Archive for July 2026

  Sarah Glaudine Owens was born March 26, 1934, to John Henry Wesley Floyd Owens and Pearlie Odell Elam.  She attended Bibb County High School and six months after graduating high school, she married her sweetheart, Bruce Belcher.  They moved to Birmingham immediately where she attended Alverson Draughon Business College and learned typing and shorthand. …

John Alan Maddox, age 72 of Birmingham, AL, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, at UAB Palliative & Comfort Care, after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. John was born on August 1, 1953, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and grew up in Jasper. He was the youngest son of…

Sarah Tapscott Justus, age 87, passed away on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. She was born in 1939 and lived a life that spanned an extraordinary era of change, from the years before television and space travel through the rise of computers, the internet, and the modern world we know today. She was a kind, quick-witted,…

Dewey Edward Hogg (Sonny) 87, of Bessemer, AL, passed away on Saturday, June 27, 2026 after a long battle with health problems. He was surrounded by family and friends at the time of his passing. Sonny started out with humble beginnings and worked to make a good life with family, friends, neighbors and the community.…