Herman and Betty Darnell, of Trezevant, have been selected as the 2010 Carroll County Sweethearts. Their story will be featured in an upcoming issue of the Carroll County News-Leader. Their daughter and son-in-law Brenda and Darnell Carroll submitted the winning essay about the couple.

Marvin Elbert Vestal, 85, of Huntingdon, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, at Baptist Memorial Hospital.

Services were held at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, in the chapel of Dilday-Carter Funeral Home with Bro. Lynn Stapleton and Bro. Wayne Holmes officiating. Interment ...
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Funeral services for Shawna Kay Brittingham, 31, were held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, at Bethel Baptist Church with Dr. Rick Savage officiating with burial at Everett’s Chapel Cemetery in McKenzie at 2 p.m.

Shawna died on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at her ...
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Larry Roberts, 68, of McKenzie, died Sunday, Jan. 31, in Michigan.

Private services were held with Brummitt Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Roberts was born on July 27, 1941, in McKenzie, to the late Leonard Roberts ...
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Grace Opal Gentry Gatwood was born in Nashville on Oct. 8, 1917, to Silas Alvin and Grace Cunningham Gentry. She was the youngest of five children. She attended Peabody Demonstration School and received her BA in Industrial Arts from George Peabody College for Teachers in ...
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