Lexington Two extending free breakfast and lunch program into the summer abccolumbia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from abccolumbia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Willie “Billie” Windsor Wester Dickson, 89, of the Inwood Community near Grand Ridge, departed from this world to her eternal home in Heaven in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 23, 2021.
She passed away at the Northwest Florida Community Hospital in Chipley, Florida, where she received excellent medical services and loving care. Born to William Washington Wester and Pencie Audry Windsor Wester on October 30, 1931, she was the last surviving and oldest of four children born to that union. Billie was born at home and grew up in Inwood, a small community that was settled and named by her father.
Billie was predeceased by her parents; her sisters, Jeanne W. Pelt and Rebekah W. Harrell; her brother, Doyle A. “Jack” Wester (wife Nell); three half-sisters, Nettye Chancey, Annette Bevis, and Elee Glisson; and one half-brother, Emmett Wester. Also predeceasing her were two nephews, Maurice (Maury) Harrell and Gregory Harrell; and one great-nephew, Luke Pelt.
Editorâs Note: The following is the first in a multi-story series on Avery County Schools Superintendent Dr. Dan Brigmanâs experiences through his first school year in the district. This first installment highlights accomplishments while facing and meeting challenges the district envisions both currently and in the future.
NEWLAND â It would be a gross understatement to say that the past 14 months have been a difficult period in communities worldwide. As society has had to face the realities of a global pandemic that has enveloped virtually aspect of day-to-day living since its onset in March 2020, every walk of life in its own way has embraced the college basketball tournament adage of âsurvive and advance,â with the goal of emerging on the other side of COVID-19 and returning to as close a semblance of normalcy as possible.
The Secret Haunted History of Boise s Bown House mix106radio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mix106radio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
You may have noticed the Bown House as you ve driven on Parkcenter Boulevard in Southeast Boise. It s hard to miss because it looks so out of place. Located in front of the modern-looking Riverside Elementary School sits an old sandstone house built in 1879. Originally this was the home of the Bown Family. Joseph, a farmer, his wife Temperance, and their seven children lived in the house when they moved from Waterloo, Iowa. If you ve ever been in a place with seven children, you know that it can be loud, which might be the reason the walls in the house are 22 inches thick.