Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas
Virginia Mae Hetterick Haustein
Virginia Mae Hetterick Haustein, 80, of Little Rock, died 
Saturday, February 22, 2003. She was born
in Little Rock to Conrad and Lena Maack Hetterick. She was a graduate of Little Rock High School and in 1947 she and Raymond Haustein were married.
She had been a member of First Lutheran Church in Little Rock. Virginia loved to walk, walking three to six miles a day with her neighbors. Survivors include her husband, Ray, and eleven nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by a brother and two sisters. The family would like to thank all of her neighbors for their generosity and kindness. A graveside funeral service scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in Forest Hills Memorial Park is cancelled.
Graveside funeral service for Virginia Mae Hetterick Haustein is rescheduled for Thursday Feb. 27, 2003 2:00 pm at Forest Hills Memorial Park. Memorials in lieu of flowers may be made to the Humane Society of Pulaski Co. Arrangements by Ruebel Funeral Home.
Robert Harrison Hays
Robert Harrison Hays, age 47, of Little Rock, died Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003. Robert was born
in Evanston, Illinois, attended Little Rock schools and graduated from Little Rock Central High School. He later graduated from the University of Arkansas with a BA in business. After school he worked in Fayetteville for five years with the University Administration, payroll division. Moving to Little Rock he worked for T.R.W. Corporation and later Fairfield Communities computer department.
Robert is predeceased by his father, E.T. Sonny Hays who died in 1998, and is survived by his mother, Jo Clair Armstrong Hays of Little Rock, one sister, Ann Hays Cain and husband David and their children Mark and Matthew of Pine Bluff.
There will be a memorial service Thursday, at 1:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in the Chapel officiated by Reverend Jeannie Burton. Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home,
Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church or a favorite charity.
Nicholas David Harrel II
David Harrel II, 79, of Little Rock died Tuesday, October 14, 2003. He was born
in Lewisville, AR to Fred F. and Vanessa Lee Pope Harrel. He graduated from Lewisville High School and attended Tulane University and received a law degree from LaSalle University. He served with the United States Navy from 1943-1946 as an Aerial Gunnery Instructor. He married
Betty Stolz in 1946 and she predeceased him in 1998. He was employed by the FBI from 1946 to 1974, becoming a special agent in 1951. After his retirement he become a private investigator until 1995. David was a member of the Pleasant Valley Country Club and St. James United Methodist Church.
He is survived by a son, Alan Harrel and his wife, Jeanne of Texarkana, TX, a daughter, Susan Harrel Underwood and her husband, Trevor of Greenwich, CT and two grandchildren, Nicholas D. Harrel III and Julie E. Harrel.
A visitation will be held from 5-7 Thursday at Ruebel Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday at St. James United Methodist Church, officiated by Dr. Guy Whitney. Burial will follow in Pinecrest Memorial Park.
Memorials may be made to St. James United Methodist Church, Arkansas Children's Hospital or the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council.
Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home.
G. Oliver Harper
Goin Oliver Harper, previously of Little Rock, Arkansas, died on November 20, 2003 at Parkway Place Nursing Home in Houston, Texas. He was 91.
Born in Centerton, Arkansas on July 12, 1912 to Louise Irene Mueller and George Washington Harper, he attended public schools in Little Rock. He began his career in the food business at a young age. In the early thirties, he worked for Franke's cafeteria where he met his future wife, Mildred Embra Murphy, and his first business partner, Walter Oathout. In the late thirties, he and Walter Oathout opened their first restaurant, the Penthouse Cafe at 4th and Main Street. A few years later, the business was renamed the Lido Cafeteria and moved to 615 Main Street. Patrons enjoyed fine food and listened to organ music played by Mrs. LaLonde.
