2012-06-21

Thursday, June 21, 2012

HART HEADS TO ALVORD – After two seasons at Bridgeport as a defensive assistant in football and head track coach, Pete Hart is heading to Alvord to serve as defensive coordinator and boys track coach. Alvord Athletic Director Curtis Enis confirmed the hire Wednesday. Hart, who was previously the head football coach and athletic director at Chico, said he wanted […]

Randy Garrett

MEMORIAL service for Randy Garrett, 58, of Boyd is 2 p.m. Friday at Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel in Boyd.

Faye Reeder

GRAVESIDE service for Faye Reeder, 81, of Decatur is 2 p.m. today at Bomar Point Cemetery in Wilson, Okla. Family visitation is 11 a.m.-1 p.m. prior to the service at Alexander Funeral Home in Wilson. Coker-Hawkins Funeral Home in Decatur is handling arrangements.

Keith William Jozwiak

FUNERAL for Keith William Jozwiak, 30, of Decatur is 4 p.m. Friday at Coker-Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel.

Mildred Irish

SERVICE for Mildred Irish, 97, of Decatur is pending at Coker-Hawkins.

Lorene Reed Whatley

FUNERAL for Lorene Reed Whatley, 93, of Decatur is 2 p.m. Saturday at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Decatur with burial at Oaklawn Cemetery. Family visitation is one hour prior to service at the church.

Man gets 50 years for sexual assault of 71-year-old woman

A man pleaded guilty before District Judge John Fostel this morning and accepted a plea deal of 50 years in prison for sexual assault of an elderly woman in Newark last summer. Bobby R. Foley, 27, of Bridgeport, broke into a 71-year-old woman’s house in the middle of the night on July 3, 2011. Knowing she was home alone, he […]