funeral for Virginia Feild Watson of Decatur will be Friday at 11 a.m. at Roselawn Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard Mason and the Rev. J.B. Synder officiating.
Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Watson died Tuesday, May 15, 2001, at Decatur General Hospital. She was born in Decatur to Walter Feild and Minnie Stephenson Field. She was a housewife and a member of 16th Avenue Baptist Church. She was the mother of the late Tony Watson.
Survivors include her husband, Robert Watson; and one brother, David Feild of Tuscon, Ariz.
Pallbearers will be Carl Smith, Danny Little, Bobby Lang, Herbert Andrews, Don Mills and Todd Dietz.
Deacons from 16th Avenue Baptist Church will be honorary pallbearers.
Mary Elizabeth Mobley White
86, retired nurse
ATHENS -- Funeral for Mary Elizabeth Mobley White, 86, of Athens will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Spry Funeral Home with Bill Irby officiating.
Burial will be in Green view Memorial Gardens in Florence at 3 p.m. The family will receive friends Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. White died Tuesday, May 15, 2001, at Limestone Health Facility. She was born Sept. 20, 1914, in Giles County, Tenn. She was a retired nurse and a member of Hobbs Street Church of Christ. She was the widow of Manton Eugene White Sr.
Survivors include one daughter, Cora Jane Houser of Uniontown, Ohio; three sons, Manton Eugene White Jr. of Athens, Edward Guston White of Manchester, Tenn. and Glenn Richard White of Maryville, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren.
Grandsons and grandsons-in-law will be pallbearers.
Memorials may be made to a favorite charity.
Robert Hutson
Longtime Decatur attorney Robert Hutson, 86, who provided counsel for Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co. for many years and worked on preparing the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, died Friday, May 18, 2001, at Parkway Medical Center.
Funeral will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at his lifelong church, Central United Methodist with the Rev. Hal Noble and the Rev. John Clotfelter officiating.
Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 5 to 7 at the funeral home. The body will be at the church one hour before the service.
Mr. Hutson was born Feb. 26, 1915, in Morgan County to Ivan Hutson and Nancy Lewis Hutson. He moved to Decatur in 1930 to attend Decatur High School, where he played football and basketball. He got an early start in his legal career when he helped clerk for his uncle, Melvin Hutson, while his uncle served as a prosecutor at the second and third trials of the Scottsboro Boys.
He graduated from The University of Alabama and The University of Alabama School of Law. He returned to Decatur in 1941, but World War II interrupted starting his law practice. During the war he supervised a radar research lab in Chicago and New York for the Army Air Forces. He had first-class top-secret clearance and helped install the radar system on the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan.
He returned to Decatur after the war to continue his law practice. He was a partner in Hutson & Elrod Law Firm for more than 30 years and served as general counsel for Mutual, which his uncle, Melvin Hutson, helped found. In 1988, he filed suit against Mutual executives, accusing them of wasteful extravagances. The case spent seven years in court, involving 50 attorneys and four judges. Hutson also owned many rental properties in town, including several stores on Moulton Street.
Hutson was formerly the president of the Morgan County Bar Association, president of Citizens Industrial Bank of Decatur, vice president of Finance Investment and Rediscount Co. and secretary of Par Value Loan Co. He served on the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America and the advisory board of the Salvation Army and was a member of the Decatur Kiwanis Club.
He was the widower of Katie Waddell Hutson, who died in 1997.
Survivors include two sons, Melvin Robert Hutson of Greenville, S.C., and J. Milton Hutson of New York City; one daughter, Phyllis Richerson of Minneapolis; and eight grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Reed Richerson, Harvey Elrod, Bill Lyle, Jimmie Adams, Charles Langham, Morley Denbo and Melvin S. Hutson.
The Good Fellowship Sunday school class at Central United Methodist Church will be honorary pallbearers.
Memorials may be to Central United Methodist Church.
James Maston Jackson
84, retired baker
Funeral for James Maston Jackson, 84, of Hartselle will be today at noon at Mount Pleasant CME Church with the Rev. Carrie Douglas officiating.
Burial will be in Hartselle Memory Gardens with Sharpley Funeral Home directing. The body will be at the church one hour before the service.
Mr. Jackson died May 11, 2001, at Decatur General Hospital. He was born Sept. 30, 1916, in Hartselle to William and Lizzie Jackson. He was retired as a baker from Kroger after 40 years and was a member of Mount Pleasant CME Church. He attended Morgan County Training School and Alabama A&M College. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and served at Tuskegee Air Force Base. He moved to Chicago in 1940 and later to Detroit. He was a member of Carter Temple CME Church in Chicago and Grace CME Church in Detroit and served as church steward for both churches. He was the widower of Lavern Herring, to whom he was married for 50 years.
Survivors include three sons, James Jackson and Michael Jackson, both of Detroit, and Theophilus Jackson of Hayward, Calif.; three brothers, Jesse Jackson of Hartselle, William Jackson of Somerville and Charles Jackson of Chicago; one sister, Aria Jackson Lyons of Hartselle; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Grandsons will be pallbearers.
Dorothy C. Reid
75, homemaker
ATHENS -- Graveside service for Dorothy C. Reid, 75, of Athens will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Wallace Cemetery in Rogersville with Tom Whitten officiating and Spry Funeral Home directing.
The family will receive friends Sunday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Reid died Friday, May 18, 2001, at her home. She was born Jan. 27, 1926, in Limestone County to Melvin and Mollie Chittam. She was a homemaker and a Baptist. She was the widow of Alfred Reid and the sister of the late Cecil Chittam and Rena Chittam Williams.
Survivors include two sons, Robert Stinnett of Athens and Bobby Chittam of Hazel Green ; and two grandchildren.
Rubye Lee Smith
HARTSELLE -- Funeral for Rubye Lee Smith of Hartselle will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Roselawn Mausoleum with the Rev. Grad Tanner officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing.
The family will receive friends Sunday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Smith died Friday, May 18, 2001, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. She was born in Morgan County to John Allen Daniel and Georgia Evelyn McDonald Daniel. She was a homemaker and a sales clerk at Birmingham department stores. She was the widow of Clarence E. "Bill" Smith.
Survivors include three sisters, Trecia Patterson of Harpersville and Melba Regan and Sadie Roper, both of Birmingham.
Pallbearers will be Don Patterson, Eddie Pardue, Jonathan Randolph, J.J. Summerford and Charles Turrentine.
Helen Blanton
HARTSELLE -- Graveside service for Helen Blanton, 68, of Locust Fork will be Friday at 2 p.m. at Mount Zion Cemetery in Morgan County with Peck Funeral Home directing.
The family will receive friends Thursday night from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Blanton died today, May 23, 2001, at Medical Center East in Birmingham.
The funeral home will announce complete arrangements.
Floyd Ernest Hodson
87, retired farmer
ATHENS -- Funeral for Floyd Ernest Hodson, 87, of Athens was to be today at 3 p.m. at McConnell Funeral Home with James Bridges officiating.
Burial was to be in Roselawn Cemetery.
Mr. Hodson died Sunday, May 20, 2001, at Athens-Limestone Hospital. He was born June 30, 1913, in Limestone County to Luther Hodson and Cora Waldrep Hodson. He was a retired farmer and a member of Oakland Church of Christ. He was the widower of Reba Grisham Hodson and the father of the late Bobby Joe Hodson.
Survivors include one son, Larry Hodson of Athens; one daughter, Elaine Hodson Haney of Muscle Shoals; two sisters, Cora Hodson Black and Mary Frances Hodson, both of Athens; and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers were to be Leo Turner, Gene Carpenter, Doc Downs and James Blaydes.