Thursday, June 3, 2010Obituaries

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page A6News of Years Gone ByGeneva Louise Austin Barnes

Date of Death – May 27, 2010

Mrs. Geneva Louise Austin Barnes, age 78, passed away Thursday, May 27, 2010 in Bap-tist Memorial Hospital of Memphis, TN. She was preceded in death by her parents: Stan-ley and Gladys Hayes Austin; two brothers: Bobby Austin and James Austin; and four sisters: Katherine Clutts, Ma-rie Kendricks, Dorothy Ann Austin, and Vera Doerges.

Funeral services were conducted in the Lea &

Simmons Funeral Home Chapel at 2 PM, Sunday, May 30, 2010 with Rev. Jerry Wilson officiating. Burial followed in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, White-ville, TN.

Mrs. Barnes is survived by her husband, Amuel A. Barnes, Byhalia, MS; two brothers: Don Austin, Oakland, TN and Jimmy Austin, Byhalia, MS; and one sister: Aileen Durham, Water Valley, MS.

Memorials may be made to The Alzheimer’s Association: Midsouth Chapter, 326 Ellsworth St., Memphis, TN 38111 or The American Cancer So-ciety, Attn: Sharolett Allen @ INSOUTH Bank, P.O. Box 879, Brownsville, TN 38012.

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Mrs. Mary Annette Evans MartinDate of Death – May 31, 2010

Mrs. Mary Annette Evans Martin, age 32, passed away in Jackson Madison County Gen-eral Hospital Monday, May 31, 2010.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 2 at 2 PM in the Lea & Simmons Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be from 12:00 - 2:00 P.M. in the Lea & Simmons Funeral Home.

Mrs. Martin is sur-vived by her husband: Kevin Martin, Browns-ville; her son: Dustin

Wayne Martin, Brownsville; her father: Gilbert Evans (Veronica), Brownsville; her mother: Mary Jo Say-les (Gene), Brownsville and two brothers: Michael Watson and Dewayne Evans, both of Brownsville. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Lea & Simmons Funeral Home.

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Mr. Russell EstesDate of Death – May 30, 2010

Mr. Russell Estes, 61, died Sunday, May 30, 2010, at his residence in Brownsville. Services will be Saturday, June 5, 2010, at 1:00 P. M. at Macedonia Baptist Church in Brownsville. In-terment will be in Turnpike Cemetery in Browns-ville.

There will be a visitation on Friday, June 4, 2010, from 6:00 P. M. until 8:00 P. M. at Rawls Funeral Home in Brownsville and Saturday from noon un-til time of service at Macedonia Baptist Church.

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Church NewsAntioch Baptist Homecoming

Antioch Baptist Church, 9327 Tibbs Road in the Tibbs community, will be having their Homecom-ing June 13. Pastor Lonnie Robinson will bring the message with Sunday School beginning at 10AM and worship service at 11AM. A bring a dish luncheon will follow the service. All members, former mem-bers and friends are welcome.

Love Day Celebration at Hickory Grove MB Church

The annual Love Day Celebration for Pastor Quin-cy Barlow and First Lady Shelia Barlow will be Sun-day, June 13 at 1PM at the Hickory Grove MB Church. Special guests will be his son, Rev. Quinton Barlow and the Faith Covenant Church family of Memphis. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Springhill Baptist Church VBS

Springhill Baptist Church located on Highway 19 West will hold it’s Vacation Bible School June 7-11 from 5:30PM to 7:45PM. The theme is “Camp Solid Rock.” Everyone is invited. Minister Ollie Joe Allen is the pastor.

West Tennessee Community Awareness Conference

There will be a West Tennessee Community Aware-ness Conference, Thursday, June 24 at 10AM. The conference will be at True Tabernacle of Praise Min-istry, 1456 East Main Street. Bishop Sam T. Manns is the pastor.

Women of Purpose Choir to host banquet

The Women of Purpose Choir will host a Father and Son Banquet Saturday, June 19 at 6PM at Carver High School, 709 East Jefferson Street. Guest speaker will be Rev. Charles W. Rainer, Pastor of Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson. For more in-formation contact Mildred Shaw at 731-772-5454.

