Our next meeting:
DATE: January 21, 2025
WHERE:
Colonnade Energy Center – Auditorium
3535 Colonnade Parkway
Birmingham, Alabama 35242
TIME:
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Board Meeting
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Meeting
2:00 p.m. – Door Prizes and Adjourn
Please come and visit with your old friends and coworkers. Our speaker will be from SCS.
Hope to see you there!
Just posted the Jan. – Feb. 2025 newsletter Volume 37 Issue 1.
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Dennis Edwin Jones, age 74, of Springville, AL, passed away on Dec. 19, 2024. Dennis is survived by his beloved wife Kathy of 53 years; his son Bradley Jones (Danielle); daughter April Jones; grandchildren Jayde Moore, Bailyn Jones, Ashlyn Jones, and Willow White; great grandchild Melody Buchanan. He retired from Southern Co. Services after 40 years of service. Dennis became a deacon at Ridgecrest Baptist Church and continued to serve the Lord at Spring Valley Baptist Church and most recently First Baptist Church Ashville. The Lord, his family, and God’s family meant everything to him. There will never be another Dennis; he was unique and loved by everyone that knew him.
Visitation was at First Baptist Church Ashville Dec. 26 at 10:00, with a Celebration of Life at 11:00. Graveside service followed at Jefferson Memorial Gardens.
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William Edward Hanks, Jr. 86, passed away on Sunday November 3, 2024. Bill was born on October 1, 1938 in Birmingham, AL. He grew up in West End and graduated from Blessed Sacrament Elementary School. He attended John Carroll Catholic High School for 2 years and was a graduate of Marion Military Institute. Bill served in the United States Navy from 1957-1961. He graduated from Auburn University in 1966 with a degree in Industrial Engineering. He attended graduate school at Loyola and UAB.
Bill met the love of his life, Dora, while working at Bama Foods and they married on July 15, 1961. He had a long career with Southern Company. Bill was an avid supporter of his beloved Auburn University. Bill had a wonderful outgoing personality and never met a stranger. He was deeply religious and was in the second class of ordained deacons in the Diocese of Birmingham in 1977. He served many years before retiring as a permanent deacon at both Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Churches.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents, William and Elizabeth Hanks, his sister, Mary Elizabeth Barrington and by his granddaughter, Ashley Elizabeth Collins.
Bill is survived by his wife, Dora, his daughters, Barbara Gray (Stephen), Suzanne Collins (Brian), Mary Measel (Andy), his son, William Edward Hanks lll, 8 grandchildren, Dylan (Allison), Evan and Morgan Gray, Madison and Alex Collins and Garrison, Carter and Maegan Measel and one great grandson, Hudson Gray.
Visitation was held at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Hoover on Monday November 11, 2024 from 9:30-11 with the funeral Mass beginning at 11. A private burial for the family was held on Tuesday November 12, 2024 at the Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo, Alabama. In memory of Bill Hanks a gift may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or a charity of your choice.
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Ruby Jo Hallman Benson (Jo), 90, passed away peacefully at home on October 26, 2024. Jo was born on May 7, 1934 to Hubert and Loma Hallman in Ashland, Alabama. She was the third of eight siblings. She had four sisters, Edna Mae, Martha, Linda, and Betty and three brothers, Billy Ralph, Hubert Jr., and Larry. She and her siblings were raised on the Hallman family farm in Ashland. She was a proud graduate of the historic Clay County High School in southwest Ashland. While a student, Jo enjoyed being part of the band and was an active member of the 4-H Club and the Future Homemakers of America. After graduation, she worked at Southern Company Services as a secretary and executive assistant.