The Birmingham News
Thursday Sep 29, 1966, pg 49
Mrs. Wynn
Funeral services were held at 2 pm today at Brown-Service Norwood Chapel for Mrs. Ethel Wynn, 87, of 4425 28th Way North. Burial was in Old Walker's Chapel cemetery.
Mrs. Wynn, a lifelong resident of Jefferson County, died Tuesday at her home. She was a member of the Baptist Church.
She is survived by a son, William R. Wynn of Klamath Falls, Oregon; two daughters, Mrs. Betty Layne of Birmingham and Mrs. Lois Melton of Fairhope; three sisters, Mrs. Tressie HIcks of Center Point, Mrs. Annie McKeever of Mulga and Mrs. Mimmie Quinn of Winston County; and two brothers, Azz Higgins of Mulga and Palmer Higgins of Leeds.
The Birmingham News
pg 25
Monday May 9, 1955
Funeral services were announced today for Jess Leonard Blanton, 36, 1314 15th av, N, and Claude Mason Wynn, 58, 4425 28th way N. They were victims of separate traffic accidents over the week-end.
Blanton.....
Wynn, a native of Coalburg, and an independent trucker, was killed on the Blocksburg-Graysville-rd. He was run over by his own vehicle.
Services were held today for Wynn at Walker's Chapel Methodist Church, the Rev. Ray Moore and the Rev. J. T. Roper officiating. Burial was in the adjoining church cemetery, Brown-Service directing.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ethel Wynn; two daughters, Mrs. Lois Melton of Fairhope and Mrs. Betty Sue Layne of Birmingham; a son, Bill Wynn of Gardendale, and two sisters, Mrs. Flora T. Tatro, Republic, and Mrs. Lucille Gammell, Pratt City.
*****Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870
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Mrs. Orville Lay, State Chairman for the
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama
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William Edgar Torbert 1855-1931 of Greene Co (now Hale), AL, son of Cyrus Torbert & Elizabeth Melton Torbert, was Probate Judge of Hale Co.