DAVID WES GLETTY, 69, Blountsville, died Dec. 13, 2014. He served in the U.S. Air Force and was an electrician with Louisiana Pacific. He is predeceased by his mother, Ruth Higgins Gletty. Surviving are father Phillip Gletty; daughter Dana Colston, Blountsville; sons David Gletty, Florida, and Dale Gletty, Georgia; brothers Dan Gletty and Jim Gletty; sister Marilyn McMinn; nine grandchildren; […]
NELLIE JO SHOEMAKER,
NELLIE JO SHOEMAKER, 84, died Dec. 16, 2014, at GoldenLiving Center, Arab. She was a Susan Moore High School graduate and retired apartment manager. She is predeceased by husband Hubert Harvey Shoemaker; parents Ellie and Ellie Shelton Ashworth; brother O’Neal Ashworth; and sister Addie Tuck. Surviving are daughter Mandy (Chris) Kelsoe, Holly Pond; son Jeff (Delia) Shoemaker, Olathe, Kan.; grandson […]
Lost in a world of indifference, high-tech nonsense and unrealistic photography
Where have our integrity, authenticity and genuineness flown? Have we journeyed so profoundly into rapidly moving non-feeling automation and other gadgetry of nonhuman qualities that we have lost touch with life’s purpose? If common sense and wisdom gained from hard knocks, knowledge and education have been lost and swept away by fleeting data gathering machinery, then I fear we are […]
