Jimmy Busby: Alton Parris continues to ride single speed bike

08-06-2008

• Alton Parris, a well known minister and pastor for the past 35 years, is currently doing interim work at the Community Congregational Holiness Church. He is still doing home inspections and riding his single speed bicycle when he has time. He found time in June to ride 200 miles. Alton turned 68 on June 21. I have lived next door to him for three and a half years. You couldn’t have a better neighbor. We plan to ride from the Georgia line to Cedartown when the weather cools off. • Maude McClinton (Mrs. J.C.), a longtime history teacher at White Plains, passed away in Chatman recently. There was no obituary in The Anniston Star and many didn’t hear about her death. After leaving White Plains she taught at Anniston High for several years. Betty Ingram and Alvin Robertson tried to get a busload on Alabama Limousine to go to the funeral but there weren’t enough signed up to go, so they went in a chartered van. It’s a long drive to Chatman. Many students took history under Mrs. Maude, including myself. She was 96. • Our sympathy goes out to my children, Marsha Lynn and Derrick, in the loss of their grandmother, Evie Esters, 89, of Chulafinnee. She was buried at Pleasant Ridge on Monday, Aug. 4. Evie had lived in Cleburne County most of her life. She had one daughter.

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