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Edna Leona Whitley -Gfh

Edna Leona Whitley -Gfh

Nov 19, 2020

Black Oak- Edna Leona Pearl Whitley, 94, passed away Thursday, November 19, 2020 at Monette Manor. She was born June 10, 1926 in Macey to the late Tom and Vercie Hill. She was a homemaker and a member of the Black Oak Church of Christ. Mrs. Whitley enjoyed working in her yard and cooking dinner every Sunday and holidays for...

Barbara Fay Keiter -Gfh

Barbara Fay Keiter -Gfh

Nov 19, 2020

Lake City- Barbara Fay Keiter, 74, passed away Thursday, November 19, 2020 at NEA Baptist Hospital. She was born August 3, 1946 in Lake City to the late Ivan and Eva Marie Osborne Platz. She was a retired factory worker and homemaker. Mrs. Barbara loved her family and her church family, Refuge General Baptist Church. If you knew her, you...

Coleen Ann Lawhead - Gfh

Coleen Ann Lawhead - Gfh

Nov 19, 2020

Jonesboro- Coleen Ann Lawhead, 83, passed away Thursday, November 19, 2020 at St. Bernards Medical Center. She was born May 1, 1937 in Caraway to the late Clem and Annie Mills Brazelton. She was loving raised by her aunt and uncle, the late Jess and Lidia Lawhead. She retired from FDIC. She enjoyed watching sports and was active in her...

Chuck Stotts -Gfh

Chuck Stotts -Gfh

Nov 19, 2020

Bismarck - Chuck Stotts passed away peacefully Thursday, November 19, 2020. He was born September 30, 1949 in Jonesboro to the late Charles Stotts and Pat Stotts Fleetwood. He graduated from Caraway High School in 1968. He joined the Marines in 1969 where he was stationed at Camp Pendleton in California and served as Presidential Security for President Richard Nixon...

Marcus "Marc" Jay Bupp -Gfh

Marcus "Marc" Jay Bupp -Gfh

Nov 19, 2020

Monette- Marc Bupp, 64, passed away Thursday, November 19, 2020 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. He was born September 25, 1956 in Sturgis, Michigan to the late Arthur Bupp and Laverne Baker Bupp. Marc worked at Southworth in Manila for many years. He loved music, he played the drums, guitar, bass and other instruments. The last band he...

Joe Kay Primm -Glbfh

Joe Kay Primm -Glbfh

Nov 18, 2020

Jonesboro- Joe Kay Primm, 84, passed away Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at St. Bernards Medical Center. He was born February 19, 1936 in Caraway to the late William and Cleve Earl Primm. Joe worked at Jac's Appliance for over forty-seven years. He was loved by his family and enjoyed watching his grandkids grow up. He also enjoyed bowling and was...

Bonnie Baker Harris - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Bonnie Baker Harris - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Nov 18, 2020

Bonnie Baker Harris, 95, passed away on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at Pocahontas Healthcare and Rehab in Pocahontas, AR. Bonnie was born March 22, 1925, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to James Oscar and Tola Sisk Baker. Bonnie married Dr. Warren G. Harris on May 21, 1950. She attended elementary school at Bakerden, graduated as salutatorian of her class at Couch...

Geneva Pauline Fears -Glbfh

Geneva Pauline Fears -Glbfh

Nov 18, 2020

Jonesboro- Geneva Pauline Fears, 78, died Tuesday night, November 17th, 2020 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Leachville, the daughter of the late William Brider and Rosie Bud Smith Fears. She lived in Paragould most of her life. Geneva worked at many types of jobs and became a hairdresser, worked at the Emerson factory, and...

Lisa Marie Groves -Glbfh

Lisa Marie Groves -Glbfh

Nov 17, 2020

Jonesboro- Lisa Marie Groves, 53, passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at NEA Baptist Hospital. She was born February 24, 1967 in Jonesboro to the late Jerry and Loretta Bowers Campbell. Lisa was a pharmacy technician. She enjoyed gardening, fishing, hunting and going to the lake. She loved her family and making memories with her grandkids. She is survived by...

Harrison Johns

Harrison Johns

Nov 17, 2020

November 17, 2020, Harrison H. Johns, loving husband and father, died at the age of 92 in Searcy, Arkansas. Harrison was born in 1928 in Sardis, Mississippi to Walter and Maude (Youngblood) Johns. He graduated from Tunica High School. He earned his degrees from Ouachita Baptist University, 1950 and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1954. In 1951 Harrison married Barbara Vandiver...

