Stories from Saturday, April 7, 2012

Such a week, last week, poor Terrie! Can't help but wonder what this world is coming to!

It was so hard for me to just sit back and not say anything about the letter that was in the March 27 paper. The lady was commenting about the "good Samaritan" that helped her brother who was stranded on the interstate outside of the city. She puts good Samaritan in quotes several times and thank you in quotes several times because she is being sarcastic and does not mean it, because whoever this person was, took advantage of her brother taking his last $200 for helping him. ...

By DENNIS FITZPATRICK First Lutheran Church He is Risen! He is risen indeed! I hope that at some point in your worship this Easter Sunday you greeted each other in this manner. It is as old as the Christian church itself. It proclaims and sums up in three short words the source of Christian faith and hope. ...

Mr. Hershel Everett Copeland, 64, son of the late Clarence and Mae Hooten Copeland, died Thursday, April 5, 2012, in Jonesboro. Born Sept. 1, 1947 in Huffman, Hershel was united in marriage with Peggy Sue Leggett in Tyler, Mo., on Aug. 23, 1967. He worked until his retirement for Noranda in New Madrid, and was a member of Holly Grove Baptist Church in Cooter. He was blessed to have friends all over the Bootheel of Missouri and northeast Arkansas, and anywhere he went he made new friends...

Mrs. Cynthia Ann Potter Doherty, resident of the Oakland Community, wife of Ken Doherty and a former 911 Emergency Police Dispatcher, departed this life Wednesday morning April 4, 2012, at her residence. She was 65 years of age and died following an extended illness...

Mrs. Neta Hazel Holt Kimes, 89, of Somerville, Tenn., passed from this life Monday, April 2, 2012, at the NHC Healthcare in Somerville. Born in Blytheville to Roy and Viola Vernon Holt, she was of the Baptist faith and a homemaker. Neta was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and will be missed by all who knew her...

Mr. Max Sherwood, 81, of Blytheville, passed from this life Friday, April 6, 2012, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born in Holland, Mo., to William "Bill" and Ollie Strode Sherwood, he was a member of the First Baptist Church and a Korean War veteran, having served in the US Army...

In January, the Blytheville Planning Commission was approached by David Cunningham, a representative of TriCom Wireless, in hopes of erecting a new tower that would help pave the way for 4G service to Blytheville, a service AT&T representatives now say Blytheville already has...

The annual Mississippi County March of Dimes Walk for Babies is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, May 12, at Walker Park. While most participants usually have a child in their family that was born premature, some people just feel the need to help the cause...