Rosa Moultrie

Rosa Moultrie, 45, of Selma, died Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at her home.

Services are at 12 noon Saturday, September 11, at Campbell chapel AME Church with the Rev. M. Perry officiating. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery with Lewis Brothers Funeral Home directing.

Survivors include her mother, Katie Mae Moultrie; and one daughter, Dorothy Moultrie.

Thomas Rex Pickens Ill

Thomas Rex “Tommy” Pickens Ill, died Tuesday, Sept 7, 2004, at his home in Collirene.

Graveside services are at 3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 9, at the cemetery behind the home place with Travis Barnes, M.R. Bradley and Elwood Sims officiating and Lawrence Funeral Home directing.

Survivors include his son, Thomas Rex IV of McComb, Miss; his parents, Thomas Rex Jr. and Rebecca Spivey Pickens of Collirene; one sister, Elizabeth Pickens Nelson (Steve) of Brewton; and one brother. Carrington Allen Pickens of Atmore. Also survived by three faithful and beloved friends, Lucy Middleton, Amiie Maxwell and Natalie Rush.

The body will lie in repose at the family’s ancestral home one hour prior to the burial.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to Cahaba Hospice, 410 Church Street, Selma, AL 36701 or Benton United Methodist Church, Post Office Box 432, Tyler, AL 36785.

Mr. Pickens, was the grandson of the late Elizabeth Lyon and Thomas Rex Pickens, Sr. of Collirene and Elizabeth Whitman and Allen Wood Spivey, Sr. of Tyler.

A descendant of early Alabama pioneers and an eighth generation of Lowndes County, Tommy was known throughout the Southeast as a Tennessee Walking Horse Trainer, a career that began as a child in Atmore.

Bobby G. Steward

Bobby G. Steward, 65, of Hope Hull, died Tuesday, September 7, 2004.

Graveside services are at 12:00 p.m., Friday, September 10, at Greenwood and Serenity Cemetery with Chaplain Bill Tucker officiating and White Chapel-Greenwood Funeral Home directing

Survivors include his wife, Odessa Smith; children, Deborah Steward, Bill Steward, David Steward and Patsy Murphy; brothers, Benson Steward, Bernard Steward and Bennie Steward; and sister, Cynthia Vickery.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Gertrude and Obie Steward and brother Boyd Steward.

Family visitation will be held at the cemetery.

Sister Mary Weaver

By Alston Fitts

Special to The Times-Journal

Sister Mary Weaver, who served in Selma

for almost a quarter of a century, died Monday,

September 6 at the Motherhouse in Rochester.

Sister

Mary was 70

years old and had been a Sister of Saint

Joseph for 50 years.

Mary Weaver was born, one of a set of twins, on August

1, 1934, to Edward W.

Weaver and Gertrude (O&8217;Neill) Weaver of Rochester, New York.

After graduating from

Nazareth Academy in 1952, she entered the convent

of the Sisters of Saint Joseph.

She became a professed member of the order in 1954, taking the name, Sister Felicitas

As Sister Felicitas, she earned a bachelors degree from Nazareth College and taught for 10 years in the elementary schools of Rochester.

In 1964, Sister Mary joined the Edmundite Missions, becoming

a teacher at St. Elizabeth’s School in Selma.

During her six years at the mission school, she took back her

baptismal name of Mary.

“Sister Mary was a remarkable minister,” stated Father

Roger La Charite, S.S.E., director of the Edmundite

Missions.

“She adapted to the changes brought about by

Vatican II, becoming our first nun to join the staff of a

secular agency in order to serve the poor.

She served as

associate pastor at our Selma parish, Queen of Peace;

she served as office manager for the Rural Health Medical

Program;

and she ran the Bosco Nutrition Center at one

time.

And Sister Mary did all these things in spite of serious

health problems.”

In 1970 Sister Mary joined the staff of the Dallas-Selma

Community Action Agency (CAA) as director of

neighborhood services.

During the twenty years that

followed, she served the CAA in a variety of capacities, including coordinator of services to senior citizens,

director of the energy assistance program and and deputy

executive director of the agency.

“For many years Sister Mary and the CAA were almost

synonymous,” says John W. Williams, present director of the Community Action Agency.

“She did wonderful work

getting Head Start underway in 1972 and she helped the agency survive during some very hard times.

Her salary went right back into the agency to be used for people in need of emergency assistance.

There aren’t many people like her.”

In 1991 Sister Mary left Selma to serve as pastoral

associate at Saint Michael’s in Heron Bay, NY.

In the following year she returned to the Motherhouse in Rochester, NY, where she continued to serve her community in spite of her diminished health.

She is survived by two cousins and by her sisters in the

Sisters of Saint Joseph.

Her funeral will be held

Thursday, September 9 at 4 pm. in the chapel of the Sisters of Saint Joseph Motherhouse in Rochester, NY,

and her remains will be laid to rest in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery there.