OBITUARIES 5/18 – 5/24/2024

TRAGIC DEATHS

Buffalo supermarket shooting: 77-year-old Alabama native killed in Tops massacre was ‘a Godly woman’

https://speakinoutweeklynews.net/2022/05/18/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-77-year-old-alabama-native-killed-in-tops-massacre-was-a-godly-woman/

Birmingham remembers police officers killed in the line of duty: ‘This profession is an honorable one’

https://speakinoutweeklynews.net/2022/05/18/birmingham-remembers-police-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-this-profession-is-an-honorable-one/

Biden orders flags at half-staff today to mark 1 million COVID deaths

https://speakinoutweeklynews.net/2022/05/18/birmingham-remembers-police-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-this-profession-is-an-honorable-one/

83-year-old veteran found murdered in west Birmingham home

https://speakinoutweeklynews.net/2022/05/18/83-year-old-veteran-found-murdered-in-west-birmingham-home/

ROYAL FUNERAL HOME

MRS. VERA MAE (MORRIS) NANCE

JULY 13, 1942 – MAY 11, 2022

https://www.royalfh.com/obituary/mrs-vera-morris-nance

Funeral service will be11:00 a.m., Friday, May20, 2022 at the Royal Chapel of Memories (4315 Oak- wood Avenue Huntsville, AL 35810). Interment will be in the Baltimore Hill Cemetery.

MRS. LEONA LACY LOVE

JANUARY 12, 1942 – MAY 11, 2022

https://www.royalfh.com/obituary/mrs-leona-l-love

Funeral service will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at the Royal Chapel of Memories (4315 Oakwood Avenue Huntsville, AL 35810).

MRS. IRENE CHESTER

 JUNE 19, 1925 – MAY 10, 2022

https://www.royalfh.com/obituary/mrs-irene-chester

Funeral service was 1:00p.m. Sunday, May 15, 2022 at the Oakwood SeventhDay Adventist Church (5500 Adventist Blvd Huntsville, AL35896) with Pastor Paul Goodrich officiating. Interment was in the Oakwood Memorial Gardens.

MR. EMMITT FLETCHER “NED, JR.”

AUGUST 26, 1938 – MAY 6, 2022

https://www.royalfh.com/obituary/mr-emmitt-fletcher-ned-jr

Funeral service will be 12:00 NOON, Friday, May 20, 2022 at the Macedonia M.B. Church in Dayton, OH with interment in the West Memory Gardens in Moraine, OH.

DEACON WILLIE JAMES LESLIE

NOVEMBER 28, 1942 – MAY 7, 2022

https://www.royalfh.com/obituary/mr-willie-leslie

Funeral service was 1:00p.m., Saturday, May 14,2022 at the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church (710 Dan Crutcher Road, Toney, AL 35773) with Pastor Ernest Williams officiating. Interment was in Valhalla Memory Gardens.

NELMS MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME

MS. LILLIE R. CARR

JUNE 30, 1953 – MAY 10, 2022

https://www.nelmsmemorial.net/obituary/mrs-lillie-r-carr

Funeral service for Ms. Lillie R. Carr will be Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. at Pentecostal Lighthouse Church with Elder Reginal Burrell officiating. Interment will be in Valhalla Memory Gardens.

MRS. EDITH A. WILLIAMS DONALDSON

FEBRUARY 16, 1938 – MAY 9, 2022

https://www.nelmsmemorial.net/obituary/mrs-edith-williams-donaldson-8005573

Graveside service for Mrs. Edith A. Williams Donaldson will be Friday, May 20, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. at Meadowlawn Garden of Peace with Minister Vernon L. Parrish officiating.

MR. LAWRENCE “BILL” WHERRY

AUGUST 28, 1949 – MAY 8, 2022

https://www.nelmsmemorial.net/obituary/mr-lawrence-wherry

Funeral service for Mr. Lawrence “Bill” Wherry was Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. in the Nelms Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with The Reverend Desi Fletcher officiating. Interment was in the Pine Grove Cemetery (Deposit, AL).

MRS. ELAINE LIGHTFOOT CHUNN

SEPTEMBER 14, 1953 – MAY 7, 2022

Graveside service for Mrs. Elaine Lightfoot Chunn was Friday, May 13, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. at Valhalla Memory Gardens with Pastor T. C. Johnson officiating.