Newsmakers, August 2014

AWARDED

• Sherri Mazur, a 2014 graduate of Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Ala., second-best trial advocate in the nation at Baylor University’s Top Gun Competition. 

• Jacob Sims, a student at Mobile Christian School in Alabama, the National Merit Scholarship from the University of Alabama. 

RETIRING • Bobby Dockery as pulpit minister for the Baldwin Church of Christ in Fayetteville, Ark., after 43 years of service. 

ANNIVERSARIES 

58th: David and Marion Tyree, Dallas. 

60th: Burt and Sammye Baggott, Nashville, Tenn.; Ed and Barbara Berlin, Charlotte, N.C. 

61st: Zann and Lexie Ray, Benton, Ky.  

67th: L. T. and Joan Barber, Bethany, Okla.; Don and Shirly Genrich, Albion, Neb.  

BIRTHDAYS

99th: Mary Frances McHam, Bryan, Texas. 

97th: Ethel McCallie, Nowata, Okla. 

95th: Elzora “Susie” Rowe, Pensacola, Fla.; Trudie Wright, Livingston, Texas. 

92nd: Shirley Genrich, Albion, Neb. 

89th: Mabel Perry Taylor, Florence, Ala. 

PASSAGES

• Gerald Austin Beasley, 93, April 19, Oklahoma City. 

• Lawrence “Larry” Bosworth, 90, March 22, Jewett City, Conn. 

• Pearl Boyce, 96, May 27, Wichita, Kan.  

• Phyllis Chambers, 83, June 9, Edmond, Okla.  

• Almarie  (Payne) Denham, 91, May 31, Paragould, Ark. 

• Doris Elder, 86, June 10, Greeley, Colo.  

• James Timothy “Tim” Eldridge, 47, May 10, Nashville, Tenn. 

• Ernest “Ernie” Gill, 85, May 27, Corbin, Ky. 

• Carlos Martinez, 45, May 22, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. 

• Hubert “Hugh” Glenn Minor, 85, May 7, Madison, Ala. 

• Rex Owens, 88, April 12, Fort Worth, Texas. 

• Alice Sheppard, 86, May 23, Austin, Texas. 

• Vivia Simmons, May 30, Pheonix, Ariz. 

• Larry W. Tubbs, 58, June 16, Licking, Mo.