Searcy AR Revisit The lady on the right above is Betty Mason Martin and she lived in Searcy way back in about 1947. Her memories of Searcy are quite favorable except for one so she just paid us a visit. She now lives in Virginia, drove to Arkansas, and had a visit with old friends from her childhood. Mary Kay VanPatten James is shown with her in the above picture. The bad memory is of her father's death. Her father, Lester Mason, was superintendent of Searcy Public Schools. Her mother, Alice, was a teacher of music and was choir director at a local church. (2 comments)