Calkins: Ice storm ends a 70-year love story — in death
A program from the funeral of Jake and Vennie McIntosh, who died Feb. 5, 2022 after losing the power at their home in Orange Mound. (Geoff Calkins/The Daily Memphian)
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Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Left in a house without power, Orange Mound residents Jake and Vennie McIntosh — ages 92 and 91 — died together in the recent ice storm.
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