Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas
Ernette Parker (09/20/05)
Ernette Ernestine Bethge Parker, daughter of the late Ernest Charles Bethge and Gradel Mann Bethge, was born July 26, 1937, in Stuttgart, Ark. She died Sept. 6, 2005, in Little Rock, Ark., at the age of 68. She was married
to John Parker on Dec. 22, 1989, in Little Rock. ...
Gladys Gavurnick (09/20/05)
Gladys Gavurnick, 85, of Cherokee Village died June 17, 2005, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born Nov. 23, 1919, in Bunker Hill, N.J., the daughter of James and Abigail Faust. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Cherokee Village and worked for the school district as a secretary...
Jean Cassell Smith (09/20/05)
Jean "J.C." Cassell Smith, 88, of Highland, formerly of Ozark Acres, died Sept. 13, 2005. He was born in Sharp County, the son of Joseph L. and Frances A. Smith. He was a retired Baptist minister. He was formerly pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church at Newport, Baptist Church in Imboden, First Baptist in Dell, Friendship Baptist in Kennett and Spring Lake Baptist in Ozark Acres...
Margaret Traybor (09/20/05)
Margaret M. Traybor, 72, of Cherokee Village died Sept. 14, 2005, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Traybor was born Feb. 7 in 1933, in Beckley, W. Va. She worked as a secretary for many years before retiring and moving to Sharp County from California in 1989. She was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Cherokee Village...
Raphael Leon Martin (09/20/05)
Raphael Leon (Ray) Martin, 80, of Russellville died July 2, 2005 at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock. He was born Jan. 5, 1925, in Ash Flat, son of Horace and Bessie Martin. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1948. ...
Sarah Ann Boyd (09/20/05)
Sarah Ann Medlock Boyd, 54, of Poughkeepsie, died Sept. 10, 2005, at her home. She was born March 5, 1951, at Batesville, Ark., the daughter of Muriel Garrison and Ida Mae Shirley Medlock. She was a homemaker and a member of the Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church at Nelsonville...
Leslie Earl Mayhew (09/27/05)
Leslie Earl Mayhew Sr., 76, of Hardy, was born Oct. 29, 1928, in West Frankfort, Ill., the son of Franklin Mayhew and Oneda Muir Mayhew. He died Sept. 23, 2005, at Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. He attended Faith Baptist Church at Wirth...
Lettia White Steele (09/27/05)
Lettia White Steele, 96, of Cave City died Sept. 23, 2005, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born March 10, 1909, at Sidney, the daughter of William David and Hopie Vest White. She was a homemaker and a member of First Missionary Baptist Church in Cave City...
Orval Gean Gay (09/27/05)
Orval Gean Gay, 51, of Poteau, Okla., formerly of Floral, Ark., died Sept. 18, 2005, at his home. He was born July 1, 1954, at Noblesville, Ind., the son of Vernon D. and Nellie Mae Strother Gay. He served in the U.S. Army. He was a truck driver and construction driver...
Robert Andrew Anderson (09/27/05)
Robert (Bob) Andrew Anderson, 69, of Horseshoe Bend passed away Sept. 19 at North Arkansas Life Care Center in Horseshoe Bend. He was born in Chula Vista, Calif., the son of Otto Andrew and Thelma Riding Anderson. He served in the United States Air Force REGAF as an airman first class during the Korean Conflict. ...
Raymond Otto Keen (09/27/05)
Raymond Otto Keen, 87, of Horseshoe Bend, died Sept. 17 at the Fulton County Hospital in Salem. He was born in Chicago, Ill., the son of Walter and Martha Morrie Keen. He served in the Navy during World War II as seaman first class. He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology to work as a hydraulic engineer. ...
Billy Lee Collins (10/04/05)
Billy Lee Collins, 54, of Williford was born in Imboden, Ark., the son of Francis Marion Collins and Minnie Collins. He died Sept. 29, 2005, at Randolph County Medical Center. He was employed in manufacturing at Waterloo Industries. He was a car enthusiast...
Louise Norman Burrow (10/04/05)
Louise Norman Burrow, 83, of Hot Springs, Ark., died Sept. 22, 2005, in Little Rock, Ark. Growing up on her beloved Spring River in Hardy, Lou was the daughter of Henry and Mariam Buford Norman. She graduated from Hendrix College in 1943 and was married
to Dr. Thomas E. Burrow until his death in 1983...
Agnes Mooney (10/11/05)
Agnes Mooney, 94, of Johnston City, Ill., formerly of Agnos, who lived 75 years in Fulton County, died Sept. 11, 2005, at home. She was born July 23, 1911, in Saddle, daughter of Jessie and Etta Pulley McHenry. She married
Hubert Mooney Nov. 18, 1928, in Saddle. He preceded her in death March 29, 1986...
Donald Cushing (10/11/05)
Donald Cushing, 66, of Ozark Acres died at his home Oct. 7, 2005. He was born Feb. 10, 1939, in Haverhill, Mass., the son of the late Wendal and Edith Wellner Cushing. He was a crane operator in construction and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Survivors include a daughter, Andrea Williams of Sheridan, Ark.; four brothers, Jeffrey Cushing of Manassas, Va., George Cushing of Lorton, Va., Bud Cushing of Sheridan, Ark., and Steve Cushing of Michigan; one sister, Joan McClintock of Sheridan; one granddaughter, Chelsea Huggler of Sheridan; and a grandson, Cameron Cushing Williams of Sheridan.. ...
Emma Jean Brannum (10/11/05)
Emma Jean Brannum, 88, of Ash Flat, formerly of Leachville, died Oct. 3, 2005, at Eaglecrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Wynne, Ark., she was the daughter of the late Homer and Artie Smoot Lawrence and had been a longtime Leachville resident before making her home in Ash Flat 17 years ago. She was the widow of Warlick "Bud" Brannum and was of the Baptist faith...
Edna Tapp (10/11/05)
Edna D. Tapp, 79, of Cherokee Village died Sept. 28, 2005, in Memphis, Tenn. She was a long-time resident of Hardy and Cherokee Village. Survivors are four children, Ronald Gargus of Cherokee Village, Joseph Gargus of Placerville, Calif., Bonita Estes of Normandy Tenn., and Kay Kinscea of Memphis; four stepchildren, Gail Martin, Irene Tapp, Fred Tapp all of Memphis and Mark Tapp of Hardy; two sisters, Kathy Magann and Lois Reynolds; 13 grandchildren; host of nieces, nephews and friends...