Willene "Willie" Pilkinton - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Willene "Willie" Pilkinton - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Nov 17, 2020

Willene "Willie" Frakes Pilkinton, 75, of Doniphan, passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at her home. She was born December 1, 1944 in Caraway to the late Sam and Beulah Polston Frakes. She graduated from Clover Bend High School in 1963, was an avid Bingo player, and worked as a cook on the river boats. She was preceded in death...

Belle "Marie" Cagle Murphy - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Belle "Marie" Cagle Murphy - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Nov 17, 2020

Belle "Marie" Murphy, 88, of Pocahontas, passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at Five Rivers Medical Center. Marie was born August 23, 1932 in Pocahontas to James and Birdie Brown Simpson. She spent her career as a nurse in different parts of the county, and after retirement, she worked as a school nurse at Maynard Elementary. She is preceded in...

Era Euline Gambill -Glbfh

Era Euline Gambill -Glbfh

Nov 16, 2020

Jonesboro- Era Euline Gambill, 88, passed away Monday, November 16, 2020 at The Springs of Jonesboro. She was born June 6, 1932 in Cooter, Missouri to the late Clyde and Dollie Coble Lovins. Mrs. Gambill was a homemaker and a member of Shiloh Methodist Church. She enjoyed reading, gardening, and loved working in the church. She will be remembered as...

Albert V Tatyrek - Gwfh

Albert V Tatyrek - Gwfh

Nov 16, 2020

Mr. Albert V. Tatyrek of Harrisburg, AR departed this life Monday, November 16, 2020 at Flo and Phil Hospice House at the age of 73. He was born May 8, 1947 in Elk City, Oklahoma to the late Albert Tatyrek and Bonnie Hilderbrand Tatyrek. He married Marie Tatyrek on 1966 and they shared 54 years together. Albert was an Air...

Blanche Sylvia Blackburn -Glbfh

Blanche Sylvia Blackburn -Glbfh

Nov 14, 2020

Jonesboro- Blanche Sylvia Blackburn, 102, passed away on November 14, 2020, at the Phil and Flo Jones Hospice House. She was born on March 3, 1918 in Fort Smith to Maurice L. and Lucille Hall Derdeyn. Blanche was married to William "Bill" Blackburn in Fort Smith on May 10, 1938. They were married for over 67 years. The couple relocated...

Charles Eugene "Buck" Sharp - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Charles Eugene "Buck" Sharp - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Nov 13, 2020

Charles Eugene "Buck" Sharp, 74, of Imboden passed away Friday, November 13, 2020 at the Advanced Care Hospital of Searcy. He was born July 18, 1946 in Ravenden to the late Eugene and Pearl Clements Sharp. He was a Forest Ranger for the Arkansas Forestry Commission serving as the supervisor for Lawrence and Randolph Counties, and a member of WestRidge...

Betty June Mardis -Glbfh

Betty June Mardis -Glbfh

Nov 13, 2020

Rogers - Betty June Mardis, 88, died Friday, November 13, 2020 at Circle of Life Hospice in Springdale. She was born on June 12, 1932 in Harrisburg to the late Porter and Gladys Dunkerson Evans. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Harrisburg. Betty enjoyed spending time with her family and was a wonderful cook. Betty...

Larry David Cherry, Sr. - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Larry David Cherry, Sr. - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Nov 12, 2020

Larry David Cherry, the second eldest son of Thomas and Imogene Anderson Cherry, born February 9, 1948 in Reyno, Arkansas, passed away peacefully on Thursday, November 12, 2020, at Randolph Home at the age of 72 surrounded by his family. After graduating Pocahontas High School in 1966, Larry enlisted in the United States Army. As a member of the 101st...

Viola Anna Jansen - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Viola Anna Jansen - Mcnabb Funeral Home

Nov 11, 2020

Viola Anna Jansen, 93, of St. Peters, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, November 11, 2020 surrounded by her loved ones. She was born October 28, 1927 in Pocahontas to the late George and Josephine Anna Zosso Steimel. Viola married Charles Joseph Jansen on November 29, 1945. Charles and Viola moved to Lake Ozark, MO in 1964 where they resided for 35...

Dickey Crouch -Gwfh

Dickey Crouch -Gwfh

Nov 11, 2020

Mr. Dickey Crouch departed this life Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at Woodbriar Nursing Home at the age of 74. He was born April 30, 1946 in Mayfield, Kentucky to the late Carlos Crouch and Naomi Scoggins Crouch. Dickey spent his life working with his hands. He was a mechanic at an auto body shop and worked on aircrafts as well....

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