Stories from Thursday, February 17, 2022

Dorothy Aline Kinkead, 97, of Manila and formerly of Blytheville, passed away Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Dorothy was born in Okemah, Okla., to Walter and Leo Jenkins Price. She was known as “Kinkead” to all of her friends and family. ...

Kenneth Blair Pruett Jr. “LugNut”, 54, of Paragould, originally of Gaston County, N.C., was welcomed into his heavenly home on Feb. 12, 2022, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. He was born Feb. 25, 1967, in Cleveland County, N.C., to the late Kenneth Pruett Sr. and Belinda L. Pruett...

Ben Edward Davis, 87, of Jonesboro, formerly of Manila, passed from this life Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Born and raised in the Lost Cane community near Manila, he was the son of the late Sam and Odell Benson Davis and had been a lifelong Manila area resident until making his home in Jonesboro three years ago. In his earlier years, Ben enjoyed dancing and fast cars. Later in life he enjoyed woodworking, traveling and visiting with his buddies at the coffee shop. He was a long time member of New Harmony Baptist Church near Manila. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia Owens Davis, in 2011 and one sister, Nina Jean Griffith.. ...

James “Jim” Coolidge Lambert, 70, of Blytheville, passed from this life on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born to Henry and Clifford Lott Lambert in Plant City, Fla., he was of the Pentecostal faith. Jim was a retired sales specialist at Lowes in Tampa, Fla., and a retired veteran of the United States Air Force. ...