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R.B. Johnson
(Obituary ~ 06/12/17)
R.B. Johnson, 75, of West Memphis, passed from this life, Saturday, June 10, 2017, at his home. Born in Dell, he was the son of the late R.V. and Ada Southern Johnson and was raised in the Lost Cane community near Manila. R.B. was a 1960 graduate of Manila High School and had lived in West Memphis since 1971. He was a retired, self-employed trucker, having owned and operated R.B. Johnson Trucking for many years. He was a longtime member of the New Life Pentecostal Church in Marion...
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Mary Sue Samples
(Obituary ~ 06/12/17)
Mary Sue Samples, 84, of Manila, passed from this life Friday, June 9, 2017, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born to the late Ned and Nora Osborne Rice, she had lived most of her life in Manila and was a member of Westside Baptist Church. She was a retired beautician and had also worked for the former Brown Shoe Company in Leachville...
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Jacquelyn Fae Howell
(Obituary ~ 06/12/17)
Jacquelyn Fae Howell of Monette peacefully left this earth to enter Heaven on June 10, 2017, at the age of 80 after a courageous battle with cancer. Born Oct. 6, 1936, to the late Jack and Boyce Braden Howell, she was the first of five children. She was diagnosed with polio at the age of 12 and spent the remainder of her life in a wheelchair...
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Lorene Williams
(Obituary ~ 06/12/17)
Mrs. Lorene Williams, 53, passed away on June 5, 2017 at her home in Osceola. She was a factory worker for Denso and of the Baptist faith. She is survived by her husband, Terrance Williams, Sr. of Osceola; one son, Terrance Williams, Jr. of Osceola; three daughters, Tanisha Williams of Osceola, Latassia Williams of Joiner and Jasmine Williams of Osceola; five brothers, Jim Burtis and Ray (Mary Ann) Williams both of Chicago, Ill., Ernest James (Hilda) Williams of Newark, N.J., Alvin Charles (Felicia) Williams of Osceola and Walter (Florence) Williams of Joiner; eight sisters, Ruthie Mae Williams of Chicago, Ill., Flora Lee Burrow of Portageville, Mo and Cora Lee Frazier, Flora Ann (Eddie) McGee, Geneva (Joe) Felton and Christine (Sammy) Davis, all of Osceola; and Florence (Bennie) Washington and Sandra Williams, both of Joiner; and eight grandchildren.. ...
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Robert Finnis Moreland
(Obituary ~ 06/12/17)
Mr. Robert Finnis Moreland, 80, passed away on June 9, 2017 at his home in Osceola. He was a retired mechanic and of the Baptist faith. Mr. Moreland is survived by his wife, Shirley Moreland of Etowah; two daughters, Kathy Maxwell of Little Rock and Heidi (Nicholas) Cagle of Leachville; three grandchildren, Jaylyn Cagle, Whit Cagle and Ryan Maxwell; and two great-grandchildren...
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Blytheville police continue investigation into April child abuse case
(Local News ~ 06/12/17)
The Kennett Police Department's part in a child abuse case, first reported to them April 3, has apparently run its course. According to a news release, leads were exhausted and the Blytheville Police Department has lead jurisdiction. On April 13 two people of interest in the case were given polygraph examinations by the Arkansas State Police. ...
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Witness: Argument on Facebook led to murder
(Local News ~ 06/12/17)
Travis Lamar Reed, 27, was arraigned in Blytheville District Court on first-degree murder charges, after allegedly shooting 28-year-old Deandre Love at Sunbath Car Wash, Saturday night. Reed’s bond was set at $500,000. Police responded to Sunbath Car Wash, 1000 South Division, around 7:15 p.m. Saturday, finding Love lying on the ground next to a blue car with a large amount of blood around him, according to the court synopsis...
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We are all characters in the novel of life…
(Editorial ~ 06/12/17)
“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day,” Jo Walton Why is that? When we read a good book, it is rarely the plot that drives us on. It is the characters that we meet and fall in love with along the way. The plots of most books are as predictable as the times and seasons, but it is the characters that blow us away...
- Warrants for Road Department employees over scrap metal sales (Local News ~ 06/12/17)
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Odessa Ann Hinton
(Obituary ~ 06/12/17)
Ms. Odessa Ann Hinton was born October 02, 1967, in Blytheville to the late Johnnie Hinton Jr. and Cleagnest Hinton. Odessa departed this life on Tuesday June 06, 2017 at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 49. She was preceded in death by her parents...
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