Stories from Wednesday, November 16, 2011

EUREKA SPRINGS -- The Eureka Springs School Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, with full agenda. Action items on the agenda include a vote on the "Exit Policy for Gifted and Talented Program" document; a plan to upgrade wireless equipment at the elementary and middle schools; a vote on the state's graduating senior scholarship program, AR Promise; a vote on a committee to oversee the disposition of the old high school; and a vote on the creation of a board finance study group...

Dr. Tom B. Watson was born May 12, 1921, in Locust Bayou, AR, and died Nov. 14, 2011 in Bentonville, AR. He was the son of William Robert Watson and Sarah Mittie Steelman Watson, who preceded him in death, along with his first wife, Colleen; one daughter, Patty Oxford; one granddaughter, Mary Libertus; brothers, Homer, Hubert, Hamilton Ray and Robert, and sisters, Carrie, Mittie Ruth, and Annie Mae...

Nina Louise Ellis, a resident of Berryville, AR, was born June 3, 1931 in Harrison, AR, a daughter of Taylor Baines and Nina Marie (Mann) Crawford. She departed this life Thursday, November 10, 2011 in Fayetteville, at the age of 80 years. Nina was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church of Berryville...

Lorraine Buell Fowlkes Huston, a resident of Austin, TX, was born April 27, 1922 in Green Forest, AR, a daughter of Claude E. and Virgie Ellen (Tipton) Buell. She departed this life Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, in Austin, TX at the age of 89 years. Lorraine was of the Methodist faith. She owned and taught in her own private kindergarten in Hereford, TX, and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.)...

Gary Don Keeney, age 55, of Rogers, AR, passed away on Nov. 10, 2011 in Pine Bluff, AR. He was born March 16, 1956 in Berryville, AR to Donald and Barbara Hoover Keeney. He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corp. Survivors include his mother, Barbara Hoover Loriaux of Rogers, AR; a daughter, Carrie and a sister, Barbara Renee Bell of Fayetteville, AR...

Charles Worley, age 74, a resident of Berryville, AR, was born Dec. 9, 1936 in Eureka Springs, AR, a son of Hal Charles Worley and Elsie Johnson Wolfinbarger. He departed on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Springfield, MO. Charles attended the Green Forest Assembly of God Church. He proudly served this great Nation in the United States Army...

BERRYVILLE -- The fourth annual Carroll County Shop With A Cop effort got off to a good start last week when the Walmart Foundation donated $3,000 to the cause. Organizers are rounding up other donations as well to provide a shopping opportunity for area children who might otherwise go without this holiday season...

Virgil Lawrence, ART mobile educator, speaks with Devon Williams' third grade art class on Friday afternoon in Green Forest. Lawrence educated the students on the properties of art, such as light, the use of color and how art has changed throughout history. The ART mobile left the Green Forest campus for Mountain View at 3 p.m. on Friday...

BERRYVILLE -- Perry Evans is stepping down as general manager of the Carroll County Airport and his wife Sheila Evans is stepping up. Perry has been general manager the past seven years. His pending retirement was announced at a Carroll County Airport Commission meeting last Thursday...