Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, March 30, 2005 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Lola Ross

Lola Jones Ross, 95, of Fayetteville, formerly of Emmet, died Sunday, March 20, 2005, at Fayetteville City Hospital. She was born November 9, 1909, in Nevada County, the daughter of Burton and Blanch Norton Jones. She was retired from the Emmet Mercantile...

Gertrude McCorkle

Gertrude McCorkle, 89, of Prescott, died March 21, 2005, in Hope. She was retired from Clovis Hicks Farm. She was born February 15, 1916, in Columbus. She was a member of The United Pentecostal Church of Laneburg. She was the daughter of Jessie Mullins an...

Lois Grimes

Lois B. Grimes, 76, of Prescott died Tuesday, March 22, 2005, in St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana. Lois is the widow of Elbert Grimes, and member of Fairview Methodist Church in Prescott. Her survivors include: one brother, Red McCain of Prescott; one s...

Kenneth Dickerson

Kenneth Wayne Dickerson, 63, of Gurdon, died Thursday. He was a truck driver of Malcom Logging and a member of Red Springs Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Barbara Currey Dickerson of Gurdon; two sons, Paul and Gary Dickerson both o...

Catherine Westerfield

Catherine Hesterly Westerfield passed away on March 24, 2005, in San Diego, Calif. She was born in Prescott November 23, 1921, to John and Thorne Hesterly. She graduated from Prescott High School in 1939 and was Valedictorian of her class. She attended He...

Welcome Home 39th

It is a day residents of Prescott and Nevada County will long remember. This is because Wednesday, March 23, 2005, is the day members of the 39th Arkansas National Guard Brigade returned home from the Iraq War. The area was more fortunate than most as non...

Soldiers to be honored at Chamber Banquet

Members of the 39th Brigade of the Arkansas National Guard will be honored at the Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce Banquet Our Hometown Heros will be the theme of the 2005 Chamber banquet, scheduled for Thursday, March 31. The banquet will ag...

Chadwell leaves with long list of accomplishments

After five-and-a-half years as the executive director of the Prescott-Nevada County Economic Development Office, Jon Chadwell is moving on. He recently accepted a similar position in Newport and will be moving there. His final day in Prescott is March 31....

Electric rates going up

Prescott residents may as well start preparing for increases in their electric bill. Larry Stockton, Prescott city manager, told the Prescott City Council, at its March meeting, the citys contract with Entergy will be running out at midnight Dec. 31, 200...