Alsup to celebrate 90th

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

— Friends and family are invited to a reception in honor of Christine Alsup of Gravette on the occasion of her 90th birthday. The drop-in event will be held Sunday, May 8, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Heritage Baptist Church in Gravette.

Mrs. Alsup was born Christine Jones, May 5, 1921, in Young County in Central Texas. The fourth of 12 children of Roy and Lillie Jones, she married Lee Roy Alsup on January 6, 1940. They settled, ranched and farmed in the Texas panhandle.

The couple moved to Arkansas in 1970 and purchased Blossom Hill Ranch southeast of Gravette where she still resides. Mr. Alsup passed away in 2002.

Hosts for the reception are her children, Dennis Alsup of Rogers, Lavon Stark and Danny Alsup of Gravette and Simona Simon of Lubbock, Tex. She is grandmother to eight and great-grandmother to seven. They request cards only, please.

School News, Pages 12 on 05/04/2011