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June 6, 1980

Popular nurse hurt in wreck

Mrs. Nancy Williamson Pruitt, a registered nurse with the Health Depart-ment, received serious chest injuries and abra-sions when she was in-volved in a two-car acci-dent at the corner of West Main and Russell Street last Friday afternoon.Mrs. Pruitt struck a car drive by Johnny Lewis, Route 1.Lewis was charged with failure to yield right-of-way.

Speaker says work-play hard

Dr. Mike Bohleber, direc-tor of the Jackson Men-tal Health Center, which serves a three-county area. Haywood, Hender-son and Madison, told members of the Mental Health Association that it was good for their mental health to have fun.Dr. Bohleber spoke at Monday night’s annual meeting of the associa-tion. He told those attend-ing that they should work hard and play hard. Using his hobby of “kayaking” as an allegory. He said the goal of psychotherapy is to help patients upright their own boats. He also discussed state and fed-eral funding for mental health centers.Mrs. Art Ellis was installed as president succeeding Mrs. Kirby Matherne.

Tennessee Trash Car Club’s Show attracts large gathering here

Sunday

An estimated $750,000 worth of gleaming cars, trucks, and hot rods at-tracted a large gathering and raised almost $700 for charity at the Tennessee Trash Car Club’s “Crui-sin’ 1980” car show last Sunday at Liberty Plaza.The show generated enough money that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive $375 and the Shriner’s Burn In-stitute will get $275. The money was raised in tick-ets sales for 50 gallons of

gasoline free from Hoop-er Oil Company. Landell Vestal won the club’s gas-oline give-away.In its second year, Ten-nessee attracted an im-pressive array of street machines, classic cars and trucks, hot rods and im-maculate stock-condition cars.

June 7, 1990

Vanderbilt Approved to operate Stanton Medical

Clinic

As of July 1, Vander-bilt University School of Nursing is licensed to op-erate the Stanton Medical Center. The decision last Wednesday by the Pri-mary Care Board of the Tennessee Department of Health and Environment clears the final hurdle for a cooperative effort to re-open the rural medical health care center.Targeted by the state as a priority, reopening Stan-ton’s clinic has taken 18 months. The rural clinic closed for the second time in January 1989, as a sat-ellite of Methodist Hospi-tal of Somerville; its first operation by the federal government was also a failure after nine years of operation.A search by the Tennes-see Department of Health and Environment for a physician to operate the clinic was unsuccessful, in spite of special efforts to attract a doctor to the location with promises of state funds for the repay-ment of medical school debts.

New Coats for old pipes

Natural gas pipelines in Brownsville are getting all-weather coats. At the urging of the state and federal Department of Transportation, the iron pipes leading to nearly 500 homes in Brownsville will be replaced between now and fall with coated pipes.Scattered across the city, the pipes are the results of some World War II short-ages, Utility Department Manager John Sharpe said.Though the entire city’s

main gas pipes are coal tar enamel or epoxy coated, some pipes pt down in the 40s were uncoated.Those uncoated pipes, the DOT says, are at risk for corrosion. Sharpe said the utility department does experience a higher inci-dence of leakages from uncoated pipes.So the process to replace about 30,000 feet of pipe has begun and will con-tinue under the operation of a Union City contrac-tor.

First State Bank pur-chases Stanton Bank

building

Main Street in Stanton has a new resident—First State Bank of Browns-ville—after the bank com-pleted the purchase last Friday of the 3000 square foot building, which had house Peoples bank of Stanton for more years than most people, can re-member.The bank building, ac-cording to First State Bank Executive Vice President Jere Williamson, was pur-chased fully equipped from Tipton County Bank for a “feasible” price. Ac-cording to courthouse documents, the bank paid $20,000 for the building alone. Williamson said the

bank also paid an undis-closed amount for equip-ment in the building.

June 8, 2000

New York company picks Brownsville site for mammoth distribu-

tion center

After extensive research, a New-York based firm has selected a 62-acre site on Anderson Avenue (Ten-nessee 76 South) as the location for a new 300,000 square-foot distribution center.Brownsville Mayor Webb Banks, County Executive John Sharpe and Drescher Inc. President W.J. “Bud” Drescher made the an-nouncement of the Drescher Corporation’s selection of Haywood County for its 150-em-ployee facility jointly Tuesday.The location of the new facility is near Interstate 40 and is situated on a site Haywood County’s local governments would like to develop as a distribu-tion park. D.C. Construc-tion recently purchased the tract from the Ann Chamberlain family and has already begun prepa-ration for Drescher’s new building.