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For Immediate Release
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Cecil Dowdy was honored
prior to the Alabama - Mississippi State game last November.
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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
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