Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, November 15, 2006 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Elderly couple attacked at home

An attack on a Nevada County couple early Saturday morning left an elderly man dead and sent his wife to a hospital in Hope. Samuel Brooks, 77, was dead at the couples home at 1360 Nevada County Road 23, about a quarter-mile south of Prescott on Cale R...

Ross easily retains seat in Washington

U. S. Representative and Prescott native Mike Ross is headed back for another term in Washington. Ross trounced his first-time Republican challenger Nov. 7. That opponent was El Dorado landscape architect Joe Ross. The two men are not related. It look...

Wolves headed to conference playoffs this week

The Prescott Curley Wolves are headed to conference playoffs with their first game slated for Friday, Nov. 17. The event will start with a community pep rally Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Nevada County Courthouse. The Prescott High School girls basketbal...

James Floyd

James Hershel (P-Leg) Floyd, 86, of Prescott, died October 29, 2006, in Hope. He was born October 4, 1920 in Gurdon. He attended Calvary UPC in Gurdon. He was a retired logger. He was the son of James P. and Maggie Faulkner Floyd. He was preceded in d...

Florence Van Camp

Florence Van Camp, 93, of Gurdon, widow of Ben Van Camp, died Thursday, November 9, 2006. She was a retired sales clerk for Austins Variety and Dew-Orr Department Store and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Gurdon. Survivors include brother,...

James Harden

James Donald Harden, 76, died Saturday, November 11, 2006, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Mr. Harden was a retired truck driver with A and P Trucking and Fikes Trucking. He attended Central Baptist Church in Prescott and was Veteran of the Korean War...

John Sams

Mr. John W. Sams, 82, of Emmet, died Thursday, November 9, 2006, at his home. He was born on August 30, 1924, in Haynesvill, La., to Marion Palmer and Ida Gunn Sams. He was a retired farmer and Army Veteran of World War II. He was preceded in death by ...

Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy Lee Hunt, 80, of Forsyth, Mo., formerly of Prescott and Sheridan, died Sunday, November 12, 2006, in Branson, Mo. She was born October 11, 1926 in Troy, Kans., the daughter of Herbert and Dorothy Dickey Baker. She was a Baptist, a homemaker, and...