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Linda Gail Davis Garner
(Obituary ~ 07/17/20)
Linda Gail Davis Garner, 68, of Blytheville, passed away Wednesday, July 15, 2020, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. Linda was born in Blytheville to Wesley and Winnie Carter Davis. She was a retired cafeteria worker and bus driver for Ocean Springs Schools in Mississippi. ...
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Randy Lamond Lewis, Sr.
(Obituary ~ 07/17/20)
Randy Lamond Lewis, Sr. of Blytheville, was born Sept. 20, 1995 in Memphis, Tenn., to Deloris Sharkey Bryant and the late Robert Kuykendall. He was a factory worker and a member of Grace Life Church in Blytheville. Mr. Lewis passed away July 9, 2020, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville at the age of 24. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Kuykendall; his daughter, Rand’Tavia Lewis; and one brother, Sheridan Kuykendall...
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Mary Joe Lomax
(Obituary ~ 07/17/20)
Mary Joe Lomax, 67, of Rector passed from the cares of this life to forever be with Jesus on Thursday July 16, 2020, at Gosnell Health and Rehab. She was born Jan. 25, 1953, in Boydsville to the late Omer and Thelma Francis Tucker Bearden. Mary Joe worked as a seamstress at Rector Sportswear and was a member of the Rector First General Baptist Church. She loved shopping, working in her flowers, fishing and camping, but most of all, she loved spending time with her grandkids, family and friends...
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Adams scores rare 5 on AP exam
(Local News ~ 07/17/20)
Blytheville High School 2020 graduate Rodarius Adams scored a rating of “5” on this year’s AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam. “AP exams are scored based on a rating of 1-5 with ‘1’ designating ‘No Recommendation’ for college credit and ‘5’ designating ‘Extremely Well Qualified’ for college credit at participating colleges and universities,” said Blytheville High School AP U.S. ...
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Blytheville native saves passengers on plane
(Local News ~ 07/17/20)
Blytheville native Everette James is being called a hero after he helped subdue a yelling passenger on an Alaska Airline plane last Saturday. James said he and his family were on a flight returning to their home in Chicago, when a man, later identified as Michael Ney Berry of Kirkland, Wash., started yelling in the row behind him...
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