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Pet of the week
(Community News ~ 07/29/04)
Hope is a quiet, gentle 2-year-old female gray-striped tabby. She also has three cute kittens, all available for adoption at the Dyersburg-Dyer County Humane Society's animal shelter at 325 Church Ave. S. in Dyersburg. For more information, call the shelter at 285-4889...
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Family Readiness Group to help Guardsmen, families
(Community News ~ 07/29/04)
As the local Tennessee National Guard unit prepares to leave, a new group is gearing up to help the soldiers' families cope with their absences. The 230th Area Support Group Family Readiness Group is expected to provide moral support and serve as an information center to both the soldiers and their family members...
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Highway patrol a family business
n Marvin family of Lake County has given 52 years of service to Tennessee.
(Local News ~ 07/29/04)
Grady Marvin When Grady Marvin joined the Tennessee Highway Patrol on July 1, 1958, he had no idea his son and grandson one day would follow in his footsteps. The law enforcement division had been active in Tennessee for 29 years at the time Marvin decided to give becoming a THP officer a try...
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New managing editor joins Gazette staff
(Local News ~ 07/29/04)
Dyersburg native Kelly Rimel has joined the State Gazette staff to serve as temporary managing editor. Rimel brings five years of journalism experience to the position. She has previously served as a features writer for the Dyersburg News and Dyer County Tennessean as well as a weekly columnist for the Tennessean. She also worked as an associate editor for a publishing firm in Florida...
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Settlement reached in adult bookstore suit
(Local News ~ 07/29/04)
Parties to a lawsuit over Dyer County's first adult bookstore avoided a hearing Wednesday by reaching a settlement that will keep the store closed until it is properly licensed. Dyer County Chancellor J. Steven Stafford approved a settlement Wednesday morning between the county's Adult-Oriented Establishment Board and Donald Brewer Sr., owner of Adult Superstore 2 at 4673 Highway 51 Bypass South...
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Jewell Dean Chandler Griggs
(Obituary ~ 07/29/04)
Jewell Dean Chandler Griggs, 77, of Newbern, died Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a homemaker. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Dyer County Memorial Gardens with Olin Kern officiating. The family will receive visitors at 5:30 p.m. today at Dyersburg Funeral Home...
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Margie May Ingram
(Obituary ~ 07/29/04)
Margie May Ingram, 61, of Robinson, Ill., formerly of Ridgely, died Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at her residence. She was a production employee of Fairite Products, a member of New Hope Baptist Church in Robinson, Ill. and a member of the Eastern Star. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Ridgely chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Andy Martin officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery in Ridgely...
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J.C. Park
(Obituary ~ 07/29/04)
J.C. Park, 78, of Trimble, died Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at his residence. He was a retired employee of the State of Tennessee and farmer, a World War II veteran where he served as a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, member of New Salem Baptist Church in Mason Hall, member of Mason Hall Masonic Lodge No. 200, member of the Mason Hall Order of the Eastern Star No. 395, lifetime member of the DAV, lifetime member of the VFW, member of Dyersburg Lions Club and Mason Hall Ruritan Club...
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Nora Evone Tharpe
(Obituary ~ 07/29/04)
Nora Evone Tharpe, 73, of Newbern, died Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at her residence. She was a retired employee of Parkview Hospital and GTE Sylvania, a homemaker and a member of Harmony Baptist Church. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Johnson Funeral Home with the Rev. Jack Criswell and the Rev. Tommy Stutts officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Newbern...
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Annie Mae Wood
(Obituary ~ 07/29/04)
Annie Mae Wood, 98, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at Dyersburg Manor Nursing Home. She was a homemaker and a member of Southside Baptist Church. Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with Brother Joe Naylor officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery...
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Peggy Goad Farley
(Obituary ~ 07/29/04)
Peggy Goad Farley, 75, of Atoka, died Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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David Mendoza Arellanes
(Obituary ~ 07/29/04)
David Mendoza Arellanes, 27, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, July 27 at his residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Cosmopolitan Funeral Services.
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