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Billy Joe Arnett, Sr.

Billy Joe Arnett, Sr.

Sep 29, 2009

MR. BILLY JOE BILL ARNETT, SR. 76 of Emmet, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at his home. He was born in Nevada County, Arkansas on September 14, 1933, to Sidney and Beulah Lee Fugett Arnett. He was a retired corrosion technician with Arkla/Centerpoint Energy having had 30 years of service. He was a member of the First Baptist...

William "Bill" Brooks

William "Bill" Brooks

Sep 25, 2009

Mr. William "Bill" Brooks, 83, of Yukon, Oklahoma, was born and raised on a farm near Blevins, Arkansas, the son of Zack and Opal Mitchell Brooks. After moving to Evansville, Indiana in the late 1940's, he became a skilled and dedicated employee for International Harvester and later Whirlpool Corporation for 40 years at the refrigerator manufacturing plant located on U.S....

Dr. Daniel Louis Pilkinton

Dr. Daniel Louis Pilkinton

Sep 20, 2009

Daniel Louis Pilkinton, 87, of Little Rock, was born November 10, 1921 to the late Ivason and Louise Betts Pilkinton of Washington, Arkansas and died September 20, 2009 at a local health center. He graduated from Washington High School and Henderson State Teachers College, earned a Masters Degree from Peabody College and a Doctorate from the University of Arkansas at...

Rex Christopher Sundberg

Rex Christopher Sundberg

Sep 17, 2009

Infant Rex Christopher Sundberg, passed away Thursday, September 17, 2009, at U.A.M.S Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas. He was born September 9, 2009, at U.A.M.S. in Little Rock, Arkansas to his parents, Valerie Dee Fife Sundberg and Christopher Glen Sundberg. His survivors include: His parents: Valerie Dee Fife Sundberg and Christopher Glen Sundberg, Hope, Arkansas. His Paternal Grandparents: Jerry and Sandra...

George William Hair

George William Hair

Sep 13, 2009

Mr. George William Hair, 80, Spring Hill, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, September 13, 2009, at Medical Park Hospital, Hope, Arkansas. He was born in Shover Springs, Arkansas on August 12, 1929 to George Porter and William Thomas Willie Love, III, Hair. He was a retired welder, gardener, hog farmer and in the lawncare business. He was a member of the...

Earl Moody

Earl Moody

Sep 11, 2009

Mr. Earl Blessing Moody, 74 of Hope, (Formerly of Lonoke, Arkansas) passed away Friday, September 11, 2009, in Medical Park Hospital, Hope. He was born on September 25, 1934, in Lonoke, Arkansas and his parents were Elmer and Maudie Moody. He was a retired truck driver for Coleman Dairy. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife and...

Evelyn Sue Chism

Evelyn Sue Chism

Sep 3, 2009

Mrs. Evelyn Sue Chism, 69, of Canyon Lake, Texas, formerly of Prescott, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, September 3, 2009, at her home in Canyon Lake, Texas. She was born March 17, 1940 in Memphis, Tenn., to Harry Jewell and Nannie Gertrude Lockwood Keeley. She was a homemaker; a nurse; a Methodist; and a believer in God. When she passed away...

William "Bill" Harding, Sr.

William "Bill" Harding, Sr.

Sep 3, 2009

Mr. William "Bill" Harding, Sr., 88 of Hope, Arkansas passed away on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. He was born in Longview, Texas on January 19, 1921 to Hardie and Irene Wood Leath. He was in mining and ran a refinery. He was a Baptist and an Army Veteran of World War II. He was...

Gearldine Marie Miller Campbell

Gearldine Marie Miller Campbell

Sep 2, 2009

Mrs. Gearldine Marie Miller Campbell, 72 of Bodcaw passed away early this morning, September 2, 2009 at her home in Bodcaw. She was born in Nevada County, Ark. on July 9, 1937 to Elwood and Maudie M. Almand Miller. She was a licensed practical nurse and an active member of Union Baptist Church, Bodcaw, Ark. She was preceded in death...

Donald Albert Avery

Donald Albert Avery

Aug 30, 2009

Dr. Donald Albert Avery, 74 of Little Rock, Arkansas, formerly of Prescott and Arkadelphia, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, August 30, 2009,in a local hospital. He was born January 5, 1935, in Prescott, Arkansas, to Ernest Earl and Jessie Permelia Landers Avery. He received his P.H.D. in Physics from Texas A. & M. He was a retired physics professor at Henderson...

