Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas
Baxter Bulletin Thursday Apr 18, 1985
Graveside services for Grover L. Kirkland, 76, will be at 2 p.m. Today at the Gamaliel Cemetery. The North Central Arkansas Veterans Council with officiate. Visitation was Wednesday at the Kirby Funeral Home. Mr. Kirkland died Tuesday at Baxter County Regional Hospital. Formerly of Kansas City, Kan., he had been a resident of Mountain Home for the past eight years. He was a retired butcher, & U. S. Army veteran of World War II. Born May 23, 1908 at Gamaliel, he was the son of Claudia Estes Kirkland and W. N. Kirkland. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother. Survivors include two brothers, Charles Earl Kirkland of Derby, Kan., and Cleo Kirkland of Oregon.
Dec 1, 1955 in The Baxter Bulletin,
Mountain Home, AR newspaper
Jody Smith
Last rites for Jody Smith, 71, of Shady Grove community will be held Friday afternoon at 2 at Fairview Church, with Rev Guy Roberts officiating.
Mr. Smith died yesterday morning at a local hospital. He was born in Missouri on Jan 20, 1884 and was a member of the Baptist Church. A retired farmer he had lived in this state 63 years. He was the son of the late John and Ellen Young Smith.
Survivors include his wife Mrs. Oder Smith of the home; two daughters, Hazel and Lorena; four brothers, Arthur of Mountain Home, Luther of Siloam Springs, Jarril of Bentonville and Cleo of Wichita, Kans and 10 nieces and nephews. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery under direction of the Rooler Funeral Home.
June 22, 1972, "Baxter Bulletin" Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas
John S. McCarty, 52, Mountain Home man
John S. McCarty, 52, of Walker Rd., Route 1, Mountain Home, died Wednesday of last week at the Baxter General Hospital. A member of the Church of Christ and the Mountain Home Masonic Lodge, he was a World War II Army veteran and a former employee of the Baxter Theater of 18 1/2 years.
The son of William Jeff McCarty and Maudia Tackitt McCarty, he was born Jan. 20, 1920, in the Cumi community of east Baxter County and was a lifetime resident of the county. He was marriage to Mary Lee Baker in Mountain Home on July 25, 1942.
Survivors include his wife and two daughters, Jeanie Marie and Ramona Lee, all of Mountain Home; a brother, Kenneth McCarty of Mountain Home, and four sisters, Mrs. Betty Smith of Wichita, Kans., Mrs. Pauline Johnson of West Plains, Mo., and Mrs. Wanda Lea Cotter and Mrs. Millie Cotter, both of Bakersfield, Mo.
Services were conducted Friday at the McClure-Smith Chapel at the McClure-Smith Chapel by Bro. Clifford Pittaway of Route 1, Gassville. Interment was in the Conley Cemetery, north of Mountain Home.
Pallbearers were Clyde Bradley, Wash Huddleston, Harold Thorne and Lonnie Chapman.
Obituary dated Mar 9, 1928
Mrs. R. D. Harris a pioneer of Baxter County. The funeral was held at Norfork. She leaves three sons, Edgar, Willie and George Schoggen and two daughters, Mrs. Martha Cunningham and Mrs. Lillie Wolf.
Mar 23, 1928
Mrs. Harris of Norfork, who died Feb 27, 1928 at home of her daughter Mrs. G. E. Cunningham. Survivors are three sons and three daughters; George Schoggen of Norfork, Willie Schoggen of Eads, Colo and Edgar Schoggen of Sugar City, Colo, Mrs. Cleve Wolf of Wellston, Okla, Mrs. G. E. Cunningham of Norfork and Mrs. Cora Raymond of Kansas City, Mo. Burial was in Mountain Home Cemetery.
August 10, 1972 (Thursday) "Baxter Bulletin" Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas
Mrs. Josie Climer died Saturday
Mrs. Josie Climer, 74, of Norfork, a lifetime resident of this area, died Saturday at the Baxter General Hospital. The wife of Fred Climer, she was a member of the Norfork Baptist Church.
A native of Wild Cherry (Fulton County), Mrs. Climer was born Jan. 11, 1898, the daughter of Robert Melton and Mattie Anderson Melton.
Survivors include her husband, of Norfork; four sons, Hershall Reynolds of Lamesa, Tex., Elvin Reynolds and E. J. Reynolds, both of Kansas City, Mo., and Orval Reynolds of Russellville; a daughter, Miss Lovon Reynolds of Kansas City; a sister, Mrs. Gracie Perry of Mountain Home; 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at the Arkana Baptist Church by Rev. Paul Huskey, pastor of the Norfork Baptist Church. Interment was in the Arkana Cemetery under the direction of the McClure service.
Baxter Bulletin - Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas - 1972
LeRoy Cornell, 55, Flippin Resident
LeRoy Cornell, 55, a farmer of Flippin, died at a Little Rock hospital on Wednesday, of last week.
A lifetime resident of Marion County, he is survived by his wife, Mr. Luna Johnson Cornell of Flippin; three brothers, Ike and Truman Cornell of Flippin and Jack Cornell of Glenburn, N.D.; and three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Daffron and Mrs. Della Rorie of Flippin and Mrs. Ted Johnson of Morrilton.
Mr. Cornell was born at Flippin on April 28, 1914, the son of Cal and Emma McCracken Cornell.
Rev. Howard King and Rev. Dick Hurst of Flippin officiated at funeral services last Friday at the Flippin Baptist Church. Pallbearers were Norman Briggs, Ulane Chaney, Ran Rose, Dyke Brumfield, Will Brown and Earl Wood. Honorary pallbearers were Roy Johnson, Clyde Bryant, W. E. Rose, William Winebrenner, Ray Blankenship, Buell King, J. B. Ott, James Fomby, H. J. Guntharp, Howard Rea, Willie Bell and Howard Ott.
Interment was in the Flippin Cemetery, under the direction of the Holt-Burns Funeral Service of Yellville.
Baxter Bulletin newspaper dated Aug 25, 1944
S. C. Matthews, 91, died Aug 16. He had lived in Baxter County since age three. Burial was in Spring Creek Cemetery. Survivors are 5 children; Seth Matthews of Cotter, Dr Douglas Matthews of Batesville, Cadmus Matthews of Corpus Christi, Texas, Mrs. Fern Norman and Mrs. Ruth Norman of McPhearson.
