Year: 2019

Don Fletcher

Fatality
Wreck claims life of Atmore woman, 87   By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer For Emma Joan (pronounced “Joann”) Fillingim, helping other people had become a habit over the past several years. That habit was a factor in the 87-year-old Atmore resident’s death last week. Mrs. Fillingim, a resident of Point Escambia, was apparently killed instantly Thursday, August 15, when she pulled her PT Cruiser from Wilson Avenue onto West…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Violent two-vehicle collision on Alabama 21
Atmore and Poarch police, along with Alabama State Troopers, were at 7 p.m. still at the scene of a violent, two-vehicle crash that happened around 6 p.m. today (Sunday, Aug. 18), about a mile south of Wind Creek Casino, on the rain-soaked southbound lanes of Alabama 21.   Details are sketchy at this time, but three ambulances, their lights flashing and sirens sounding, were seen racing from the wreck scene…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Obituaries for week of August 18, 2019
Elma Morine Kelly  Mrs. Elma Morine Kelly, age 89, passed away Saturday, August 10, 2019 in Clermont, Fla. She was a native of Atmore, Ala. and had resided in Clermont for most of her life. She attended the First Baptist Church in Minneola, Fla. and the Lighthouse Baptist Church of Mexia, Ala. She was preceded in death by her parents, Charlie and Molly Caraway; two husbands, Lamar Edward Etheridge and…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Teachers honored at FBC
Special to Atmore News First Baptist Church of Atmore held a special appreciation supper for the teachers of Atmore, including preschool, church, public, private, and retired teachers. The supper, held Friday, August 9, was the brainchild of two ladies, Robin Stewart, the church minister to children, and Caitlin Norton, the office administrator. Tables were decorated with old schoolbooks and other related school items, and vases of deep purple flowers and…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago