Stories from Monday, February 14, 2022

Coach Jim Dixon, 79, of Jonesboro, passed away Feb. 10, 2022. Jim was born in Camden to Eva Hudgens Dixon and Fred Dixon. He graduated from Willisville High School in 1960 and went on to play baseball for Henderson State University. He graduated in 1964 with a degree in education and began his coaching career. ...

Zetta Corine White, 91, longtime Manila resident and widow of Bobby L. White, passed from this life Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Born in Campbell, Mo., to the late King Samuel and Linnie Marie Caldwell Jackson, she moved to Manila as a teenager and was a 1948 graduate of Manila High School. ...

Maye Webb, 92, of Burdette, passed away Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Maye was born in Bear Creek to Myrt and Sally Horton Bohannon. She was faithful to the Lord and was a member of Lone Oak Baptist Church. She was a homemaker and was retired from Burdette Water Company and also worked at Columbia Ribbon. ...

Jack D. Simers, 87, of Blytheville, passed from this life to his eternal life on Feb. 11, 2022, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Jack was born in Mammoth Spring to Frank and Eunice Banks Simers, where he lived until moving to Blytheville in 1958 after having married Jo Anne Wood Simers on May 1, 1954. ...