Edward Mathews 1925-2012

A funeral service for Edward Mathews, 86, of Opelika, was held at 12 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2012, at St. Luke A.M.E. Church with interment in Memory Hill Cemetery. Rev. Johnny B. Rutledge officiated. Mathews passed on Dec. 29, 2011, at the East Alabama Medical Center. He was...

Martin Beck 1925-2012

Martin Beck, age 86, of Auburn passed away on Jan. 4, at East Alabama Medical Center. He was born in Bisbee, Ariz. in 1925, to Martin L. Beck, Sr. and Exa Bargdoll Beck, both now deceased. They came to Auburn in 1928 when his father joined the faculty of the Auburn...

Mary Ruis Harrington 1937-2011

Mary Ruis Harrington, of Auburn, was born in Sanderson, Fla. on July 14, 1937, and went to be with her Lord and Savior on Jan. 3, at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. She was 74 years old. She was a member of Society Hill Baptist Church Harrington was preceded...

Mary T. Combs 1917-2012

Mary T. Combs, of Opelika, formerly of Oak Ridge, N.C., was born in Colfax, N.C. on Sept. 11, 1917, and passed away at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika on Jan. 2, 2012. She will be buried in Bethel Church Cemetery in Oak Ridge, N.C. Combs was preceded in death...

LaVerne Taylor Flanagan 1927-2012

LaVerne Taylor Flanagan died Jan. 2, 2012, after a brief illness. Born in Hattiesburg, Miss. on April 22, 1927. She moved to Mobile, where she attended Murphy High School and received the English Honors Award at graduation. She graduated from Alabama Polytechnic...