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Floyd Bailey, right, visits with Adline Loggins Bibbs in Vaiden.

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Retiree rarely relaxes
By DAVID MONROE - City Editor

Mon,03/30/15-1:00PM , 328 Reads
Floyd Bailey retired from Mississippi Valley State University in 2002, but he hasn’t been taking it easy.
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Lynn Lockwood, who lives in Oregon, led the team helping to construct a new building for Saints Rest Church of God in Christ in Itta Bena. He has been doing volunteer work for the Mobile Missionary Assistance Program for 15 years and says it’s “an exceptional way to spend retirement.”

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Church construction work labor of love for retiree
By DAVID MONROE - City Editor

Fri,02/20/15-1:00PM , 296 Reads
Lynn Lockwood recently spent about four months 3,000 miles from his Oregon home, helping to give an Itta Bena church a new home of its own.
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The Rev. Samuel Sago, pastor of Saints Rest Church of God in Christ in Itta Bena, was born and raised on Fort Loring Plantation and returned to the area after 18 years in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Mission keeps him moving
By DAVID MONROE - City Editor

Mon,02/16/15-1:00PM , 263 Reads
With a schedule divided between Mississippi and Tennessee, Elder Samuel Sago and his wife, Barbara, are on the go a lot.

Samuel Sago is pastor of Saints Rest Church of God in Christ in Itta Bena, where his wife is music minister. She also teaches piano, organ and voice in Memphis and has a house there.
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The Rev. Edward Bowen has been pastor of New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church for nearly 23 years. He retired from teaching in 2003 but continues to works with students at Leflore County High School.

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‘If one is in need, all are in need’
By DAVID MONROE - City Editor

Mon,12/22/14-1:00PM , 152 Reads
The Rev. Edward Bowen says he learned early in life about the importance of hard work and helping others.

Bowen remembers growing up in Indianola and seeing his father work as a truck driver for 75 cents an hour while his mother stayed home to raise 12 children.
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