Library Hall: Its Past, Present, and Future
The Friends of the West Fork Library, with the assistance of attorney Doug Gramling, obtained a Quiet Title to the First Christian Church building next to the library in West Fork, in a June 9, 2022, signing in the chamber of Judge Doug Martin. Pictured with the judge and Mr. Gramling are Patty Baker, who was president of Friends of the West Fork Library when the building was acquired, and current president Jane Bryant. The process to obtain the title was begun in 2013 when Ken Miller, the only remaining elder of the church, saw the building as a valuable piece of community history and offered it to the Friends of the West Fork Library (FOL) through a quitclaim deed. An Arkansas quitclaim deed is a form that is used to transfer property from a seller to a purchaser without any warranty on the title. This type of deed transfers only the interest that the seller owns. The deed was necessary because the 1907 title for the church stated that, if the church were no longer ...