Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, February 21, 2007 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Escapee returned to County Jail

The hunt for Nevada County jail escapee Lamar Holmes ended near mid-afternoon Monday, as two Hempstead County Sheriffs Department deputies literally chased down the man who had eluded lawmen in three counties for more than a week. Holmes was captured b...

Ministry behind bars and locks

Vernon Livingston spends a lot of time in jail. Livingston is the Nevada County Jail Chaplain and said he has worked in jails and prisons across the country. God called me in 95 and he put me in prisons across the country, Livingston said. I than...

Wendy's World - Who put something in the PB?

The power of suggestion is a very powerful tool. Sometimes, theres a ton of warning in the fact that someone denies, objects or even remains quiet on some particular point. Sometimes the fact the one person experiences something is enough to warn the re...

One airlifted after accident in Emmet

A single vehicle accident on South Main Street in Emmet resulted in one man being med-flighted to a Texarkana hospital. The accident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14. According to Nevada County Sheriffs Office Chief Deputy Wayne Kisslebu...

Herman McKelvy

Herman McKelvy, 85, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Mr. McKelvy was a retired Roughneck Foreman on boats and a World War II veteran with the Army Air Force. Survivors include one son, Ronald M. McKelvy of Bluff City; one ...

Elva Campbell

Elva Velora Campbell, 77, of Texarkana, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, at the Wadley Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. She was born Sept. 29, 1929, in Nevada County. She was retired from GTE and a member of the Spring Lake Baptist Church. She is survived by ...

Velma Jarvis

Mrs. Velma J. Jarvis, 96, of Rosston, died Monday, Feb. 12, 2007, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born on December 18, 1910, in Rosston, to D.W. and Clara Elizabeth Brantley Dillard. She was a retired occupational therapist from the Arkansas S...

Muriel OSteen

Mrs. Muriel D. OSteen, 80, of Prescott, died Monday, Feb. 12, 2007, in Heather Manor Nursing and Rehab in Hope. She was born on Feb. 20, 1926, in Hempstead County, to Buck and Hythren Clark Green. She was a homemaker. She was a Baptist. She was prece...

B.C. Thompson

B.C. Thompson, 84, a retired truck driver, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2007, in Fort Worth. He was born Aug. 18, 1922, at home in Kingsland, to George and Ruby Thompson. George died two years later and Ruby married Olen Calhoun when...

Trae Davidson

Trae Davidson, infant son of Jason and Maranda Davidson of Fort Smith, died Monday, Jan. 29, 2007. Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, at Putman Funeral Home Chapel in Fort Smith with burial at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Fort Smith. In add...

Mack Almond

Mr. Mack Almond, 78, of Caney Community in Prescott, died Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, at Dubuis Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. He was born on Sept. 11, 1928, in Cale, to Monroe and Lillie Almond. He was a retired logging contractor and timber buyer and form...

Dorothy Abel

Dorothy L. Abel, 88, of Hope, died Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007, at Hillcrest Care and Rehab in Prescott. She was born on March 20, 1918, in Laneburg, to Sam and Kieffer Glass Gautsche. She was a homemaker. She was a Baptist. She was preceded in death by h...

Michael Smith

Michael R. Mike Smith, 61, of Rosston, died Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007, at his home. He was born on August 3, 1945, in Hope, to Reyburn E. Smith and Dorothy Smyth Smith Broussard. He was an Air Force pilot in the Vietnam War and retired as a Lt. Colonel ...