Stories from Thursday, May 10, 2001

DEAL BY: MICHAEL WILKEY During a busy meeting Monday night, the Marked Tree Board of Education voted on several personnel requests, involving school employees. The board voted 4-0, with Board Vice-President Ira Lee Whitfield absent, to hire Tim Branum to become a secondary...

SHERIFF'S OFFICE BY: MICHAEL WILKEY In a short meeting Tuesday night, the Tyronza City Council voted 6-0 to donate Tyronza's drug dog, Egan, to the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office. The decision to donate the animal to the Poinsett Co. Sheriff's...

BY: MICHAEL WILKEY Poinsett County Assessor Johnny Rye, Jr. (D) addressed the weekly meeting of the Marked Tree Lions Club, discussing tax issues recently brought before the Arkansas General Assembly. In the meeting, held in the Fellowship Hall of the Marked Tree First United...

The Marked Tree High School Baccalaureate service will be held Sunday, May 13 at 7 p.m. in the Marked Tree Church of God on 114 Allyn St. Speaker for the service will be Elder David Corns of the Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ. Music will be provided by the V.I.P. choir of Marked Tree...

Frank Sanders was superintendent of Tyronza Schools from 1956 to 1966, superintendent of Marked Tree Schools from 1966 to 1985. I started to school at Tyronza in 1935, I was ten years old. My family and I were sharecropping on Mr. John Emrich's farm. That's the time I got to knowing Frank...

Mrs. Ola Fay Scarbrough Coopwood, 83, of North Little Rock Baptist Health Center, passed away Tuesday, May 1, at her residence. Mrs. Coopwood was a Protestant. She worked in retail, and was preceded in death by her husband, John Coopwood, 13 brothers and sisters...

Margaret Lois Harris, 85, of Grand Prairie, Texas, passed away Saturday, May 5, in Duncanville, Texas. Mrs. Harris was a former Marked Tree resident. She was a homemaker and a very loving mother. She was a member of the Forum Terrace Church of Christ in Grand Prairie and was baptized into the Church of Christ at the age of 15. She was preceded in death by her husband, Perry Harris, on August 31, 1991...

Robert Gene Robinson, 87, of Brookland, passed away Tuesday, May 1, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Mr. Robinson was retired from Colson Caster Co., and was a member of New Antioch Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother and four sisters...