Pat Wesson News Today

The Belles are a chapter of The Sweet Potato Queens — an international network of more than 6,500 women’s groups that aim for a similar balance of amusement and mutual support.

BEAUFORT, N.C. — Martha Barnes’ home was buzzing. It was a Saturday in little Beaufort, North Carolina, time to get ready for the town’s Mardi Gras parade, and women were zigzagging around the house, applying makeup, laughing and calling out repeatedly for the Fireball Cinnamon Whisky sitting on the kitchen counter. “If you want to say something,” a woman hollered above the din, “you better scream it!” Barnes’ home is not a sorority house &...

1948-2023 Ronnie (Ron) Pat Wesson of Terrell, Texas passed away unexpectedly on Oct. 15, 2023 and his family takes great comfort in the words from the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:8 that to be absent here on Earth is to be present with the Lord.