Over the years I have collected many obituaries from many different resources.  I either received them from family members, emails, letters or websites.

Montgomery Advertiser (AL) - January 19, 2004
Deceased Name: Mont Highley IV - Service honors Highley IV
Mourners remember Mont Highley IV as an avid outdoorsman

The somber sky over Montgomery on Sunday matched the mood in Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church as family and friends paid their last respects to Mont Highley IV.

Highley's body was discovered in a grain bin off Macon County Road 30 Wednesday, about 2 miles from his family's hunting camp. The 34-year-old Montgomery man was last seen at the camp Nov. 28.

The Alabama Bureau of Investigation is leading the inquiry into his death.

Mourners packed the church Sunday afternoon for a memorial service. They sat in silence to view a slideshow of Highley, an avid outdoorsman. The images showed him hunting, fishing and water- and snow-skiing with his friends. More snapshots showed a smiling Highley playing with his nephews, whom the Rev. John Ed Mathison, pastor of Frazer and a family friend, said Highley adored.

"He used to say that if he never married or had children of his own, then his siblings' children were enough for him," Mathison said. "He was just getting to know his niece, Emily.

"We come here in sadness because of the human loss," Mathison said. "But we also come in hope because of the Christian faith."

Michael Gaby, pastor of Bradford Chapel in Macon County, said he only came to know Highley's family, led by his father, Montgomery physician Mont Highley III, because of the younger man's death. He said he did meet Highley by chance, however, one day along a rural Alabama road.

That day, Gaby said, as he, his wife and members of their congregation walked alongside the roadway near the Highley family's camp picking up trash.
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Montgomery Advertiser (AL) - January 18, 2004
Deceased Name: HIGHLEY, Mont F.
HIGHLEY, Mont F., IV, 34, a residentof Montgomery, AL, departed this life to join his Lord in Heaven. He issurvived by his parents, Mont F. III and Gail Pace Highley; his sisters, Lisa Highley Magorien and herhusband Douglas Jay, Leigh AnnHighley Brooks and her husbandSteven Mark; grandfather, F. L Pace; uncles, Danny and Della Highley, Rodney and Louise Pace; nephews, Taylor Magorien, Travis Magorien, Colby Magorien, Troy Magorien, Hunter Brooks and Chapman Brooks; one niece, Emily Brooks; Godbrother and family, Jim, Allison, Kyle and Glynn Cun-ningham.

He attended The Montgomery Academy and was a member ofthe 1989 State Championship Football Team. He graduated from The University of Alabama and was amember of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. A memorial service willbe held at Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church on Sunday, January 18th at 2:30 p.m. HonoraryPallbearers will be Dee Fitzpatrick, Bowen Ballard, Mark Kitchens, Jud Blount, Will Blount, Bill Eskridge, Pey-ton Chapman, John Walter Parker,Michael Kamburis, Frank Thomas, Tommy Gamble, Hamp Greene,Robb Newton, Chris Williams, Scott McMillan, Michael Baldree and Alfred Goings.

In lieu of flowers, the family is re-questing donations be made to Child Protect of Montgomery, 935South Perry Street, Montgomery, AL,36104 or your favorite charity.

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