Stories from Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Great things DO come from Blytheville, Arkansas. The proof is right here within our own Blytheville School District’s Odyssey of the Mind program! More than 20,000 students and supporters from around the world traveled to Iowa for the 39th annual Odyssey of the Mind World Finals May 23-26 at Iowa State University. ...

It is time for the grand 2018 North Mississippi County Relay for Life and Cars and Cycles Against Cancer event! This is a two-day event with Relay for Life on June 1st and Cars & Cycles Against Cancer on June 2nd at the Blytheville Aeroplex. So, come on out on Friday, June 1st to help us FIGHT cancer with our annual Relay for Life event. ...

Wilma Jean “Jeanie” Canamore, 83, of Blytheville, passed away Friday, May 25, 2018, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Jeanie was born in Ripley, Tenn., to Ray and Margie Wilson Ashmore. She was retired from Randall Company as well as the Blytheville School District where she was a bus driver. Jeanie loved music, playing piano and gardening. Jeanie was kind hearted and was a loving mother and grandmother...

Vennie Carpenter Davis Jones, 87, of Blytheville answered the call on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 of our Lord and Savior surrounded by loved ones and was gracefully escorted to take her place in her heavenly home. Vennie was born May 29, 1931 in Money, Mississippi to Isaac Newton and Beauty House Carpenter, and was a devoted and faithful member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church serving on the Mother’s Board and sang in the choir...