JIMMIE CARLETTE CARNEY - OBITUARY

Jimmie Carlette Carney Ray, age 75 of Elkmont, passed away on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at Ardmore Health and Rehab. Mrs. Ray was born July 16, 1943 in New Hope Alabama to Carl Robert Carney and Nellie Leona Smith Carney.

Services for Mrs. Ray are Friday, November 2, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with Brad Broadway and Tammie Johnson officiating. Visitation will be Thursday, November 1, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Shoemaker Cemetery.

She is survived by her daughters, Jimmie Ruth Henley (Billy) and Sue Ann Broadway (Brad); sons, Ricky Carney (Lynn), James Kimbrough, Robert Kimbrough, Charles Kimbrough (Misty), Chris Kimbrough, Carter Kimbrough and Jeff Kimbrough (Kristy); 47 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great grandchild; brothers, Edward Wilbanks, Joe Wilbanks, Raymond Wilbanks, Bobby Wilbanks, Kenneth Wilbanks and Steven Wilbanks; sisters, Shirly Hill, Billie Fay Trumenne, Wanda Sue Sublett and Donnie Haymon.

Preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Wanda Lavern Jones.

Pallbearers will be her sons, Ricky Carney, James Kimbrough, Robert Kimbrough, Charles Kimbrough, Chris Kimbrough, Carter Kimbrough and Jeff Kimbrough. Honorary pallbearers are Guy Logan, Benjamin Broadway and Bradley Broadway.

ISAAC DAWAYNE "DUDDIE" BATRUM - OBITUARY

A life well lived isn't measured in length but in the number of people it has touched for good. Issac lived a good life.

Isaac Dawayne "Duddie" Batrum, age 17 of Elkmont Alabama, died Saturday, October 27, 2018.

Born Tuesday, March 6, 2001 in Decatur, AL, he was the son of Michal Batrum and Rosie Hope Haggard. He lived in the Ardmore area all his life, and was a member of First Community Baptist Church of Ardmore. He was on the Elkmont varsity football team as a defensive tackle and varsity baseball player as a left-handed pitcher, loved the outdoors, such as fishing, hunting, building bonfires and riding motorcycles.He had a huge heart , he loved his family, friends, people in general especially children.

He is survived by his Father, Michal Batrum, Athens, AL, Mother, Rosie Hope Haggard, Elkmont, AL, Girlfriend, Montana Worley, Harvest, AL, Brother, Miguel Cooley, Ardmore, AL, Sister, Brooklyn Glass, Athens, AL, Grandparents, Marvin & Connie Dunn, Elkmont, AL, Grandparents, Randy & Pam Davis,West Limestone, AL.

Visitation will be held on Monday, October 29, 2018 at Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home, from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM.

A Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home, at 2:00 PM with Bro. Steve Hargrove officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery, Athens, AL. 

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The Boger’s have graciously opened up Willow Oak Farms for everyone to gather tomorrow after the burial for Isaac. We ask that everyone join us as we reminisce on the good times. Food is welcomed to be dropped off with Anna Davis Boger there at the barn. Pass the word along, Isaac loved crowds and would love to be the center of attention. 

FROM MR. TRIBBLE
I plan on allowing students to check out at 12 tomorrow to attend Issacs funeral. Students must bring a parent note and turn it in before school. I will not accept emails or parent phone calls to check out students.

It’s hard to put into words what I witnessed today and tonight. I saw pain in our teachers and students hearts. I also saw teachers and students comforting one another. I have been overwhelmed with the support our school has received. Thank you to our central office staff, our counselors from around the county, Chick-fil-A of Athens for giving our kids 200 biscuits this morning, and others who sent me encouraging messages. I hope no principal has to go through this because it is absolutely the worst thing I have experienced in education. However it’s also been one of the best because I have seen kids pray together, love on each other and lift each other up today like I’ve never seen before. Issac was very special for a number of reason and he will be missed by many. I hope people will remember his love for life. He lived big and sometimes he and I butted heads over it but he could always win me back with his smile. Please continue to lift up our school in your prayers in the days to come.

BARRY'S CORNER - LIVING IN ELKMONT

Told a little guy in kindergarten last week his homework was to go home and learn to tie his shoes. Today he could not wait to show me that he had mastered it. All it takes is a little time and effort to show a child. Time and effort.....that’s what every lesson a parent must teach takes. Somethings up with our kids. Kids can’t tie shoes. They can’t hold a conversation. They cannot look adults in the eyes and they do not understand respect. I’m willing to bet that there was little time spent and no effort in any of these. Little minds and hearts are special. They not only require guidance but they deserve it!! Time and effort...choices parents must make. Have a good one!

