Alabama Coal Executive Dies
Gary Neil Drummond was 78.
The chairman and chief executive of the Birmingham-based Drummond Co. Inc., Garry Neil Drummond, has died. A statement issued by the coal company says Drummond died Wednesday in Birmingham. He was 78. The cause of death wasn’t disclosed. Drummond’s father began Drummond Coal in Sipsey in 1935, and Garry Drummond began working in the mines in Walker County at age…