Stories from Friday, April 6, 2012

TRUMANN - Mr. J.W. England, 82, of Trumann died Sunday, March 25, 2012, at the VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. Mr. England was born in Trumann and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann. He was an auto mechanic and farmer, a Korean War veteran of the U.S. Army and of Baptist faith...

TRUMANN - Mrs. Betty Jane Litch Haynes, 65, of Trumann, died Friday, March 23, 2012, at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. She was born in Forrest City, Ark., and had lived in Trumann for the past 35 years and was formerly of Rochelle, Ill. She was a retired employee of Kroger Store in Jonesboro and of the Baptist faith...

Cecil B. Lewis, 90, of Osceola, entered into rest Thursday, March 22, 2012, in Jonesboro. Born Jan. 10, 1922, in Trenton, Tenn., to the late Roy and Maude Lewis, he was a World War II U.S. Army veteran and retired from the Arkansas Highway Department...

MONETTE - Mrs. Marie Loveless Phillips, 86, of Monette, Ark., died Sunday, March 25, 2012, at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. She was born in Elkmont, Ala., and had lived in Monette since 1976 . She was formerly of Blytheville. Mrs. Phillips was a homemaker and a member of the 13th and Main Street Church of Christ in Blytheville...

TRUMANN - Mrs. Wilma Dean Simmons Walker, 82, of Trumann died Tuesday March 27, 2012, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Hickoria, Ark., and had lived in Trumann since 1966 and was formerly of Missouri. She was a homemaker, retired Singer employee and of the Church of God faith...

Dr. Dana Watson, Psy.D., spoke Wednesday, March 28, to the Marked Tree Rotary Club. Watson, a clinical psychologist with Families, Inc. Counseling Services, gave a brief overview of the clinics' services. There currently are 10 Families Inc. clinics throughout the state which offer a variety of services, including: individual, couple and family counseling; case management; psychiatric evaluations; psychological evaluations; medication management; school-based mental health; employee assistance programs, and play therapy.. ...

Jerry Bradley grew up in Trumann, married and raised a family here. As a young wife and mother with a full-time job, she used painting as a way to relax. She painted while she cooked because the kitchen was large enough for her easel. "I've ruined a lot of food during my lifetime," Bradley said, "but my family doesn't mind because, when I paint, my spirit is positively affected. Painting provides me tremendous joy and I gain great satisfaction."...

When Frank Sanders passed away in 2009, he left behind a collection of over 220 bobbleheads he had collected over the course of 25 years. Several of those bobbleheads currently are on display in the Marked Tree Delta Area Museum's latest exhibit, on loan from Sanders' widow, Jon Ellen Sanders...

The Trumann plant of Columbia Forest Products, Inc., has achieved a consummate safety milestone: one million man hours without a lost time incident. "We don't have too many celebrations for one million hours," Chief Executive Officer Brad Thompson said during a plant-wide celebration held on Tuesday, April 3...

Law enforcement and rescue groups in Poinsett County came together last week to stage a massive production with the aim of teaching EPC high schoolers about the dangers of drinking and driving. The situation staged for the students was meant to look like a two-car collision involving students who had been drinking after prom. Covered in fake blood, Whitney Walling, Jake Pilgrim, Casey Simmons and Cameron Langley played the four students involved in the wreck...

Family historians take kinship terms seriously. We know what we mean by "cousin" or "aunt" or "uncle." The general population is often not quite as precise in their use of the terms, and we have to be very cautious when we encounter the terms in interviews and correspondence...