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Marguerite Pulliam -Glbfh

Marguerite Pulliam -Glbfh

Jun 29, 2020

Jonesboro- Marguerite Pulliam (1920 - 2020) went home to meet Jesus on June 29, 2020 just shy of 100 years here on earth. If ever there was a true definition of a Proverbs 31-woman, Marguerite Pulliam was it - she loved Jesus, she loved and served her family and friends, she was an entrepreneur, she taught love, grace, and forgiveness...

Bobby Gene Damon - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Bobby Gene Damon - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jun 27, 2020

Bobby Gene Damon, 89, of Imboden, Arkansas, passed away at his home on June 27, 2020. Born at 221 West Kentucky St. in Blytheville, Arkansas, on May 18, 1931 to Harry Earl and Annie Laurie (Freeman) Damon, Bob was an avid outdoorsman, an ardent devotee to the social and political sciences, a veteran of the Korean Conflict, and a Master...

Robert Roger Stallings - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Robert Roger Stallings - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jun 27, 2020

Robert "Bob" Stallings, 70, of Black Rock AR passed away Saturday, June 27, 2020 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born October 12, 1949 in Harrisburg to the late Joseph and Hazel Holland Stallings. Bob proudly served in the Army. Bob is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Patricia Neighbors Stallings; brother, George Stallings; and brother-in-law, Rusty Sloan. He...

Juanita Elizabeth Welch -Gfh

Juanita Elizabeth Welch -Gfh

Jun 27, 2020

Monette- Juanita Elizabeth Welch, 95, passed away Saturday, June 27, 2020 at St. Bernards Medical Center. She was born April 3, 1925 in Monette to the late Bud and Fannie Huddleston. She had been a grade school teacher. Mrs. Welch had moved to Detroit for forty-two years and came back to Monette in 1991. She enjoyed dressing nice and jewelry....

Roscoe Allen Spencer - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Roscoe Allen Spencer - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jun 27, 2020

Roscoe Allen Spencer, 75, passed away on Saturday, June 27, 2020 at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Roscoe was born January 19, 1945 to Oda and Mary Spencer in Lakeland, Missouri. Roscoe spent most of his childhood in Colorado, graduating from Rocky Ford Hight School and receiving draftsman credentials from La Juana Community College in La...

Robert "Bob" B. Linn Jr. -Glbfh

Robert "Bob" B. Linn Jr. -Glbfh

Jun 26, 2020

Robert "Bob" B. Linn Jr., 94, passed away unexpectedly at home on June 26, 2020. Bob was born May 19, 1926 in Weiner, the son of Robert B. and Jessie L. (James) Linn Sr. He grew up in rural Arkansas where he is known to his southern relatives as junior. Bob followed three of his brothers and enlisted in 1944...

Kenneth David Berk -Glbfh

Kenneth David Berk -Glbfh

Jun 26, 2020

Jonesboro- Kenneth David Berk, 87, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 26, 2020, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Ken was born on June 9, 1933, in Auburn, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, to Alvin David and Sarah Henrietta Romberger Berk. He enjoyed growing up in the Auburn area surrounded by a loving family with Pennsylvania Dutch heritage....

Evelyn Elsie Castleberry -Glbfh

Evelyn Elsie Castleberry -Glbfh

Jun 23, 2020

Bono- Evelyn Castleberry, 91, passed away Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at Ridgecrest Nursing and Rehab. She was born September 24, 1928 in Jonesboro to the late Earl and Lela Sheffield Gray. Mrs. Evelyn graduated from Valley View High School and Beauty School. She loved cutting and doing hair. She also worked at Frolic Footwear Factory. She was a member of...

Iris Watts Taylor - Glbfh

Iris Watts Taylor - Glbfh

Jun 23, 2020

Bay- Iris Watts Taylor, 89, rejoined her husband, William Elisha "Bill" Taylor and our heavenly Father early Tuesday morning at St. Vincent North Hospital in Sherwood. Iris was born on April 28, 1931 to Ernest and Christine Underwood Watts in Mississippi. Iris was a member of the First Baptist Church in Bay and attended regularly until her health forced her...

Jesse Lynn Ewing - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jesse Lynn Ewing - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jun 23, 2020

Jesse Lynn Ewing, 89, of Maynard, passed away Tuesday June 23, 2020 at his home. He was born May 12, 1931 in Benson, AZ to the late Carl and Lessie Ewing. He graduated from high school in 1949 from Utopia, TX then moved to Maynard, AR where he met and married his wife of 68 years, Wanda Ann Roberts Ewing,...

