James William Flowers

Services for James William Flowers, 79, of Brundidge who died Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at Baptist Medical Center East in Montgomery will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, September 9, 2004 at St. John Baptist Church with Revs. Mack King and W. O Sanders officiating.

There will be a one hour lie in state prior to the service at the church.

Burial will be in St. John Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Dillard Funeral Home of Brundidge.

Visitation was from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at the funeral home.

Flowers was preceded in death by his wife, Amanda Kathrine Flowers.

Survivors include three sons and their wives, Jamie and Nelma Flowers of Montgomery, Jackie and June Flowers of Brundidge and James and Donna Flowers of Troy; six grandchildren, Jeana and Barry Prim and Brad and Kimberly Flowers of Montgomery; Luke and Tate Flowers of Brundidge and Chase and Jehle Flowers of Troy; four great-grandchildren, Emily and Mary Rodgers Prim and Garrett and Grayden Flowers and a friend and companion, Ann Edgar.

Pallbearers will be Elmer Gene Fleming, Jim Fleming, Murrell Johnson, Frank Reddock, Tom Donn and Roy Dean Senn.

Honorary pallbearers will be the St. John Men's Sunday School Class.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the St. John Cemetery Maintenance Fund, % Carolyn Senn, 1175 County Road 107, Brundidge, Alabama 36010.

J. P. Morgan

J. P. Morgan, a resident of Dothan, died Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at Flowers Hospital. He was 89.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, September 10, 2004, at Elam Primitive Baptist Church in Goshen with Elder Cary Sanders and Rev. Kenneth Harrison officiating. Burial will follow in Elam Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery with Byrd Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends at the church from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. prior to the service on Friday.

Morgan was born December 12, 1914, in Crenshaw County. He was a veteran of the U S. Air Force, having served in World War II during the Pacific Theater. He was an instructor at Kessler Air Force Base prior to being deployed to Japan.

He served as a Primitive Baptist Minister for more than 50 years. Prior to his retirement in 2003, he had pastored churches in various Alabama counties including Pike, Montgomery, Crenshaw, Covington and Coffee.

Morgan is predeceased by his parents, Lugene Bournon and Hollie Godwin Morgan; two sisters, Ethel Merle Morgan and Addie Lou Taylor, and a brother, Coy Lee Morgan.

Survivors include a brother, Clarence Morgan of Douglasville, Ga.; four sisters, Annie Pearl Crocker of Avon Park, Fla., Ruby Nell Weed of Mobile, Lucille Styron of Fairhope and Louise Moon of Dothan; and several nieces and nephews.