Extracted from the Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL)
Tuesday, April 8, 1969

IVIE, Mr. James Fletcher, age 76, of Rt. 1, McCalla, Ala., passed away Monday p.m. at a local hospital. Survived by his wife, Mrs. Curtis Ivie; one son, Leonard Ivie of Atlanta, Ga.; one daughter, Mrs. Sarah Grizzelle of Bessemer; three grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Annie Bell Eddings of Montevallo. Funeral services Wednesday 3:30 p.m. from Brown-Service Bessemer Chapel, the Rev. Milton Simpson and the Rev. Paul Dunlap officiating. Interment Mighland [sic Highland] Memorial Gardens. Brown-Service, Bessemer, directing.