Stories from Monday, October 23, 2023

Wanda Louise Wren Halsell, 84, of Blytheville, passed away Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. Wanda was born in Lepanto to Raymond Wren and Cleo Smith Lamb. She was a homemaker and was the former co-owner of the Dixie Pig with her husband, Buddy. Wanda enjoyed fishing and shooting guns. She was a member of the Mississippi County Gun Club and won several competitive shooting competitions. Wanda loved the Lord and was a member of First Presbyterian Church...

Anna Marie Brown, 56, of Marked Tree passed away Oct. 20, 2023, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Feb. 22, 1967, in Lepanto to John Marshall and Shirley Hubble Brown. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Brown was preceded in death by her mother, Shirley Brown, and her husband, Ricky Lee Wigginton...