Tuesday December 12th, 2006
PasGhettis
6:30 PM
At the November meeting new officers and directors were elected. They are:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, 2006 is our annual CHRISTMAS PARTY
come and bring your wife or girl friend (not both).
Benny Pritchett, our field representative with the Alabama Home Builders Association will be there to install officers.
Come for good food and good fellowship.
Our highlight speaker was Mayor Sherman Guyton.
The Mayor spoke briefly about several subjects. He stated that we have $1,000,000 in reserves but should have $5,000,000 in reserves. City cars have been parked, rather than carried home at night. He hoped the Goodyear strike would be over by December 1st – didn’t make it. The City needs 8-10 new police officers, they passed a capital improvement budget with level funding for the next six months. The Mayor talked about Rigid coming, City Council getting along well, more paving, more drainage projects, etc. He wants more jobs and wants to see our local contractors get more bids.
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Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. today from the chapel of Collier-Butler Funeral Home for Mr. James E. Elliott III, 58 Gadsden, who died Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006. Dr. Tommy Ferguson and Brother Tom Kilpatrick will officiate and Masonic Rites will follow the service. Mr. Elliott was a native and a long time resident of Etowah County. He was a retired 1SG with the Army Reserves with 23 years of service. He as a member of Goodyear Heights Baptist Church, Masonic Lodge No. 470 of Hokes Bluff, The Greater Gadsden Home Builders Association where he served two terms as President and the American Legion of Ashville, Post 0170. He was associated with G-E Habitat for Humanity, The Cultural Arts/Imagination Place, and 13th Place (temporary shelter for children). |
Mr. Elliott is preceded in death by his parents, James E. Elliott, Jr. and Catherine Helms Elliott. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn Elliott; son Paul (Jennifer) Elliott; chosen son, Wayne Saint; daughters, Sheila(Darryl) Smith and Sandra Battles; 10 grandchildren; sister Lensha (Charley) Wood and Cynthia (Larry) Davenport; and several nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to G-E Habitat for Humanity at P.O. Box 7002 Rainbow City, AL 35906. Collier Butler Funeral Home and Cremation Services will direct. |
IN MEMORY OF JAMES ELLIOTT
1948 – 2006
With sadness our Past President (1993 – 1994) James Elliott passed away Saturday December 2, 2006.
James was always a caring person and was the first person to volunteer to give his time and money to our Home Builders organization.
We will all miss James but may his goodness be remembered by us when dealing with our fellow man. I am proud and honored to say that I was one of his many friends. Please keep Evelyn and his family in your prayers and thoughts.
Opie L. Reed
Thoughts From The Secretary
I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, “She is gone.”
Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, “She is gone,” there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, “Here she comes,” and that is dying.