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 [...]
By J.J. Smith. A motorcade bearing the casket of 2008 Rockwall-Heath graduate Spc. Jerod Heath Osborne will be coming through Royse City and then Fate today on Highway 66 between about 2:30 and 3:30 pm on the way to Rest Haven Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Rockwall. Hundreds of Royse City and Rockwall County [...]
By J.J. Smith. A 2008 Rockwall-Heath High School graduate and active duty U.S. Army combat medic was killed in Afghanistan July 5. Jerod Heath Osborne, 20, the son of Sharon Grillett and husband Gary of Rockwall and Allan G. Osborne, III, of Caddo Mills, had just been sent to Afghanistan March 26 after a visit [...]
By J.J. Smith. A Dallas man went missing during a birthday party celebration and his body was found in Lake Ray Hubbard at about 12:30 am Sunday. Dallas police said 22-year-old Guillermo Andrade was rushed by Garland Fire Department paramedics to Texas Health Rockwall Hospital, but he was pronounced dead. No other details are known [...]
Royse City Herald Banner. Two-year-old Colt Bryson Turner, son of Jason and Tracey Turner, drowned Friday in an above-ground swimming pool at the family’s residence in Union Valley. Funeral services for the youngster will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Rest Haven Funeral Home’s Rockwall Chapel. “All I can say right now is that [...]
KEY LARGO, Fla. — A Rockwall man has died while diving off of Key Largo in Florida. 57-year-old Thomas Pickett was diving in water about 20 feet deep at Elbow Reef on Wednesday. Witnesses say Pickett surfaced and began to have trouble. Authorities say he was pulled into a boat and was unconscious. He stopped breathing, and crew on board the [...]
