Rudolph James Kirkland, 84, of White City, passed away Saturday evening, September 29, 2018 in a Panama City hospital. He was a native of Alabama and a long-time resident of White City. Rudolph retired from Raffield Fisheries of Port St Joe.Survivors include his sons, Danny Kirkland and wife Patty of Sunny Hills, Bobby Kirkland of Wewahitchka, and Mike Kirkland and wife Dawn of Vernon, Florida; his daughter Wanda Nixon and husband Bruce; several grandchildren and great- [...]
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Rudolph James Kirkland Obituary
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Dennis D. Julson Obituary
Dennis D. Julson, 67, of Wewahitchka, Florida, passed away September 22, 2018, at Bay Medical Hospital surrounded by family. Dennis was born February 13, 1951, in Minot, ND where he attended school through Jr. High. The family then moved to Key West, Florida, in 1965, and he graduated high school there in 1969. He married Vickie June Pugh shortly thereafter. The couple moved to Wewahitchka where he worked for the REA Co-Op for many years.Dennis is survived by his parents, [...]
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Maurice “Mish” Edward Fuller Obituary
Maurice (“Mish”) Edward Fuller, 70, was born December 7, 1947 in Port St. Joe, Florida and passed away September 28, 2018 after a brief illness. He was preceded in death by his parents, Mary Fuller Daughtry and James Lyman Fuller and his brother, James “Jimmy” Hoffman Fuller.Mish is survived by his wife, Edith McLawhon Fuller; daughters, Christie Fuller Mundy (Jeff) of Lake Charles, Louisiana and Carrie Fuller Tharpe (Jeremy) of Tallahassee, [...]
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Jeanne Ann Brookhouse Obituary
Jeanne Ann Brookhouse, age 84, of Mexico Beach, FL passed away Sunday, September 30, 2018 at Bay Medical Center in Panama City, FL.A Memorial Mass will be held 11 a.m. CST Friday, October 5, 2018 at Our Lady of Guadeloupe, 1500 15th Street Mexico Beach, FL, with Father Chris Winkeljohn officiating. The family will receive friends following the service.Jeanne, daughter of the late John Gray and Elizabeth Toohey Gray, was born December 11, 1933 in Bay City, MI. She [...]
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Doctor dangers explored at Lifetree Café
The dangers of medical mistakes will be discussed 11:30 a.m. CT Friday, Oct. 12 in a new Lifetree Café lunch setting.The program, titled “Doctor Danger: What Every Patient Needs to Know,” features a filmed interview with Dr. Martin Makary, a cancer surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and author of Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care.“There are lots of things hospitals [...]
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In Good Faith: No parking zone
I spend a lot of time wandering aimlessly through the church parking lot. It never used to be this way. My general philosophy had always been that parking lots were designed for cars, not people. But then we got a new puppy, and suddenly I find myself walking around the parking lot like a lost itinerant preacher holding a leash rather than circuit riding atop a horse.Cooper is now 5-months-old, a curiously adorable mix of basenji, German shepherd and chihuahua. We’ve been doing puppy [...]
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Shayne Looper: Is there a Christian way to think about Kavanaugh?
The country is like a volcano that is ready to erupt. Smoke is billowing. If the eruption comes, it won’t matter if one is a man or a woman, a Democrat or a Republican, a Conservative or a Progressive, everyone will suffer.The Senate confirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have exposed deep fault lines that run through our nation. In the past decade, the uneven ground between races has caused Americans to stumble. With the Me Too [...]
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Bill Tinsley: Sunrise season
I sat in the pre-dawn dark watching the gathering glow in the east. A bird broke the stillness with a solitary song. Soon others joined him in the gathering light until they filled the air with a chorus of calls. It was as if the birds had waited through the long hours of darkness wondering if the sun would return, and, once it did, they were delirious with joy. We sometimes feel that way, when the darkness closes in on us. We sometimes wonder, as the birds seem to do, if the dawn of light [...]
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Jaylyn Alexander Tannehill Obituary
Jaylyn Alexander Tannehill, of White City, Florida, born on June 2, 1994 in Panama City, Florida, to Angela Tannehill and Johnny Williams III, passed away at age 24 on October 1, 2018 in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Florida. Jaylyn was preceded in death by his grandfather, Shelton Jeffcoat; and uncles, Brett Jeffcoat and Craig Buchanan.He is survived by his son, Macon Tannehill; daughter, Penelope Tannehill; sisters, Ava Tannehill, Tracian Williams, Eva Marie Williams, and Promise [...]
