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TXK TODAY STAFF

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Police and Fire Calls for Service Friday, May 20th

Time Agency Type Address 00:03:00 BOWIE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE SUSPICIOUS 4224/4217 00:03:53 TA POLICE DEPARTMENT ROBBERY J/O 2910 EAST STREET TEXARKANA, AR 71854 00:11:09 TT POLICE DEPARTMENT ALARM 2011 MALL DRIVE TEXARKANA, TX 75503 00:18:09 BOWIE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE VANDALISM…

Deroy Jordan

Deroy Jordan 88 of Texarkana, AR passed May 1, 2022. Visitation Friday, May 20, 2022 3:00-5:00 PM Jones Stuart Mortuary. Service Saturday, May 21, 2022 12:00 PM Greater Heights Ministries with Burial Cleveland Cemetery. [AdSense-B]

Michael McHenry

Michael McHenry, 57 of Texarkana, TX passed May 17, 2022. Visitation Friday, May 20, 2022 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM Jones Stuart Mortuary. Graveside Service Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 2:00 PM Chapelwood Memorial Gardens. [AdSense-B]

Marcus Williams

Marcus Williams 33, of Texarkana, TX passed May 8, 2022. Visitation Thursday, May 19, 2022 3:00-5:00 PM at Jones Stuart Mortuary. Graveside Service Friday, May 20, 2022 10:00 AM at Chapelwood with Rev. Roy Hooks, Eulogist. [AdSense-B]

Billy Wayne Nelson

Billy Wayne Nelson Sr., age 87, of Wake Village, Texas passed away on May 9, 2022, at his home surrounded by family. Mr. Nelson was born on May 20, 1934, in Hatton, Arkansas to his parents Henry and Opal Towry…

Lisa Lynette Leigh

Mrs. Lisa Lynette Leigh, age 60, of Texarkana, Arkansas, went to be with the Lord Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Houston, Texas. Lisa was born October 7, 1961, in Texarkana, Arkansas, and had lived in Texarkana all of her life.…

Bre Schrader

Bre Danielle Schrader, 41, of Texarkana passed away May 12, 2022. She was born on February 20, 1981, in Texarkana, Texas. She was the first female host of “Know It All Trivia” and hosted trivia once a week at Pop’s…

Joyce Browning

Joyce Bensinger Browning, age 94, of Texarkana passed away May 11, 2022, at Hospice of Texarkana. She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on October 20, 1927, to Alfred G. and Lillian Bensinger. She was a retired LVN from Wadley…

Charles Wayne Byers

Charles Wayne Byers was born on June 11, 1938, in Bingen, Arkansas, a small community outside of Nashville, Arkansas. He died on May 11, 2022, in Hallsville, Texas with his family at his bedside. Wayne was a devoted husband and…

Helen Lucille Megill

Helen Lucille Megill, 85, of Simms, TX, passed away peacefully at home on May 11, 2022. She was born to Ted and Avis (Lackey) White in Albuquerque, NM, on August 15, 1936. Wednesday afternoon Mom slipped away. We waited and…