
ROYAL FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Leon Parker
December 4, 1956 – October 1, 2025

Funeral service for Mr. Leon Parker will be held at 12:00 noon, Saturday, October 11, 2025 at the Saint Rebecca Primitive Baptist Church (330 Grimwood Road, Hazel Green, AL 35750) with Dr. Perry Clark officiating. Interment will be in the Saint Ruth Cemetery, 330 Grimwood Road Hazel Green, AL 35750.
Reverend Doris K. Lacey
February 6, 1949 – September 29, 2025

Funeral service for Reverend Doris K. Lacey will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, October 9, 2025 at the Madkins Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (2403 Oakwood Road, Huntsville, AL 35810) with Bishop Daniel Richardson officiating. Interment will be in the Meadowlawn Garden of Peace, 450 Mt. Lebanon Road, Toney, AL 35773.
Mrs. Peggy Higgins
June 18, 1948 – September 27, 2025

Graveside service for Mrs. Peggy Higgins will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, October 11, 2025 at the Valhalla Memory Gardens with Reverend O. Wendell Davis officiating.
Mr. James Neely Matthews
July 23, 1959 – September 26, 2025

Funeral service for Mr. James Neely Matthews was held at 12:00 noon, Sunday, October 5, 2025 at the Apostolic True Temple Church (3000 Stringfield Road, Huntsville, AL 35810) with Bishop Jerry Townsend officiating. Interment was in the Valhalla Memory Gardens, 698 Winchester Road, Huntsville, AL 35811.
NELMS MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Dollie Mae Bell Banks
October 8, 1944 – October 2, 2025

Funeral service for Mrs. Dollie Mae Bell Banks will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM at Green Grove M.B. Church in Belzoni, Mississippi. Inhumation will follow at Deovelente Cemetery. Funeral services entrusted to Smith Funeral Home of Belzoni, Mississippi.
Ms. Ruby Glyn “RuRu” Haygood
June 15, 1965 – October 1, 2025

Funeral service for Ms. Ruby “RuRu” Haygood will be held on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM at The Intentional Church (8155 Highway 53, Toney, AL 35773) with Bishop Abraham Moore, Pastor and Apostle Phyllis Morton, Eulogist. Interment will follow at Haygood Cemetery.
Mrs. Julia Haley Chandler
July 27, 1950 – September 26, 2025

Funeral service for Mrs. Julia Haley Chandler was Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. at Madkins Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America with Reverend Debra McGlathery-Holden as Officiant and Reverend Terence Haley as Eulogist.

