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Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas

ALICE MOORE

Funeral services for Alice Mae Moore, 81, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 1, 2004 at the MiracLE Temple, 229 South Coanza in West Helena. Burial will be at Jackson Memorial cemetery in Southland.

Visitation will be from 4 until 7 p.m. Friday, April 30, 2004.

Moore died April 25, 2004.

She is survived by four daughters; Vira Furlow Stokes of Little Rock, Bernice Wright of Carson, Ca., Sara Moore and Grace Hemphill both of Milwaukee, Wis., and two sons Walter Moore Jr. of Little Rock and Willie Moore of Milwaukee, Wis.

TYLER MILLER

Graveside services for Baby Tyler Jamir Miller will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 1, 2004 at Jackson Memorial Gardens in Lexa. The Rev. Danny Robinson will officiate.

Visitation will be from 10:30 until 11 a.m. Saturday, May 1, 2004 at the Brown's Home for Funerals Chapel.

Miller died on April 21, 2004.

Baby Miller leaves to cherish his memories, his parents, Katrina McIntosh and Carl Miller; two brothers, Courtney Beckwood Jr. and Qunvarous Miller; three sisters, Carleisha Miller, Lynzee Byrd, and Amiria Hicks; great grandmother, Josie Walker; great grandmother and great grandfather, Claude & Katherine Jackson; grandmother, Earlene Walker; grandfather & grandmother Joshua & Wilma McIntosh; and a host of uncles, aunts, cousins, and other relatives.

Brown's Home for Funerals will direct services.

ALISA WEBB

Private graveside services for Baby Alisa Webb will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 1, 2004 at the Jackson Memorial cemetery in Lexa. Elder Kim Smith will officiate.

Webb died on April 24, 2004.

WILLIAM GILL

Funeral services for Rev. William Clarence Eugene Gill, 65, of West Helena will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 1 at the Greater First Baptist Church in West Helena. The Rev. Arthur Hughes will officiate. Burial will be Monday, May 3, 2004 at the National Veterans cemetery in Little Rock.

Visitations will be 5 until 7 p.m., Friday, April 30, 2004, at the Greater First Baptist Church.

Gill, born Nov. 22, 1937 to the late Dan Gill Jr. and Mary Bolden in North Little Rock died April 21, 2004 at 12:10 a.m. at his home in West Helena.

He confessed his calling at the age of 11, in Chicago with the Church of God in Christ. He was a Vietnam Veteran and received an Honorable Discharge from the United States Army. Gill later became the head cook at the University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff. He later joined the First Baptist Church in Humphrey in 1989 where he served as co-pastor. He married and moved to West Helena where he joined the Greater First Baptist Church and served as Associate Pastor faithfully.

He was proceeded in death by his father, Dan Gill, his mother, Mary Bolden, four brothers, Robert, Dan Jr., Jesse Adoph, and four sisters, Leona Walker, Mattie Paxton, Hazel Brown, and Clemmiestine Gordon.

He leaves to cherish his memories his wife, Luella Gill, three step daughters, Taneka Carter, Larita Simmons, Chekibe Burchett; seven grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends, Godparents, Mr. & Mrs. Earl Wilson and adopted sister, JoAnne Wilson.

Brown's Home for Funerals will direct services.

WILLIAM KELLY

Funeral services for William Kelly of Helena will be held at 2:30 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church in Bolton, Miss. Kelly was born April 22, 1920 and died April 4, 2004 at Crestpark Nursing Home in Helena.

He had made his home in Helena for the past 44 years.

He leaves to cherish his memory, a son W.M. Kelly of Bolton, Miss., and a host of relatives and friends.

Stephens Funeral Home in West Helena will direct services.

FREDDIE GLADNEY

Funeral services for Freddie Gladney of Oneida will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 10, 2004 at the First Baptist Church in Oneida, Burial will be in the Oneida Community cemetery.

Visitation will be from 1 until 7 p.m. Friday, April 9 at the chapel of Jackson and Highley Funeral Home in West Helena.

He accepted Christ at an early age at the First Baptist Church in Oneida, under the leadership of Rev. Sterling King.

Gladney, born April 13, 1935 to Vernon and Nancy Gladney, died April 3, 2004 in Decatur, Ga.

He leaves to cherish his memory, a son Freddie Gladney Jr., his beloved mother Nancy Gladney; two sisters, Mildred and Ralph White of Stone Mountain, Ga., Emola and Jesse Clemons of West Helena; two brothers Vernon and Eura Gladney of Decatur, Ga., and Edward and Bobbie Gladney of Inglewood, Calif.; an aunt Theola Watts of West Helena and a host of relatives and friends.

Jackson and Highley Funeral Home will direct services.

