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Waymond “Bill” Reid

By | 8:05 AM | March 31, 2013 | Obituaries

WEST POINT — Waymond Will “Bill” Reid age 87, passed away Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at Starkville Manor Nursing Home, in Starkville. Bill Reid was born August 21, 1925, in Pheba, to the late Quay Reid and Ventrice Montgomery Reid. Bill Reid often said “God made man to work, so I am happy to work.” [...]

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Home, sweet home

By | 2:05 AM | January 31, 2013 | Living, News

HOUSTON – The brown sign simply says Veteran’s Memorial Highway, but to the members of the 288th Sappers it is a lasting marker of their service to their community and country. Chickasaw County and Northeast Mississippi welcomed home the 288th Sapper Company of the Mississippi National Guard Sunday with the bypass around Houston named in [...]

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A man with a gun

By | 9:50 AM | January 24, 2013 | News, Opinion

Deer season ended last week for the Ingrams. My youngest son James and I spend the last daylight hours of Jan. 17, 2013, looking for Mr. Buck on the 88-acres of beautiful Mississippi hardwood that we have hunted for the past two years. It had snowed that morning, but had warmed up tremendously by the [...]

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Dan Hendrix

By | 8:58 AM | January 1, 2013 | Obituaries

VARDAMAN – Daniel Aven “Dan” Hendrix, 58, went to his Heavenly Home on Dec. 29, 2012. He was born April 16, 1954, in Calhoun City, the son of Charles Paul and Agnes Gulledge Hendrix. He was a member of Reedy’s Chapel Baptist Church in Calhoun City. He was a 31-year National Guard veteran, an avid [...]

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Horace Parker

By | 7:42 AM | December 19, 2012 | Obituaries

  MANTEE – Horace Parker passed away Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at the V.A. Nursing Home in Oxford. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Memorial Funeral Home of Houston. For online condolences, visit www.memorialfuneralhomehouston.com. A complete obituary will be published in the Wednesday, Dec. 26, Chickasaw Journal.

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Hatley veteran recalls three wars’ worth of stories

By | 7:00 AM | November 19, 2012 | News

HATLEY – Rupert Watson is no stranger to war. At just 19 years old, Watson enlisted in the Navy and headed off to World War II. “We went to Africa in 1942, in the early part of the war. I had heard stories from my dad about war my whole life, but here I was [...]

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