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Search for missing Mississippi woman spans decades

Missing woman's brother

She left her clothes on the back porch. She left her gold, Hunt High School Class of ’56 ring on the dresser. She left her baby, Gloria, in her sister Betsy’s arms. And then, on a hot summer day in 1960, Lyrian Wyvonne Barry boarded a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis and disappeared behind a cloud of Mississippi dust.

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Carmen Sisson April 6, 2013 May 21, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, cold case, disappeared, Lyrian Wyvonne Barry, missing, missing persons, missing woman, Mississippi, South, The Commercial Dispatch, woman 0

Katrina survivors find new life in Columbus

It has become the benchmark by which all storms are measured. It has become the stark demarcation between life before and after, with Hurricane Katrina sitting squarely in the middle of coastal residents’ collective memory — as vivid today as the muddy water lines and red spray-paint which can still be seen on homes uninhabitable, abandoned.

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Carmen Sisson August 29, 2012 October 14, 2018Recent Bylines Columbus, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Mississippi, The Commercial Dispatch 0

*WWII veteran Joe LaNier fights racism to come home

Civil War cannon

In the 23rd Special Construction Battalion, the officers were white and the seamen and steward’s mates — basically servants — were black. “I’m from Georgia,” an officer told them. “Where I come from, there’s only two kinds of niggers — a good nigger and a dead nigger. We don’t want no dead ones.”

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Carmen Sisson June 9, 2012 May 21, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, Joe Lanier II, military, Mississippi, racism, segregation, South, The Commercial Dispatch, veteran, World War II, WWII 0

*Ministry takes fatherless boys under its wing

fatherless boys mentor

The teenager turned, walked back to the pool, slipped off his shirt and slid beneath the cool waters. Maybe his curiosity had been satisfied. Maybe he knew that Edward Yeates, head of Father’s Child Ministry, takes a no-nonsense approach to mentoring children who lack, and crave, a father’s presence. He gives them freedom, and he reins them in. Mostly, he loves them.

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Carmen Sisson June 27, 2011 May 21, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines absentee fathers, Edward Yeates, Father's Child Ministries, fatherhood, fatherless, fathers, manhood, mentors, Mississippi, sons, teenagers, teens, The Commercial Dispatch 2
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