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11:02 am Sunday, December 24, 2000

OBITUARIES FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 24, 2000

By Staff
LUCILE ROLISON JOHNSON
Dispatcher for City of Butler
BUTLER, Ala. Graveside services for Lucile Rolison Johnson will be held today at 4:30 p.m. at Resthaven Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Garry Williams officiating. Bumpers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Johnson, 87, of Butler, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2000, at her home.
Survivors include her husband, Walter Johnson of Butler; three brothers, E.T. Rolison of Lisman, Rudolph Rolison of Eight Mile and L.T. Rolison of Livingston; three sisters, Lolita Rolison and Troy Rolison, both of Lisman, and Gynell Moffett of Pennington; a grandson and five great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be today from 3 p.m.-4 p.m. at the funeral home.
JOSEPH GIBBON
NEWTON Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Joseph Gibbon, 91, of Hickory, who died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2000, at his home.
JAMES THOMAS
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for James Thomas of Meridian, who died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2000, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
JOHN W. TOOLE
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for John W. Toole, 85, of Meridian, who died Friday, Dec. 22, 2000, at Meridian Community Living Center.

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