by The Observer Staff | Jan 25, 2023 | Obituaries
Judith “Judy” Ann Perkins was born on Aug. 17, 1940, in Opelika, and passed peacefully into her heavenly home at the age of 82 on Jan. 18, 2023. She was surrounded by family who loved her immensely. Judy was born to William Henry Perry and Mary Jimmerson Perry in...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 25, 2023 | Obituaries
Joseph Stanley Jackson, a resident of Opelika since 1972, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham. Joe, the youngest of eight children, was born Aug. 8, 1945, in East Tallasee, Alabama, to Ernest Leon Jackson and Easel Webster Jackson....
by The Observer Staff | Jan 25, 2023 | Obituaries
Richard L. Shackelford was born in Kingsport, Tennessee, on Feb. 4, 1947, the oldest of three sons of Richard James and Gladys Marie Shackelford. After graduating from Church Hill High School in 1967, he was drafted into the Army and stationed in Fort Hood, Texas,...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 25, 2023 | Community, Education, Politics
CONTRIBUTED BY CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC. LEE COUNTY — The Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention are joining local and state leaders at Child Care Resource Center in Opelika on Jan. 30 at 11 a.m. to present a check in the amount of about $1.4...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 24, 2023 | Community, Sports
BY NOAH GRIFFITH FOR THE OBSERVER OPELIKA — It all started when Trey Hughley’s longtime high school friend and former Dawg Pound President Anthony Bryant called him and invited Hughley and his son to come play for the Opelika Dawg Pound when his son was 8 years...