RONALD LEE HAGGARD - OBITUARY

Ronald Lee Haggard, age 48 of Elkmont, passed away on Saturday, October 27, 2018. Mr. Haggard was born October 5, 1970 to Johnny Lee Haggard and Kathleen Pullum Haggard.

Services for Mr. Haggard are Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with Jonathan Ivey officiating. Visitation will be Tuesday, October 30, 2018 from 6:00 until 9:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Gatlin Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, Brenda Haggard; son, Chase Allen Haggard; daughters, Stephanie Monfil (Jonathan), Chasity Haggard, Maria Vazquez, Deanna Bloodworth (Will) and Amber Mata Mayo (Abel Mata Mayo); brother, Randall Haggard; sisters, Barbara Roman (Jose) and Connie Bermea (Danny); grandchildren, Olivia Bloodworth, Jonathan Monfil, Anayeli Francisco, Damian Monfil, Kinsley Bloodworth, Juan Francisco and Cristian Flores Garcia.

Pallbearers are Jose Roman, Jr., Abel Mata Mayo, Danny Bermea, Victor Roman, Randall Haggard, Glenn Haggard, Roger Dale, Jonathan Monfil, Jody Haggard and Cody Haggard.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT..... ITS ALWAYS GOOD TO READ DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

We have the left media, we have the right media but there are other points of views still ... what do you think? 
 

When the federal government, or as we call it, the state, can create money and pay it to you for goods and your labor, you are a slave. You may be a happy slave, but you are indeed a slave to the money creators.
Yet that is exactly the system being promoted by prominent Democrats and supported by both Democrat and Republican voters alike.
Last spring the leftist rag The Nation commissioned a poll  to determine whether Democrats should run on a platform to guarantee jobs for everyone. They asked pollsters to frame the question in a "way that would be most likely to gain opposition from voters." The question was framed as follows:
"Democrats in congress are proposing a bill which would guarantee a job to every American adult, with the government providing jobs for people who can’t find employment in the private sector. This would be paid for by a 5 percent income tax increase on those making over $200,000 per year. Would you be for or against this policy?"
Pollsters found the results stunning. "Even with explicit partisan framing and the inclusion of revenue in the wording, this is one of the most popular issues we’ve ever polled," said David Shor, a senior data scientist at Civis Analytics.
They learned that 52 percent of those polled supported a job guarantee plan. Only 29 percent opposed it. The rest were undecided.
To no one’s surprise, those who had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 were for it by a margin of 69 percent versus 16 percent opposed. Of those who voted for Donald Trump, 32 percent supported it. A majority of blacks (62 percent) and Latinos (55 percent) also support a federal job plan.
It’s a mystery as to why the pollsters found the poll results "stunning." Given the framing of the question and massive collectivist propaganda of the last 50-plus years, such a result should have been a given. Neither Democrats nor Republicans can ever say "no" to communism. They are taught from early on that government is the be all and end all. In school they are steeped in state worship and most kids today receive two meals (or more) provided by the state.
They are taught to hate the rich and envy their wealth. They’ve been pampered and presented with a pseudo-history that glosses over the millions of deaths and massive human misery caused by collectivist totalitarian systems.
Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders; and new Democrat darling and House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York have all proposed a federal jobs guarantee and high minimum wage.
"Guaranteed jobs programs, creating floors for wages and benefits, and expanding the right to collectively bargain are exactly the type of roles that government must take to shift power back to workers and our communities," Gillibrand told The Nation. "Corporate interests have controlled the agenda in Washington for decades so we can’t tinker at the margins and expect to rebuild the middle class and stamp out inequality. We need to get back to an economy that rewards workers, not just shareholder value and CEO pay."
The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) recently completed a study of a guaranteed jobs program as envisioned by collectivist politicians. The study focused on two prominent jobs guarantee programs designed by leftist think tanks and currently under consideration as a policy platform by Democrat presidential contenders mulling a run in 2020: one by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP report) and the other by the Levy Economics Institute (Levy report).
The jobs plans would cover 10 million to 17 million workers. The plans differ in wage guarantees — the CBPP plan suggests different wages based on skills, performance, geographic region and tenure while the Levy plan sets a $15 wage for all enrollees — but they are similar in the following respects:

• Mandating the acceptance of any adult American, on demand, for an indefinite length of time.
• Paying an average wage around $15 per hour, for both part- and full-time options.
• Providing health insurance and other benefits.
• Projecting enrollment of more than 10 million workers.
• Relying most of the time on states and especially local governments to create and assign work to individual participants.
• Broadly highlighting infrastructure, education, health, the environment, and culture as areas of work for enrollees.
• Assigning work to participants via government-run offices using a database or "job bank."
• Attempting to avoid crowding out work already being done in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

