TXK TODAY STAFF

TXK TODAY STAFF

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Virginia Louise Smith

Ms. Virginia Louise Smith was born in Ogden, Arkansas, on June 10th, 1942. She graduated from the Little River County Training School at Ashdown, Arkansas, in 1959. In the same year, she entered Arkansas Agricultural Mechanical, and Normal College (later…

Carolyn Elaine Coulter Thomas

Carolyn Elaine Coulter Thomas was born January 4, 1954 to the parents of Elvin Coulter, Sr. and Mattie Wesson Bluford in the in the Rosehill Neighborhood of Griff King Courts of Texarkana, Texas. She departed this earthly life for Glory…

DeAndre Lamontae Fezell

DeAndre Lamontae Fezell was born to Tari Darden and Zanicka Fezell on May 12, 1997 in Texarkana, Texas. He’s a 2015 graduate of Texas High School. He was a former employee of R. J. Corman Railroad Group as a train…

Johnny Lee Parker

Johnny Lee Parker was born on February 13, 1946 to the parentage of Richard and Elnora Parker, Sr. in Texarkana, Texas. He received his final salute and went home to be with the Lord on November 1, 2023. Johnny was…

Police and Fire Calls for Service November 6th-9th

Time Agency Type Address 00:15:20 TA POLICE DEPARTMENT SUSPICIOUS 720 EAST STREET TEXARKANA, AR 71854 01:20:50 WAKE VILLAGE POLICE DEPARTMENT SUSPICIOUS 102 REDWATER ROAD TEXARKANA, TX 75501 01:50:32 TT POLICE DEPARTMENT SUSPICIOUS 3203 LEOPARD DRIVE TEXARKANA, TX 75501 02:12:25 BOWIE…

Johnny Lee Parker

Johnny Lee Parker was born on February 13, 1946 to the parentage of Richard and Elnora Parker, Sr. in Texarkana, Texas. He received his final salute and went home to be with the Lord on November 1, 2023. Johnny was…

Iva Nell Tidwell

Iva Nell Tidwell, 100, of Texarkana, Texas, passed away on Sunday morning, November 5, 2023, surrounded by her family. Iva Nell was born September 27, 1923, in Simms, Texas to Everett and Mattie Mae Daniel. She was raised with her…

Vera Peavy

Vera Green Peavy, 81, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, November 5, 2023, in her home surrounded by her family. Vera was born July 19, 1942, in Fouke, Arkansas, to Earnest and Mildred Green. She…

John L. Colorigh, Sr.

U.S. Veteran John L. Colorigh “Johnny the Jet”, 81, of Texarkana, passed away on November 3, 2023 surrounded by his family. He was born July 9, 1942 in Miller County to John C. and Mattie Sue Colorigh. He was a…

Sandra Joan Guilliams

Sandra Joan Guilliams, age 79, of Texarkana, Arkansas died on Friday, November 3, 2023, in a local hospital. Ms. Guilliams was born November 20, 1943, in Texarkana, Arkansas. She retired from Wadley Regional Medical Center where she had worked as…

Erna Latham

Erna Mae Latham, age 85, went to be with our Lord on October 30, 2023. She was born on January 8, 1938 in Des Moines, Iowa to Harry Jump and Gladys Petty. She was married to her husband, Lawton, for…