Mobile County
Alabama
Genealogy and History



Obituaries


Willie J. Coyle

Joseph R. Skilton

Cassie S. Roland

Carolyn Nash Craft

Amanda (Orrell) Toler

Robert Franklin Duck

W. D. Toler

Louis J. Jackson

Dervin G. Townsend

Mary A. Langley

 



WILLIE J. COYLE was aborn in Alexandria LA October 4, 1846, and died at the residence of his father-in-law, Mr. Charles Francisville Mobile AL December 31, 1880.
[Submitted by Christine Walters]

CAROLYN NANETTE NASH CRAFT
Carolyn Nanette Nash Craft, 59, of Gulf Breeze, Fla. died March 12, 2008 at a Florida hospital. She was born Aug. 10, 1948

She was a native of Laurel, Miss. She was a member of Lighthouse First Baptist Church in Pensacola and a former member of Moffett Road Baptist Church in Mobile. She was a certified public accountant with Knight Madson Accounting in Gulf Breeze.

Survivors include her husband, Gerald Craft, Gulf Breeze; two children, Michelle Niedert, Barstow, Calif., and Jerry Craft, Gulf Breeze; her mother, Madalynne Nash, Mobile; a sister, Nancy Wilhelm, Jackson, Ala.; a brother, Wayne Nash, Atwater, Calif.; five grandchildren.

The service was March 18 at 12 p.m. at Radney Funeral Home on Dauphin Street. Burial was in Springhill Memorial Gardens.

Memorials may be made to the library at Moffett Road Baptist Church, 5555 Moffett Road, Mobile, AL 36618 or to the music fund at the University of Mobile Department of Music, 5735 Mobile Parkway, Eight Mile, AL 36613. [The Clarke County Democcat, March 20, 2008 - Submitted by Sabrina Roberts.]

ROBERT FRANKLIN DUCK, native of Escambia County, FL, a resident of Mobile for the past 40 years, died at a local hospital Friday morning, Dec. 12, 1958. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Louella Duck, Mobile, AL; three daughters, Mrs. Anna Lee Simon, Mobile, AL, Mrs. Virginia Mae Jarvis, Theodore, AL, and Mrs. Annis Creamer, Robertsdale, AL; three sons, Jared E. Duck, Martin Luther Duck, and Albert E. Duck, all of Mobile; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Silcox, Bayou la Batre, AL, and Mrs. Bashie Bankester, Reeves, LA; two brothers, Walter Duck, Loxley, AL and Alph Duck, Mobile, AL; thirteen grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and other relatives. His remains will be in the funeral parlors from Saturday at noon until Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Funeral services will be held from the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Washington Avenue, Monday morning, Dec. 15, 1958 at 11 o'clock. His body will lay in the church from 10 am until funeral time at 11 o'clock. Interment will be in the Pine Crest Cemetery. Funeral arrangements by Higgins Mortuary, Inc., Mobile, AL. [Mobile Register, Dec. 15, 1958 - Submitted by Dawn Conway]

LOUIS J. JACKSON, a native of Tunnel Springs, AL, residing in Mobile, AL for 34 years, died Friday, April 7, 1978 at 9:30 a.m. in Mobile. He was buried from Bel-View Baptist Church, Monday April 10, 1978 at 10 a.m. He is survived by his wife, Louise cumbie Jackson and two daughters.
[Submitted by Christine Walters]

MARY A. LANGLEY, a longtime resident of Wilmer, died Wednesday at a local hospital. Survivors include a daughter, Karen Kuhn of Wilmer; two sons, Jerry Richardson and Bart Spivey, both of Mobile; two stepchildren, Sandra Henderson of Mississippi and Walter A. Langley Jr. of Florida; a brother, Ellsworth Alford of Wilmer; a sister, Frances Kirby of Eight Mile; and six grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Valhalla Memorial Funeral Home, with burial in Valhalla Memorial Gardens.
[Mobile Register (AL) - September 27, 1996 - Submitted by Dena Whitesell]

