Stories from Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Wanda Ricketts, 73, of Manila, passed away Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, at Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Wanda was born in Bruceton, Tenn., to John and Mary Rodgers Nichols and she was retired from Wal-Mart in Blytheville. Wanda was a wonderful wife, mother, and grandmother, and her children were her life...

Willie Mae Orr-Young was born Nov. 20, 1940, in Luxora to Jasper and Mattie Sanders Orr. She professed a hope in Christ at an early age and was of the Baptist faith, later joining True Light Missionary Church under the leadership of Reverend Jay Slaughter...

Martha Jo Hawkins, 83, of Leachville, widow of Snowden Hawkins, passed from this life Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Born in the Delfore community, she was the daughter of the late James "Pete" and Florene Smith Manis and was a 1954 graduate of Childress High School. ...

Bertha Ruth Mansell, 89, of Leachville, widow of Jack Mansell, passed from this life Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Born in Leachville, Feb. 19, 1931, to the late James Walter and Hazel Eubanks Church, she had lived several years in the Dexter, Mo., area before returning to Leachville in 1964. ...