Stanley Allen Evans, 66, of Rogers, died Thursday, May 19, 2022, at home. He was born Thursday, April 5, 1956, in Rogers, to Jasper William and Alberta Pauline Ingram Evans.

Randall Harris, 67, of Fayetteville, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Saturday, May 21, 2022, at home. 

Joseph “Papaw JR” Cornelison Jr., 88, of Hindsville, passed away Saturday, May 14, 2022, at home. 

Kathryn Edens, age 93, of Fayetteville, passed away Saturday, May 21, 2022. 

Justin Ritchie was born May 24, 1972, in Fayetteville, Ark., to Steven Ray Ritchie and Martha Cooper Ritchie. 

Dennis “Jack” James Burkes, 59, of Hindsville, passed away Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Washington Regional Medical Center, Fayetteville. 

Donald Eugene Lyle, 84, of Hindsville, passed away Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at Northwest Medical Center, Springdale. 

Brady James Polley, 45, of Huntsville, passed away Friday, May 6, 2022, in Eureka Springs. 

Virginia “Pauline” Howerton Spencer, age 83, of Springdale, Ark., died on May 5, 2022, in Bentonville, Ark.

Margaret Renee Johnson, 90, of Rogers, passed away Saturday, May 7, 2022, at Northwest Medical Center Bentonville, Ark. 

Phyllis Merriman was born Feb. 15, 1941, to Charles and Ota Hobbs Stanphill in Metalton, Ark.

Donna Hatcher Franklin, 69, of Hindsville, passed away on Saturday, May 7, 2022. 

Joni A Schrock, age 79 years, 8 months, and 17 days, of Huntsville, Ark., passed away peacefully at his home surrounded with his family on April 27, 2022.

Gerald Loyd Duncan, age 84, of Delaney, Ark., passed from this life Wednesday, April 27, 2022. 

David Lee Harp died Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at his home in Huntsville, Ark., at the age of 75.

Omicron mutants are on the move. It really shouldn’t surprise any of us. The newest variants of the first Omicron have evolved and are making their way through South Africa. They are known as BA.4 and BA.5, and they are following in the footsteps of their predecessors.