Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas
Donald E. Albright (03/04/03)
Donald Edward "Don" Albright, 63, of Camp died Feb. 23, 2003, in Salem. Born Sept. 10, 1939, in Camp, he was the son of Charles Edward "C.E." and Ida Evalyn Sutherland Albright. He married
Mildred Taylor in West Plains, Mo., in 1960. On July 27, 1982, in Alton, Mo., he married
Rebecca Casey...
Gladys Hocum (03/04/03)
Gladys Hocum, 80, of Wirth died Feb. 26, 2003, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. Born Sept. 27, 1922, she was the daughter of Walter and Beatrice Newland Thompson. She was a retired bookkeeper for Town & Country business office and was a homemaker...
Nobie Irene Lankford (03/04/03)
Nobie Irene Lankford, 81, of Sidney died Feb. 24, 2003, at Sharp Nursing Home in Sidney. Born Feb. 22, 1922, at Sage, she was the daughter of Ben and Mattie Tomlinson Woods. She was a retired grocery store owner at Evening Shade, and a member of First Baptist Church at Evening Shade...
Nelson Rader (03/04/03)
Nelson B. Rader, 79, of Smithville died Feb. 22, 2003, at the Veteran Hospital in Little Rock. Born Jan. 5, 1924, at Whitehouse, Ohio, he was the son of Emil and Katherine Rader. He was a retired chemist from Interlake Steel in Toledo, Ohio, a U.S. Marine veteran of World War II, a Master Mason at Wakeman Lodge in Waterville, Ohio, and attended Liberty Full Gospel Church in Cave City...
Paul Lynch Jr. (03/04/03)
Paul N. Lynch Jr., 48, of Hardy, formerly of Santa Maria, Calif., died Feb. 26, 2003, at his home. Born Aug. 25, 1954, at Memphis, Tenn., he was the sone of Paul Nelson Lynch Sr. and Evelyn Hall Lynch. He was a lifetime member and past president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles 1745 in Santa Maria and of the Baptist faith...
Ray D. Taylor (03/04/03)
Ray D. Taylor, 84, of Cave City died Feb. 27, 2003, at Cave City Nursing Home. Born Dec. 30, 1919, at Shelbyville, Ark., he was the son of Grover D. and Lucy Ellen Gist Taylor. He served in the United States Navy on the USS Enterprise from April 1940 to May 1946, participating in almost every major carrier engagement during the first year of World War II. ...
Rev. Richard Pickney (03/04/03)
Rev. Richard Pickney, 89, of Alton, died Feb. 26, 2003, in Alton. Born Nov. 2, 1913, in Ash Flat, he was the son of George and Effie Pickney. On March 24, 1932, he married
Laura Jane Yates of Walnut Ridge and to this union five children were born. He was ordained as an Assembly of God minister and served for 60 years. ...
Arthur Barron (03/11/03)
Arthur W. Barron, 76, of Hardy died March 4, 2003, at Eastern Ozarks Regional Health System in Cherokee Village. Born Jan. 20, 1927, in Hanford, Calif., he was the son of Archie Raymond Barron and Lettie Leona Funk Barron. He married
Ramona Huffmaster Oct. 15, 1947, in Hanford at First Christian Church. He worked many years in the pipeline construction business...
Dawn Cochran (03/11/03)
Dawn Reschell Friel Cochran, 32, of Thayer, Mo., died March 8, 2003, at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains, Mo. Born May 7, 1970, in West Plains, Mo., she married
John Cochran Feb. 15, 2003, at the Christian Tabernacle near Hardy. She attended services at Faith Tabernacle in Wirth, and worked as a manager for McDonald's in Ash Flat and Thayer, Mo. She was a graduate of Thayer High School...
Madonna Mathes (03/11/03)
Madonna Hampton Mathes, 54, of Cherokee Village died March 2, 2003, at her home. Born March 30, 1948, she was the daughter of Duncan and Hazel Sturgill Hampton. She was an assistant manager of Dollar General Store in Ash Flat and a member of First Baptist Church of Hardy...
Maynard Ryno (03/11/03)
Maynard Ryno, 93, a former resident of Ozark Acres, died Feb. 27, 2003, at Caldwell, Idaho. He celebrated his 90th birthday in May of 1999 by his son taking him for a visit with relatives out of state. Two weeks later, after returning home, he suffered a stroke and was in a nursing home at Ash Flat...
Nona Gray Stowers (03/11/03)
Nona Gray Stowers, 75, of Hardy, formerly of Memphis, Tenn., died March 8, 2003. Born on Aug. 26, 1927, in Columbus, Miss., she was the daughter of Ira Richardson and Kitty Gray Stowers. She married
Fredrick Stowers July 10, 1956. She was a member of First Baptist Church and was a secretary for the Higginbotham Funeral Service for more than 11 years...
Paul Cope (03/11/03)
Paul Cope, 67, of Cave City died March 2, 2003, at St. Vincent Hospital in Little Rock. He was born Nov. 18, 1935, at Addie, N.C. to Andy Lon and Gracie McGaha Cope. He was a logger and was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include a brother, William Cope of Sylva, N.C.; three sisters -- Little V. Mills of Sylva, N.C., Edith Herron of Arlington, Wash., and Edith Long of Cave City; several nieces and nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends...
Ruth Rose Richardson (03/11/03)
Ruth Rose Richardson, 79, died March 4, 2003, in Jonesboro. Born on June 4, 1923, in Lunenburg, she was the daughter of Joe H. and Emma Helm Rose. She married
Dordon Richardson Sept. 24, 1942, in Melbourne. She spent her life as a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and homemaker. She was a member of Melbourne Church of Christ...
Thurman Ullom (03/11/03)
Thurman Ullom, 71, of Williford died March 3, 2003, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born Jan. 14, 1932, in Seminole, Okla., he was the son of James Edward Ullom and Mable Ruth Cartwright Ullom. He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps...
Hilda Summers (03/18/03)
Hilda Montgomery Summers, 88, died March 12, 2003, at Craighead Nursing Center in Jonesboro. Born May 11, 1914, in Craighead County, she was a lifelong resident of Craighead County, was a homemaker and a charter member of First General Baptist Church...
Johnnie Hazel Whitten (03/18/03)
Johnnie Hazel Whitten, 85, of Evening Shade died March 11, 2003, at Sharp Nursing Home in Sidney where she was a resident for almost eight years. Born Jan. 14, 1918, at Evening Shade, she was the daughter of Dudley Whitfield and Josie Kerr Wasson. She was owner and operator of Johnnie's Beauty Shop at Evening Shade for many years, a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary Post 8042, and a member of Main Street Church of Christ in Evening Shade...
