Stories from Thursday, September 5, 2002

Donna Sue Goade, 61, of Cassville, Mo., died Monday, Aug. 26, 2002, in South Barry County Hospital, Cassville. She was born July 24, 1941, in Cassville, daughter of Boyd and Dessie (Woody) Dryer. She graduated from Cassville High School in 1959. On June 21, 1959, at the First Baptist Church in Cassville, she married James Earl Goade. ...

Hannah Nicole Tidyman, age 2-1/2 months, of Green Forest, died Sunday, Aug. 25, 2002, in Green Forest. She was born June 5, 2002, in Berryville, daughter of Jerimiah Daniel and Debbie Lynn (Snyder) Tidyman. She is survived by her mother, Debbie Tidyman of Green Forest; her father, Jerimiah Tidyman of Berryville; two brothers, Brett Tucker of Springdale, and Garrett Tidyman of Green Forest; two sisters, Chelsea Erter of Bixby, Okla., and Kara Tidyman of Green Forest; her grandparents, Verlin and Evelynn Griggs and Monty and Mary Tidyman, all of Green Forest; her great-grandparents, Beverly Wilson of Denver, Colo., Wayne and Edith Gardener, Roy Tidyman, and Bobbie Campbell, all of Green Forest; her great-great-great-grandmother, Nellie Jones of Harrison; four aunts and uncles, Cassie Bristow, and Jason, Josh, and Tiffany Tidyman; and other relatives and friends.. ...

David Leroy Peterson, 57, of Pea Ridge, died Friday, Aug. 16, 2002, at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale. He was born Oct. 15, 1944, in Lampe, Mo., son of Thomas Wesley and Marian Ethel Horn Peterson. Mr. Peterson was a veteran, having served his country with the U.S. ...

"It was kind of a story about the good, the bad, and the ugly," Coach Carl Owens said about the Berryville Bobcats scrimmages with Pea Ridge and Yellville last Thursday. "We saw some positive play, and some middle of the road play, and some bad play, but there were some positives," Owens said. "We made a lot of mistakes that have to be corrected, but most were correctable...

Green Forest seventh-grade coach Claude Whited has a unique situation this season as two girls have made his 38 member roster. But it's just business as usual for the team, as Amelia Villines and Emily Campbell have been playing Pee Wee flag football and soccer with their classmates since the fourth grade...

It was a typical junior high football scrimmage, a blend of mistakes and big plays, but the Berryville Junior Bobcats ended up on top of the Pea Ridge Junior Black Hawks, 14-8, on one of the last plays of the scrimmage last Thursday night. Backup quarterback Cody Neal found receiver David Jones open and fired the ball to him, with the pair getting credit for a 29-yard touchdown connection...

by David McNeal HOLY COW! They're playing everything everywhere. You better believe it. Not only has football season arrived here in Carroll County, volleyball and cross country are poised to kick off now that Labor Day is behind us. All the SEC football teams except Arkansas played last weekend, and the high school season begins for real this Friday all across the nation...