National Briefing | South: Arkansas: Aides Charged In Beating
Capital murder charges were filed against two nursing home aides in the beating of an 81-year-old resident. The victim, Willie Mae Ryan, never regained consciousness after she was beaten with brass knuckles on July 30 and died on Aug. 14. An affidavit filed by detectives quoted one of the aides, Shermika Rainey, 17, as saying that she was recruited by Gayla S. Wilson, 44, to restrain Ms. Ryan while Ms. Wilson pummeled her ''for being disrespectful.'' The two worked at the Dallas County Nursing Home in Fordyce, where Ms. Ryan was a longtime resident.
Published 19 August 2003 - THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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Willie Mae Taylor Ryan, 81, of Fordyce, died Thursday August 14, 2003 in the Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born in Magnolia, Arkansas on August 15, 1921 to the late William Haston Taylor and Ira Mae Sweet Taylor.
Mrs. Ryan was a retired C.P.A, a member of the Eastern Star, and a member of the Cullendale Assembly of God Church in Camden.
She is survived by a son, John D. Basinger of Camden; a daughter, Gloria Leveritt of Fordyce; two sisters, Sybil Monk of Pine Bluff, Dorothy Jean Suggs of Clarksville, TN; thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her grandson, Steven Swisher (sic).
Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Monday August 18, 2003 in the Benton Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Chambersville Cemetery with the Rev. Winfield Piker and Rev. Larry McDaniel officiating. Arrangements are by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce.
Capital murder charges were filed against two nursing home aides in the beating of an 81-year-old resident. The victim, Willie Mae Ryan, never regained consciousness after she was beaten with brass knuckles on July 30 and died on Aug. 14. An affidavit filed by detectives quoted one of the aides, Shermika Rainey, 17, as saying that she was recruited by Gayla S. Wilson, 44, to restrain Ms. Ryan while Ms. Wilson pummeled her ''for being disrespectful.'' The two worked at the Dallas County Nursing Home in Fordyce, where Ms. Ryan was a longtime resident.
Published 19 August 2003 - THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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Willie Mae Taylor Ryan, 81, of Fordyce, died Thursday August 14, 2003 in the Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born in Magnolia, Arkansas on August 15, 1921 to the late William Haston Taylor and Ira Mae Sweet Taylor.
Mrs. Ryan was a retired C.P.A, a member of the Eastern Star, and a member of the Cullendale Assembly of God Church in Camden.
She is survived by a son, John D. Basinger of Camden; a daughter, Gloria Leveritt of Fordyce; two sisters, Sybil Monk of Pine Bluff, Dorothy Jean Suggs of Clarksville, TN; thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her grandson, Steven Swisher (sic).
Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Monday August 18, 2003 in the Benton Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Chambersville Cemetery with the Rev. Winfield Piker and Rev. Larry McDaniel officiating. Arrangements are by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce.
National Briefing | South: Arkansas: Aides Charged In Beating
Capital murder charges were filed against two nursing home aides in the beating of an 81-year-old resident. The victim, Willie Mae Ryan, never regained consciousness after she was beaten with brass knuckles on July 30 and died on Aug. 14. An affidavit filed by detectives quoted one of the aides, Shermika Rainey, 17, as saying that she was recruited by Gayla S. Wilson, 44, to restrain Ms. Ryan while Ms. Wilson pummeled her ''for being disrespectful.'' The two worked at the Dallas County Nursing Home in Fordyce, where Ms. Ryan was a longtime resident.
Published 19 August 2003 - THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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Willie Mae Taylor Ryan, 81, of Fordyce, died Thursday August 14, 2003 in the Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born in Magnolia, Arkansas on August 15, 1921 to the late William Haston Taylor and Ira Mae Sweet Taylor.
Mrs. Ryan was a retired C.P.A, a member of the Eastern Star, and a member of the Cullendale Assembly of God Church in Camden.
She is survived by a son, John D. Basinger of Camden; a daughter, Gloria Leveritt of Fordyce; two sisters, Sybil Monk of Pine Bluff, Dorothy Jean Suggs of Clarksville, TN; thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her grandson, Steven Swisher (sic).
Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Monday August 18, 2003 in the Benton Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Chambersville Cemetery with the Rev. Winfield Piker and Rev. Larry McDaniel officiating. Arrangements are by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce.
Capital murder charges were filed against two nursing home aides in the beating of an 81-year-old resident. The victim, Willie Mae Ryan, never regained consciousness after she was beaten with brass knuckles on July 30 and died on Aug. 14. An affidavit filed by detectives quoted one of the aides, Shermika Rainey, 17, as saying that she was recruited by Gayla S. Wilson, 44, to restrain Ms. Ryan while Ms. Wilson pummeled her ''for being disrespectful.'' The two worked at the Dallas County Nursing Home in Fordyce, where Ms. Ryan was a longtime resident.
Published 19 August 2003 - THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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Willie Mae Taylor Ryan, 81, of Fordyce, died Thursday August 14, 2003 in the Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born in Magnolia, Arkansas on August 15, 1921 to the late William Haston Taylor and Ira Mae Sweet Taylor.
Mrs. Ryan was a retired C.P.A, a member of the Eastern Star, and a member of the Cullendale Assembly of God Church in Camden.
She is survived by a son, John D. Basinger of Camden; a daughter, Gloria Leveritt of Fordyce; two sisters, Sybil Monk of Pine Bluff, Dorothy Jean Suggs of Clarksville, TN; thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her grandson, Steven Swisher (sic).
Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Monday August 18, 2003 in the Benton Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Chambersville Cemetery with the Rev. Winfield Piker and Rev. Larry McDaniel officiating. Arrangements are by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce.
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