Stories from Monday, May 19, 2014

Stella Lorene Adams (Jackson), widow of Connie Aubrey Adams, passed away on Friday, May 9, at the age of 95 in Concord, Calif. She was born in Datto, Ark. on July 2, 1918, and raised in Corning. She moved to Taft, Calif. with her husband and two oldest children in 1946. She was a member of the Taft Church of Christ from 1954 to 1980, at which time she and Connie moved to Bakersfield, Calif. She and her husband were married for 44 years before he passed away in 1985...

Bertine E. Stevens of Piggott, Ark. passed away May 15, 2014, at Piggott Community Hospital at the age of 100 years, 7 months, and 14 days. She was born on October 1, 1913, in Greenway, Ark., and was the daughter of the late David E. and Hattie E. (Payne) Price...