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CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS 

(In chronological order of Articles contributed) 

Jean  Champion Butterworth is originally from Tuscaloosa County, graduating form Tuscaloosa County High School, Druid City Hospital School of Nursing and The University of Alabama.  She is a retired nurse. Working 27 years at The Children’s Hospital as Department Director, Specialty Clinics.  She has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, The Middle East, and Eastern Europe.(Many articles in Alabama Memories )

Randal Champion is retired andis a resident of Tuscaloosa County. He attended Tuscaloosa County High School and received his undergraduate education from the University of Alabama.  He was employed as a high school biology teacher in Mobile.   He retired from the State of Alabama Medicaid Agency. (Many Articles in Alabama Memories )

Inez McCollum - grew up in Etowah County.  Married Mack McCollum, a BI-vocational minister.  Moved to Birmingham to work while he worked and went to Howard College/Samford University.  Inez and Mack had three sons, Jay, Joe and John.  They bought their first home in what is now Hoover.  Inez continues to be active in Shades Mountain Baptist Church and some of the civic organizations in Hoover. Inez also enjoys reading, travel and spending time with friends. (Many Articles in Alabama Memorie s)

Clifford Dobyns - I was born in Ashland, Kentucky in1932.  I graduated from the University of Kentucky in Industrial Management.  My first job was with General Telephone Company of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.  My next job was with Humana Health Care System in Louisville, Kentucky.  I came to Birmingham in 1978 as Director of Management Engineering for the Baptist Health Care System and years later held the same position with Eastern Health Care System.  When I retired, I began driving a school bus for the Mountain Brook School System and later became their Director of Transportation.  My current work status involves a vast array of “honey-do” projects.

My faith in God and all that surround sit is a large part of my life.  My wife and I are active members of  The Church at Brook Hills.  We have 2 sons, 1 daughter and 1 grandchild and celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary this past June.

Fishing has been a hobby of mine since I was 13 years old and I continue to do that.   My other favorite hobby was motorcycle riding which I had to give up when I was 72 years old due to losing my balancing ability. (Many Articles in Alabama Memories ) 

Becki McAnnally - I was born and raised in Shelby County, in Helena..attended and graduated from Thompson High School in Alabaster. Graduated from Birmingham Baptist (Ida V. Moffett) School of Nursing , in 1963..I am also an alum of Alabama, UAB , and Samford. I was employed for 40 ofthe 45 years of my career at Children's Hospital ...26 years of that as Division Director of the Outpatient Services.  I have published several articles for Senior Living and for the Tannehill Trader; I am married to a Baptist Minister, have two children, four grandchildren. I live in Welti, Alabama, a pretty agricultural  community about 7 miles east of downtown Cullman, Al.  My father's family was from Bibb County, AL. and my mother's family all lived in Jefferson County. (Many articles in Alabama Memories ) 

Sam Perkins was born in Smith County,TN.  He graduated from Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville,TN with an EE degree.  He moved to Hoover, AL forty two years ago.  He is retired from Bell South where he last worked as an Operations Manager.  He lives in the Bluff park area of Hoover with his wife Katie.  They have three grown daughters and two granddaughters. (Many articles in Alabama Memories ) 

Rev. William Hugh Tucker is a retired American Baptist minister. His Alabama roots go back to the Rev. Truheart Tucker, a pioneer Baptist minister in Clarke, Wilcox and Marengo Counties. Truheart was born in Henrico County, Virginia on October 18, 1788, was converted by The Rev. Jesse Mercer at Bethseda Baptist Church in Greene County, Georgia and crossed the Federal Road to Clarke County about 1815. Hugh's mother is a native of Opelika and met his father at Auburn. His mother is descended from The Rev. Eden Taylor, an early Baptist pastor in Monroe County,Georgia; William Whatley Carlisle, a member of the Alabama County Legislature from Chambers County in 1850; Elijah Anderson Turner, founder of Calsis, Alabama in Shelby County, and Dr. Philip Madison Shepard, founder and proprietor of Graefenburg Medical Institute, the first medical school in Alabama chartered to award the M.D. degree. Dr. Tucker has an B.A. in History from Oberlin College, a M.Div. from Colgate Rochester Divinity School and earned his Ph.D. at The University of Michigan. Hugh has served as a campus minister at Buffalo State College and Utah State University and as an assistant professor at Idaho State University and Elmira College and was a parish minister for eighteen years.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   (Author of  The Graefenberg Shepards  - in Member Files) 

MILTON L. ALBERSTADT JR. began a career in public affairs helping to explain the manufacture of NASA’s SATURN V rocket that in 1969 launched the first American astronauts from Florida to the moon.  Now retired, he has been a public relations manager for Boeing, an advertising manager for Volkswagen and a television news producer for Exxon.  He is the great-great-great grandson of Thomas Wadsworth Farrar through Farrar’s daughter, Marie Stephanie Farrar.  His master of science in journalism degree in 1962 is from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, Illinois.   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  - Thomas Wadsworth Farrar biography

 Judy Everett Ramos has been an amateur genealogist since she was  11  years  old. She has visited cemeteries, courthouses, local libraries, and  national  archives to find her information. She has written letters to  various agencies in  several states to track down documents on her  ancestors. Since 2008, she has  done much of her research online and has  met many “new” relatives along the  way.  Judy is a new member of the  Daughters of the American Revolution and  is  interested in pursuing  membership in other similar organizations. Judy is a  Corpus Christi,  Texas native, but she has traced her roots around the globe  through several family lines. Judy hopes that by sharing her stories online, she will find more “new” relatives, and they can help each other put ancestry puzzle pieces together.  She is a former newspaper, television, and radio reporter and currently works in school public relations. When she is not searching for ancestors, Judy spends time on her other hobbies, photography and cooking, both of which are centered on her family. She loves taking pictures of her family and cooking up new recipes for them. Judy and her family live in Hurst, Texas, outside Fort Worth.  (Everetts and the Alabama/Texas Connection)