Stories from Friday, March 2, 2012

TRUMANN - Mr. Randy Paul Garner, 57, of Trumann died Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, at the family residence. He was born in Jonesboro, Ark., and had lived in Trumann for the past 10 years and was formerly of Chicago. He was preceded in death by his parents, William Paul Edward and Susie Dean Higdon Garner...

Geraldine Faulkner passed away on Feb. 17, 2012, in Garland, Texas, at the age of 93. Geraldine was born Oct. 11, 1918, in Imboden, Ark., and lived most of her life in Trumann, Ark. She was salutatorian of the 1936 graduating class of Trumann High School. Geraldine married her high school sweetheart, James O. Faulkner, in 1937 and they remained together until his death in 1997...

TRUMANN - Mr. Henry William Johnson, 65, of Trumann passed away Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. He was born and a lifetime resident of Trumann and was a farm laborer. Mr. Johnson was preceded in death by one sister, Lucille McCain; one brother, Paul Johnson, and was the son of the late Homer and Gertrude Carr Johnson...

TRUMANN - Mr. Carmack "Mack" Johnson, 87, of Trumann died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro, Ark. He was born in Amagon, Ark., and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann and was formerly of Lepanto. Mr. Johnson was a former employee of Hytrol Corp, the Singer Co., and door greeter at Wal-Mart in Trumann, member of the Trumann Lions Club and was a deacon of the First Assembly of God in Trumann...

Kevin Molder, Chief Deputy Sheriff with the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office, was the speaker at last Wednesday's Trumann Lions Club meeting. Molder has been in law enforcement for 17 years with 13 of those being served in Poinsett County. He was an instructor at the police academy for four years. ...

In August 1965, Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham died in Chisholm, Minn. Veda Poinkevar of the Chisholm Free Press & Tribune wrote of Graham, "And there were times when children could not afford eyeglasses or milk or clothing. Yet no child was ever denied these essentials because, in the background, there was Dr. Graham. Without any fanfare or publicity, the glasses or the milk or the ticket to the ballgame found their way into the child's pocket."...

The Marked Tree School's FIRST LEGO League robotics team has returned from the 13th annual Arkansas FIRST LEGO League (FLL) State Championship in Little Rock as the victors. Held Feb. 25 at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Marked Tree competed against 32 other teams from across the state in a "Food Factor" challenge in which teams "built, tested, and programmed an autonomous robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT to solve a set of food safety missions."...

Family members of Johnny Cash gathered together Sunday with hundreds of fans in the Dyess Community Center to pay tribute to Johnny Cash on what would have been his 80th birthday. Cash's daughter Rosanne Cash, his son John Carter Cash, sister Joanne Cash Yates and his brother Tommy Cash each reminisced about Johnny and performed songs as a tribute, including "No One Here Gets Out Alive" and "Hey, Porter."...

Trumann police chief Tony Rusher resigned Monday after the results of an internal investigation were released. The report, which includes summaries of interviews with six officers, including Rusher, details allegations involving the theft of prescription drugs from the evidence room...