In our Care

Jul 26, 2011

Robert A. Tolson Sr., age 89 of Cleveland County, died, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. He was born June 19, 1922, in Rison, a son of the late Roy Tolson and Mae Bridges Tolson. Mr. Tolson was a 1940 graduate of Rison High School. He received his Bachelors degree in 1948 from the University of Arkansas at Monticello...

Jul 25, 2011

Shon Zachary Smith, age 18 of Sheridan, Arkansas, died Monday, July 25, 2011. He was born March 16, 1993 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Charles Chuck Smith and Misty Alynn Schultz. Shon attended Glen Rose High School and also Little Creek Baptist Church. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and anything that involved the outdoors. Shon also enjoyed skateboarding...

Jul 22, 2011

James Eugene Smith, age 63 of Pine Bluff, died, Friday, July 22, 2011 at his home. He was born July 21, 1948 in Little Rock, a son of the late James Ivy Smith and Helen Marie Miller Smith. Mr. Smith retired from the United States Navy after thirty years of service. He loved singing, hunting and fishing...

Jul 21, 2011

Ruby Mitchell King, age 71 of Springdale, formally of Rison, died, Thursday, July 21, 2011 at her home. She was born June 11, 1940 in Kingsland, a daughter of the late T. O. Mitchell and Florence McMurtrey Mitchell. Mrs. King retired from Tyson Foods after thirty years of service and was a member of Rison Baptist Church....

Jul 18, 2011

Robert Ira (Pappaw) Roberts, age 68 of Pine Bluff died, Monday, July 18, 2011 at Gardner Nursing Home in Star City. He was born February 22, 1943 in Pine Bluff, a son of the late Alexander Roberts and Irene Brown Roberts. Mr. Roberts was a graduate of Rison High School; and a fork lift driver for Hoover...

Jul 17, 2011

Ann Norton, age 82 of Rison, went to be with the Lord, Sunday, July 17, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born October 4, 1928, a daughter of the late Clifford Elder and Jennie Day Elder. Mrs. Norton was a high school and Bible College graduate. She was a homemaker and a caregiver for the...

Jul 11, 2011

James Harold (Red) Power, age 59 of Rison, died Monday, July 11, 2011 at his home. He was born March 24, 1952 in Pine Bluff, a son of the late Martin Edward Power and Bea Hamilton Rembowski of Pine Bluff. Mr. Power was a 1972 graduate of Pine Bluff High School. He married Brenda Greenlee on June...

Jul 10, 2011

Helen Floyd Roberts, age 89 of Rowell, died Sunday, July 10, 2011 at her home. She was born November 18, 1921 in Palmyra, a daughter of the late Henry and Ora Henderson Floyd. Mrs. Roberts married Jessie Lee Roberts on October 6, 1939 in Rowell. She was a homemaker and member of Center Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs....

Jul 10, 2011

Herman Tap Hyatt Jr., age 77 of Rison, went to be with the Lord Sunday, July 10, 2011 at his home. He was born on April 8, 1934 in Cleveland County, a son of the late Herman Clifton Hyatt Sr., and Clarice Holderfield Hyatt. Mr. Hyatt retired from Potlatch in Arkansas City, where he was a Millwright...

Jun 29, 2011

Laura Brown, age 38 of the Macedonia Community near Rison, died Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at her home. She was born November 5, 1972, in Andrews, Texas, a daughter of the late Lawrence Dennis and Glenna Andrews Dennis. Mrs. Brown was a 1993 graduate of Rison High School. She was a homemaker and member of Macedonia Missionary...

Jun 24, 2011

Clifton William Slim Simmons, age 87 of Rison, passed away Friday, June 24, 2011 at the Green House Cottages of Southern Hills Nursing Home in Rison. He was born June 7, 1924 in New Edinburg, the eighth of ten children of the late Henry James Simmons and Mattie Lee Sims Simmons. Mr. Simmons was a farmer and...

Jun 18, 2011

Grady Pat Grider, age 72 of White Hall, died Saturday, June 18, 2011 at his home. He was born May 14, 1939 in Rowell, a son of the late Lester Grider and Maggie Spakes Grider. Mr. Grider attended Woodlawn High School. He retired from the United States Army, having served in Vietnam, where he was awarded the...

Jun 18, 2011

Harvey Dean Massey, age 63 of Grapevine, Arkansas died Saturday June 18, 2011. He was born July 27, 1947 in Reno Nevada to the late Everett Leslie and Opal Virgina Massey. Harvey was a member of Bethany #1 Missionary Baptist Church, Grapevine, Arkansas. He was a graduate of Grapevine High School, a United States Marine Corp Veteran,...

Jun 4, 2011

Ophie Harper Ryburn, 95, of Pine Bluff, died Saturday, June 4th at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born December 31, 1915 in Cleveland County, Arkansas to Daniel Govan Harper and Irene Vinson Harper.

Mrs. Ryburn was reared in Pansy, Arkansas and attended Woodlawn Schools. She married John Wharton Ryburn, Jr. (J.W.) in 1934. Together...

Jun 3, 2011

Maxine Reed Rogers age 79 of Pine Bluff, went to be with the Lord Friday, June 3, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born April 18, 1932 in Rison, a daughter of the late William Jack Reed and Mary Audrey Broach Reed Ballew. Mrs. Rogers was a homemaker, and enjoyed gospel singing and bowling. She...

Jun 2, 2011

Dewey Dude Edward Cotton of Sheridan, Arkansas was born February 7, 1923, the son of the late Henry and Eliza Cotton. He was a member of Hope Pentecostal Church in Sheridan and an honorary member of Taylor Smith Hunting Club. He served in the Army during World War II in Germany by building bridges. Dewey and was...

May 24, 2011

Pebbel Lee Smith Taylor, ( 91), formerly of Rison, Arkansas died May 24, 2011 in Lufkin, Texas. She was born June 4, 1919 in Grant County, Arkansas and was the daughter of Ethel Virginia (Carleton) and George Griffin Smith. Her family was among the early pioneers in Grant County, Arkansas and included her maternal grandparents Margaret Jane...

May 23, 2011

Charles Ray Briant, age 89 of the Rowell Community, died Monday, May 23, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. He was born on July 15, 1921 in New Edinburg, a son of the late Walter Cleveland Briant and Mattie B. Thompson Briant. Mr. Briant served in the United States Army during World War II;...

May 11, 2011

Verdie Elizabeth Rauls Reap, age 97 of Rison, died Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at the Greenhouse Cottages of Southern Hills Nursing Home. She was born on March 27, 1914 in Herbine, a daughter of the late Bester Moore Rauls and Zelphia Puckett Rauls. Mrs. Reap attended school at the two room school house at Herbine. She enjoyed...

May 10, 2011

Carthel Lee Harris, age 84 of Sheridan, Arkansas, died Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at his home. He was born September 29, 1926 in Prattsville, Arkansas, a son of the late Harvey L. Harris and Vida E. Hope. Mr. Harris was a retired Iron worker. He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, and fishing. Mr. Harris attended Bethany #1 Missionary...