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http://www.areawidenews.com/story/1482853.html
Mildred M. Chase
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Area Wide News
Mildred M. Chase, 80 of Salem, Ark., died Nov. 22, 2008, at Fulton County Hospital in Salem.
She was born Dec. 23, 1927, in McPherson, Ark., to Clyde and Eva (Lonon) Chase.
She married Billy Joe Chase and worked many years at Baxter Lab. She was a member of the Church of Christ at Salem.
She is survived by: her daughter, Linda Sue Wilken of Salem; brothers, Kenneth, Robert and Billy Bryant; sisters, Iva M. Mildredson and Marget Skaat.
Funeral services were held Nov. 24 at the Roller Funeral Home Chapel of Mountain Home, Ark. Burial followed in Baxter Memorial Gardens.
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1 CONT Possible:
1880 Alabama > Marshall > Guntersville > District 255 >
Jordan, James L 28 AL AL AL
Mollie 18 AL AL AL - married within year - November 1879
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1 CONT Baxter Bulletin, The - (Jul/6/2004)
Tom Dearmore, age 76, of Cathlamet, Wash., formerly of Mountain Home and Little Rock, who retired in 1991 as editorial director of the San Francisco Examiner, died Friday, July 2, 2004.
1 CONT He began his newspaper career on his family's weekly newspaper, The Baxter Bulletin at Mountain Home, and wrote editorials for the Washington Star and the Arkansas Gazette before joining the Examiner.
1 CONT The son of Benjamin and Ethel Shiras Dearmore, Thomas Lee Dearmore was born Sept. 11, 1927, in Mountain Home. He attended New Mexico A & M College at Las Cruces, N.M., in an Army Air Corps program and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1944 to 1946, editing the base newspaper at Spokane, Wash. He also attended Drury College at Springfield, Mo. He married Reba Byrd Nov. 5, 1950, and she was a distinguished teacher, accomplished musician and recognized businesswoman in Mountain Home before her husband's career took them out of state.
1 CONT As a young Ozarks newspaper editor-publisher and member of pioneer homesteading families of Baxter County, Dearmore was friends with Orval Faubus, who published the Huntsville paper in the nearby hills. But after Gov. Faubus began to loudly defy federal desegregation orders, The Baxter Bulletin took a strong stand against him.
1 CONT Faubus had placed Dearmore on the state Publicity and Parks Commission and a recent Arkansas newspaper history, "Community Diaries," says Dearmore was told to leave the commission, but "refusing to do so, he remained, giving trouble to the end of his term." In part because of his stand in the desegregation crisis, he became Arkansas' first Nieman Fellow, studying at Harvard University 1959-1960.
1 CONT During his tenure as co-editor and co-publisher of The Baxter Bulletin with the late Pete Shiras, the paper became the largest weekly in the state and the frequent winner of Arkansas Press Association awards.
1 CONT He left Arkansas to write editorials for The Washington Star in the nation's capital from 1970-1976, honing his writing skills and continuing his study of the national political scene firsthand.
1 CONT He returned to his native Arkansas as Associate Editor of the Arkansas Gazette from 1976-1978. He was recruited to a new position created for him as editorial director of the opinion page of the San Francisco Examiner in 1978 and was actively involved in local, state, national and international political issues until his retirement in 1991.
1 CONT In 1980, he was one of five finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing, and the same year he won the national Walker Stone Award for distinguished editorial writing from the Scripps-Howard Foundation, one of the highest national honors for editorial writers. The judges noted, "Tom Dearmore is one of those rare editorial writers who wraps his message in the beauty of the language. He makes his editorials so beautiful that they must be opened."
1 CONT Reg Murphy, his editor at the Examiner, once wrote Dearmore "is one of the best in the business. He has been one of the nation's leading practitioners of editorial writing ever since he started newspapering on the family-owned Baxter Bulletin in Mountain Home, Arkansas.
1 CONT "His service took him from Mountain Home to the Washington Star for the stormy years of the Nixon presidency. It was his editorial writing that distinguished the Star in those days.
1 CONT "A true craftsman with words, Dearmore bleeds at the keyboard, where he writes an average of a thousand words a day, but he works even harder at reading. His desk is a clutter of everything from the Economist to the New Republic to pamphlets from all the cause groups. A burly, rumpled story-teller, Dearmore is as likely to quote from Rolling Stone as from Ralph Waldo Emerson."
1 CONT On his retirement as editorial director of the San Francisco Examiner, Publisher William Randolph Hearst praised Dearmore's "thousands of editorials" in his "award-studded tenure that has had an impact on many issues on both the national and local levels."
1 CONT Dearmore was a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Society of Nieman Fellows, National Conference of Editorial Writers and American Society of Newspaper Editors. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and other magazines.
1 CONT Dearmore was preceded in death by his wife. He is survived by a daughter, Diana Dearmore of Woodland, Calif., a San Francisco mortgage banker; a son, Wahkiakum County Undersheriff Jonathan Dearmore of Naselle, Wash., Jonathan's wife, Lori, and their daughter Kaelee, Tom Dearmore's beloved granddaughter.
1 CONT Visitation will be from noon-9 p.m. Tuesday at Roller Funeral Home in Mountain Home with the family receiving friends from 6-8 p.m. A funeral service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday in Roller Chapel. Interment with military honors will follow in Mountain Home Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Mountain Home Cemetery Fund.
1 CONT Visit an online obituary and guest book at www.rollerfuneralhomes.com.