ROCKWALL – Long-time Heath resident and Rockwall area realtor Lance Holland passed away Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. According to his sister-in-law, Dana Cullins Macali, the new Rockwall Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, the 48-year-old co-owner of Regal Realtors passed away due to “complications from cancer.” Survivors include his wife, Saundra, and Heath [...]

HEATH – 2009-2010 Pullen Elementary School PTA President Linda Price-Applewick passed away Sept. 12. Serving as the current Pullen PTA Historian, she was just 48 years old. According to her obituary posted by Rest Haven Funeral Home, she was a 1985 graduate of the University of Alabama and on their swim team. Her specialty was [...]

ROCKWALL – A well-known, 23-year Rockwall resident and board member of the Rockwall County Boys & Girls Club was found dead in her car July 15 in the Rockwall Plaza parking lot about 100 feet from 24-Hour Fitness and Office Depot. Claire Burks, 55, was declared dead at 3:01 pm by Rockwall County Justice of [...]

MT. PLEASANT – A young Rockwall couple who were Mesquite ISD educators and their infant son were killed Saturday when their 2009 Hyundai slammed into the back of an 18-wheeler “freightliner” truck, stopped for traffic on I-30, west of Texarkana, north of Cookville. Texarkana Department of Public Safety officials said Leah Eason, 30, who had [...]

A young Royse City woman died in a Plano parking lot crash Dec. 29. According to Plano police, dental assistant student Roxann “Roxy-Poxy” Zarrin Ghassemi, 25, was killed when her vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed struck a light pole in the 3100 block of Custer Rd. at about 9:15 pm. Plano police [...]

By J.J. Smith. The small community of Nevada, northeast of Rockwall, is in a state of mourning after Community High School sophomore Miranda Rae Ragsdale went into diabetic shock and passed away at her home Nov. 18, one day after her 16th birthday. According to her Rest Haven Funeral Home obituary, she was involved in [...]

By J.J. Smith. A 2009 Rockwall High School graduate was killed Tuesday in a head-on traffic accident in Effingham County, Georgia. Kyle Turansky, 19, who was a standout pitcher for the Yellow Jackets baseball team, was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck when, at about 3 pm, witnesses said it crossed over the center line [...]

By J.J. Smith. A 100-year-old Nevada man who was a member of Rockwall’s First Baptist Church passed away Sept. 3. A.P. “John” Yeager was born Nov. 8, 1909, and grew up with his five brothers on the family farm in Nevada. He owned and operated a grocery store in Nevada and a locker plant in [...]

By J.J. Smith. A Royse City woman was killed Saturday evening when a sudden downpour of rain in Denison TX caused a pick-up truck to hydroplane on Highway 75 and veer across the median into a car driven by her husband. The woman passenger, 72-year-old Anne Marie Theken, died from the impact. She was pronounced [...]

Well-known Heath resident Dr. Hylan Lyon passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack July 20. He was 74. A member of the Rockwall County Republican Men’s Club and Park Cities Rotary Club, he served as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot during the Vietnam War after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He is [...]