Stories from Friday, January 26, 2018

Denisa Alice Poole Shipley, 50, of Piggott, Ark., passed from this life and entered heaven on January, 24, 2018, after a courageous battle with cancer. Denisa was born May 19, 1967, in Piggott, to Max and Billie Sue Poole. She was cheerleader and a beauty queen in her high school years. ...

Willa Gertrude Wikowsky, 90, of Piggott, Ark., known by many as “Trudy”, passed away January 25, 2018, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Piggott. She was born on June 1, 1927, in Rector, Ark., and was the daughter of the late William Marshall and Nellie Mae (Russell) Sanders. She had four brothers, Albert Newton Sanders, John Marshall Sanders, William Monroe Sanders and Billy George Sanders, and three sisters, Allen Sanders Cato, Lina Lee Sanders Jackson and Leona Sanders Mungle...