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Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church, 197 Suncrest St., Gray: Bible study for all ages will begin at 10 a.m., followed by the morning service at 11 and the evening service at 6:30 on Sunday. Wednesday’s service will be held at 7 p.m. Nursery is available for all services. All services and Sunday school will be available online also. Buses will run. Information, visit www.buffaloridgebaptist.org or call 423-477-3311n. Radio station 96.3 FM will broadcast the 11 a.m. Sunday service.
Borderview Christian Church, 1338 Bristol Highway, Elizabethton: The church will celebrate God and Country Day on Sunday, July 4, at 10:45 a.m. with a special service full of patriotic music, focusing on the God that blesses the USA. The adult choir ministry will sing and veterans will be recognized with a special gift. Scott Fisher, senior minister, will be preaching on the âGod and Countryâ theme. There is no community block party planned this year, but plans are already gearing up for 2022.
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Southern rock matriarch LaVera Hall, whose children co-founded Wet Willie, dead at 97
Updated May 01, 2021;
LaVera Hall, widely known as “Mama Hall” to the community around Southern rock band Wet Willie, has died at the age of 97, her family confirmed Saturday.
Born Mattie LaVera Richardson on Nov. 28, 1923, in Alberta City, Ala., she married WWII veteran Jack Virgil Hall on June 1, 1946, in Gardendale. The couple soon moved to Mobile, according to information provided by the family, and that’s where they raised their six children: Jack Jr, Jimmy, Donna, Cindy, Susie and Travis.
LaVera Hall, known by the nicknames “Bebe” and later “Nanny,” had a lifelong love of music rooted in the church: Her mother played organ and her father directed singing at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. She recalled learning to play the pump organ at about 6 years of age “and having to stand to reach the pedals,” according to family information. She and her two younger siblings
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Born and raised in Shelby County, Alabama, growing up Ron Foster was your typical boy from the south. He loved God and college football. But possibly not so typical was his love for Southern Gospel music. While his friends were listening to other genres of music, Ron had his radio tuned to whatever station was playing The Chuckwagon Gang, or The Cathedrals. And his passion for the music is still very much alive.
Ron’s first job in radio was at WGTT, a small indepently owned station in Alabaster, Alabama and for the past 15 years, Ron’s home has been at WZZK hosting The Sunday Morning Gospel Jubilee.