Stories from Friday, November 27, 2015

Mrs. Inelda Tipton Nelson, 78, of Jonesboro, widow of Dr. Howard Nelson, died Wednesday November 25, 2015 at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital from injuries received in an auto accident in Jonesboro. Born in Manila, she was the daughter of the late Alvin A. "Pinky" and Mildred Anderson Tipton and was a 1955 graduate of Manila High School. Mrs. Nelson was a longtime member of the Greensboro Road Church of Christ in Jonesboro...

Jewel Mae Peterson, 78, of Blytheville, passed from this life on Thursday, November 26, 2015 at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced when concluded. Cobb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Hubert Gene Wright, 85, of Leachville, died Sunday, November 22, 2015 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. A longtime Leachville resident, he was the son of the late Charles Virgil and Annie Waldrop Wright and was a United States Air Force veteran of the Korean War...

All Week: --Lights of the Delta --Shopping in Blytheville's Downtown Historic District - Shop Thursday and Saturday evenings until 7pm Sunday, November 29: --Saint Nicholas visits to Day's Clothing from 2-4pm Tuesday, December 1: --The Arts Council of Mississippi County's Holiday Open House, along with a...

"One Vision," an exhibition of artwork by Barbara Gay Jiménez, a respected singer and pianist, is currently on view at the Adams/Vines Gallery at Arkansas Northeastern College in Blytheville. This collection of work, formed from repurposed parts of old pianos and organs, pays tribute to her passion for music. ...

In the holiday movie classic, "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," Clark Griswold sets out to create a good old-fashioned family Christmas. He lights the outside of his house with 25,000 twinkling lights, which at first fail to work (due to his faulty wiring) and then temporarily cause a city-wide power shortage and wreak havoc for his neighbors...

I never used to consider myself a feminist. As a teenager full of reasons why I was SO SMART, and then as a young woman determined to be different from everyone for all the wrong reasons, I thought the whole idea of feminism was outdated and cliche and only meant for angry man-eating types. I thought that it was the 2000's, for pete's sake, and everyone should just stop complaining about how they didn't have equality and get out there and just DO for themselves, already...

This year's Community Thanksgiving Dinner served 1,310 plates to senior citizens and others in need on Thanksgiving Day to residents in the cities of Blytheville, Gosnell, Osceola and Leachville. Event spokesman, Aaron Brassfield, said 2015 was their biggest year, not in plates served, but in households served...

Mrs. Novella Young Johnson, 56, of Fort Worth, Texas, died Thursday, November 19, 2015 in Forth Worth. Born July 26, 1959 in Lepanto, to the late Sam Young and the late Josie Avant Young, she was a retired manager of medical records at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner Office and was of the Jehovah Witness faith...

Ms. Peggy Joyce Richardson, 75, of Peru, Indiana and formerly of Blytheville, died Monday, November 23, 2015 at her home. Born July 17, 1940 in Blytheville, to the late Joseph Richardson and the late Mable Landrum Richardson, she was a homemaker and a member of Heartland Pentecostal Church of God...