Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, March 9, 2005 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Ethel Pledger

Mrs. Ethel May Pledger, 100 = of Prescott, formerly of Fordyce and Norphlet, died Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at Hillcrest Care and Rehab in Prescott. She was born on July 19, 1904, in Holly Springs to Folden Oscar and May Patterson Pledger. She was a retired...

Lee Bryan

Lee Ross Bryan, 61, of Prescott, died Wednesday, March 2, 2005, in a Prescott Nursing Home. Mr. Bryan was born September 4, 1943, in Pine Bluff. He was disabled and a member of the Boughton Baptist Church in Prescott. Survivors include his wife, Joy McDan...

Charles Brown

Charles Eldon Brown, 72, of Crestview, Fla., passed away Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at his home. He was born on October 11, 1932, to Lawrence Noah and Nettie Tomlin Brown in Dubach, La., raised in Prescott and moved to Crestview nearly 10 years ago from...

Wanda Martin

Wanda Glen Martin, 78, of Cabot, died Monday, February 28, 2005, at the Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock. She was born October 13, 1926, in Falcon. Mrs. Martin was a member of the Red Hat Society and active in the Cabot, Lonoke County an...

Elizabeth Murrah

Mrs. Elizabeth Murrah, 90, of Prescott, died Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born on May 31, 1914, in Prescott, to Tom S. and Laura Elizabeth Fielding Garrett. She was a housewife, mother and poll worker. She was a memb...

Lillian Davis

Lillian P. Campbell Clark Davis, 83, of Emmet, died Thursday, March 3, 2005, at the Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born January 11, 1922, in Lewisville. Mrs. Davis was a member of the Piney Grove Baptist Church and a homemaker. She was a devoted m...

Mary Wicker

Mrs. Mary Lucille Wicker, 82, of Prescott, died Thursday, March 3, 2005, at her home. She was born on April 4, 1922, in Laneburg to John and Lydia McCullough Hastings. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Laneburg United Pentecostal Church in Laneburg...

Betty Morehead

Betty Lou Morehead, 67, of Buckner, died Saturday, March 5, 2005, at the Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born January 17, 1938, in Waldo. She was preceded in death by her parents, Hubert Watkins and Gladys Wreyford. Mrs. Morehead was a member of ...

Lura Reed

Lura Juanita Clark Reed, 83, of Doddridge, died Friday, March 4, 2005, at her residence. She was born September 21, 1921, in Nevada County. Mrs. Reed was a retired owner of Midway Service Grocery Store, a WWII veteran, and a member of Mt. Moriah Methodis...

New business hires four

Businesses in the Prescott Manufacturing building are operational and have hired four people so far. This is what Jon Chadwell, executive director of the Prescott-Nevada County Economic Development Office, told the Prescott City Council at its February me...

Heroes to be honored at Chamber banquet

Members of the Arkansas National Guard are due to come home this month. With this in mind, the Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce's annual banquet will reflect the service these soldiers provided to this country. "Our Hometown Heros" will be the t...

Sisters reunited after being apart since 1965

Life has a funny way of getting things done. Sometimes it has a way of separating people forever, while at other times it throws people together for a lifetime. Then again, life will also throw curve balls, separating people, then bringing them together a...