Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, December 15, 2004 edition of Gurdon Times

Christine Costin

Christine Clemons Costin, 67, of Bearden, died Tuesday, Dec. 7, in the Ouachita County Medical Center at Camden. She was a homemaker. Born June 8, 1937 at Hazelburst, Mississippi. She was the spouse of the late Otis Costin and of the Baptist faith. She wa...

Myra Hendrix

Myra Marle Hendrix, 39, of Arkadelphia, died on Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, at Baptist Health Center in Arkadelphia. She was born on Dec. 1, 1965, in Arkadelphia, the daughter of the late Lee Guster and Mable Ivory Hendrix. She was a graduate of Arkadelphia Sen...

Monteen Davis

Myra Marle Hendrix, 39, of Arkadelphia, died on Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, at Baptist Health Center in Arkadelphia. She was born on Dec. 1, 1965, in Arkadelphia, the daughter of the late Lee Guster and Mable Ivory Hendrix. She was a graduate of Arkadelphia Sen...

Monteen Davis

Monteen Wiley Davis, 81, of Gurdon, died on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, at Hospitality Care Center in Arkadelphia. She was born on March 3, 1923, in Okolona, daughter of the late Atoy and Violet Nixon Wiley. She was a homemaker and a member of Mt. Cannan Bapt...

Mayor welcomes state paving project

The Arkansas State Highway Department is in the process of a paving project that will continue after Highway 53 in Gurdon is done. Mayor Clayton Franklin said Thursday the project is now in process by way of milling Highway 53, from Highway 67, down south...

Sonic collects toys for local family

The staff of Sonic has agreed to provide for a needy family from Gurdon this Christmas with a toy drive on Friday, Dec. 17, and asks the public to join them in helping a three-year-old boy and his brother, who is just a few months old. Mary Smith, Sonic m...

Faith Mission continues efforts to feed the hungry

"Life hurts and God heals" is the motto of Celebrate Recovery, a project of the Faith Mission at 211 Second Street in Gurdon. Celebrate meets twice a week as a support group for more than 150 type of problems. The director says the group is based on Chr...

Fountain of Hope continues food bank, has some toys for Christmas season

Darrel Potratz, Fountain of Hope food bank director, said the local branch, which opened across from the Methodist Church in October off of Second Street, will continue "to supply food as long as my son keeps sending it from Los Angeles, Calif." The natio...