Cokie & Steven Roberts Danny was the son of old friends. He was away at college and suffering from depression, but privacy rules barred school authorities from telling his parents that the medication he was taking could cause suicidal impulses. One day Danny walked into a local gun shop, bought a weapon and killed himself…

Chicago Tribune No sooner had the wail of sirens replaced the crackle of gunshots Monday than many of us took refuge in a familiar and reflexive question: Who’s to blame for not preventing this? The people who sometimes do have the power to prevent the unimaginable are a far more prosaic lot: doctors and pharmaceutical…

By James Clark I?m not comfortable allowing our children to be sent off to school to be slaughtered. But apparently some people are. That?s the only way I can explain the lack of any meaningful action following another school year filled with campus shootings that was punctuated by the Virginia Tech massacre. School violence is…

Baby Boy Kaden O?Ryan Edward Williams was born to Katelynn Williams and Robert Freeman, Jr. on April 18. He arrived at River Park Hospital weighing 7 pounds, 11 1/2 ounces. Grandparents include Lisa Williams, Jeremy Williams, and Robert and Dorothy Freeman of Rock Island. He is the great-grandson of George and the late Faye Lytle…

By Margaret Hobbs Irving College Baptist Church pastor Paul Gunn is announcing a concert featuring The Apple Family May 6 at both their morning and evening services. They will present a special musical program during the morning service, while the evening service will feature an entire concert. Times for services are 10:30 a.m. and 6…

By Margaret Hobbs Native Warren Countain, Cynthia Northcutt, will serve as the speaker at the 7th annual Ladies Day at East End Church of Christ tomorrow. ?Leaven of a Christian Woman? is the theme for the event, with registration starting at 9 a.m., with the program at 10 a.m. Lunch will follow the program. Northcutt…

By Margaret hobbs Members of the 44 Breakfast Club come together on the first and third Tuesday of each month for breakfast at Arby?s. The idea came about from the closeness formed with classmates in the graduating class at Central High School in 1948. Many of the students actually became acquainted in 1944 when students…

Pensacola, Fla., resident, formerly of Rock Island, Willie B. Poss Moore, 67, died April 22. A homemaker and member of Mt. Elim Baptist Church, she was preceded in death by her parents; and husbands, Mason Poss and Fred Moore Sr. She is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, David and Mary Poss of Pensacola, Larry and…

Altamont resident and Grundy County native Herschel Coy King, 80, was born March 27, 1927 and died April 25 at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma following an extended illness. A retired employee of General Motors, a United States Navy veteran of WWII and a member of the Nondenominational Church, he was the son of…

Clay Ramsey, 73, of Albany, Ind., died Saturday April 21 at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie after an extended illness. He was born on March 7, 1934 in Morrison, the son of Reeder and Belle (Myers) Ramsey. On Sept. 25, 1954, he married Lucille Whisenant (Ramsey) who survives. He was a veteran of the U.S.…