| For Immediate Release  | | Cecil Dowdy was honored prior to the Alabama - Mississippi State game last November. | Longtime Randall employee dies in hunting accident
Tuscaloosa (November 25, 2002) – Cecil Dowdy Jr., who headed Randall Publishing Co.'s TruckStops Express truck stop distribution business, was killed accidentally while duck hunting near Helena, Ark., on Nov. 24. He was 57.
Dowdy, a native of Cherokee, Ala., played for the University of Alabama’s national championship football teams in 1964 and 1965 and was a consensus All-America selection in 1966.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27 at the First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa, 721 Greensboro Ave. Family visitation will be held one hour earlier at the same location. (map directions here)
In lieu of flowers the family requests that a contribution be made in honor of Cecil Dowdy to the Crimson Tradition Fund.
Please address your correspondence to:
Crimson Tradition Fund
Contribution in Honor of Cecil Dowdy
P.O. Box 870343
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 -0343
205-348-9787 |