CHRISTEN SULLIVAN

Funeral services for Christen Sullivan, 74, of Helena will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 10, 2004 at the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Helena. The Rev. Obie Fox will officiate. Burial will be in the Postelle cemetery.

Visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. Friday at the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Helena.

Sullivan, born Nov. 22, 1929 to the late Willie Cravens, died April 4, 2004 at her son's home in Helena.

She accepted Christ at an early age and later joined the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of the late Rev. P.L. Perkins, where she was a faithful member of the Mother's Board.

She was employed by the VA Hospital in Boston, Mass., where she retired after many years and returned to Arkansas and worked for the Helena-West Helena school District until she retired.

She leaves to cherish her memory a son James Higgins of Helena; eight grandchildren Diamond Higgins, Devante Higgins, Devone Higgins, Cherika Higgins all of Helena, Gloria Higgins, James Higgins, III, Geneva Pierson, and Tracey Higgins all of Boston; 19 great-grandchildren and a host of nieces nephews, cousins and friends.

Jackson and Highley Funeral Home will direct services.

SHARIKA PRINGLE

Graveside services for infant Shakira Pringle will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Jackson Memorial cemetery in Southland.

The infant died April 3, 2004 at Helena Regional Medical Center.

She leaves to cherish her memory her mother Shakia Pringle of West Helena.

HARRY WRIGHT

Harry Martin Wright, 71, of Palestine died Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at his home in Palestine. His death came sudden and unexpected.

Wright was born May 9, 1932, in Addison, Ala., and was the son of Homer Wright and Mary Hill Wright. He lived in Palestine most of his life, was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a member of the F.R.A. the Lions Club, and was a former Palestine City Council member and a member of the Goodwin Baptist Church.

Wright married Betty Sue Bryant in 1953, and she preceded in death in 1971. He married Virginia Steinbeck in 1972 and she survives him along with three sons; Harold Wright and Bradley Wright, both of Palestine, and Charley Wright of Wellford, S.C.; four daughters, Alma Wright of Palestine, Roxanne Pruitt and Pam Deen both of Marion, and Gloria Hooker of Forrest City; two brothers, Henry Wright and James Wright, both of Jasper, Ala., four sisters, Geraldine Sorrell of Clarksdale, Miss., Betty Faye Jones of West Helena, Alphie Mae Jones of Mellwood and Mary Alice Rose of Wabash, and fourteen grandchildren. He had one son, Floyd Wright, and a brother, Bob Wright, who proceeded him in death.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, 2004 at the chapel of Stevens Funeral Home in Forrest City. Burial will be in Forrest Park cemetery.

Visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. this evening at the funeral home.

Stevens Funeral Home will direct services.

ARGENTARA MOORE

Funeral services for Argentara Moore, 72, of Marvell will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 10 at the St. Luke M.B. Church. The Rev. Gillespie will officiate.

Burial will be in the Lone Valley cemetery in Marvell.

Moore died Saturday, April 3, 204 at Helena Regional Medical Center.

Brown's Home for Funerals will direct services.

WILLIE L. CARPENTER

Willie Lee Carpenter, 55, of San Francisco, Calif., formerly of West Helena died April 5, 2004 in California.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Brown's Home for Funerals.

MINNIE MITCHELL

Minnie Mitchell of West Helena died April 8, 2004 at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Brown's Home for Funerals.

SHERMAN FRIERSON

Funeral services for Sherman Frierson, 54, of the Southland Community will be held at noon Saturday, April 10, 2004 at the Springlake Baptist Church in the Southland Community. The Rev. Preston Taylor will officiate. Burial will be in Bradley cemetery in the Southland Community.

Visitation will be from 2 until 6 p.m. today at the Chapel of Stephens Funeral Home.

Frierson, born Jan. 6, 1950, in the Southland Community, died April 7, 2004 at the Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. He attended Rosenwald School and Eliza Miller High School in West Helena. He lived in Memphis, for 32 years where he worked for Pepper Rite for 25 years. He moved back to the Southland Community with his mother in November of 2001.

He leaves to cherish his memory, his mother Mattie Frierson of Southland; four sisters, Alma, Janice, Virgie and Connie all of Matteson, Ill., ten brothers and their families, Audrey and Shirley Frierson, Elmer Frierson Jr., and wife Ora of Illinois, Val Frierson of Southland, Hugh Frierson of St., Paul, Minn., Lennie and Tina Frierson of Indiana, Marty Frierson of Dallas, Texas, Gwaun Frierson of Oklahoma, Lawrence Frierson Joshua Frierson and Shiloh Frierson of Arizona, and a host of uncles, aunts, nieces nephews, cousins and friends.

Stephens Funeral Home will direct services.

Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland And Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas

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