Udell Samuels Lloyd

Udell Samuels Lloyd

Aug 28, 2009

Mrs. Udell Samuels Lloyd, 93 of Hope passed away August 28, 2009 at her home in Hope, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Jesse James Samuel and Elizabeth Cummings Samuels. She is preceded in death by her husband, William Steve Lloyd. She is survived by her Three Sons: Don Lloyd, Hope; Jim Lloyd, Texarkana, Texas; Jack Lloyd, Arkadelphia, Arkansas; Two...

Dorothy Jean Smith

Dorothy Jean Smith

Aug 27, 2009

Mrs. Dorothy Smith, 78, of Prescott, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, August 27, 2009, at Medical Park Hospital, Hope, Arkansas. She was born in Emmet, Ark. on September 26, 1930 to Nick and Trudie Harden and graduated from Emmet High School. She was a homemaker and mother. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John D. Smith; by...

Horace W. "Junior" Buggs, Jr.

Horace W. "Junior" Buggs, Jr.

Aug 26, 2009

Mr. Horace W. "Junior" Buggs, Jr., 80, of Hope passed away this morning at his home in Hope. He was born in Delight, Arkansas, on July 29, 1929, to Horace Wilford Bugg, Sr. and Mary Ann Evans Bugg. He was a retired timber contractor and former owner/operator of a small engine repair shop in Hope, Ark. He was a Baptist...

Velma Collins Brown

Velma Collins Brown

Aug 24, 2009

Mrs. Velma F. Collins Brown, 91, of Spring Hill, Arkansas, passed away Monday, August 24, 2009, at Medical Park Hospital, Hope, Arkansas. She was born in Spring Hill, Ark. on October 18, 1917 to Jesse Carr and Emma Aline Turner Collins. She was a retired dairy farmer; a member of Spring Hill United Methodist Church, Spring Hill, Ark.;she loved quilting...

Peggy Sue Bush Hampton

Peggy Sue Bush Hampton

Aug 19, 2009

Mrs. Peggy Sue Bush Hampton, 77, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at Hillcrest Care and Rehab, Prescott, Arkansas. She was born in Alton, Ark. on March 16, 1932 to Charles Holly and Ellen Tabitha Stanley Bush. She was a retired bank teller with First National Bank of Hope. She was preceded in death by her parents;...

Mary Marie Mullins Allen

Mary Marie Mullins Allen

Aug 16, 2009

Mrs. Mary Marie Mullins Allen, 90, of Bodcaw, Arkansas passed away Sunday, August 16, 2009, at Medical Park Hospital, Hope, Ark. She was born in Bodcaw, Arkansas, on January 25, 1919, to Nute and Mary Pickard Mullins. She was retired from the former Clyde Davis Photography Studio in Hope. She was a member of the Bodcaw # 1 Baptist Church,...

Betty Jane Grove

Betty Jane Grove

Aug 9, 2009

Mrs. Betty Jane Grove, 64, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, August 9, 2009, in Christus St. Michael Health System, Texarkana, Texas. She was born June 28, 1945, in Rock Island, Illinois to Dale Joseph and Arlene Curry Hamerlinck. She was a homemaker and mother and member of Providence Memorial Baptist Church of Perrytown, Ark. She was preceded in death...

Jerry Wayne Waller

Jerry Wayne Waller

Aug 7, 2009

Mr. Jerry Wayne Waller, 62, of Windom, Texas, (Formerly of Hope, Arkansas,) passed away Friday, August 7, 2009 in Red River Regional Hospital, Bonham, Texas. He was born in Hope, Arkansas, on November 6, 1946, to Benjamin and Maggie Mae Higgs Waller. He had an associates degree in electronics and was an electronics technician with Texas Instruments in Sherman, Texas....

John Teeter

John Teeter

Aug 4, 2009

Mr. John W. Teeter, Jr., 88, Prescott, passed away Tuesday, August 4, 2009, in Lakeside Nursing Home, Lake City, Arkansas. He was born September 14, 1920, at his grandparents' home in Van Buren, Arkansas; lived in Nevada County, briefly at Bodcaw, mostly in Prescott, until moving to Jonesboro in 2002 to be near his sister and her children. He always...

Terry Kidd

Terry Kidd

Aug 3, 2009

Mr. G. Terry Kidd, 65, of Spring Hill, Arkansas passed away Monday, August 3, 2009, in Christus St. Michael Hospital, Texarkana, Texas. He was born in Hope, Ark. on March 1, 1944 to George A. and Ruth Mary Ross Kidd. He was a self-employed logger and poultry farmer; former heavy equipment operator; former employee of Barrys Market and Hempstead County...

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