Stories from Monday, November 22, 2021

Jim Ivon Jones of Manila passed from life Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, at Evening Shade. Jim was born Oct. 5, 1964, in Osceola to Wayne Thomas Jones and Margarett (Walker) Jones. He is a lifelong resident of Manila and graduate of Manila High School. He was preceded in death by his mother, father and his brother, Jerry Jones...

Robert William Frith passed away peacefully on Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, at the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home, where he had been living for just over a year. He was 85. He was born in Hubbard, Ore., on Aug. 19, 1936, the second of five children born to William and Anna Seufert Frith. He grew up on his parents’ dairy farm in St. Paul, Ore. He attended Catholic school through eighth grade and graduated from St. Paul High School...

Lawtray Londrell Mitchell of Fort Worth, Texas, was born May 22, 1982, to Lawrence and Darlene Taylor Mitchell. He was a graduate of Lamar High School class of 2000. Lawtray has a passion for his family, playing basketball and football. He enjoyed helping anyone he knew needed assistance, always with a big smile. Lawtray was an employee of Merch Trucking Company...

Margaret Ann Dean Veasley of Osceola was born Oct. 25, 1947 in Blytheville to John and Mary Cooper Dean. Margaret was a graduate of Richard B. Harrison High School class of 1967. She attended Cotton Boll Vo-Tech and was a member of Promiseland Church of God in Christ under the leadership of Superintendent Johnny Moore. She was one of the first African Americans employed by AGRICO in Blytheville...

Ernestine Royster, 84, of Cordova, Tenn., passed away Nov. 14, 2021, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She was a retired factory worker and a former member of Bethlehem M.B. Church in Osceola and member of St. John M.B. Church in Sacramento, Calif. Ms. Royster was born Jan. 29, 1937, in Buena Vista, Miss., to John Walker and Fannie Blanchard. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband L.C. Royster Sr.; one son, L.C. Royster Jr.; and one brother, Robert Walker...