Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, May 14, 2008 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Potlatch employees talk severance

By Wendy Ledbetter Former employees of Prescotts Potlatch Facility have completed meetings with company officials to determine severance packages, and some say they are not pleased with the results. We accepted what the company offered, said union pres...

Don Buchanan

Don Buchanan, 63, of Texarkana, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at his home. He was born Jan. 18, 1945, in Prescott. Don was an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad for 40 years and attended Moores Lane First Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Becky...

Thomas Hays Jr.

Mr. Thomas E. Hays Jr., 73, Hope banker, passed away on Wednesday, May 7, 2008. He was born in Little Rock on March 22, 1935, to Thomas and Helen Hollingshead Hays. The family moved to Hope in 1948. Tom graduated from Hope High School in 1953 and the Virg...

Linda Pearl Racanello

Linda Pearl Almond Racanello, 85, of Arlington, Texas, formerly of Laneburg, died Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at Heritage Oaks Nursing Home in Arlington, Texas. She was born on Jan. 2, 1923 in Prescott, to Hollis Obediah and Roberta Mae Almond. She worked as ...

Tony Stroud

Mr. Tony Lynn Stroud, 50, of Blevins, formerly of Hope, died Saturday, May 10, at his home. He was born on Oct. 29, 1957, in Hope to Chester Lester Vic and G. Jean Brown Stroud. He was a self-employed painter. He was a member of First Assembly of God Ch...

Cleo Tippitt

Mrs. Cleo Mann Tippitt, 99, of Fairfield Bay, formerly of Prescott, died Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Ozark Health and Medical Center, Clinton. She was born May 1, 1909 in Prescott, to Ronnie Joseph and Leola Edwards Mann. She was a nurse. She was a member of ...

Polly Sue Pry

Polly Sue Pry, 66, of Emerson, died Saturday, May 10, 2008 in her home. She was born January 20, 1942 in Prescott to Ritchie and Pauline (Baker) Graham. She was a longtime employee of the Emerson School District as a substitute teacher and most recently ...