Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, January 17, 2007 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Chamber seeks citizen of the year nominees

The Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for Citizen of the Year. The designation is granted to an individual who has significantly contributed to Nevada County. According to Mary Godwin, executive director of the chamber, th...

School violence: officers investigate at Prescott, Emmet

School violence hit close to home over the week of Jan. 8 with two incidents at local schools that involved threats and police action. According to Prescott Police Chief Brian Russell, officers were called to the old gymnasium at the rear of the propert...

Committe to talk about the jail

The Nevada County Jail is to be the topic of discussion for a newly-formed committee. The decision to create a group to look into the options for funding a new facility was made at the January meeting of the Nevada County Quorum Court at the request of N...

Prescott man leads officers on chase

A Prescott man led officers from several area law enforcement agencies on a chase before being apprehended. According to information from the Prescott Police Department, Terry Woodley, 25, 365 W. Elm, was in a vehicle with the tag in the back window. ...

Fire destroys Second Street house

Neighbors say the fire that destroyed a home in Prescott Tuesday began in the kitchen. One person was reportedly at home when the fire started, though neighbors said the boy was out of the house by the time firefighters arrived. The home, located in the...

Dorothy Dixon

Mrs. Dorothy E. Dixon, 87, of Rosston, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, in Heather Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on Aug. 13, 1919, in Rosston, to James Robert and Frances Elnora Crank Whitehead. She was a member of Rosston Baptist Ch...

William Bill Wren

William Vickers Bill Wren, 80, of Alexandria, Va., formerly of Laneburg, died Monday, Jan. 8, 2007, in Virginia. He was born on December 14, 1926, in Laneburg to Doss and Reva Armstrong Wren. He was a poor boy from the country who made good through ...

Minnie Jones

Minnie Lois Jones, 93, of Victoria, Texas, formerly of Prescott, died Friday, Jan. 12, 2007, at LaBahia Nursing Home in Victoria, Texas. She was born on Jan. 23, 1913, in Wilson, Okla., to D.D. and Minnie Kendrick Weatherford. She was a retired nurse. S...

Grady Hasley

Grady Hasley, 74, of Hope, died Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. He was born in Emmet, on July 3, 1932, to J.E. Hasley Sr. and Dicie Tucker Hasley. He was retired from Meyers Bakery of Hope. He was a member of the First United Met...

Mary Jo Clark

Mary Jo McCorkle Clark, 87, of Hope, died Monday, Jan. 8, 2007, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born in Columbus on May 10, 1919, to George and Iva Mitchell McCorkle. She was a retired P.C.A. nurse for 15 years and retired from Medical Park Ho...

William Billy Buchanan

William Billy Leonard Buchanan, 42, of Dallas, Texas, passed from this life on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007, at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. He was born March 2, 1964, in Los Angeles, Calif., the son of William Bill Dalton and Kathryn Schmidt Buch...

Wally Pittman

Dan W. Wally Pittman, 59, of Cotter, formerly of Prescott, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2007, at his home. He was born on March 28, 1947, in Prescott to Dan and Ruth Nutt Pittman. He was a teacher having received his doctors degree and two masters degrees a...

James Tipton

James Doyle Tipton, 91, of Waldo, died Friday, Jan. 12, 2007, at Magnolia Healthcare in Magnolia. He was born June 19, 1915, in Alamo, Tenn., to the late Elmore E. Tipton and Lola Lee Sturdivant Tipton. He was a welder and pipefiter for the plumbers an...

Dixie Tinkes

Dixie Lorene Tinkes, 56, of Gibson, La., former of Murfreesboro, died Friday, January 12, 2007. She was born January 1, 1951, at Murfreesboro, the daughter of the late Ira and Bertha Elisabeth Funderburk Cox. She was a homemaker and member of the Assemb...