Stories from Thursday, August 18, 2016

TRUMANN - Harley D. Kain, infant son of Jimmy and Kimberly Scercy Kain, Sr., departed this life Monday, August 8, 2016 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro, Ark. Survivors include his parents; two sisters, Angela Kain and Emily Kain; five brothers, Chris Laire, David Laire, Jimmy Kain, Jr., Jesse Kain and Rodney Kain; grandparents, Martha M, Rhoads, Frances Scercy, and Donald and Trisha Kain; and great-grandparents Lloyd and Reda Rhoads...

MARKED TREE -- Mrs. Ruth "Tina" Clementine Ford departed this life Friday, July 29, 2016 in Jonesboro, Ark. at the age of 83. Mrs. Ford was born May 11, 1933 in Russellville, Ark. to William and Eva Mae Williams Adams. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her husband, Berlin "Jack" Ford; two sisters, Eula Wagner and Josie Adams; three brothers, Rudolph, John L. and Billy Adams and her parents...

The annual Wild Duck Festival golf tournament will be held this Saturday, August 20 with tee times starting at 8 a.m. The entry fee for the three-person scramble is $210 with a meal included. Three will be hole-in-one, longest drive and closest to the pin prizes awarded. For more information you may contact Jason Stewart at 870-219-0782...

Local youth were in action this past weekend in Jonesboro.

TYRONZA - Mrs. Jean Savage Wagner, 92, departed this life on Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, in Jonesboro. Mrs. Wagner was born Feb. 12, 1924, in Baldwin, Miss., to James and Mildred Savage. She was a homemaker and member of Broadway Church of Christ of Marked Tree...