Graveside services for Norma Louise Prestwood, 91, of Pittsburg, will be held on Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 11:00 a.m., at Springhill Cemetery, Naples, Texas with Brother Doye Wilbanks officiating.
2018 Mount Pleasant Salutatorian, Verania Leyva Garcia, has concluded her twoyear stay at Northeast Texas Community College with a decision to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin in the fall, and a resolve to advance further in biomedical studies. She will be receiving a full-tuition scholarship. In her sophomore year, Leyva was the college’s second Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholar for superior academic work in her freshman year, and she will follow the previous Wesson Scholar, Matthew Chambers, to Austin’s forty-acre downtown campus.
Luanne and John Taylor and Debbie and Thomas Clemens are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Jenny Clemens to Trey Thompson, son of Kim and Bruce Thompson. The couple will be married in a small private ceremony in October of this year.
Last Wednesday, Kay Green stepped down as president of the Pittsburg chapter of the Rotary Club as Gary George took her place. Green said it was a bittersweet moment - that she was ready to be done but felt wistful of her time as president. She will now serve Rotary at the district level. George presented Green with an engraved sculpture, thanking her for her years of service to the club, and joked that he had asked her to serve a third. George gave a brief speech, touching on some of his plans for the club before the meeting adjourned. GAZETTE PHOTO / DI DUNCAN
Tyler, Texas (June 30, 2020) — UT Health East Texas EMS has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Plus Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks.
