Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas
M.H. Fontenot (10/03/06)
M.H. Fontenot, 69, of Cave City, formerly of California and Louisiana, died Sept. 28, 2006, at his home. He was born Feb. 21, 1937, in Collinston, La., to Clarence and Blanche Iota (Warton) Fontenot. He was a veteran, retired from the U.S. Navy and civil service. He was a Baptist...
Nikki Ann Gipson Gold (10/03/06)
Niki Ann (Gipson) Gold, 52, of Evening Shade died Sept. 27, 2006, at her residence. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at press time Monday. Arrangements are by Heath Oak Hill Chapel in Hardy.
Truman C. Benton (10/03/06)
Truman C. Benton of Salem, son of the late John Allen and Ona Jane (Butts) Benton, was born Oct. 4, 1913, in Frenchtown, Ark. He died Sept. 28, 2006, at the Fulton County Hospital in Salem at the age of 92. Benton married
Oval Hall on Aug. 25, 1931, at Salem. He was a farmer, carpenter and owner of a leather and shoe repair shop. He was a member of the Salem Church of Christ...
William "Pete" Roach (12/21/06)
William Henry "Pete" Roach, 83, of Cave City, died Dec. 11, 2006, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born March 10, 1923, at Sandtown, Ark., the son of Edwin and Eva (Carter) Roach. He retired from Caterpillar Inc. in Morton, Ill., served in the United States Army from February 1943 to November 1945 and was of the Baptist faith...
David T. Skowlund (12/26/06)
David T. Skowlund, 84, of Cherokee Village died Dec. 19, 2006, at the Fulton County Hospital in Salem. Skowlund was born Sept. 2, 1922, in Superior, Wis., the son of Thomas Skowlund and Annabelle (Elliott) Skowlund. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and held an MBA from Kent State in Ohio...
Hollis Harding Defoe (12/26/06)
Hollis Harding Defoe, 85, of Hardy died Dec. 16, 2006, in Mountain Home. He was born on Jan. 30, 1921, in Greenbrier, Ark., the son of John Noah and Elizabeth Defoe. He was united in marriage to Myrtle Sims on Oct. 8, 1939, in Pemiscott, Mo. He worked many years as a carpenter and an auto body repairman. He attended the Christian Tabernacle near Hardy...
James Luther Walker (12/26/06)
James Luther Walker, age 81, of Horseshoe Bend died Dec. 15, 2006, at his home. He was born on Sept. 30, 1925, the son of Luther Dalton and Myrtle Edith Taylor Walker in Franklin. He went to elementary school in Oklahoma and finished high school in Arkansas then joined the United States Air Force. ...
Jimmy Ray Getson (12/26/06)
Jimmy Ray Getson, 70, of Paragould died Dec. 18, 2006, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. He was born Sept. 22, 1936, in O'Kean, Ark., the son of the late Thomas Jefferson and Opal Gray Getson. He was employed by Delta Asphalt Company as a trucker, was self employed, and was a former employee of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department. ...
Vila Oyler (10/03/06)
Vila Oyler, age 92, of Ash Flat died Sept. 23, 2006, at the Fulton County Hospital in Salem. She was born March 1, 1914, near Poughkeepsie to Samuel Wesley and Josie Ella (Powell) Anderson. She was a cook at Ash Flat and Highland schools for many years and a member of the Corinth Methodist Church at Ash Flat...
Betty Jean Niemeyer (10/10/06)
Betty Jean Niemeyer, 74, of Cave City died Sept. 30, 2006, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born Nov. 22, 1931, at Prescott, Ark., to Oscar and Grace Stivers. She was employed by Riverside Graphics in Batesville and was of the Protestant faith...
Gregory Lee Meskimen (10/10/06)
Gregory Lee Meskimen, 50, of Olive Branch, Miss., died Sept. 29, 2006, at his home. He was born Jan. 13, 1956, in Clarinda, Iowa, to Leland and Yvonne Meskimen. He attended schools in Clarinda, Iowa, and Batesville, Ark., graduating from Batesville High School in 1975...
