Stories from Tuesday, July 20, 2010

There are only two weeks left for folks to buy tickets for Rector's third annual concert featuring five of America's top gospel and bluegrass artists. It will be a night that all in attendance will be sure to remember for a long time. All proceeds go to the Rector High School Helping Hands Foundation and its work in assisting disadvantaged students...

Maj. Gen. George Barker (U.S. Army, retired), a native of Rector, has been named by the Arkansas State University Alumni Association as one of three outstanding individuals to be honored in a Distinguished Alumni ceremony during halftime of the Homecoming football game Saturday, Oct. 2...

The world can be divided into two groups where travel is concerned -- those who wonder what is just around the next corner and those who don't. My wife Nancy and I are definitely among the former. That's why we travel so well together (admittedly, I am probably a bit higher on the "curiosity" scale than she is, but she is close)...

Rector native Jacqueline L. (Fish) Wicecarver (GS-15) has been named by the Department of Defense Inspector General as Program Director of the Year. Wicecarver was recognized at the 21st annual Department of Defense Inspector General Awards ceremony, held July 12 in Washington, D.C. The daughter of Marjorie Fish of St. Louis and the late Jack Fish, she is a graduate of Rector High School and has been employed by the Department of Defense for 32 years...

I don't know what designers are thinking about but they aren't thinking about me. And a bunch of other golden women. This morning I tried on a pair of cutoff jeans that my friend Dot gave to me. They are that new design that falls below the navel and at the same time exposes about four inches of underpanties...

Robelene (Bradsher) Webb Thorne, age 95, of Kennett, formerly of Marmaduke, went to be with her heavenly father on Friday, July 16, in the Heritage Nursing Home in Kennett. Mrs. Thorne was born on June 24, 1915, in Marmaduke to the late Dr. R.E. and Mattie (Clements) Bradsher. She was a member of the Marmaduke Methodist Church and was a public school teacher and a school administrator for many years. She was devoted to Marmaduke and all of her students...

Jim Talbert Percifull, 73, of Kennett, Mo., passed away at his residence on Friday, July 16, 2010. He was born to the late Mack and Bulah (Vinson) Percifull on Oct. 27,1937, at Caraway, Ark. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sisters,...