Under the CBPP report, the average cost for each worker would be $56,000 per year in wages, benefits and capital expenditures. Under the Levy report, the cost of each worker would be $36,192 in wages, benefits and capital expenditures. The annual cost, according to AIER, would be $543.2 billion for the CBPP report plan and $611.7 billion to $840.6 billion (depending upon the number of workers covered) under the Levy report plan.
Both plans would funnel millions of dollars into large federal and state bureaucracies to manage the program. They would also distort the labor market and wages. Additionally, they would disincentivize workers from acquiring advanced job skills that would result in real, value-enhancing job creation in the private labor market, locking workers into low-end dead-end jobs.
Nor do they address what is going to motivate workers to perform menial tasks beyond a rudimentary level if there is no incentive for them to do so.  History has shown that in communist/socialist systems in which people were assigned jobs, those tasks eventually were done poorly and inefficiently if they were done at all.
The U.S. already leads the world in our lazy and don’t care work ethic. Very few people really work anymore. Nor do many want to take responsibility for their welfare, choosing instead to rely on the state for sustenance and succor. Voters and politicians embrace Social Security, Medicare and its expansions, Medicaid, No Child Left Behind, a greater regulatory state and most parts of Obamacare. There is no stomach among even the most "conservative" Americans for cutting social and corporate welfare programs.
The Nation’s proposal of a tax increase aside, neither plan makes mention of how an additional budget item that equals or exceed the Pentagon’s 2018 budget will be paid for.
The answer, of course is through money creation. Collectivist systems are not possible without fiat money. And on top of that comes heavy progressive taxation. The system cannot survive unless the volume of money is regulated through taxation.
Collectivism and fiat money both thrive on the darkest sins of man’s heart: greed and guilt manipulation. Fiat money appeals to the greed of men by asserting that it is possible to be wealthy without hard work and creativity — that one can create wealth merely by accumulating paper that has been arbitrarily numbered and assigned a fictitious value. Hence its allure to the pampered and deceived public. And this is the allure of guaranteed jobs programs.
Collectivist systems, whether they are called democracy, socialism, communism or fascism, are philosophies of envy. When one sees something another has and decides he wants it,  rather than earn it on his own merits he wants the power of government to take it and either give it to him or redistribute it to the masses. Often the collectivist doesn’t want that something for himself as much as he doesn’t want someone else to have it.
Collectivism is also a philosophy of racism, weakness, ineptitude and collectivism in that it assumes one gained what he has by way of special privilege not afforded everyone if they are of a different race or creed or social standing; and that one cannot obtain a thing or advance economically without the assistance of government or the collective.
It is a disguised system of stealing the wealth and production of the producers of wealth with spurious laws under the legitimacy of the vote. Stealing or taking from producers and transferring it to nonproducers is very sophisticated and concealed class warfare.
Collectivist systems, as they grow and mature, require strong, authoritarian police state backing to enforce the myriad laws needed to make them work and steal the wealth and property from individuals for distribution to the state. They are anathema to human liberty and a concealed form of slavery.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

EVA NELL DAVIS - OBITUARY

Mrs. Eva Nell Davis, age 93 of Elkmont, passed away on Monday, October 22, 2018 at her home. Mrs. Davis was born on April 12, 1925 to Boyd and Elizabeth “Jim” Kellum. Mrs. Davis was dearly loved by her family. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles Davis; daughter, Beverley Stanford; 5 sisters and 4 brothers.

Mrs. Davis is survived by her son, Charles “Ralph” Davis; daughter, Connie Craig (Rickey); grandchildren, Travis Craig (Leanna), Monica Craig Wales (Keith) and Justin Craig (Caroline); great-grandchildren, Kelton Craig, McKenna Craig, Adrianna Craig, Grayson Wales and Graham Craig and several nieces and nephews.

A graveside service for Mrs. Davis will be at 12:00PM Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at New Salem Cemetery with Chuck Hood officiating. The family will receive friends from 10:00-11:15AM at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be Rickey Craig, Travis Craig, Justin Craig, Kelton Craig, Grayson Wales and Keith Wales.

BARRY'S CORNER - LIVING IN ELKMONT

So today on the playground, two kindergarten kids, boy and girl, come up and say “you want to see our cartwheels?” Sure I say. The little girl runs and performs a really good cartwheel. The little guy says “watch mine!” He runs, I see a slight rise in his body and he stops. I said “go ahead “. He looks at me perplexed and says “I just did it”. Whaaat? I mean was it just that he was quick and I missed it?? Was he so stealthy I totally missed it? I say “you didn’t do one”. He says “ YES, I DID!!!!!” and runs off upset. I mean I couldn’t even give him the obligatory “good job”. He didn’t do it!!!! Welcome to the life of millennials!! Have a good one!!

