Pegram News

Few people are lucky enough to know what they want to do when they grow up. Not so for Brent Stuart.

Beside Joplin's temporary high school sits a field of concrete boxes with steel doors -- bunkers trusted to guard students against 200-plus-mph winds like those that ripped their Missouri school apart two years ago today.

A Kids 4 Kids musical celebration and fundraiser was held on May 19 at Fiddle & Pick in Pegram to benefit the Charles E. Stuart Memorial Fund.

Known as "Jerry" to family and friends, he was born on Sept. 26, 1927, to Joseph and Vida Styer, in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

A native of Bandana, KY, she was the daughter of the late Cecil and Margaret Hall Warner.

He loved farming, gardening and gospel music. Survivors include wife of 55 years Frances Jackson Matlock of Dickson; son David Matlock of Dickson; daughter Donna Frazier of Dickson; sister Betty Spann of Charlotte; grandchildren Alan Matlock of Pegram, Jessica Matlock of Nashville and Stephanie Frazier of Burns.

At last week's monthly meeting of the Pegram Board of Mayor and Alderman, the first reading of an ordinance to adopt the city's annual budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year was approved.