by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2022 | Column, Stacey Wallace
By STACEY PATTON WALLACE As a child, from kindergarten through the sixth grade, after school I stayed with my Grandma and Granddaddy Patton until Mama and Daddy got off work. From fall of 1968 until late spring of 1975, my grandparents and I enjoyed each other’s...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2022 | Community, Events
BY BETH PINYERD FOR THE OBSERVER LEE COUNTY — Vision Awareness Week, held from Oct. 17 through 21 and sponsored by the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, was an outreach to the legally blind and low-vision residents in our community. Melody Wilson, case manager for...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2022 | Bruce Green, Column
By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — Why is it whenever someone starts to talk about keeping God’s commands, people get uneasier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockers? Why, when John pointedly tells us, “His commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:13), do so many...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2022 | Column, Walt Albritton
By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — When I was a boy, I noticed one Sunday that whenever our pastor asked us to “stand and sing,” my dad stood beside my mom, but never sang. He may have quietly hummed the tune, but I don’t think he even did that. I never asked why, and he...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2022 | Obituaries
Mr. Douglas H. Edmondson passed away on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. He was born on May 29, 1936, to Burty and Homer Edmondson in Randolph County, Alabama. There was a graveside service at Rock Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Oct. 24, at 3 p.m. The family received guests...