Stories from Monday, February 24, 2020

Margie Ann Haynes Hill, 75, of Jonesboro, passed from this life Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. Margie was born Feb. 22, 1944, in Blytheville to Richard and Pauline Stallings Haynes. She had a large family of aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces. She truly enjoyed growing up among them. Margie was baptized, raised and married in Yarbro Baptist Church, later transferring her membership to the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro...

Johnnie Virginia Sullivan was born June 11, 1929, in Evadale to Eula Dalton Carwyle and Millard Carwyle. She was raised in Mississippi and Arkansas, with the family moving to Blytheville when she was 15 years old. Johnnie owned and operated the Music Center in Blytheville for 14 years and often spoke fondly of her time as a business owner. She married Larry Sullivan in Blytheville on Oct. 13, 1985, and they moved to Paris, Texas, in August of 1993...