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Long-time Rockwall realtor Lance Holland passes away after long cancer battle

Long-time Rockwall realtor Lance Holland passes away after long cancer battle

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 [...]

October 28 2011 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »

Pullen 2009-10 PTA President Linda Applewick passes away

Pullen 2009-10 PTA President Linda Applewick passes away

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 [...]

September 14 2011 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »

Rockwall Boys & Girls Club board member Claire Burks found dead in car

Rockwall Boys & Girls Club board member Claire Burks found dead in car

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 [...]

August 2 2011 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »

Young Rockwall couple, infant son die in traffic accident

Young Rockwall couple, infant son die in traffic accident

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 [...]

June 27 2011 | Posted in Deaths, Latest News | Read More »

Young Royse City woman dies in Plano parking lot crash

Young Royse City woman dies in Plano parking lot crash

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 [...]

January 3 2011 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »

Nevada high school student dies suddenly after going into diabetic shock

Nevada high school student dies suddenly after going into diabetic shock

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 [...]

November 29 2010 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »

2009 Rockwall grad killed in traffic accident in Georgia

2009 Rockwall grad killed in traffic accident in Georgia

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 [...]

September 17 2010 | Posted in Deaths, Latest News | Read More »

100-year-old Nevada man passes away

100-year-old Nevada man passes away

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 [...]

September 7 2010 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »

Royse City woman killed Saturday in Denison traffic accident

Royse City woman killed Saturday in Denison traffic accident

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 [...]

August 12 2010 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »

Well-known Heath resident Dr. Hylan Lyon dies from heart attack

Well-known Heath resident Dr. Hylan Lyon dies from heart attack

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 [...]

July 22 2010 | Posted in Community, Deaths | Read More »