The Decatur Daily -- Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Lorena 'Rena' Sewell Webb
90, TV promotions director
HOMEWOOD -- Funeral for Lorena "Rena" Sewell Webb, 90, of Homewood will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Ridout's Valley Chapel with the Rev. Jesse Garner officiating.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Webb died Monday, Feb. 28, 2000, in Homewood. She was born March 10, 1909, in Decatur. She was a Brownie and Girl Scout troop organizer, assisted with paper-day drives at Edgewood School and helped plan the Touch and See Nature Trail garden for the blind at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. She worked for the Woman's Missionary Union from 1928-38, served as promotion and merchandising director at WBRC Radio in 1956 and retired as assistant promotions director for WBRC-TV in 1969.
She served on the Alabama Educational Television Commission, was director of American Women in Radio and Television, was president of Birmingham Lay Diabetes Society, and was vice president of Homewood Business and Professional Women, and Jefferson County Radio and TV Council. She was named to the Pilot Club Honor Roll and was nominated for Shades Valley Woman of the Year and Alabama Mother of the Year, Woman of the Year and Career Woman of the Year. She was a member of Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church. She was the widow of Garrett Wesley "Red" Webb.
She is survived by three daughters, Martha Ramirez of Tucson, Ariz., Jeanette Blankenship of Birmingham and Carol Webb of Perdido Key, Fla.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 3 Office Park Circle, Suite 115, Mountain Brook, AL 35223.
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Lorena 'Rena' Sewell Webb
90, TV promotions director
HOMEWOOD -- Funeral for Lorena "Rena" Sewell Webb, 90, of Homewood will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Ridout's Valley Chapel with the Rev. Jesse Garner officiating.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Webb died Monday, Feb. 28, 2000, in Homewood. She was born March 10, 1909, in Decatur. She was a Brownie and Girl Scout troop organizer, assisted with paper-day drives at Edgewood School and helped plan the Touch and See Nature Trail garden for the blind at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. She worked for the Woman's Missionary Union from 1928-38, served as promotion and merchandising director at WBRC Radio in 1956 and retired as assistant promotions director for WBRC-TV in 1969.
She served on the Alabama Educational Television Commission, was director of American Women in Radio and Television, was president of Birmingham Lay Diabetes Society, and was vice president of Homewood Business and Professional Women, and Jefferson County Radio and TV Council. She was named to the Pilot Club Honor Roll and was nominated for Shades Valley Woman of the Year and Alabama Mother of the Year, Woman of the Year and Career Woman of the Year. She was a member of Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church. She was the widow of Garrett Wesley "Red" Webb.
She is survived by three daughters, Martha Ramirez of Tucson, Ariz., Jeanette Blankenship of Birmingham and Carol Webb of Perdido Key, Fla.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 3 Office Park Circle, Suite 115, Mountain Brook, AL 35223.
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The Decatur Daily -- Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Lorena 'Rena' Sewell Webb
90, TV promotions director
HOMEWOOD -- Funeral for Lorena "Rena" Sewell Webb, 90, of Homewood will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Ridout's Valley Chapel with the Rev. Jesse Garner officiating.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Webb died Monday, Feb. 28, 2000, in Homewood. She was born March 10, 1909, in Decatur. She was a Brownie and Girl Scout troop organizer, assisted with paper-day drives at Edgewood School and helped plan the Touch and See Nature Trail garden for the blind at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. She worked for the Woman's Missionary Union from 1928-38, served as promotion and merchandising director at WBRC Radio in 1956 and retired as assistant promotions director for WBRC-TV in 1969.
She served on the Alabama Educational Television Commission, was director of American Women in Radio and Television, was president of Birmingham Lay Diabetes Society, and was vice president of Homewood Business and Professional Women, and Jefferson County Radio and TV Council. She was named to the Pilot Club Honor Roll and was nominated for Shades Valley Woman of the Year and Alabama Mother of the Year, Woman of the Year and Career Woman of the Year. She was a member of Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church. She was the widow of Garrett Wesley "Red" Webb.
She is survived by three daughters, Martha Ramirez of Tucson, Ariz., Jeanette Blankenship of Birmingham and Carol Webb of Perdido Key, Fla.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 3 Office Park Circle, Suite 115, Mountain Brook, AL 35223.
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Lorena 'Rena' Sewell Webb
90, TV promotions director
HOMEWOOD -- Funeral for Lorena "Rena" Sewell Webb, 90, of Homewood will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Ridout's Valley Chapel with the Rev. Jesse Garner officiating.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Webb died Monday, Feb. 28, 2000, in Homewood. She was born March 10, 1909, in Decatur. She was a Brownie and Girl Scout troop organizer, assisted with paper-day drives at Edgewood School and helped plan the Touch and See Nature Trail garden for the blind at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. She worked for the Woman's Missionary Union from 1928-38, served as promotion and merchandising director at WBRC Radio in 1956 and retired as assistant promotions director for WBRC-TV in 1969.
She served on the Alabama Educational Television Commission, was director of American Women in Radio and Television, was president of Birmingham Lay Diabetes Society, and was vice president of Homewood Business and Professional Women, and Jefferson County Radio and TV Council. She was named to the Pilot Club Honor Roll and was nominated for Shades Valley Woman of the Year and Alabama Mother of the Year, Woman of the Year and Career Woman of the Year. She was a member of Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church. She was the widow of Garrett Wesley "Red" Webb.
She is survived by three daughters, Martha Ramirez of Tucson, Ariz., Jeanette Blankenship of Birmingham and Carol Webb of Perdido Key, Fla.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 3 Office Park Circle, Suite 115, Mountain Brook, AL 35223.
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