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Dick Whatley honored with award Clarke County native George Richard "Dick" Whatley of Pell City was awarded first place in the Alabama Community Service Awards program by the Alabama Daughters of the American Revolution at a luncheon in Auburn on March 11. "From the small Southeastern town of Whatley, Alabama (named in honor of his family) to posts throughout the world, including two tours of duty in Vietnam, a southern Alabama boy has made an indelible mark upon any post or community in which he has served or lived," the program's profile on Whatley reads. Whatley, who achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, moved to Pell City, the home of his wife, Evelyn, after retiring from the military. There he helped start such organizations as Lakeside Hospice, the Pell City Schools Foundation, the Logan Martin Lake Protection Association, Leadership Pell City, American Cancer Society chapters, Habitat for Humanity and the United Way. He has worked in real estate during retirement and his work helped to assist the Pell City schools system, library and Habitat for Humanity to acquire property. He has served on city governmental boards and in civic organizations in Pell City. "The small town in Southeastern Alabama sent a boy and the City of Pell City inherited a 'giant' of a man," the program profile concludes.
Fifteen Whatley relatives attended the luncheon. Local relatives include a sister, Shirley Burge, of Grove Hill.
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