CASSIE S. ROLAND
Cassie Sims Roland, a veteran educator who retired after teaching elementary school for 29 years in Mobile County, died Sunday at a local health care facility. She was 77.  The Forkland, Ala., native resided in Prichard. Mrs. Roland began her career in the public school system at Grand Bay School. She later taught at Carver, Ella Grant, Trinity Gardens and Brazier schools. She retired in 1979. She maintained memberships in the national and state retired teachers' associations and held various offices with the local association. She was a member of Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church since childhood and served in many auxiliaries, including the vacation Bible school, senior choir, counselor to the junior choir and teacher to the Sunday school primary class. She also worked with Cub Scouts. Survivors include two sons, Charles Gerald Roland and Patrick Lynn Roland, both of Prichard; three daughters, Saundra Jean Inge and Linda Elaine Hargrett of Tallahassee, Fla., and Eunice Elizabeth Roland Jackson of Chicago; a sister, Ruth Sims Morrissette of Chicago; 14 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Viewing is to be Saturday from 9 a.m. until services begin at 11 a.m. at Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church.
Reese Funeral Home of Prichard is handling arrangements.
[Mobile Register (AL), June 12, 1997, Submitted by Anna Newell]

JOSEPH R. SKILTON - Joseph R. ''Bud'' Skilton, an electrician and Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War, died Thursday in a local hospice. He was 76. A native of New York, Skilton had resided in the Mobile area since 1982, living in Chickasaw for about the past three years. Survivors include his children in New York. Their names were unavailable. Viewing will be from 10 a.m. to noon today at Radney Funeral Home in Mobile, with graveside services at 2 p.m. at the U.S. National Cemetery in Biloxi.
[Mobile Register (AL) - September 27, 1996 - Submitted by Dena Whitesell]

AMANDA (ORRELL) TOLER Died - At St. Elmo, Mobile County AL, October 4, 1878 wife of W.D. Toler, Esq. and daughter of the late John Orrell Esq. of N.C. She was buried on the anniversary of her wedding day. Seven years of wedded happiness shed its bright beams on her pathway of life. To a devoted sister's tender love and care, she left her three dear little children - a little girl, aged five years, a boy three years of age and an infant only a few weeks old.
[St. Elmo AL October 25, 1878 - Submitted by Christine Walters]

W.D. TOLER - Died, August 25, 1885, at his residence in St. Elmo, Mobile Co., Ala. W.D. Toler, who was born in Newbern, NC in which State he resided until 1879, at which time he removed to Mobile County and soon thereafter married Miss Amanda Orrell of St. Elmo, formerly of N.C. whom he survived seven years. He leaves three little children and a large number of friends who in sorrow and sadness survive him. Mr. Toler conducted successfully a saw mill and turpentinery in and near St. Elmo for about 15 years. He was a Representative of Mobile County at the time of his death. About 18 years ago Mr. Toler was shot by an assassin, the bullet lodging in his left lung, which produced his death. He was a good citizen, a useful man charitable and universally kind to his fellow man, and always promoting to the extent of his ability, every interest which tended to promote the general good of his county.
[Newspaper - Orange Grove Miss, Oct. 20, 1885  - Submitted by Christine Walters]

DERVIN G. TOWNSEND
Dervin G. "D" Townsend, 66, of Mauvilla, died March 16, 2008 at an area hospital.

He was a native of Greensboro. He was retired from the Alabama Highway Department as an inspector. He graduated from Coffeeville High School.

Survivors include his wife of 23 years, June Fuller Townsend, Mauvilla; two sons, Randy Townsend, Chase Townsend, both of Mauvilla; two daughters, Penny Townsend, Mobile, Dawn Ellis, Grand Bay; four brothers, Jack Townsend, Columbia, Tenn., L.D. Townsend, Jacksonville, Fla., Ronald Townsend, Ray Townsend, Chunchula; two sisters, Louise Thomas, Greensboro, Geneva Gillam, Thomasville; six grandchildren.

The service was March 19 at 1 p.m. at the Haven Woods Baptist Church. Burial was in Valhalla Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Valhalla Memorial Gardens Funeral Home of Semmes directed. [The Clarke County Democcat, March 20, 2008 - Submitted by Sabrina Roberts.]


 






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