GEORGE WILSON STEVENS, 71
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000183 EndHTML:0000002999 StartFragment:0000002364 EndFragment:0000002963 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits%20w:pics/STEVENS.doc GEORGE WILSON STEVENS, age 71 of Lafayette, TN passed away Monday, April 26, 2010 at Hendersonville Medical Center. Funeral services for George Wilson Stevens were conducted Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 11:00 A.M. from the chapel of Alexander Funeral Home with Elder Doug Curtis and Elder Guthrie Thompson officiating.…
Read MoreJOHNNY DORRIS WOODARD, 73
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000183 EndHTML:0000003355 StartFragment:0000002365 EndFragment:0000003319 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits%20w:pics/WOODARD.doc JOHNNY DORRIS WOODARD, better known as “Do Right” age 73 of Lafayette, TN passed away Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at Sumner Regional Medical Center. Funeral services for Johnny “Do Right” Woodard were conducted Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 11 a.m. from the Chapel of Alexander Funeral Home with…
Read MoreGarland Chambers, 94
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000175 EndHTML:0000002908 StartFragment:0000002356 EndFragment:0000002872 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Chambers.doc Mr. Garland Chambers of the Union Camp Community in Macon County and longtime farmer of the West Point Community of Defeated Creek died at 5:32 a.m. Friday morning April 30, 2010 at the Highland Manor in Portland at the age of 94. Sunday afternoon May 2nd funeral services from…
Read MoreNature’s Mysteries
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000181 EndHTML:0000004203 StartFragment:0000002615 EndFragment:0000004167 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/barefootfarmer.doc Plowing is one of nature’s mysteries. I plow to fluff up the soil in the springs, but plowing destroys soil structure. This irony is hard to explain but easy to experience. I’ll try to explain my experience. Over the winter the ground gets packed down. A cover crop of…
Read MoreUneven Playing Field
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000002943 StartFragment:0000002363 EndFragment:0000002907 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoints.doc One would have to have his head in the sand not to take note of how much the news media slants stories. If you are pro-abortion, you are called pro-choice. If you are pro-life, and I am, you are called anti-abortion. Then the unborn baby is called a fetus.…
Read MoreSpring Garden
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000175 EndHTML:0000002938 StartFragment:0000002606 EndFragment:0000002902 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/barefootfarmer.doc April is the month of planting the spring garden. Onions go in first, and then potatoes. These are the two crops that the king’s deer don’t eat, so we don’t have to plant them inside the deer fence. All other vegetables and fruits can be destroyed if unprotected.
Read MoreI Protest
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000176 EndHTML:0000003080 StartFragment:0000002357 EndFragment:0000003044 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/ruralviewpoints.doc I protest! This country was built upon the freedom to protest. I’m not thinking of riots, but of honest protesting because over Nation’s stability s at risk. When protesting is outlawed, then our liberties and freedoms will be gone. When there gone, they will never be regained. Freedom of…
Read MorePaul Lowell Clark, 61
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000178 EndHTML:0000003498 StartFragment:0000002544 EndFragment:0000003462 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obitsw:pics/Clark.doc Paul Lowell Clark, age 61, of Lafayette, TN passed away suddenly on Fri. evening at Macon County General Hospital. Funeral services for Paul Lowell Clark were conducted on Mon., April 19, 2010 from the Chapel of the Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Lafayette with Jerry Mercer and E.…
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Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000178 EndHTML:0000002824 StartFragment:0000002359 EndFragment:0000002788 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obitsw:pics/Davis.doc Carl James Davis, age 65 of Lafayette, TN passed away Mon., April 12, 2010 at Sumner Regional Medical Center. Funeral services were held Thurs., April 15, 2010, at 11 a.m. from the chapel of Alexander Funeral Home with Brother Lawrence Goad officiating. Interment followed in the Macon County Memorial…
Read MoreMargret Jane Hesson, 55
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000179 EndHTML:0000002972 StartFragment:0000002360 EndFragment:0000002936 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obitsw:pics/hesson.doc Margret Jane Hesson, age 55 of Lafayette, TN. passed away Sat., April 17, 2010 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Funeral services for Margret Jane Hesson were conducted Monday, April 19 at 3 p.m. from the chapel of Alexander Funeral Home with Elder Ricky Wilson officiating. Corey Hesson, Mike Hesson,…
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