Obituaries
Jack Duke
Mar 7, 2021
Jack W. Duke age 87 of Northport, Alabama passed away on March, 7, 2021 at Hospice of West Alabama. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. with visitation from 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Magnolia Chapel North. He was preceded in death by his son, Terry Duke; parents, M.E. and Flora...

Bradley Smith
Mar 7, 2021
Bradley Smith, age 56 of Moundville, passed away March 7, 2021 at home. His loved ones are composing his obituary and we will update it here when available.
Arthur Crimm
Mar 5, 2021
Arthur "Glenn" Crimm, age 86, died March 5, 2021, at his home in Clara Verner Towers. His Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Magnolia Chapel, Northport AL. Glenn Crimm was preceded in death by his late wife Eva Myrtle Horton-Crimm, five sisters and two brothers. He is survived by his son,...
Beryl Watson
Mar 4, 2021
Beryl Watson, age 79, of Northport, AL, passed away March 4, 2021 at UAB Hospital. Services will be 11 a.m. Monday, March 8, 2021, at Phillips Chapel Freewill Baptist Church with Rev. Terrell Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery with Magnolia Chapel North directing. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church. Masks are...
Nila Mchale
Mar 3, 2021
Mrs. Nila Kathryn McHale of Centreville AL entered the gates of Heaven on March 3rd at the age of 96. She was preceded in death by her parents, Daniel O. Thomas and Eunice Fowler Thomas, her loving husband Thomas E. McHale, brother Elwell O. Thomas and his wife Mary Ellen and grandson Jeff McCary. Nila was born in Birmingham on...
Marina Mendoza-Castro
Feb 26, 2021
Marina Eliza Mendoza - Castro, age 6 months of Tuscaloosa, passed away on February 26, 2021 at home. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 10:00 am at Magnolia Cemetery with Magnolia Chapel South directing.
Betty Hardin
Feb 24, 2021
Betty Jean Webster Hardin, age 88 of Northport, Alabama passed away on February 24, 2021. Services will be held on Monday, March 1, 2021 at Magnolia Chapel North with visitation from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 am at the funeral home. Buddy Bell will be officiating. Magnolia Chapel North will be directing. She is preceded in death by her parents,...
Annie Herron
Feb 24, 2021
Annie Lou Herron, age 80, entered into eternal life on February 24, 2021. Annie Lou loved her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and her family. Annie Lou was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on September 15, 1940 to Chester Kayton Bell, Sr. and Mary Catherine Deaton Bell. She was known for her outgoing personality and entertaining sense of humor. Annie...
Sara Brunette
Feb 22, 2021
Sara Merle Spencer Brunette passed away Monday morning, February 22nd, 2021 at her ancestral home in Northport. She was born May 31st, 1924 to Charles Ford Spencer and Vera Harper Spencer at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa. She, her sister Martha Sue Swann and Charles Randolph Spencer grew up during the depression on the family dairy, Oak Ridge. She was a...
Selma Seale
Feb 18, 2021
Selma R. Seale, age 93 of Greensboro, passed away on February 18, 2021 at Heritage Health and Rehab Center. A graveside service will be held at 11:00 am at Rameys Chapel Cemetery on Wednesday, February 24,2021 with Rev. James I Davis officiating and Magnolia Chapel South directing. She is preceded in death by her husband W.J. Seale, parents; Oscar...
Margene Jenkins
Feb 16, 2021
Margene Jenkins, age 85 of Moundville, Alabama passed away on February 16, 2021 at her residence. Graveside Services will be held on Monday, February 22, 2021 at 2:00 p.m at Oak Hill Cemetery with Rev. Michael Cobb officiating. She was preceded in death by her husband, Johnnie L. "Pete" Jenkins; mother, Mary Hartley; father, Rufus Burroughs; sister, Lora Dean...
Randall Eaton
Feb 15, 2021
Randall Keith Eaton After a hard battle with an aggressive cancer, Randall Keith Eaton passed away at the age of 62 at his residence. Randall was born August 1, 1958 in Brookwood, AL to Junior and Dessie Eaton. He grew up in a large, loving family with 3 sisters and 2 brothers. He was a avid carpenter who was known...
Margaret “Maggie” Badgwell
Feb 15, 2021
Margaret (Maggie) was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama September 26, 1967 at Druid City Hospital. She attended Crestmont Elementary School, Tuscaloosa County High, Jacksonville High School, Bad Kreuznach High School in Germany, and graduated from Seaside High School in Seaside, California. She obtained her Emergency Medical Technician license and worked as a paramedic for Northstar Services. She was presently a...
Juanita Martin
Feb 13, 2021
Juanita Williams was born on August 28, 1927 in the Mt. Herman Community near Greensboro to Mattie C. and Benjamin P. Williams. She was the youngest daughter in a family of 2 sisters and 6 brothers. Juanita graduated from Greensboro High School and attended business school in Montgomery where she trained to be a bookkeeper. After working for a time...
Carol Parker
Feb 13, 2021
Carol Booth Dunn Parker, age 88, of Tuscaloosa, took her Heavenly flight on Saturday evening, February 13, 2021, at Heritage Health Care Nursing Home. Funeral Service will be on Friday, February 19, 2021, at 11:00 AM, at Magnolia Chapel Funeral Home, South, 6100 Old Greensboro Road, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 25405. Rev. Mark Aills, Rev. James Walker, and Rev. Bernie Deffinger...
Walter Mcilwain
Feb 11, 2021
Walter Ronald McIlwain, age 77 of Tuscaloosa, passed away on February 11, 2021 at his home surrounded by his wife and children after a 7 year battle with multiple myeloma. A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 11:30 am at Calvary Baptist Church with Dr. James Sexton officiating and Magnolia Chapel North directing.
...Yancy Christian
Feb 10, 2021
Yancy Christian, 49. Our beloved (Yokey) passed away on February 10, 2021 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Services will be held on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 11:00 am at Magnolia Chapel North with Bro. Shane Smith officiating and Magnolia Chapel North directing. Private Burial will follow at Oregonia Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10:00 am to 11:00 am...
Johnny Corkerin
Feb 9, 2021
Johnny Reese Corkerin age 42 of Brookwood, Alabama passed away on February 9, 2021. Memorial Services will be held on Friday, February 19, 2021 at Magnolia Chapel South, 2:00 p.m with Brother L.D. Armstrong officiating. He was preceded in death by grandparents Jessie Reese Corkerin, Mary Pauline Gray Corkerin, Annie Lou Parker Glasgow and VJ Glasgow; uncles Robert Corkerin...

Ernest Roulaine
Feb 9, 2021
Ernest Galthain Roulaine age 62 of Tuscaloosa, Alabama passed away on February 9, 2021 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is preceded in death by his parents, Reginal G. Roulaine and Ruth Tingle Tidmore; grandparents, James and Betty Roulaine and Frank and Katie Tingle and son Randy Winn. He is survived by his son, Jason Roulaine; brothers, Jimmy Dale Roulaine(Angie), Robert "Bob"...
John Letcher
Feb 6, 2021
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Mike Letcher, a native of Shorter, Alabama and resident of Northport, has died after a short Illness. He was 71. Letcher, working in collaboration with cinematographer Preston Sullivan, operated Dragonfly Public Media, an independent production partnership specializing in publicly funded and distributed media celebrating democratic values. He also spent more than 40 years with the Alabama Center...