Stories from Saturday, February 25, 2012

Life is strange, and as I grow older, the stranger it gets. All this to say, so many things begin to connect and suddenly you think well, duh!

There were 43 city of Blytheville employees who made more than $40,000 in 2010, according to city financial records. The records also show the city spent approximately $367,690 in overtime in 2010. Blytheville Fire Chief Mike Carney and Blytheville Police Chief Ross Thompson have said some of their department's overtime is required...

Mrs. Monica McHaffey Bevill, 38, and her infant daughter, Lacy Danielle Bevill, of Blytheville, passed from this life Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Monica was born in Memphis to Murray Dewayne and Donna Louise Moser McHaffey and was a member of New Liberty Baptist Church in Blytheville, where she was active as the AWANAS Director...

Mrs. Mary "Jean" Baxter Partridge, 87, of Spanish Fort, Ala., formerly of Biloxi, Miss., died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. She was born Jan. 14, 1925, in Blytheville. She was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence and Eugenia Baxter; a daughter, Suzanne Partridge; a son, Stephen Partridge; a grandson, Stephen Partridge; two sisters; three brothers; and three nephews...

Mary Mozelle Wheeler Schneider, 70, of Little Rock, passed away Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was born on May 3, 1941, in Chicago, Ill., to the late Harold P. and Lucy Glasson Wheeler of Gaffney, S.C. She graduated from Gaffney High School, received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Duke University and a Master of Arts in English from the University of North Carolina. ...

Mr. George Thomas McHan Jr., 51, of Gosnell, passed from this life Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City, Tenn. Born in Lake Village to George Thomas and Alice Carol Jenkins McHan, he worked in the castor department for Nucor Steel-Hickman and attended the Church of Christ. George was an avid outdoorsman. When he was not outside hunting or fishing, he was spending time with his grandchildren, who lovingly called him G-Daddy...