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Barbara Hollingsworth announced her retirement as Community Bank President of Elgin’s Cadence Bank, ending her 38-year career in banking as a professional lending specialist.

TAYLOR – A 70s era made-for-tv vampire production not only led Thomas Edwards to a decades- long career in journalism, but also to the fulfillment of his life-long mission to see his own horror novel published.

Francisco Ernesto Morales passed away at the age of 69, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, surrounded by his loving family and friends. He was born Nov. 7, 1953, the youngest child of Margarita Chavez Adame, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Joe O. Trevino, 79, of Elgin, passed away, early Wednesday morning, Sept. 13, 2023.

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Arthur Lynn Majors, 73, of Colorado, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. A celebration of life will be held Saturday, Sept. 30, at 10 a.m. at Elgin Funeral Home. Inurnment will follow at Elgin Cemetery. Arrangements and care entrusted to

Grover Lee Mackey, 60, passed away, Sept. 6, 2023. He was born Sept. 6, 1963.

Larry Jones, 76, of Mc-Dade, passed away late Sunday night, Sept. 17, 2023. Services are currently pending.

Magdalena C. Hernandez, 58, passed away Sept. 14, 2023. She was born Sept. 1, 1965.

My mama always told me, “Elgin is a small town, there’s nothing you can do that I can’t find out about.” She proved her point when I was in junior high.

The country music singer Tim McGraw had a chart-topping song in 2004 called, “Live like You Were Dying”. The song is about a man who receives a diagnosis of a life-ending illness and his response to it. In the song, the man’s life-threatening illness leads to profound moral changes in him. Some elements of the man’s change are undoubtedly good and worthy of imitation: he begins speaking more kindly to others; loving more generously; being a better husband; reading the Bible; forgiving where previously he had withheld forgiveness. Other elements are rather trivial and even risky, perhaps even tempting God: skydiving, mountain climbing, bull riding. This has the air of “well I’m going to die soon anyway, so I might as well live dangerously.” In contrast with the better elements, this leaves the listener with a rather worldy message of carpe diem, “YOLO,” do what makes you happy.