Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas
Imogene Stroud (08/26/03)
Imogene Mattie Stroud, 83, of Ash Flat died Aug. 22, 2003, at Ash Flat. Born May 13, 1920, at Wheeling, she was the daughter of Henry Morris and Willie Hollingsworth Stroud. She worked as a farm laborer during the fruit harvest. When she wasn't working, she helped the elderly in her neighborhood, transporting them to the doctor and other places. She also helped her neighbors with various jobs. She loved basketball and played during her high school years. She was of the Pentecostal faith...
Mart Abney (08/26/03)
Mart James Abney, 90, of Agnos died Aug. 22, 2003, at Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. Born Feb. 25, 1913, in Stuart, Okla., he was son of Raymond Oscar and Laura Ethel Godwin Abney. He married
Hattie Pricilla Jackson Feb. 16, 1938, at Agnos. To this union, seven children were born...
Myrtle DeFoe (08/26/03)
Myrtle Katherine DeFoe, 82, of Ash Flat died Aug. 21, 2003, at Eaglecrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ash Flat. Born Dec. 21, 1920, in Swift, Mo., she was the daughter of George William Sims and Mary Eva Fourthman Sims. She married
Hollis Harding DeFoe Oct. 8, 1939, in Pemiscott, Mo. She attended Christian Tabernacle near Hardy...
Willie Hovis (08/26/03)
Willie Arizona Hovis, 86, of Ash Flat died Aug. 17 2003, at Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. Born May 17, 1917, in Wolf River, Tenn., she married
Walter W. Hovis July 9, 1951, in Winchester, Ind. He preceded her in death in 1996. She worked for many years in nursing at Central State Hospital in Indianapolis. She moved to the Sharp County area in 1972 from Indianapolis. She attended services at Spring River Baptist Church in Hardy...
Chad Oliver (09/02/03)
Chad Oliver, 38, of Ash Flat died Aug. 25, 2003, in an automobile accident on Highway 63 near Hoxie. He was employed as a district conservationist in Izard County. Born in Walnut Ridge and formerly of Strawberry, he was a graduate of Arkansas State University and a member of the Church of Christ at Agnos...
Camillia Oliver (09/02/03)
Camillia Kaylin Oliver, 9, of Ash Flat died Aug. 25, 2003, in an automobile accident on Highway 63 near Hoxie. She was a fourth grade student at Cherokee Elementary School and attended Agnos Church of Christ. She was an honor student and played on the elementary basketball team...
Gertie Cason (09/02/03)
Gertie Mae Cason, 96, of Cave City died Aug. 26, 2003, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. Born March 13, 1907, at Cave City, she was the daughter of Will and Corie Gardner Dickey. She was a homemaker and was of the Christian Faith. Survivors include three nephews -- Winford Dickey, Oneal Dickey and Hubert Dean Dickey, all of the Batesville area, and several other relatives and friends...
Steven Runsick (09/02/03)
Steven Gene Runsick, 40, of Ash Flat died Aug. 27, 2003, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. Born May 27, 1963, at Batesville, he was the son of Gene and Sue Branscum Runsick. He owned and operated a nutritional store and was of the Christian faith...
Billy Bevil (09/09/03)
Billy Bevil, 74, of Hardy, died Sept. 2, 2003, in Ash Flat. Born Feb. 18, 1928, in Thaxton, Miss., he was son of Clyde William and Mary Opal Taylor Bevil. He was a retired truck driver and of the Baptist faith. He is survived by his wife, Jean Bevil of Maumelle; a son, Randy Bevil of Horn Lake, Miss.; four daughters and sons-in-law -- Betty and Jimmy Brotherton of Horn Lake, Miss.; Amy and Jim Hussung of Hardy, Kelly and John Bryant of Maumelle, Becky and John Black of San Antonio; a brother, Jimmy Dale Bevill of Pearl, Miss.; five grandchildren -- Bridget Brotherton, Bethany Brotherton, Bryant Hussung, Chase Hussung and Morgan Black.. ...
Charles Sample (09/09/03)
Charles Wesley Sample, 83, of Horseshoe Bend died at his residence Sept. 2, 2003. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Army Air Force. He was retired from the Horseshoe Bend Police Department as a dispatcher and police officer. ...
Irma Owens (09/09/03)
Irma Lee Owens, 69, of Horseshoe Bend died Sept. 2, 2003, at Fulton County Hospital in Salem. Born Oct. 5, 1933, at Ennis, Texas, she was the daughter of Thomas Leroy and Etta Mae Deail Greenhaw Wilson. In June 1952 she was married
in Tijuana, Mexico, to Jack Owens. Before her retirement, she was employed as a waitress at Ramada Inn and was a member of the Elks Lodge...
James Watson (09/09/03)
James Calvin Watson, 78, of Cherokee Village, formerly of Lakeland, Fla., died Sept. 4, 2003, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born April 8, 1925, in Chillicothe, Texas, he was the son of Albert and Loal Parl Osburn Watson. He served as a corporal in the U.S. Air Force in post World War II in Japan...
Lawrence Swetnam (09/09/03)
Lawrence Swetnam, 89, of Ash Flat died Sept. 2, 2003, at Eastern Ozarks Regional Health System in Cherokee Village. Born Jan. 9, 1914, near Williford, he was the son of Oscar Benjamin Swetnam and Mary Belle Hill Swetnam. He grew up and attended school in the Little Barn Community and then went on to school in Hardy where he finished his education...
Mary Booth (09/09/03)
Mary Elizabeth Booth of Williford died Sept. 7, 2003, after a brief, fierce battle with cancer. Born Sept. 1, 1929, in Williford, the daughter of Arthur and Mary Alice Hill Booth. Mary faced life headon with a brave heart and a caring hand. Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Jenkins of Little Rock; a son, Michael Carnahan of Walnut Ridge; two sisters, Lucille Tucker and Jamie Holiway of Jonesboro; a brother, A.D. ...
Nelson Lambert (09/09/03)
Nelson B. Lambert, 79, of Cherokee Village, formerly of Waverly and Decatur, Ill., died Aug. 20, 2003, in Waverly. Born Aug. 1, 1924, in Waverly, he was the son of Frank A. and Vera E. Lohman Lambert. He married
Joyce Ann Reynolds in 1965 in Jacksonville...
Paul F. Ream (09/09/03)
Paul F. Ream, 82, of Cherokee Village, formerly of Kendallville, Ind., died Aug. 27, 2003, at Eastern Ozarks Regional Health System in Cherokee Village. Born Sept. 23, 1920, in Fawn River, Mich., he was the son of Frank and Claris Slack Ream. He married
Ruth Runnestrand Oct.. 31, 1942, in Churubusco, Ind., and she preceded him in death June 8, 1993...
Patricia Madden (09/09/03)
Patricia Thompson Madden, 61, of Oak Park, Ill., died Aug. 31, 2003, in Oak Park. Survivors include a son and his wife, Robert and Alice Baren of Oak Park; her father, Robert Thompson of Cherokee Village; a sister, Elizabeth Thompson Hewins; and a brother, Lawrence Robert Thompson...
