Area Obituaries

AV “Danny” Hanners Jr.   Visitation for Mr. AV “Danny” Hanners Jr., 73, of Kellyton, will be Friday, October 21, 2022, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Radney Funeral Home. Mr. Hanners Jr. passed away on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, at his residence. He was born on October 4, 1949, in LaGrange, Georgia, to…

Kay Reynolds Beaty   Kay Reynolds Beaty, 85, resident of Auburn, passed away on October 9, 2022, at Langdale Hospice House, Valdosta, Georgia. She was born in Hanover on October 21,1936. Visitation will be held Saturday, October 15, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home, Opelika, followed by funeral service at…

Bobby Ralph Kirk   Funeral service for Mr. Bobby Ralph Kirk, 84, of Alexander City, will be Friday, October 7, 2022, at 12 p.m. at the Chapel of Radney Funeral Home. Rev. Roger Green will officiate. Burial will follow in the Hillview Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Friday, October 7, 2022, from 10:30…

Tommie Junior “Blu” Belyue   We are saddened to announce the transition of Mr. Tommie Junior “Blu” Belyue from earth to Heaven on Sunday, September 4, 2022. Funeral services were held Monday, September 12, 2022, in the sanctuary of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church with interment following in the church cemetery. Rev. Stanford Benson served as…

Benny Darryl Meadows   Graveside service for Mr. Benny Darryl Meadows, 56, of Goodwater, was Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 2 p.m. at the Millerville Baptist Church Cemetery. Pastor Phillip Gipson officiated. Mr. Meadows passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2022, at Coosa Valley Baptist Medical Center. He was born on May 20, 1966, in…

Jerolyn Dark Cross   The family will receive friends and family during the visitation at the Radney Funeral Home in Alexander City on Saturday, September 17, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Graveside burial will follow in the Dark-Maxwell Cemetery. Jerolyn Dark Cross passed away Monday, September 5, 2022, at Saint Luke’s Hospital on…

Johnny Earl Baker   Memorial service for Johnny Earl Baker, 61, of Alexander City, was Monday, August 29, 2022, at the Chapel of Radney Funeral Home. Rev. Matthew Reams officiated. Johnny passed away on Thursday, August 25, 2022, at University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham. He was born on March 15, 1961, in Alexander City…

Kenneth Steve Baker   Kenneth Steve Baker, a resident of Equality, passed away on Saturday, August 20, at Grandview Medical Center surrounded by family. Steve, age 69, was preceded in death by his parents, Henry and Liz Baker. He is survived by his wife, Jean Penton Baker; daughters, Emily Johnston and Mallory Mayfield (Michael); grandchildren,…

Joan Franklin Hardy   “Kind and welcoming”…these were the words so often used to describe Joan. And yet her sweet demeanor cloaked a fierce independence and intelligence. She was quietly unpretentious about her passion for books, art, theater/film, and travel, but these loves guided and shaped her life. After receiving her Master’s in Library Science…

Donald “Dino” Hardman   Funeral service for Mr. Donald “Dino” Hardman, 51, of Alexander City, was Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at the Chapel of Radney Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Hillview Memorial Park. Mr. Hardman passed away on Friday, August 5, 2022, at Russell Medical. He was born on August 13, 1970, in Alexander…