Stories from Tuesday, March 3, 2009

George Wood, 62, of Keiser died Tuesday, Feb. 24. He was born Sept. 18, 1946, in Tyronza to the late Carlos and Minnie Wood. He attended Eastside Baptist Church and was a retired army veteran of the Vietnam War...

Loucille Spears, 101 years of age, passed away at her home in Benton, Feb. 23, 2009, with her caregivers, daughter Glenda and husband Lorin Spangler and other family members in attendance. She was born Mattie Loucille Freshour in Sobogli, Miss. ...

Ella Williams Smith, 100, of Marked Tree died Sunday, Feb. 22, at St. Bernards Medical Center. She lived at Three Rivers Nursing Center and was a member of Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church at Gilmore...

Lucille Lee, 78, of Dyess died Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, at Dyess. Born Monday, July 21, 1930, at Parma, Mo., to the late Edward and Elsie Armstrong Counts, she was a member of Dyess Central Baptist Church and a homemaker...

The City of Marked Tree will hold a spring cleanup March 16 -- 27. The city will no longer dispose of tires. Tires can be disposed of at the Harrisburg County Landfill. Each citizen of the county can dispose of four tires per year at no charge. After that the cost is $1.50 per tire...

Have you ever lost your car keys and found them in the freezer or discovered you put the milk in the cabinet with the cereal? Lately I've discovered myself doing those sorts of things and it's driving me crazy! I think it's because things have been extra busy and hectic for me...

When I started this column, I vowed never to write so much about religion or politics and looking back I have done a little of both. Well, today is no different. Many of you watched the president's state of the union address a few nights ago on TV. ...

The Marked Tree Chamber of Commerce will be hosting their annual banquet at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12 at the Marked Tree First United Methodist Church. There will be a silent auction and dinner prepared by the "Methodist Chicks."...

The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum is sponsoring the first ever community quilt festival March 6-7. With the 2008 "Quilts and Their Stories" being such a success, the museum decided to expand the show to a community-wide festival. ...

Ten years ago Soozi Williams and the volunteers at the Historical Society had a dream of one day building a museum to tell the story of Marked Tree and the Tri City area that was big enough to house their collection under one roof. They had plenty of period artifacts and photos but were cramped in one room above the old library and the artifacts from the old hospital had to be housed in a separate building on Frisco Street...

Snow covered the banks of the Tyronza River last Sunday following a winter storm that dumped over four inches in the Tri-City area. (Tribune photo / Marissa Holiman)

Raymond Gort, 64, of Grand Rapids, Mich. died Feb. 13 while visiting his mother, Vivan Gort of Three Rivers Nursing Center in Marked Tree, and his sister and her husband, Rosemary and Quinton Ray Nichols of Marked Tree...

These gentle spring flowers were covered with snow last weekend. (Photo by Jason Riney.)