Obituaries
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Dovie Marie Middleton Boyd Mayberry
Mar 29, 2017
Dovie Marie Middleton Boyd Mayberry, age 97 of Rison passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Mrs. Mayberry was born October 13, 1919 in Ada, Arkansas which is located in Conway County. Dovie was the daughter of the late Alexander and Minnie Belle Albey Middleton and a widow of Ervin Thomas Mayberry, whom she married at Star City...
Julianna Grace Rhodes
Mar 25, 2017
Julianna Grace Rhodes, infant daughter of John Julian Rhodes and Samantha Davila passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 25, 2017 at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Julianna was born March 6, 2017 in Little Rock, Arkansas. During her nineteen short days here on Earth she touched many lives and was loved deeply by family and friends. She is preceded...
Jw Holloway
Mar 24, 2017
JW Holloway, 91, of Griffithville, died March 24, 2017 at his residence. He was born March 23, 1926 at Jasmine, Arkansas to the late John Wesley and Bertha Ellen Fry Holloway. He was a member of Griffithville Methodist Church and a 1944 graduate of Griffithville High School. He was a retired Chief Petty Officer of the United States Navy,...
Yvonne (Rutherford) Cole
Mar 23, 2017
Yvonne Cole, 70, of Pangburn, passed away March 23, 2017 at her residence. She was born July 18, 1946 at Lafayette, Tennessee. She worked for many years at the former Vickers and then EATON factory in Searcy and was a member of 4 Mile Hill Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her father, Junior Rutherford; brother,...
Ruby Joan Watkins
Mar 22, 2017
Visitation Friday March 24, 2017 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Stuttgart Holiness Church 1002 South Prairie Street Stuttgart, AR 72160 Funeral Service Saturday March 25, 2017 10:00 AM Stuttgart Holiness Church 1002 South Prairie Street Stuttgart, AR 72160 Interment Bayless Cemetery Hwy 152 Humphrey, AR 72073
Lisa Gaye Wood
Mar 21, 2017
Memorial Service Saturday April 22, 2017 1:00 PM Oak Bowery Baptist Church 889 Otto Road Conway, AR 72032
Louise Mitchell
Mar 20, 2017
Louise Mitchell, age 70 of Kingsland went to be with the Lord on Monday, March 20, 2017 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Mrs. Mitchell was born November 30, 1946 in Kingsland, Arkansas to John Jones and Iris Kathleen Mitchell. She was a retired school teacher, having taught for both, Brinkley and Elaine Public...
Curtis "Sam" Edwards
Mar 15, 2017
Curtis "Sam" Edwards, age 68 of Rison passed away Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Mr. Edwards was born March 18, 1948 in Rison, Arkansas, to Eddie Edwards and Alma F. Davis Edwards Nork. He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Opal Ashcraft, Erma Lee Reynolds and Esther Thompson and two brothers, Gene Edwards and Albert...
Lawrence Lybrand
Mar 12, 2017
Lawrence Earnest Lybrand, age 91, of Sheridan passed away Sunday, March 12, 2017 at his home. He was born October 18, 1925 in the Shiloh Community in Grant County, the son of the late John Bruce Lybrand and Virgie Myrtice Reeves Lybrand. Mr. Lybrand retired as mechanic and farmer. He was a member, as well as a...
Robbie Sue Miller
Mar 9, 2017
Robbie Sue Miller, age 86 of Rison, passed away Thursday, March 9, 2017 in Rison. She was born September 18, 1930 in Glenwood, Arkansas to the late Polk Haskel and Myrtle Heathcock Haggard. On June 3, 1951 she married Don Miller in Rison, Arkansas. Mrs. Miller was a school teacher for Rison Public Schools for 41 years....
Lillian Ruth Ludwick
Mar 9, 2017
Lillian Ruth Ludwick, age 70 of Pine Bluff passed away Thursday, March 9, 2017 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. Mrs. Ludwick was born September 5, 1946 in Kingsland, Arkansas, to the late James Ivey and Helen Marie Miller Smith. She was a graduate of Kingsland High School and a member of Victory Baptist Church...
Joseph Allen Best
Mar 8, 2017
Joseph Allen Best, age 60 of West Memphis, Arkansas entered into eternal rest on March 8, 2017 at his home. He was born September 8, 1956. Mr. Best was a member of Angels Way Baptist Church, employed as Crittenden County Road Supervisor and a former United States Marine. He is preceded in death by his mother, Luna...
Michele Lea (Houston) Bourgeois
Mar 8, 2017
Michele Houston Bourgeois, 45, of Pangburn, went to be with the Lord March 8, 2017 following a valiant fight with lung cancer. She was born November 5, 1971 at Heber Springs, Arkansas. Michele was a 1990 graduate of Pangburn High School and attended Oak Grove Community Church. Her family was her life; she was a loving mother, grandmother, and...
Marian Lavon Reed Veazey
Mar 7, 2017
Marian Lavon Reed Veazey, age 88, of Tucson, Arizona went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Marian was born November 25, 1928 in Rison, Arkansas, the third child of the late Jack Reed and Bertha Lee Chapman Reed. She graduated from Rison High School in May of 1946 and that same month she...
Ricky D. Cockrell
Mar 7, 2017
Ricky D. Cockrell, age 61 of the Rowell Community went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. Mr. Cockrell was born December 29, 1955 in Bastrop, Louisiana, to Ray and Bobbie Sturdivant Cockrell. At the age of sixteen Ricky graduated from Auctioneer School and was a...
Thomas Dale Cossey
Mar 7, 2017
Thomas Cossey Sr., 65, of McRae, passed away March 7, 2017 at his residence. He was born June 8, 1951 at Bakersfield, California to the late Arie and Katherine James Eastridge. He attended Jacksonville High School and graduated UALR in 1984 with a degree in accounting. Mr. Cossey was a member of McRae First Baptist Church and enjoyed talking...
Eugene Huff
Mar 6, 2017
Eugene Huff, 85, of Searcy, formerly of Kensett, passed away March 6, 2017 at The Crossing in Searcy. He was born August 3, 1931 at Pleasant Plains, Arkansas to the late Ben and Lilly Summers Huff. He was preceded in death by three wives, Ressie Williams Huff, Katherine Goff Huff, and Gypsy Pruitt Huff; one sister, Mae Godfrey; and...
Mildred Ruth (Johnson) Huggins
Mar 5, 2017
Mildred Ruth Huggins, 88, of Judsonia, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, March 5, 2017. She was born April 19, 1928 in Clinton, Arkansas to the late Christopher Columbus Johnson and Sallie Jane Folks Johnson. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by eight siblings, two husbands, Bennie Thompson and LD Huggins; one son,...
Martin C Hawkins
Mar 4, 2017
Martin C. Hawkins III, was born May 20, 1930 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the only son of Dr. Martin C. Hawkins Jr. and his wife, Marion Alexander. His family later moved to Searcy, where he grew up. After a brief but eventful enrollment at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, he learned the ins and outs of the farming...
