STURGIS – Pauline Clara Mixon Drane, 90, passed away Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. She was born Sept. 25, 1922, in Houston to Agnes Larkin and William Jahugh Mixon. She and her husband owned Drane Hardware in Sturgis. She was a member of First United Methodist Church, where [...]
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Harold Womack
MANTEE – Harold Womack, 86, died Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at Oktibbeha County Hospital. He was born Oct. 30, 1926, in Mantee to James “Jim” Alexander Womack and Zada Kolb Womack. He was retired from Babcock and Wilcox in West Point. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He was a member and [...]
William Temple
WEST POINT – William Deandrea Temple, 30, died Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Minot, N.D. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Northside Christian Church of God. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Carter’s Mortuary Services of West Point is in charge of the arrangements.
Marie Martin
WEST POINT – Marie Martin, 96, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at her home. A native of Marietta, she was the daughter of Henry Edwards Mills and Oma Lee Evans. She retired from Franklin Furniture Factory, where she was an instructor seamstress. She was a Baptist. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Southern [...]
Marie Martin
WEST POINT – Marie Martin, 96, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at her home. She was born on Dec. 18, 1916 in Marietta to Henry Edwards Mills and Oma Lee Evans. She was a retired instructor seamstress for Franklin Furniture and a Baptist. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Southern Funeral Home [...]
James Davidson
WEST POINT – James L. Davidson, 82, passed away Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, at at his home. He was born July 4, 1930, in West Point, to Essie Hazlewood and Jesse Thomas Davidson. He worked in the Accounting Department at Babcock and Wilcox Company for 40 years and was a member of First Christian Church. [...]
Home, sweet home
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 [...]
Journal newspaper delivery late today
Delivery of the Chickasaw Journal and the Daily Journal newspapers will be much later than normal today. We’re sorry for the delay and we are working to get newspapers to customers as soon as possible. Chickasaw Journal customers can always call 456-3771 if they do not receive their paper.
Bill would consolidate school districts
by Jeff Amy The Associated Press JACKSON — Bills moving forward in the Senate would merge the Clay County and West Point school districts and give agricultural high schools in Coahoma and Hinds counties to the county school boards.Senate Education Chairman Gray Tollison, an Oxford Republican, says Clay County, the smallest district in the state, [...]
A man with a gun
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 [...]
288th welcome home is Sunday
HOUSTON — The Sappers wants to say thank you to Houston The 288th Engineer Company of the 223rd Battalion of the Mississippi National Guard has invited the community to a welcome home ceremony set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Houston High School. “This will be our first weekend drill since we returned from deployment,” said [...]
Charlotte Young
WEST POINT – Charlotte Wimberley Young, 82, passed away Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at Waverly Care Home in West Point. She was born March 15, 1930, in Houston to Ethel Alford and Willie Kenneth Wimberley. She was a homemaker, a bookkeeper and a member of First United Methodist Church. Charlotte Wimberley Young married Caradine Westbrook [...]
BIRTH: Colton Elias Blissard
Colton Elias Blissard Sonny and Kerry Gentry Blissard of West Point are thrilled to announce the birth of their baby boy, Colton Elias Blissard. He arrived on Dec. 18, 2012 at North MS Medical Center in West Point. He weighed seven-pounds, seven-ounces and was 21-inches long. Proud grandparents are Charles and Brenda Gentry of Crawford [...]
New press to improve print quality
This week’s Chickasaw Journal newspaper has a fresher, cleaner, more colorful look, and there’s a reason. The newspaper delivered to your door this week is the first full edition of the Chickasaw Journal to come off a new printing press at the production facilities of the Chickasaw Journal in Tupelo. This multi-million dollar [...]
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