by The Observer Staff | Mar 8, 2023 | Bruce Green, Column
RELIGION — All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 8, 2023 | Column, Walt Albritton
RELIGION — Grady Rowell and I became friends when his family moved to Wetumpka shortly after World War II. We were classmates at Wetumpka High School and both our families were members of First Methodist Church in Wetumpka. Grady was 91 when his body died. Three days...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 8, 2023 | Obituaries
Charles Allen Gammill, age 75, of Auburn, Alabama, passed away on March 1, 2023, surrounded by family. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Charlie was born on Nov. 2, 1947, and is a graduate of the University of South Alabama and a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve. After a...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 8, 2023 | Obituaries
Gail Elaine Stewart of Phenix City (formerly of Dadeville, Alabama), was born on Sept. 17, 1945, in Miami, Florida, and passed away Feb. 28, 2023, in Columbus, Georgia. She was 77. Gail grew up in Miami, Florida, where she was her daddy’s shadow. She was...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 8, 2023 | Obituaries
Robert Garrison Snelling III, age 49, of Opelika, passed away on March 2, 2023. He was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on Sept. 29, 1973. Robert grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he met his wife, Dawn, with whom he shared a deep love that resulted...