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Ring in a healthy new year by teaching kids the importance of food, nutrition and eating skills: food to fuel busy, successful lives; nutrition to nourish strong bodies and smart brains; and eating skills to enjoy the social aspect of meals with...

Ruby Lee “Madea” Mims-Brown, 87, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. Mrs. Mims-Brown was born Aug. 9, 1931, to Isaiah and Dora Brooks-Mims in Owassa, Ala. A resident of Owassa for many years, where she was a member of Second Mt. Zion Baptist Church,...

Jeanette Delois Seale Creamer, 66, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, in Jay, Fla. Mrs. Creamer was a native of Atmore, Ala. who resided in Bratt, Fla. most of her life. Co-owner of Creamer logging, she was of the Baptist faith. The funeral was held at 2...

Jack Darby, 75 of Atmore, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 in Atmore. Mr. Darby was born May 1, 1943, to George Washington and Fannie Mae Manning Darby in Monroe County, Ala. He worked as a machine operator with Vanity Fair Mills. The funeral was held at...

Rea Millicent Sturm Davis, 94, of Brewton, died Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind. after an extended illness. Mrs. Davis was a native of Chicago, Ill., and longtime resident of Brewton before relocating to...

Diane Simmons Dean, 69, of Jay, died Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, at Jay Hospital after an extended illness. Mrs. Dean was born in Century, Fla. and had been a lifetime member of the Jay community, where she was a homemaker. The funeral was held at 1...

Mazie Glendora “Glennie” Griffith Godwin, 86, died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Mrs. Godwin was born Feb. 3, 1932, near Atmore, Ala. She helped build the Pentecostal Holiness Church when she lived in the Farm Hill community near Cantonment, Fla. A...

Joni Gail Harris, 64, of Pollard, Ala., died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, after an extended illness. Mrs. Harris was born in Big Springs, Texas, and had been a resident of the Flomaton community since 1972, coming from Stanton, Texas. A member of Little...

Sam Hudson, 76, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Mr. Hudson was born May 24, 1942, to Willie and Victoria Hudson in Gosport, Ala. Employed with West Escambia Utilities, where he retired from, he was an advocate of vintage automobiles. The funeral was...

Willie George “Junior” Lee, Jr., 66, of Atmore, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2018, at Atmore Nursing Care. Mr. Lee was a native of Atmore born to Willie George, Sr. and Novella Lee. He attended Escambia County school sand worked as a painter at Ingalls...

Robert “R.L.” Morris, 83, of Orange Beach, Ala., died Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. Mr. Morris was born to John D. and Avie M. Morris of Bay Minette, Ala. He graduated from Baldwin County High School in 1953 and went on to graduate from Auburn...

Betty Kyser Pruett, 71, died Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018, in Atmore, Ala. Mrs. Pruett was born March 1, 1947. to James Edlow and Augustine P. Kyser in Atmore. Mrs. Kyser is survived by her husband of 54 years, Fred Pruett of Atmore; one son, Jimmy Wayne...

Wayne Theon Warrick, 86, of Brewton, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019 at a Pensacola, Fla. Hospice facility after a brief illness. Mr. Warrick was born in Jay, Fla., and had been a longtime resident of the Brewton area. A U.S. Army veteran of the Korean...

According to the Pensacola News Journal, South Flomaton was the only other incorporated community in Escambia County Florida for most of its existence. The area had sometimes been the scene of controversy before and after its incorporation. The News...

Occasionally, our writers receive a note of appreciation about our articles in this paper; these articles for the Tri-City have been contributed by our members since 1990. Recently, Mr. Dudley wrote a note to say how much he liked a history of...

One of my favorite places to be authentic Earline was in the hay loft on a rainy day. See, with so many siblings I always had plenty involvment of others around me. Sometimes I needed time out from sharing and fist fights, so when rainy days came to...

With 2018 behind us, it is time to start looking at what you can expect from Washington in 2019. Under Republican leadership, we in Congress aimed to make America better off, and thanks to our many victories through conservative policies, we...

Recently I came across a copy of an old congressional directory from 1942. It is always fun for me to read about this era in American political history. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been first elected in 1932 in the depths of the Great Depression....

Emerson/ASCO is sending a representative to the Century and Pensacola areas on Monday, January 14 and Tuesday, January 15 to recruit for job openings. Volante Henderson is representing Emerson ASCO located in Aiken, S.C. and has multiple...

Auditions for the 2019 production of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' play in Monroeville will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13 at Brewton City Hall from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Auditions will also be held in Monroeville from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday,...