During World War II, Mr. Harper and his partners operated a food service for U.S. Time, a munitions manufacturer. Also during World War II, they opened the Lido Inn at 25th and Roosevelt. Both the Lido Cafeteria and the Lido Inn were listed in the Duncan Hines' guide to fine dining. People came from all over the state to enjoy the special menu items of chef s salad, New York strip sirloin steaks, and New Orleans gold brick sundaes. In the late forties, Mr. Harper and his partners opened the Minute Man fast food restaurant at 4 th and Broadway. This restaurant was the first in the state to employ microwave cooking; the slogan was "A Meal in a Minute." The Minute Man also became famous for its RadarRange fruit pies. Other ventures included a franchise for the first Tastee Freeze outlets in the state. The first Tastee Freeze was built beside Amos Ryan's grocery store on the comer of Wright Avenue and High Street. About this time, Mr. Harper and his partners opened the Lido Riverside, which expanded fine dining to the north side of Little Rock. He and his partners also founded Arkansas Frozen Foods, a processor and nation-wide distributor of Lido frozen candied yams, Lido navy bean soup, and Lido black-eyed peas. In his latter years, Mr. Harper was perhaps best known as the proprietor and operator of the Black Angus Charcoal Hamburger restaurants throughout the Little Rock area. The first opened in the early sixties on the comer of Markham and Van Buren.
Mr. Harper was a founding member and an early president of the Arkansas Restaurant Association; a member of the Little Rock Lions Club; a Sunday School teacher at Capitol View Methodist Church and later a Member of the Administrative Board of First United Methodist Church and the Music Leader of the Century Men's Bible Class. He had a life-long interest in music. As a young man he had taken voice lessons and tap dancing, and had sung for various events sponsored by the Women's City Club.
He was married
for 58 years to the late Mildred Murphy Harper, who died in 1993. He leaves three children: G. Neil Harper and wife Anne of Belmont, MA, Morris N. Harper and wife Nancy of Houston, TX, and Janis Harper Haydel and husband Paul of Richardson, TX; seven grandchildren, Robert Yost Harper of Hopkinsville, KY, Susanna Harper Gallant and her husband Richard William of Dunstable, MA, Walter Russell Harper and his wife Ruth Decker of Los Angeles, CA, Christopher Scott Harper and his wife Melanie Poth of Houston, TX, Sally Haydel Jones and her husband Bryan Preston of Houston, TX, Christopher Paul Haydel of Chicago, IL, and Michael Robert Haydel of College Station, TX; and three great-grandchildren, Mark Robert Gallant, Rachel Helen Anne Gallant, and Oliver Jacob Harper. Nothing was more important to Mr. Harper than his faith and his family.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, December 6, at 2:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Little Rock. Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Mildred and Oliver Harper Scholarship Fund at the Gertrude Butler Child Care Center at First United Methodist Church 723 Center Street 72201.
Geraldine McConnell Hight Hamer
Geraldine McConnell Hight Hamer, 93, of Little Rock passed away July 13, 2003. She was born
February 24, 1910 in Neosho, Missouri to Franklin M. McConnell and Hattie Ramey McConnell. She was preceded in death by her husband Chester F. Hight, who died in 1933, and Curtis Hamer, who died in 1959. She is survived by a sister Ruth McConnell Hunter, two children Aline Hight Brown of Wimberly, Texas and Dr. Chester F. Hight of Little Rock, Arkansas, 5 grandchildren: Mark Brown, Bethany Brown Lott, Dana Brown Scaief, Tracy Hight Sykes, Karen Hight Russell; and 8 great-grandchildren: Christopher Lott, Caitin Lott, Cameron Lott, Lindsay Scaief, Kevin Scaief, Brian Scaief, Courtney Sykes, and Taylor Sykes.
She grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas and later relocated to Little Rock. She was an active member of Pulaski Heights Presbyterian Church. Mema, as she was lovingly called by her grandchildren, was a strong woman with a very dry wit. Her family loved her dearly and will miss her very much.
A graveside service will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday at Pinecrest Memorial Gardens in Alexander with the Rev. Jim Miller officiating.
Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Our House, 408 S. Main, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201.
John Harvey Haley
John Harvey Haley, age 72, of Little Rock, died Thursday, December 4, 2003. Born in Hot Springs, Ark. to Harvey H. and Anne Tanner Haley, he graduated from high school in Siloam Springs, received his A.B. degree in 1952 from Emory University, where he was President of the Student Body and Vice-President of the National Student Governors Association, and obtained his LLB degree in 1955 from the University of Arkansas, where he was editor of the law review. Mr. Haley began his law career as a clerk for Judge George Rose Smith of the Arkansas Supreme Court and served as a partner with the Rose Law Firm in the 1960s before forming his own law practice and associating with a series of firms over the next 30 years.
