“Brave Bessie” was born in 1893 less than a dozen miles from the Arkansas border in the northeast Texas community of Atlanta. Her father, who was three-quarters Cherokee, returned to his reservation ...

Donnie Walker Coleman Sr. of Buena Vista went to be with his Heavenly Father on March 14, 2025, at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He was born in Lexington on April 29, 1951, to Jim and Evelyn ...