Stories from Sunday, May 4, 2008

TIKRIT, Iraq - Staff Sgt. Derek Olson, 27, of Worthington, Ind., is a squad leader in A Co., Task Force 151, a unit of the Indiana National Guard's 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. The platoon conducts convoy security missions in northern Iraq from Contingency Operating Base Speicher near Tikrit, Iraq...

Joy Ann Salesman, 67, of Vicksburg, passed away at 10:38 p.m. Friday May 2, 2008 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. She was born in Terre Haute, Indiana November 29, 1940 to Wayne E. Cowden and Katherine Burnam Cowden. She was married to Joy H. Salesman on December 20, 1957...

Lily Lee Bailey, 78, passed away at 2:25 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2008, at Shakamak Good Samaritan in Jasonville. She was born in Hong Kong on May 17, 1929. She came to the U.S. in 1956 and attended South Eastern Christian College in South Carolina where she achieved two master's degrees and met her husband Roger B. Bailey Sr. She was principal of a Chinese school and comptroller of a dental office in San Antonio, Texas. She served as Treasurer of Baldwin Park, California...