Stories from Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Roy Vance “RV” Huskey, 83, of Rivervale, passed away Dec. 23, 2022, at Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro. He was retired from Bakers Implement in Osceola and of the Baptist faith. Mr. Huskey was born July 6, 1939, in Iuka, Miss., to Roy and Amy Fry Huskey. He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, J.E. Huskey, David Huskey and T.J. Huskey; and four sisters. Mary Keanum, Bobbie Miles, Helen Winn and Joann Jaco...

Nettie Mae Reynolds, 79, passed away Dec. 24, 2022, at the Spring Rehab Center in Jonesboro. Nettie was born June 22, 1943, in Coldwater, Miss., to the late Welton Hardin and Mary Newson-Hardin. She was a retired caretaker and a supervisor in the kitchen at the senior citizen center, and a member of the Northside Church of Christ...

Mary Jane Thieme Brock, 75, died Dec. 12, 2022, in a Memphis hospital after a lengthy illness. She was born in Memphis, Tenn., on March 2, 1947, to the late W.A. “Mike” Thieme and Eula V. Hutton Thieme, of Manila. She was a 1965 graduate of Manila High School. She was also a graduate of Memphis State University. Mary Jane was a long-time teacher in the Memphis Public Schools System, finishing her long career as a special ed teacher at Raleigh-Egypt Middle School...

State Representative Johnny Rye is making a second attempt to adopt daylight savings time as the permanent time for Arkansas. Rye's first attempt was in 2021 only to see the proposed bill get hung up in the Senate. Rye submitted house bill HB 1039 on Dec. ...