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Suzette Martinez Standring: Holy relics: The strange practice of venerating human remains
Eek alert! In Italy I saw many body parts of saints on display in basilicas and museums. They represent a centuries-old Roman Catholic belief that the bodies of saints manifest holiness, and therefore, are to be venerated. It’s very odd.Take for example, St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), a mystic who worked toward peace within the church. She persuaded Pope Gregory XI to move from France, where many popes had ruled, and to return to Italy, restoring it as the seat of papal power. [...]
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Panama City woman laments damage to her church
PANAMA CITY — Lori Ubowski has two words to describe Panama City: "total loss."“It’s numbing,” Ubowski said. “There are moments you’re just standing there and it’s just tears. Then there’s moments when you’re numb. You can’t even process what just happened.”Ubowski woke up Monday morning intending to buy batteries, water, food — the essentials. Michael was still a newly formed storm, she said. [...]
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Shayne Looper: The heart’s creed is what really matters
The two best-known creeds of the Western Church are the Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed. The Nicene Creed dates from 325 A.D. and represents the Church’s unified response to an ongoing controversy about the divine nature of Christ. The Apostles’ Creed is harder to date. The earliest extant text dates from the late 700s, but at that time the Church claimed it had been in use for centuries. Phrases from the creed had already appeared in the writings of certain Church [...]
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Bill Tinsley: ‘First Man’ and walks of faith
Last weekend we slipped into one of the premier showings of “First Man”, the movie portraying Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. The movie takes us on board the X-15, Gemini and Apollo. We feel that we are there, experiencing the sheer terror of it all, pushing the limits of technology to land a man on the moon. The movie is gripping, as is the history. My wife and I married on December 21, 1968, the day Apollo 8 launched to carry the first men to orbit the moon. [...]
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Susan Sparks: Shabbat? Why not!
One of my best life lessons came from a tiny silver-haired woman with a twinkle in her eye. I met Nana Gert, the grandmother of a dear friend, many years ago when I first moved from North Carolina to New York. Upon hearing that I was new in town and had no family in the area, Nana Gert insisted on inviting me, a Baptist from the South, to her famous Friday Shabbat dinners on Long Island. Each week, I would gather with her family around her table which simply groaned under the weight of [...]
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Shayne Looper: What is the secret of contentment?
Frank Sinatra planned to retire when he was at the top of his game. He used to say, “You gotta get out before you hit the mat.” And yet he kept performing until he was almost 80 and his performances became increasingly unsatisfactory. At one show he forgot the lyrics to one of his signature songs, and the audience had to finish it for him. Once, at a concert in Las Vegas, he was so sick that he collapsed into a chair and was administered oxygen. His handlers began keeping oxygen [...]
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Bill Tinsley: When He comes
Beyond confessions of faith, hymns and sermons, the Second Coming of Christ seems to make little difference. We pursue our educations, work at our careers, raise our families, worry about retirement and prepare for the inevitable: death and taxes. In the meantime, the lives of believers and non-believers often show little marked difference other than church attendance. But what if He comes today? What if He comes tomorrow? What if He came yesterday? No, I am not suggesting you missed the [...]
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Suzette Martinez Standring: King Solomon would say support the free press
A baby is about to get cut in two. Attacks against the freedom of the press remind me of the biblical story of King Solomon. (1 Kings. 3:23-27).Two women each claim to be mother to a baby. King Solomon orders a sword to cut the infant in two, and to give half to each woman. One pleads, “Give the child to her, but let it live.” The other says, “Cut it in half, then it will be fair.”King Solomon awards the child to the first woman, saying, “She is truly [...]
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Waylon Graham Obituary
Waylon Graham of Port St. Joe passed away suddenly on October 7 at the age of 82.Waylon moved from Clarksville, Florida to Port St. Joe in 1957 and established his home and raised a family. He worked at Sylvachem Corporation, now Arizona Chemical, until his retirement in 1997. Throughout his life, Waylon was involved in various civic activities such as volunteering for nearly 30 years as the time clock operator for the Shark basketball team, being a member of the [...]
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Mary Alice Atkinson Rice Obituary
Mary Alice Atkinson Rice, 82, of Wewahitchka, Florida passed away on October 16, 2018. Mary was born on August 9, 1936 in Pensacola, Florida to the late Arnold Atkinson and Ilya White.Mary loved to fish, garden and cook for her family but most of all she loved playing with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.Mary is survived by: five sons: Ronald Rice, Bruce Rice (Brenda), David Rice (Pam), Kevin Rice, and Arnold Rice; sixteen grandchildren; twenty-one great- [...]
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In loving memory
Bobby L. Fields, Sr.October 10, 1947-October 12, 1993 Daddy, God called you home 25 years ago. The void in our hearts remain. We remember your smile, soft voice and you just being yourself, a great father.Gone but not forgotten.Derrick, Rita and Bobby L. Jr.
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