Phyllis Ann Arnold -Glbfh

Phyllis Ann Arnold -Glbfh

Jun 21, 2020

Paragould- Phyllis Ann Arnold, 69, passed away Sunday, June 21, 2020. She was born September 4, 1950 in Monette to the late Nolan and Thelma McDaniel McConnell. She was an ordained minister and founder of Agape House in Paragould. She enjoyed woodworking and floating down Current River and loved being able to give to others. She was also preceded in...

Ricky Lee Harbison (Gwfh)

Ricky Lee Harbison (Gwfh)

Jun 19, 2020

Mr. Ricky Lee Harbison of Harrisburg, departed this life Friday, June 19, 2020, at the NEA Hospital in Jonesboro, at the age of 37. He was born August 21, 1982 in Memphis, TN, the son of the late Charles "Chuck" Harbison and Sharon Harbison Lanfair. Ricky was a lifetime resident of Harrisburg and farmed most of his life. He enjoyed...

Vada M Mize -Glbfh

Vada M Mize -Glbfh

Jun 18, 2020

Jonesboro- Vada M. Mize, 74, passed away Thursday, June 18, 2020 at Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House. She was born June 13, 1946 in Walnut Ridge to the late Charles and Vicie Adale Prater Keith. She had worked as a waitress at the Elk Lodge and Jonesboro Country Club and as a meat wrapper at Hays Supermarket. Mrs. Mize...

Donald Edward Mcfall - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Donald Edward Mcfall - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jun 16, 2020

Donald Edward McFall, 79, of Pocahontas, Arkansas, passed away at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital's COVID unit in Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 16, 2020. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 30, 1940, to A.L. and Edna (Watson) McFall, Don was an avid outdoorsman, a veteran of the Vietnam war, a defender of the downtrodden, fluent in...

William Hurschel Ray -Glbfh

William Hurschel Ray -Glbfh

Jun 14, 2020

Jonesboro- William Hurschel Ray, 97, passed away Sunday, June 14, 2020. He was born June 6, 1923 in Ripley, Mississippi to the late Dewey and Obie Richardson Ray. He retired from Colson after many years. He was very devoted and involved in his church, Nettleton Church of Christ. He is survived by his children, William Ray of Jonesboro and Cindy...

Willie Nadine Barrett -Gfh

Willie Nadine Barrett -Gfh

Jun 14, 2020

Taylorsville, NC- Mrs. Willie Nadine Barrett, 94, passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2020. She was born February 11, 1926 in Bernie, Missouri, the daughter of the late Daniel Gilbert Phillips and Ether Lee Holden Phillips. She was a homemaker and also a nurse aide. She also worked in a canning factory in Michigan canning tomatoes. She was a member...

Debra Kay Rogers - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Debra Kay Rogers - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jun 14, 2020

Debra Kay Rogers, 64, of Biggers passed away Sunday June 14, 2020 at Five Rivers Medical Center. She was born March 9, 1956 to the late Kethel and Irene Holland Morley in Heroin, IL. She was a Christian and attended Shannon Baptist Church. Debra is preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Mary Jillian, Linda Trotter; and brother, Kethel Robert...

Minnie Ruth Osment -Glbfh

Minnie Ruth Osment -Glbfh

Jun 12, 2020

Jonesboro- Minnie Ruth Wiles Osment passed away early Friday morning, June 12th. She was born in a log cabin to Warner and Stella Lamberson Wiles, south of Jonesboro, almost a hundred years ago on December 5th, 1923. She was a direct descendant of the original settlers of the McDaniel Settlement, which later became known as Valley View. Her great grandfather...

James Lee "Jimmy" Gibson -Glbfh

James Lee "Jimmy" Gibson -Glbfh

Jun 12, 2020

Jonesboro- James Lee "Jimmy" Gibson, 60, passed Friday, June 12, 2020 at Flo \u0026 Phil Jones Hospice House. He was born November 2, 1959 in Jonesboro to the late Robert Wayne Gibson Jr. and Doris June Harmon Gibson. Jimmy had been a construction worker and a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church. He is survived by a brother, Robert Gibson;...

Jessie Virginia Harmon - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jessie Virginia Harmon - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Jun 10, 2020

Jessie Virginia Harmon, 97, of Heber Springs passed away Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at BHMC in Heber Springs, AR. She was born to the late Troy and Mary Elizabeth Ratliff Jackson in Old Walnut Ridge on March 31, 1923. Jessie loved quilting and crossword and jigsaw puzzles. Jessie is preceded in death by her parents, Troy and Lizzie Jackson; brother,...

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