Former Blytheville Courier News (now NEA Town Courier) publisher David Tennyson passed away Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021 at his home in Columbia, Mo.
David was born August, 16, 1952 in Ironton, MO to R.C. Tennyson and Robbie Sue Tennyson. Soon after the family moved back to Steele and began operating the Steele Enterprise newspaper in 1956. David would take over the family business in 1980, eventually expanding to become the publisher of the Village News and later the Blytheville Courier News, Citizen-Journal, Osceola Times and Caruthersville Democrat-Argus. The full obituary is on Page 6 of today’s edition.