Stories from Tuesday, May 29, 2007

"The game will always come back to you." I have heard those words repeated on numerous occasions by a wide variety of people associated with the Vanderbilt baseball program. Bedford County native son Jonathan White has written them in his journal entries for the Times-Gazette and any number of his teammates has been quoted in interviews utilizing the phrase throughout the course of the season...

Memorial services for Rita McKinney, 80, of Venice, Fla., who died Friday, will be held this fall in Tennessee. Ewing Funeral Home, Venice, Fla., was in charge of arrangements.

Funeral services for Arthur DaCosta Correia, 69, of Shelbyville, who died Monday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be held 11 a.m. Friday at Faith Baptist Church. Rodney Shrader and Charles Redmond will officiate and burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visiation with the family will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday at Hillcrest Funeral Home, which is in charge of arrangements.

Trial dates have been set for two of three people indicted on murder charges stemming from the Valentines Day shooting death of a Shelbyville car salesman. Schedules for Kimberly Ross, the widow of salesman Bill Ross who was shot three times in bed at his Wartrace Pike home, and Ashley Mai Cook, a family friend, were planned last Monday when the Bedford County Grand Jury indicted 13 other people...

LEWISBURG -- Bedford County Mayor Eugene Ray and Helen Garner of the Shelbyville Bedford County Chamber of Commerce explained the Duck River cleanup project last week to members of the Marshall County river cleanup committee. County Mayor Joe Boyd Liggett said Marshall County is joining Bedford and three other counties with river cleanups this summer...

Rowdy Rev and Bill Bobo had the crowd singing praises and the judges unanimously joining in, capturing the 37th Annual Spring Fun Show Aged Stallion championship colors for Bill Harlin of Franklin. Joe Cotton and The Golden Sovereign were second for the Dan McSwaim family and I'm Packin' A Pistol and Jeff Hatcher were third for Charlene Gibson....

Mark Anthony Freeman, 49, of Shelbyville died Sunday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Memorial services will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Randall Harmon officiating. Visitation with the family will begin at 2 p.m.

Graveside services for Myra Helen Purvis Murrah, 72, of Unionville, who died Sunday at University Medical Center in Lebanon, will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Unionville Cemetery with the Rev. Charles Melvin Collins officiating. There will be no visitation. Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill, is in charge of arrangements.

Herbert B. Sparks Sr., 76, of Normandy died Sunday at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. De Hennessy III officiating. Burial will follow at Shofner Cemetery.