by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2022 | Obituaries
Jeffrey David Klein, of Auburn, passed away on Wednesday, April 13 at UAB hospital after suffering a series of mini-strokes early the previous morning; preceded by a stage IV cancer diagnosis just the week before at Piedmont Regional Hospital in Columbus, Georgia....
by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2022 | Obituaries
Patricia Evelyn Smith, 72, of Opelika, passed away Friday, April 15, 2022, at Bethany House. She was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Sydney Lanier High School (1968), Montgomery, Alabama. She was the daughter of CAPT Allie Willis Callan Jr., USN...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2022 | Obituaries
David Chase Pulsifer of Opelika was born in East Alabama Medical Center on Oct. 2, 1991, and passed away in Auburn on April 15, 2022. He was 30 years old. He attended Union Grove Baptist Church. Chase was preceded in death by his grandparents, Charles L. Patterson,...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2022 | Column, D. Mark Mitchell, Sports
ON THE MARKD. MARK MITCHELL Four Opelika High School spring sport teams — varsity girls’ and boys’ soccer team, varsity softball and varsity baseball — won the Area regular season area championship last week. SOCCER The Lady Bulldog soccer team (11-3) beat Valley,...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2022 | Sports
BY HARRISON TARR FOR THE OBSERVER BEULAH — From the first time the Beulah Bobcats’ softball program stepped onto the diamond in February, expectations were high; fresh off a state runner-up campaign in 2021 and returning the entirety of the roster from the previous...