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Vergil Lee Jackson
Jan 24, 2011
Mr. Vergil Lee Jackson, age 89, of Willisville, Arkansas, passed away on Monday, January 24, 2011. He was born in Rosston, Arkansas, on November 28, 1921, to Henry Bunyon and Ida Leona Pinkerton Jackson. He was a Machine Tender at IP in Camden, Arkansas, a veteran of World War II where he was the awarded Four Bronze Stars, for Campaigns...
Dr. John Emmet Peters
Jan 22, 2011
Dr. John Emmett Peters, 93 of Hope, Arkansas passed away Saturday, January 22, 2011. Dr. Peters was born in Houston, Texas on Thursday, August 30, 1917 to John Emmet and Mary Zetta Joseph Peters. He was a retired child psychiatrist and a US Navy veteran of WWII serving as a Pharmacist Mate First Class. He was preceded in death by...
Charles Lee Carter, Sr.
Jan 19, 2011
Mr. Charles Lee Carter, Sr. age 60, of Nashville, Arkansas, passed away on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, in Ozan, Arkansas. He was born in East Prairie, Missouri, on December 15, 1950, to Elzie and Ethel Mae Kilgore Carter. He was an Truck Driver and of the Baptist Faith. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and one...
Mary Pennington
Jan 11, 2011
Mrs. Mary Ellen Warren Pennington, age 94, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, passed away on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She was born April 2, 1916, in Hempstead County, Arkansas, to William and Henretta Collins Warren. She was a homemaker and member of Antioch Baptist Church. She married Isaac Pennington of Curtis, Arkansas....
Elsie "Picky" Kale
Jan 8, 2011
Mrs. Picky Kale, 76 of McCaskill, Arkansas passed away Saturday, January 8, 2011 in a Texarkana, Texas hospital. She was a home maker and the widow of Richard S. Kale III and the daughter of Monroe Herman and Effie Ellen Green Hicks. Picky attended the Friendship United Methodist Church in McCaskill, Arkansas. Mrs. Kale is survived by her son; Edward...
Howard Wayne Moten
Jan 6, 2011
Mr. Howard Wayne Moten, age 71, of Mandeville, Arkansas, formerly of McNab, Arkansas, passed away on Thursday, January 6, 2011, at Christus St. Michael Health System in Texarkana, Texas. He was born in McNab, Arkansas on March 24, 1939 to William Ernest and Ruth Elizabeth Clayton Moten. He was a diesel mechanic an a Baptist. He was preceded in death...
Margaret Louise Fowler
Jan 4, 2011
Mrs. Margaret Louise Fowler, age 84, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, in Austin, Texas. She was born on August 5, 1926, in Limestone County, Texas, to John B. and Ella Lenamond, where she was also raised. She met and married James S. Fowler in 1944, just prior to him leaving for WWII. Due to the...
Larry Gibson
Jan 3, 2011
Mr. Larry Don Gibson, age 52, of Prescott, Arkansas, passed away on Monday, January 3, 2011, at Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was born May 14, 1958, in Delight, Arkansas, to Willie and Zeta Mae Pipkins Gibson. He was a US Marine Corp Veteran, a farm laborer and attended the Place of Meeting Church in Hope, Arkansas....
James Randolph Buie
Jan 2, 2011
James Randolph Buie, passed away on Sunday, January 2, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. Jim was born April 4, 1937, in Prescott, Ark. He was a retired carpenter who resided in Grand Prairie, Texas. James was preceded in death by his Father, William Randolph Buie; Mother, Della Harris Buie; and sisters, Mary Cox and Lit Litton. He will forever be loved...
Rachael Leigh Beard
Dec 31, 2010
Ms. Rachael Leigh Beard, 26 of Hope, Arkansas passed away on Friday, December 31, 2010 in Texarkana, Texas. Rachael was a Sales Associate with The Buckle Shop in Texarkana and was a member of the New Hope Baptist Church in Hope, Arkansas. Rachael is survived by her Mother, Audra Benham and husband, Rodney, Russellville, AR, her Father, Mark Beard, Texarkana,...
