The funeral arrangements for legendary Mobile television news anchor Mel Showers have been set.
Visitation will be Friday from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Truevine Missionary Baptist Church at 1850 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
Showers’ body will lie in repose Saturday from 8 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. at Saenger Theatre on South Joachim Street, followed by a funeral service at 11 a.m.
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Burial will follow at Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens in Theodore.
Showers, who worked at WKRG for five decades, is remembered as a professional, unbiased journalist who was beloved by many.
He died on October 19, at the age of 78.
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