NORA JAYNE ADAMS

Nora Jayne Adams, 72, of Andalusia, died Mon., April 4, 2011, in the Opp Nursing Home.

No services are scheduled.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Chandra and Daniel Bozeman of Andalusia; her son and daughter-in-law, Chadd Leo and Kimberly Bartlett of Opelika; her grandchildren, Kristin Catrette of Andalusia, Seth Bartlett of Opelika, Hunter Catrette of Andalusia, Ryan Bartlett, Kiersten Barlett, both of Opelika, and Logan Bozeman of Andalusia.

Those unable to attend the services may sign the guest registry online at foremanfuneralhome.com.

MOZELL AUGHTMAN HARRELSON

Mozelle Aughtman Harrelson, 85, of Gantt, died Mon., April 4, 2011 at her residence.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Thurs., April 7, from Foreman Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Frankie McVay officiating, and interment following in the Gantt Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Foreman Funeral Home.

Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law, Daniel and Jennifer Harrelson, David and Martha Harrelson, Paul Harrelson, and Tim and Pat Harrelson; six grandchildren and four great grandchildren

Those unable to attend the services may sign the guest registry online at foremanfuneralhome.com.

THEODORE M. ATKINSON JR.

Theodore M. Atkinson Jr. of Williamstown, Mass., died Sat., March 26, 2011, at the Sweetbrook Nursing Home in Williamstown after a time of declining health.

He was born in Boston on Nov. 3, 1926, to Jane (Holt) and Theodore Mayo Atkinson and grew up in Winchester, Mass.

After service in the Army during World War II, while stationed in the Philippines, Mr. Atkinson graduated from Amherst College in the class of 1950, where he earned a master of divinity degree from the Yale Divinity School in 1953. He was ordained that year at the First Congregational Church in Winchester. He later earned a master’s in education degree from Harvard and briefly taught in Ipswich, Mass.

The Rev. Atkinson served as minister to Congregation churches in Danbury, Conn.; Peru, Pittsfield, Boston, and New Marlborough, Mass.; in Newport, R.I.; and Bethesda, Md. He retired after 25 years as a Congregational minister to become a professional genealogist. After turning to genealogy, he specialized in researching early Vermont families, notably the Carpenters of Carpenter Hill in Pownal and Bennington, from whom he was descended.

A member of the Congregational Church in Williamstown, Mr. Atkinson was a faithful and generous volunteer in the research library of the Bennington Museum and was a docent at the Old First Church in Old Bennington. Subjects of his special interest were early New England meetinghouses and gravestones, on which he gave illustrated lectures. Also active with the Pownal Historical Society, in recent years he was its program chairman. His other interests included birds, classical music, tennis and poetry, and he enjoyed playing bridge and chess.

He leaves his wife, Anne Kelway Libby Atkinson of Williamstown; two sons: Timothy, a retired U. S. Navy captain, and his wife, Michelle, and children, Zachary and Hannah, all of Manassas, Va.; and Dr. Tobias and his wife, Janet, and children, Joshua and Sarah, all of Andalusia; two brothers: Robert and his wife, Elizabeth of Mattapoisett, Mass., and John and his wife, Natalie, of Reading, Mass.; and a first cousin, Jane Chamay of Pownal.

A private memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sun., April 10, in the Paresky Education Center of the Bennington Museum. Interment of ashes will take place in the family cemetery near the orchard on Carpenter Hill in Bennington.