John R. "Bobby" Hicks, Sr.
Dec 28, 2010
Mr. John R. Bobby Hicks, Sr, age 75, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on Tuesday, December 28, 2010, in Dubuis Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. He was born August 1, 1935, in Columbus, Arkansas, to Herbert and Verda Hicks. He was a member of Central Baptist Church in Magnolia, Arkansas. He was owner and operator of Hicks Automotive in Magnolia, Arkansas,...
Virgil Brown
Dec 26, 2010
Mr. Virgil Emory Brown, age 84, of Blevins, Arkansas, passed away on Sunday, December 26, 2010, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He was born in Abilene, Texas, on November 6, 1926, to Herman and Ruby Nuckols Brown. He was of the Methodist Faith, an Army Veteran and a retired construction worker. He was preceded in death by his...
Leavel Gibson
Dec 26, 2010
Mr. Leavel Gibson, age 68, of Prescott, Arkansas, passed away on Sunday, December 26, 2010, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Gibson was born in Gould, Arkansas on June 1, 1942, as the sixth of eight siblings. He attended Rankin Chapel Elementary School, Gould Elementary School, and graduated third in his class from Reed High School in Dumas, Arkansas in 1961....
Houston Gunter
Dec 22, 2010
Mr. James Houston Gunter, Sr., age 91, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2010, at his home in Hope. He was born in College Hill, Arkansas, on August 10, 1919, to Wylie E. and Beulah Elizabeth Smith Gunter. He was a retired lumberman, member of the First Baptist Church in Hope, member of the Masonic Lodge #440...
George Doan
Dec 21, 2010
Mr. George Thomas Doan, age 54, of Prescott, Arkansas, passed away on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on April 12, 1956, to George Oscar and Sarah Irene Gilbert Doan. He was member of the First Assembly of God Church in Prescott, Arkansas. He was preceded in death...
Lorene Hunt Steed
Dec 17, 2010
Mrs. Lorene Hunt Steed, 72 of Prescott, Arkansas passed away on Friday, December 17, 2010 in Medical Park Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. Mrs. Steed was the daughter of Raymond and Nona Mae Davis Hunt and was the wife of the late Cecil Pete Steed. She was a Home Maker and a member of the First Nazarene Church of Prescott, Arkansas....
Dorothy B. Moore
Dec 13, 2010
Mrs. Dorothy Moore, age 95, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on Monday, December 13, 2010, at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, just 11 days short of her 96th birthday. Mrs. Moore was born in Stamps, Arkansas, on December 24, 1914, the fourth child of Robert W. and Alice Mitchell Yarbrough. Her beloved husband, Donald V. Moore of Hope,...
Elmer Sorrells
Dec 13, 2010
Mr. Elmer Ernest Sorrells, age 73, of Spring Hill, Arkansas, fondly called PeePaw went home to be with the Lord on Monday, December 13, 2010, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He was born on February 19, 1937, in Big Springs, Texas, to Elmer and Leona Francis Belcher Sorrells. He was an army veteran and a truck driver for...
Noemi Alili Reza
Dec 13, 2010
Baby Noemi Aleli Reza, age 1, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on Monday, December 13, 2010, at her home. She was born on November 25, 2009, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Miguel Angel and Maribel Rosas Reza. She Is Survived By: Her Parents: Miguel Angel and Maribel Rosas Reza, Hope, Arkansas. Her Brother: Mizraim Yeriel Reza, Hope, Arkansas; Her Sister:...
Margie Powell
Dec 10, 2010
Mrs. Margie Powell, 84, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on December 10, 2010, at the Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She was born Margie Miriam ONeal in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on December 23, 1925, to Ernest Paul and Norma Miriam ONeal. She moved with her family back to Hope, Arkansas, in 1928, where her father a Hope...
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