Stories from Monday, November 2, 2009

Voters will go to the polls next Tuesday to cast ballots in a number of "off year" local elections. At the city level, incumbent councilpersons Alain Isaac and Richard Urquidi remain uncontested as both seek to run for a third term on the Mountain Home City Council...

David Williams Rowett, 52, of Sacramento, Calif., passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at home. A viewing will be held Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 4-6 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held at 11 am on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at St James Episcopal Church and burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

Harold F. Mumford, 78, of Mountain Home, passed away on Oct. 19, 2009, at a local care center. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. What Uncle Harold meant to me! He was always my favorite because I spent so much time with him as a small child. I remember way back when he lived here in Ponca City and he worked for the Sanitation Department. He was always bringing me something! It might be a bike or a watch or whatever else of a treasure he found...