HELP OUR GIRL SCOUT TROOP FILL SOME TUMMIES

Our local girl scout troop, #1134, is doing their annual Full Tummy drive in the community this weekend. They are placing plastic bags with fliers on front doors, asking the community for their help in collecting the items.They will be going to the Elkmont Rural Village, Clearmont Subdivision, around the High School and Downtown Elkmont. If you want to participate and they miss you, please contact these ladies and our sweet girl scouts will come by to pick up your donation.

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Dear Elkmont Friends,
   We are Girl Scout Troop 1134. For the last couple of years, in October, we have helped collect food for the Elkmont Full Tummy Project. The Full Tummy project is a community service that qualifying children with food to take home on the weekends, so there are no skipped meals or going without.  A great project as well as we get to help  kids in our community.  This is what girl scouts love to do.

Bags were distributed during last weekend for your donation, if you choose to participate.  On October 27 @ 9 am, door to door collections will take place.  Leave your donations on your front porch or near the front door.  

 

If you have questions, call Emily Lovell @ 256-497-7285.  Thanks in advance for your help! What a blessing to live in Elkmont, the greatest little town on earth.

Serving Elkmont

Girl Scout Troop 1134

LINDA GAYLE MARTIN WILLIAMS - OBITUARY

Linda Gayle Martin Williams, age 74 of Elkmont, died October 13 at Huntsville Hospital.  Mrs. Williams was born December 25, 1943, in Limestone County. She was a member of Pettusville Church of Christ. She was a wife and mother who helped her husband manage their farm, and she ran John & Linda's Greenhouse for many years. 

Services were at 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 17 at Spry Funeral Home Chapel with Ronnie Holt officiating. Visitation was Wednesday from noon until service time. Burial was in Hodges Cemetery. Pallbearers were John A. Williams Jr., Justin Williams, Travis Williams, Tad Harris, Will Harris and Doug Campbell. 

Survivors include:
John A. Williams Sr. of Elkmont; sons, John A. Williams Jr. and wife, Cindy, of Elkmont and Travis Williams of Athens; daughter, Pam Harris and husband Tad of Athens; grandchildren, Kasey Williams, Will Harris and fiancee Emily Leopard, Katie Harris, and Justin Williams; sister, Frances Pressnell of Tanner; brother, Granville Martin of Athens; and several nieces and nephews. 

Mrs. Williams was preceded in death by father, William Marvin (Jack) Martin; mother, Bernice Yarbrough Martin; and brothers, Morris Martin and Larry Martin.

DEAN DAVIS HOBBS - OBITUARY

Dean Davis Hobbs, age 88 of Elkmont, passed away on Monday, October 15, 2018 at Limestone Health Facility. Mrs. Hobbs was born September 13, 1930 in Elkmont, AL to Andrew Lewis and Sammie Adams Davis.

Services for Mrs. Hobbs were Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with Dr. Carl Evans. Visitation was Wednesday, October 17, 2018 from 5:00 until 9:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial was in Roselawn Cemetery.

She was a hard worker and loved her family very much. She was a 1948 graduate of Elkmont High School. She married James W. Hobbs on September 16, 1950. James and Dean owned and operated James Hobbs Grocery at Lockes Cross Roads for many years. She enjoyed gardening, quilting, and spending time with her family. The highlight of her week was her Wednesday morning trips to the beauty shop and breakfast at Hardee’s. She was a member of Pettusville United Methodist Church. She was a friend to all.

She is survived by her sons, Marcus Hobbs and wife Sara, Greg Hobbs and wife Mary and Brad Hobbs and wife Dana; brother, Sonny Davis and wife Jeanette; sister, Jane Woodfin; sister-in-law, Edith Davis; grandchildren, Shane Carpenter, Brent Hobbs, Morgan Hobbs, Gina Cagle, Madeline Hobbs, Ben Hobbs and Davis Hobbs; step-grandchildren, Kim Miller and Krissy Aldridge; 7 great-grandchildren; 2 step-great grandchildren; special friends, Lola Allison and Deborah Gardner; nieces, nephews and numerous other family and friends.

Preceded in death by her husband James W. Hobbs.

Pallbearers are Marcus Hobbs, Greg Hobbs, Brad Hobbs, Brent Hobbs, Morgan Hobbs, Davis Hobbs, Ben Hobbs, Drew Cagle and Bain Carpenter.

The family would like to express a special thanks to the staff at Limestone Health Facility and Hospice of Limestone County. If anyone wishes to make a contribution please contribute to Hospice of Limestone County.