Archive
March 22nd, 2011
Howard College Foundation, in partnership with Wells Fargo Bank, will host Doc Blakely, acclaimed humorist.
Blakely will be the guest speaker at the Howard College Foundation Speaker Series to be held Monday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Hall Center for the Arts on the Howard College campus in Big Spring.
The Big Spring Police Department reported the following activity between 7 a.m. Monday and 7 a.m. today:
• JOSEPH ALTON MURLEY, 32, of 1405 Tucson, was arrested Monday on a warrant from another agency.
• ASSAULT was reported in the 400 block of E. Fourth Street.
• BURGLARY OF A BUILDING was reported in the 1400 block of S. Runnels.
• BURGLARY OF A HABITATION was reported:
In the 600 block of Ridgelea Drive.
In the 4100 block of Parkway.
• CRIMINAL MISCHIEF was reported:
In the 800 block of Baylor.
In the 1200 block of Young.
Roberta Ratliff Reynolds, 91 years of age, went to heaven Sunday, March 20, 2011, at her residence. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at First United Methodist Church of San Angelo with the Rev. William P. Proctor officiating. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, 2011, in Garden City. The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. at Johnson Funeral Home on Tuesday, March 22, 2011.
Doyle Hooper, 72, died March 19, 2011, at his home in Big Spring. A family visitation will be held Tuesday, March 22, 2011, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors. Services will be held Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at 10 a.m. in Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors Chapel with Dr. Jimmy Braswell officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Home Hospice of Big Spring in Big Spring.
Wendell Mayo, of Big Spring, formerly of Midland, passed away Sunday, March 20, 2011. The family will receive friends Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at Ellis Funeral Home in Midland from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Funeral services have been scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, 2011, in the Ellis Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mark Lindsey of the First Baptist Church of Big Spring officiating. Interment will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park.
Score an assist to Mother Nature.
In a game stretched over three days because of inclement weather, the Big Spring Lady Steers used early and late offensive explosions to claim their District 5-3A softball opener, 11-9, against the Sweetwater Lady Mustangs Monday at the Big Spring ISD Softball complex.
TODAY
• Baseball — Snyder at Big Spring, 7 p.m.
• Baseball — Lubbock Roosevelt at Coahoma, 7 p.m.
• Baseball — Forsan at Midland Trinity, 5 p.m.
• Softball — Snyder at Big Spring, 6:30 p.m.
• Softball — Lubbock Roosevelt at Coahoma, 5:30 p.m.
• Softball — Lubbock Christian at Forsan, 5 p.m.
• Golf — Forsan boys at Big Lake tournament.
WEDNESDAY
• Golf — Coahoma boys and girls at Roosevelt tournament, Lorenzo CC.
• Golf — Forsan girls at Big Lake tournament.
THURSDAY
• Golf — Big Spring girls at Lamesa tournament.
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March 21st
Billy Minchew, 79, of Big Spring died Sunday, March 20, 2011, in a Midland hospital. Graveside funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at the Peace Chapel at Trinity Memorial Park.
Mr. Minchew was born March 16, 1932, in Coahoma and married June Hightower on Nov. 5, 1956, in Lovington, N.M.
CLYDE — Beulah Minerva (Aunt Beulah) Fiaminghi, 99, of Abilene, died Thursday at her home. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the First Evangelical United Methodist Church, 6010 Hwy. 277 in Abilene with Brother Jerry McNeill, Brother Ronnie Newton and Brother Don Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park under the direction of Bailey-Howard Funeral Home of Clyde. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the church.
