Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, December 8, 2004 edition of Gurdon Times

Gloria Whitmore

Gloria J. Whitmore, 63, died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004. She was born on Sept. 6, 1941 in Gurdon, Arkansas. Mrs. Whitmore was employed with Tri-County Community Mental Health for 16 years and retired in 1996. She was a member of the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Churc...

James Crabtree Jr.

James Madison Crabtree Jr., 86, of Gurdon, died Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004, at his home. He was a retired lineman for the Ozark Border Electric Co-op in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and a US Army Veteran of World War II. Survivors include his wife of 65 years of m...

Burke cops plea; gets 24 month sentence

Richard Burke, a former funeral director at Shackelford Funeral Home, has been sentenced to 24-months and ordered to pay restitution for bank fraud and mail fraud. According to information from the U.S. Department of Justice, Burke must pay restitution in...

Church group mails care packages to Iraq

Those in Iraq are not forgotten in Gurdon; at least not the members of National Guard Major Robert McGill's 39th Support Battalion. The First United Methodist Church has been sending items to all 600 men and women in that Battalion since July and some bef...

City seeks homes for pets

There are five friends in cages this Christmas season, one with a hope of going home and four looking for a new home. Is this a homeless shelter or jail for people, you may ask? No, these are the occupants at the Gurdon Dog Pound, over beside the City Str...