Stories from Wednesday, April 3, 2002

Boyd Wayne Sparks, age 59, of Green Forest, passed away March 31 at Carroll Regional Medical Center. He was born at Muskogee, Okla., July 16, 1942, the son of Boyd Samuel and Sarah Evelyn (Fultz) Sparks. He worked at Larimer Printing as a typesetter and lived in the area most of his life...

Billy Dean Ellis, 69, of Green Forest, died Wednesday, March 27, 2002, in Berryville. He was born Sept. 18, 1932, in Berryville, a son of Ray and Anna Belle (Bell) Ellis. Mr. Ellis was a veteran, having served his country with the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict...

Geraldine Giles, 79, of Palestine, died Friday, March 29, 2002, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She was born April 27, 1922, in Crosby, the daughter of John Branscomb and Nora Dell Ray Branscomb. She lived in Eastern Arkansas for most of her life...

Barbara Yates Housley, age 77, passed away at her home in Berryville, Arkansas, after an extended illness. She was born on September 26, 1924 in Bargoad, South Wales to parents John H. Yates and M. Matrid Curnuck Yates. Barbara was raised in Great Britain and met Wilburn L. ...

Lillian (Clayton) Sternberg, 86, of Blair, Neb., died Saturday, March 30, 2002, in Omaha, Neb. She was born Nov. 26, 1915, in Villa Park, Ill., a daughter of Charles Elison Clayton and Beatrice (Herweg) Clayton. Mrs. Sternberg was a piano teacher for many years, and a member of PEO. She had lived in Eureka Springs for more than 20 years before moving to Blair in the fall of 2000...

James Robert Krstolich, 86, of Shell Knob, Mo., died Friday, March 29, 2002, at Carroll Regional Medical Center in Berryville. He was born Dec. 26, 1915, in Wyandotte County, Kan., the son of Andrew and Anna (Rajha) Krstolich. In Kansas City, Mo., he married Mildred Gean, who preceded him in death. He was also preceded in death by his parents and three brothers...

Carroll County's three junior high schools were well represented at the Harrison Goblin Junior High Relays on Thursday, with the Berryville Junior Bobcats finishing second in the team standings. It was a wonderfully warm spring day, with temperatures soaring into the seventies, giving the athletes their first chance at competition without winter nipping at their heels...

When things don't go your way, it's nice to know you can count on your teammates for a little help. Ryan Rylee, the Bobcat's starting pitcher Thursday against the Prairie Grove Tigers, was having trouble on the mound, so teammate Jerry Donahue stepped in after two innings and mowed the visitors down...

GREEN FOREST ---- A new concept in bull riding will make its debut in Green Forest on April 27 when ground-pounding action takes place at the Lions Club Rodeo Arena. Team Bull Riding (TBR) officials say they are kicking off their spring preview tour with a stop in Green Forest, followed by visits to Searcy, Paragould, and Carthage, Mo...

by David McNeal HOLY COW! It must be spring. I know, because I washed my motorcycles this past weekend. What a gorgeous Easter Sunday. Warm, dry, sunny skies, no wind, and the wide open roads beckoning. It was a traditional time for rebirth, and boy, was I in to it...