Editor's note: This is the first in a continuing, twice-monthly series on senior Arkansans and their lives and accomplishments. Chester G. Hood dodged bombs during World War II, ate unpalatable soup ...

Oscar McNeil (Mac) Maddox, age 99, World War II Veteran, Honor Flight Recipient, and Master Brick Mason, passed away in Nacogdoches, on October 1, 2019. Mac was born on April 13, 1920. He was the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- If you live in the Huntsville area, there's a strong chance you've seen or been inside a structure built by George Boone. If you were lucky enough to meet George, you didn't ...

A new town needs building material. In the area adjacent to Laramie City in 1868, most of the easily accessible trees had been cut for railroad ties. Wood had to come from the mountains to the east or ...

Samuel C. Dove Jr., a master brick mason and World War II veteran, died on Friday, June 14, 2019. He was 99. He was born on Oct. 29, 1919, in Eastover, South Carolina. He was the oldest of 10 children ...

John Charleton Hedgebeth, 83, a retired master brick mason, died Monday, July 15, in his home. Mr. Hedgebeth retired in 1972 after working at his craft for more than 40 years. In 1930, he and his ...