STANHOPE E. ELMORE Jr.

Owner and President of Dothan Coca-Cola Bottling Company Stanhope E. Elmore, Jr., a resident of Dothan, died Sunday, October 13, 2002. A memorial service will be held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity with Father Walter LeBatt and Father John Mark Wiggins offi-ciating and Byrd Funeral Home di-recting. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 until 8 p.m. on Tuesday. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Boy Scouts of Ameri-can, P.O. Box 2028, Dothan, Ala-bama, 36302, Wiregrass Hospice, P. O. Drawer 2127, Dothan, Alabama, 36302, the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, 205 Holly Lane, Dothan, Alabama, 36301 or a favorite chari-ty. Mr. Elmore was born May 26, 1921, in Montgomery, Alabama, the son of Stanhope E. Elmore and Kate Durr Elmore. He attended both pub-lic and private schools in Mont-gomery, graduating from Starke University School in 1938. He attended the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity receiving a BS Degree in Mathematics and was Salutatorian of his class. He was a member of Phi Betta Kappa. After graduating from college, Mr. Elmore enlisted in the United States Air Corps, and was sent by the Air Corps to the University of Chicago to study meteorology. After finish-ing this course he was promoted from Cadet to Second Lieutenant and spent the next Year training with the 461st Bomb Group in the States. In January of 1944 the 461st Bomb group was sent to Italy, as a part of the 15th Air Force and stayed in Italy until the end of the War in Europe. He returned to the United States in July of 1945, and after the surrender of the Japanese was discharged in October of 1945 as a Captain. After his discharge, Mr. Elmore went to work for the Montgomery Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and after a short time there, he went to work as Sales Manager for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Inde-pendence Kansas, serving in that job for a little over 7 years. In 1954, he came to Dothan to manage the Coca-Cola Plant, and from 1961 un-til his retirement on September 30, 1986, he served as President of the Dothan Coca-Cola Bottling Com-pany, Inc. Mr. Elmore was very active in the Civic Affairs of Dothan, serving twice as Drive Chairman of the Wiregrass United Way, was Presi-dent of Alabama-Florida Council of the Boy Scouts, was Chairman of the Board of the Dothan Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Red Cross Chapter, President of the Dothan Rotary Club, President of AUSA Chapter at Fort Rucker, and served 20 years on the Dothan Planning Commission, five times as Chairman. He was also active in the Alabama Soft Drink Association, serving on the Board for 9 years and 2 years as President. He served as a Director of the SouthTrust Bank of Dothan, and as director of Durr-Fillauer Medical, Inc., a public company head-quartered in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1946, Mr. Elmore married Geogi-lee (""Hank"") Henry of Marionville, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore were confirmed in the Episcopal Church in Independence, Kansas and Mr. Elmore served on the Vestry for 5 years. After moving to Dothan, he was elected to the vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, and served three times as Senior Warden. He also served as a member of the Executive Commit-tee of the Diocese of Alabama and the Diocese of he Central Gulf Coast. He also served the local Par-ish in Dothan as a Lay Reader and a Chalice Barrier. Mr. Elmore was preceded in death by a brother, Nesbit Elmore. Mr. Elmore is survived by his wife, ""Hank"", Dothan; two daughters, Kate Elmore Wolverton and hus-band, Robert, Longwood, Florida and Jane Elmore Mickle and hus-band, Drew, of Huntington Beach, California; three grandchildren, Sara Hope Mickle, Henry Joseph Wolverton and James Andrew Mickle. He is also survived by two brothers, Dr. John Durr Elmore of Birmingham and William Bellin-grath Elmore of Charleston, South Carolina; a sister, Kate Durr Elmore of Montgomery; several nieces and nephews. Honorary pallbearers will be Hugh Wheeless of the Church of the Nativ-ity, Williams Hicks of the Montgom-ery Coca-Cola Plant, Randy May-field, of the Alabama-Florida Council, BSA, George McClintock, Stanley Thornell and Rufus Davis, all of Dothan, Joe Harper of Panama City, members of the Hacker's Golf Group of the Dothan County Club.