TXK TODAY STAFF

TXK TODAY STAFF

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Elaine Carpenter

Edris Elaine Carpenter, 95 of Texarkana passed away on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 in a local nursing facility. Elaine was born on April 13, 1927, in Texarkana to Moody Lyman Johnson & Martha Louise Baldwin Johnson (later Simmons). She was…

Margaret Annette Lindsey

Margaret Annette Lindsey age 83 of New Boston, Texas passed away Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at her residence. Mrs. Lindsey was born December 19, 1938 to Joe and Julia Ann Goodwin. She was a Homemaker, member of First Assembly of…

Geraldine Harris Cooper

Geraldine Harris Cooper was born August 14, 1947 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Robert Lee and Annie Lou Harris. She accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior at an early age. She graduated from Carrie Martin High School in Plain Dealing,…

Stanley Earl Solomon

Stanley Earl Solomon was born October 17, 1959, to the late Henry Solomon and Minnie Hooks. He departed this earthy life on November 22, 2022. Stanley graduated from Arkansas High in 1979, and joined the United States Army following high…

Leta Steele

Mrs. Leta Louise Parrish Steele of Texarkana, Texas – loving wife, nurturing mother and doting Mammaw passed away peacefully in her sleep at The Retreat at Kenwood in Texarkana, TX on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Leta was born in Sweetwater,…

Evelyn Ruth Andres

Evelyn Ruth Townsend Andres, age 80, of Texarkana, Arkansas, passed away on Monday, December 5, 2022 at her residence. Visitation will be held at Texarkana Funeral Home, Texas on Sunday, December 11, 2022 from 1:00- 2:30 P.M. with a reception…

James Burnett

U.S. Veteran James Paul Burnett, age 87, of Longview, Texas, died Monday, December 5, 2022, in a Longview hospital. Mr. Burnett was born December 19, 1934, in Texarkana, Texas. He was a veteran of the United States Army and an…

Susie Johanna Autrey Jaixen

Susie Johanna Autrey Jaixen daughter of Dave S and Agnes Wetz Autrey born in Hooks, Texas June 12, 1927. Susie went to Shreveport Louisiana and trained as a nurse at Schumpert Hospital with the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate…

Wayne Banks

U.S. Veteran Michael “Wayne” Banks, of Texarkana, Texas, passed away at Wadley Regional Hospital on Saturday, December 3, 2022. Wayne was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 28, 1942, to Verna Anderson Banks and Richard Banks, Sr. He graduated from…

James Pride

James Russell Pride, age 76, of Texarkana, Texas, passed peacefully on Saturday, December 3, 2022 at Christus St. Michael Hospital after a long, but courageous battle with metastatic prostate cancer. James was born on September 14, 1946, in Naples, Texas…

Wanda Jean Davis

Wanda Jean Davis, age 90, of Texarkana, Arkansas, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, December 1, 2022. Mrs. Davis was born May 1, 1932, in Miller County, Arkansas, and was a lifetime resident of Texarkana.…

Marilyn Grantier

Marilyn Player Grantier March 8, 1950 – November 25, 2022. Passed away peacefully in her sleep on November 25, 2022. She was preceded in death by her parents William H. Player and Jacquelyn P. Player and her sister, Dianne P.…

Patsy Thornton

Patricia Ann (Patsy) St. John Thornton of Texarkana, Texas, passed away on December 1, 2022, at Cornerstone Assisted Living in Texarkana. Patsy was born August 27, 1940, in Houston, to parents Robert Lawrence and Mary Elizabeth Church St. John. After…

Carolyn Christine Eldridge

Carolyn Christine Williams Eldridge, age 77, of Texarkana, Texas, passed away November 30, 2022, in a local hospice facility after a lengthy illness. Carolyn was born on February 14, 1945, in Bowie County to her parents Hugh Leroy “Dink” and…