Most recently, he was of counsel to Eichenbaum, Liles and Heister law firm and chairman of a private company that developed and managed commercial and industrial real estate in Arkansas and Tennessee. Mr. Haley gave generously of his time to public service. He was appointed by Governor Winthrop Rockefeller to serve as Chairman of the Arkansas Board of Corrections, where he pushed for reform of the Arkansas prison system. He also served as Chairman of the Arkansas Board of Law Examiners and the Arkansas Pardon and Parole Board. He was a director of the Morgan Owens Foundation for Deaf College Students and served on the Boards of the Florence Crittenden Foundation, the Wildwood Center for Performing Arts, and Southshore Foundation. He was director of the Harvey Haley Foundation and served as a Director of several Arkansas-based manufacturers and utilities. He was a member of the Arkansas and American Bar Associations.
John is survived by his wife, Cynthia Haley; four children: John S. Haley and his wife, Danette, of Little Rock; Susan H. Adams of Minneapolis; David C. Haley and his wife, Lori, of Dallas; and Anna Holmes of Little Rock; a sister, Mary Anne Young of Little Rock; eight grandchildren: Anne Louise Haley and Colleen Stuart Haley, of Little Rock; Christopher Adams and Andrew Adams, of Minneapolis; and David, Connor, Lauren, and Katherine Haley, of Dallas; and two nieces: Peggy Seamon and Lissa McCoy of Little Rock.
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Monday at St. James United Methodist Church in Little Rock with Rev. David Moore officiating under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to a charity in his honor.
William Marcus Halbrook
William Marcus Halbrook, of Little Rock, died December 17, 2003. He was born
at Zion, Arkansas on May 9, 1926, the third child of Dalton Clyde and Vera Haywood Halbrook. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn; his brother, Wendell B. Halbrook of Fort Worth, TX; his sisters, Mrs. W.C. Shofner (Elwanda) of Wayne, Oklahoma, Mrs. Jerry D. Otwell (Clyda) of Woodlands, TX, Mrs. George Wise (Hattie) of Forest City, AR; seven nieces and seven nephews. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Emily Halbrook.
After graduating High School in Batesville, Arkansas he attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where he received a degree in Public Administration. He was a graduate of The Arkansas Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1952. He began his career with the Bureau of Legislative Research and was named Director of Arkansas Legislative Council in 1953. He retired in 1987 after serving 34 years as director.
A graveside service will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday at Pinecrest Memorial Park with Rev. Jim Munns officiating.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the UAMS College of Nursing, Jean McClendon Scholarship Fund, 4301 West Markham Slot 529, Little Rock, AR 72205.
Carl Henry Habig, Jr.
Carl Henry Habig, Jr. 68, of Little Rock died Thursday, October, 23, 2003. He was born
in Little Rock and was a 1955 graduate of Little Rock High School and a member of Wilson's Tigers. Carl was one of the first master electricians in Little Rock and became owner of Habig Electric, a company founded by his father Carl, Sr. He was a member of First Lutheran Church before becoming a founding member of Christ Lutheran Church where he sang in the choir, taught Sunday School and was a Reading Friend to the children at Christ Lutheran School.
He is survived by his two daughters, Teresa Roth of Atlanta, GA, Carla Jones and her husband Darryl of Little Rock, one son, Chadwick (Buddy) Habig of Little Rock, his former wife and dearest friend, Peggy, a sister, Helen Makepeace of Henderson, NV, one granddaughter, Rachel Nicole Jones and three step-grandsons, Christopher, Aaron and D. J. Jones. Carl is also survived by his extended family and many friends. He will be remembered for his great wit, infectious charm and loyal friendships.
A visitation will be held from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Sunday at the Ruebel Funeral Home followed by a funeral service at 12:00 a.m. Monday at Christ Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Forest Hills Memorial Park. Memorials may be made to Christ Lutheran School 315 S. Hughes.
Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home.
