Stories from Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Frances Shane Fendler, 70, died on Aug. 22, 2024, in Medford, Ore., of ovarian cancer. Frances was born on Sept. 18, 1953, and grew up in Blytheville the daughter of Oscar Fendler, a lawyer respected throughout Arkansas legal circles and elsewhere, and his wife, Patricia Fendler, a CPA. ...

The Life on the Mississippi Reading Retreat will be held Sept. 7. Participants will start the day with a tour of the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza at 9 a.m., followed by a discussion of Mark Twain's book Life on the Mississippi. Participants will have a sharecropper's lunch of beans, fried potatoes, cornbread, cobbler and sweet tea. ...