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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, April 17, 2002 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Mary Morehead
Mary Catherine Clark Morehead, 87, of Bodcaw, died Monday, April 8, 2002, at a Texarkana Hospital. She was born April 24, 1914, at Falcon. Morehead was the daughter of the late Rufus and Ellie Ward Clark. She was preceded in death by her husband of 7...
N.B. Coleman
N.B. (Benny) Coleman, 81, of Hope, died April 8, in Hope. He was a retired vice-president for the Hempstead and Nevada Counties Farm Credit offices for 30 years before retiring. He was born December 12, 1920, in Howard County, was instrumental in organ...
Ollie Moore
Ollie M. Phillips Moore, 88, of Odessa, Texas (formerly of Prescott), died Saturday, April 6, in Odessa Medical Center Hospital. She was born in Bellmore (now Melrose) on July 19, 1913, to Ed and Martha Boston Phillips. She was a homemaker and a member...
Donald Ingersoll
Donald Wayne Ingersoll, 59, died Sunday, April 7, at his home in Prescott. Ingersoll was born September 19, 1942, in Boughton, to Earl and Eunice Mae Pruitt Ingersoll. He was a retired air conditioner installer and repairman, was a dedicated and active...
Agatha Coward
Agatha "Aggie" Cowart, of Ashdown, 72, died April 7, in Texarkana. She was born in Nevada County, December 3, 1929 She was preceded in death by her daughter, Dawn Cowart. Survivors include: her husband, Lindon Cowart of Ashdown; her mother, Anna Hook...
Annie Mackey
Annie Pauline Mackey, 71, of Stamps, passed away April 9, in a Texarkana hospital. She was born, July 20, 1930, in Nathan to Albert and Sylvia Sells Hawley. She was a homemaker, a member of the 1st United Methodist Church of Stamps, and was a member of...
Lucille Kirk
Lucille Knight Kirk, 93, of Bluff City, died Tuesday at the Longmeadow Nursing Home. She was a member of the Bluff City Baptist Church. She is survived by her son, Wayne Kirk of Porter, Texas; three daughters, Bernell Johnson and Doris Barlow both of B...
Upchurch banquet was an extraordinary event
A funny thing happened at the Ila Upchurch Banquet Saturday night  the featured speaker didn't show up. However, for want of said speaker nothing was lost, as Jon Chadwell, executive director of the Prescott-Nevada County Economic Development Office, f...
Addressing important for 9-1-1
As part of getting the 9-1-1 emergency telephone system up and running, county residents have been getting new addresses. Dale Booker, 9-1-1 coordinator, said new addresses were assigned to all those living in the county, but not within the Prescott cit...
Well fixed; grants sought
Emmet's City Council meeting was little more than updates from the mayor. In its regular monthly meeting, held Wednesday, April 10, the council was told the second well is back in operation after being struck by lightning. Emmet Mayor Dale Booker said ...
Willisville will get no money from county sales tax
Willisville will not be getting a third of the county sales tax dedicated for solid waste. The Nevada County Quorum Court decided this in its regular monthly meeting Monday, April 8. The court met with members of the Willisville City Council to discuss...

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