Centertown community resident and DeKalb County native James Calvin Knowles, 61, was born Dec. 24, 1945 and died Sept. 2 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville following a brief illness. A truck driver for Batesville Casket Company and a member of the Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Woodrow Wilson and Annie…

McMinnville resident and Oneida, N.Y., native Ethel Margaret Wright, 83, was born Feb. 4, 1924 and died Sept. 2 at her residence. A homemaker and a member of Temple Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Kendrick and Maude Kenyon Rogers. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one…

Daniel Jacob ‘Elmo’ Lee, 23, of McMinnville died Saturday, Sept. 1 at River Park Hospital. Born on Oct. 9, 1983 in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was a welder and metal fabricator with Master Tool and Machine and was of the Catholic faith. Survivors include his mother, Christine Jones Oakes and husband Stanley Oakes of Morrison; and…

McMinnville resident and Van Buren County native Betty Sue Nicholas, 59, was born Sept. 26, 1947 and died Sept. 3 at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville following a sudden illness. A supervisor at Generations of Morrison and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Beatrice Jones Roberts of McMinnville and the…

Van Buren County native and Bone Cave resident Allene Barlow McCoy, 95, died Sept. 4 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville after a brief illness. A retired textile employee and grocery store clerk, she was a member of the Baptist Church and a member of the Eastern Star. She was the daughter of Titus and Mary…

AUSTIN (AP) ‘ Just two months before he perished while defending the Alamo, Davy Crockett gave his daughter and son-in-law a peek at the land he treasured enough to die for its independence. ‘I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world,’ the famed frontiersman…

NASHVILLE (AP) ‘ Eleven people died in traffic accidents on Tennessee roads over the Labor Day weekend, according to preliminary reports. The number was down from last year’s holiday toll of 18 deaths, said Mike Browning, spokesman for the state Department of Safety. The preliminary report records traffic fatalities during a 78-hour period from Friday…

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) ‘ The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied a request to intervene in a case that will determine whether Mary Winkler regains custody of her three young daughters. Winkler was hoping the court would stop an attempt by the children’s paternal grandparents, Dan and Diane Winkler, to adopt them over their mother’s objections.…

By Kathryn Lopez Faith is apparently the buzzword of the moment, as the media attacks a world-renowned figure’s religious resolve while, at least for now, giving another major female a pass on the political motivations of her publicized beliefs. Time magazine’s Aug. 23 article “Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith” posits that Mother Teresa’s dedication to…

By William Rusher The current flap over Sen. Larry Craig, the Idaho Republican who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct after an undercover police officer accused him of soliciting sex in a Minneapolis airport men’s room, raises a whole series of interesting questions. There is, first of all, the fate of Craig…