Jeffrey Allen Jones (10/10/06)
Jeffrey Allan Jones, age 53, of Evening Shade died Sept. 22, 2006, at his home. He was born April 27, 1953, at Sacramento, Calif., to Richard and Clara Jones. He served 22 years of combined service in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, served in the Vietnam War and was employed by the Arkansas State Police working with concealed weapons. He was a member of Barnett Baptist Church in Little Rock...
Joshua C. Swallow (10/10/06)
Joshua C. Swallow of Cherokee Village died Aug. 19, 2006, at the Mercy Hospice in Johnston, Iowa. Services were held at Caldwell Raddatz Funeral Chapel in Urbandale, Iowa. His ashes are intombed at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Cherokee Village...
Roberta Pearl McCormick (10/10/06)
Roberta Pearl McCormick, 84, former resident of Cherokee Village, died Aug. 5, 2006, at Alterra Sterling House in Columbia, Tenn. A private memorial graveside service will be conducted at a later date at the Middle Tennessee Veterans cemetery in Pegram. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com...
William "Matt" Varner (10/10/06)
William "Matt" Varner, 98, of Cave City died Oct. 3, 2006, at the Cave City Nursing Home. He was born May 23, 1908, at Denver, Ark., to James Marshall and Susie Belle (Boyd) Varner. He was a retired farmer and a member of the First Church UPC in Batesville...
Dickie Pontzius (10/17/06)
Dickie E. Pontzius, 65, of Evening Shade died Oct. 11, 2006, at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis. He was born March 24, 1941, at Noble County, Ind., the son of Walter Emmitt and Eleanor (Harter) Pontzius. He was retired from Brown's Shoe Company in Pocahontas and was of the Baptist faith...
Elizabeth Miller (10/17/06)
Elizabeth Miller, 53, of Strawberry, formerly of Belvidere, Tenn., died Oct. 9, 2006, at her home. She was born Dec. 27, 1952, at Stuarts Draft, Va., the daughter of Amos and Elva Miller. She was a home care provider for the elderly and a member of the Strawberry Mennonite Church in Jesup...
Juanita Lindsey (10/17/06)
Juanita Lindsey, age 72, of Cave City died Oct. 8, 2006, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born Oct. 30, 1934, at LaBelle, Mo., the daughter of the late Everett Edward and Sarah Maurita (Tripp) Harris. She was a retired LPN, having worked at North Arkansas Clinic in Batesville, and was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Batesville...
Mary Ann Crabtree (10/17/06)
Mary Ann Crabtree, 62, of Cave City died Oct. 14, 2006, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born Nov. 14, 1943, at Batesvile to R.A. and Opal (Rawlings) Crabtree. She worked for over 20 years at the International Shoe Factory in Batesville and worked at Townsend in Batesville for several years before becoming disabled...
Mae Irene Ellis (10/17/06)
Mae Irene Ellis of Agnos, daughter of the late William and Vergie Ratliff Fuller, was born on April 18, 1918, at Hardy. She died Oct. 9, 2006, at her home at the age of 88. She was united in marriage to Carl Ellis on June 9, 1933, in Missouri. She was a homemaker and was of the Pentecostal faith...
Margaret Lucille Manuel Kent (10/17/06)
Margaret Lucille Manuel Kent, 59, of Cave City died Oct. 10, 2006, at her home. She was born Jan. 19, 1947, at Luxora, Ark., the daughter of Thomas Orvil and Gracie Lucille Grimes Manuel. She was a beautician and a member of Souls Harbor Pentecostal Church in Cave City...
Ruby Josephine Poteete (10/17/06)
Ruby Josephine (Curwick) Poteete, 71, of Horseshoe Bend died Oct. 10, 2006, at her residence. She was born Jan. 3, 1935, at Rossville, Kan., the daughter of the late Joseph and Virginia (Bivins) Curwick. She worked as a cook during her working years at restaurants and was a member of the New Haven Baptist Church at Ash Flat...
