TRAGIC DEATH
Slain Alabama high school football player a ‘standout athlete and terrific young man’; 2 teens charged
ROYAL FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Willie Pearl Lightford
October 27, 1936 – August 16, 2024
Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at the Union Chapel Missionary Baptist Church (315 Winchester Road, Huntsville, AL 35811) with Pastor O. Wendell Davis officiating. Interment will be in the Valhalla Memory Gardens.
Minister Johnnie Lee Cook
January 10, 1951 – August 15, 2024
Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m., Saturday, August 31, 2024 at the New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church (2562 Bob Wade Lane, Harvest, AL 35749) with Pastor Ricky Sykes officiating. Interment will be in the Elmwood Cemetery (600 Martin Luther King Jr Drive Birmingham, AL 35211).
Mr. Herman Gavin Burwell
October 2, 1967 – August 13, 2024
Funeral service was 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at the Madkins Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Chruch in America (2403 Oakwood Road, Huntsville, AL 35810) with Reverend Deborah McGlathery-Holden officiating and Pastor Elect LeBaron Tibbs as eulogist. Interment was in the Valhalla Memory Gardens.
Mrs. Demetrice Ann Alexander Williams
April 12, 1967 – August 13, 2024
Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m., Saturday, August 24, 2024 at the Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church (13376 Dupree Worthey Road, Harvest, AL 35742) with Pastor Emeritus Ananias Green officiating. Interment will be in the Haygood Cemetery.
NELMS MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Herbert Carter
April 29, 1945 – August 16, 2024
Funeral service for Mr. Herbert Carter will be held on Saturday, August 24, 2024, at 1:00 P.M. at Progressive Union Missionary Baptist Church with Pastor Dion Watkins officiating. Interment will follow at the Valley View Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Shirley J. Moore
March 16, 1947 – August 16, 2024
Funeral service for Mrs. Shirley J. Moore will be Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. at Phillips Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Reverend Dr. Gregory Scott, Pastor with Reverend Henry Brown, Pastor of Gurley CME Church officiating. Mrs. Moore will lie in repose at the church one hour prior to the funeral service. Interment will be in the Valhalla Memory Gardens.