Stories from Thursday, May 19, 2022

Two separate vehicle accidents on Highway 18 claimed the life of two and injured four others on Wednesday night. According to the Arkansas Police accident report, the first accident happened at 9:30 p.m. on State Highway 18/Roseland. The driver, listed as unknown, was taken to the Great River Medical Center morgue...

Delia Shippen Partlow, 87, of Blytheville died Tuesday, May 17, 2022. She graduated from Osceola High School and attended the University of Mississippi where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority. Mrs. Partlow was an active member of the Mississippi County, Arkansas Library System. She was an active member of First United Methodist Church in Blytheville, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the American Colonists and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.. ...

Evelyn Ruth Greenwell, 92, of Blytheville, passed away Monday, May 16, 2022, at Rector Nursing Home and Rehab in Rector. Evelyn was born in Perryville, Tenn., to Elmer and Beulah Butler Cunningham. She retired from JC Penney where she worked as the catalog manager. ...

Fonzetta Booker of Blytheville was born Aug. 17, 1939, to the late Alfonso McKinney and the late Johnetta Funches McKinney. Mrs. Booker was an active and faithful member of New Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church, until her health would no longer allow her to attend. ...

Dana James Mullins, 64, of Lakeview, went to be with Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior and God his father surrounded by his family after a long, courageous medical battle on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Dana was born in Blytheville to M.J. and JoAnn Mullins. ...