Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
5:48 am Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Mary Alene Newell

Mary Alene Newell
September 17, 2011
Mary Arlene Newell, 69, of Spruce Pine, Ala. passed away Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 at Russellville Hospital.
She was a lifelong resident of Franklin County and a member of Siloam Baptist Church.
The funeral service will be Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, 11 a.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville with Roger Bond officiating.  Burial will follow in Franklin Memory Gardens.  
She is survived by her son, Tim Newell and wife, Cynthia, of Hodges, Ala.; daughters, Tammy Shaw and husband, Randy, of Russellville, Ala., Cindy Putman and husband, Rodney, of Hodges, Ala.; grandchildren, Jerrod Putman and wife, Shanon, of Placentia, Calif., Michael Sexton, of Bear Creek, Ala., Tyler Hodge and wife, Whitney, of Russellville, Ala., PFC William Colby Sutton, of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., PFC Michael B. Galloway, of Russellville, Ala., Timothy Sexton, of Hodges, Ala., Jessie Newell, of Hodges, Ala.; great-grandchildren, Guinevere Putman, Michael Sexton, Jr., Malachi Sexton; Alyssa Shackelford; sister, Betty Fretwell and husband, Ray, of Russellville, Ala.; and host of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be nephews.
She was preceded in death by parents, Archie and Fannie Mae Taylor; brothers, Howard Taylor, J. D. Taylor; sisters, Ora Mae Duncan and Doris Jordan

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