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Margie Burrow

Margie Burrow

May 23, 2009

Mrs. Margie Neal Burrow, 81 of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on Saturday, May 23, 2009, at Medical Park Hospital, Hope, Arkansas. She was born in Rusk County, Texas on June 19, 1927 to Andrew Woodard Conway, Sr. and Bina Ella Hennigan Conway. She was a owner/operator of a fishing marina in Shelby County, Texas. She was a Baptist. She was...

Robert O'Neal Hickson

Robert O'Neal Hickson

May 21, 2009

Mr. Robert O'Neal Hickson, 83 of Fulton, Arkansas passed away on Thursday, May 21, 2009 in Medical Park Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He was born in Friendship, Ark. on January 17, 1926, to Andrew and Reba Boles Hickson. He was a retired truck driver. He was a Baptist, former member of the teamster union and played the steel guitar. He...

Jodie Everett Waddle

Jodie Everett Waddle

May 21, 2009

MR. JODIE EVERETT WADDLE, 91 , of Mineral Springs, Arkansas (Formerly of Prescott, Arkansas), passed away on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at his home. He was born on April 1, 1918, in Nevada County, Ark. to J.H. and Martha Loe Waddle. He was a retired area foreman with the Arkansas Highway Department with 25 years of service. He was a...

Gladys Beatrice Hartsfield

Gladys Beatrice Hartsfield

May 21, 2009

Mrs. Gladys Hartsfield, 95 of Hope, Arkansas passed away on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at Medical Park Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. She was born in Hempstead County, Arkansas on October 6, 1913 to Willie Williams and Effie Sutton Williams. She was a homemaker. She was a member of the Holly Grove Methodist Church, Jakie Jones Community, Ark. She was preceded...

Jonathan L. Crane

Jonathan L. Crane

May 20, 2009

Mr. Jonathan L. Crane, 21, of Roy, Utah, formerly of Mena, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2009, in Roy, Utah. He was born July 21, 1987 in Hope, Arkansas to the late Lance McClare Crane and Rhonda Darilek. He was a store clerk by profession and was a loving husband, son, father and brother. Jonathan is survived by his...

Marjorie Adair Russell

Marjorie Adair Russell

May 20, 2009

Mrs. Marjorie Adair Russell,61 of Houston, Texas formerly of Prescott passed away on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Graveside Services will be 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Sweet Home Cemetery, Prescott, Arkansas. Arrangements By Brazzel/Cornish Funeral Home, Prescott, Arkansas.

Johnny Owen Purtle

Johnny Owen Purtle

May 18, 2009

Mr. Johnny Owen Purtle, 61, of Perrytown, Arkansas, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2009, at Wadley Regional Medical Center, Texarkana, Texas. He was born in Nevada County, Ark. on Dec. 24, 1947, to Harlon and Minnie Allene Tye Purtle. He was a truck driver with Southern Bakeries of Hope and the former Meyers Bakery of Hope with 30 years...

Micheal Tye Beavers

Micheal Tye Beavers

May 18, 2009

Mr. Micheal Tye Beavers, 31, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away Monday, May 18, 2009, at Medical Park Hospital, Hope, Arkansas. He was born in Hope, Arkansas on December 14, 1977 to David W. and Sharon Huckabee Beavers. He was a self employed laborer. He was a Baptist . HIS SURVIVORS INCLUDE: HIS FATHER: David W. Beavers, Hope, Ark. His Mother:...

Marjorie Bess Crawford

Marjorie Bess Crawford

May 16, 2009

Mrs. Marjorie Bess Crawford, 97, of Maumelle, Arkansas, passed away Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Good Shepherd Nursing and Rehab, Little Rock, Ark. She lived most of her life in Fordyce, Ark. where she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. She worked for the former Fordyce Company and then Georgia Pacific in the payroll department. She was an...

Paul M. (Mickey) Holt

Paul M. (Mickey) Holt

May 15, 2009

MR. PAUL M. ( MICKEY ) HOLT, 60, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away on Friday, May 15, 2009, as a result of an automobile accident in Hope, Arkansas. He was born on October 21, 1948, in Nashville, Arkansas to Paul B. And Thelma Ola Thomas Holt. He was a construction worker in New York and Pennsylvania; a Baptist minister having...

Elmer Smith

Elmer Smith

May 14, 2009

Mr. A. Elmer Smith, 80, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, May 14, 2009, in a Little Rock, Arkansas Hospital. He was born in Hempstead County, Arkansas on September 5, 1928 to Albert and Cora England Smith. He was a self employed businessman. Retired farmer, cattleman and poultry farmer and had a produce stand in Hope for numerous years. He...

Dale Aaron

Dale Aaron

May 11, 2009

Mr. Dale Aaron, 79 of Spring Hill, Arkansas passed away on Monday, May 11, 2009. He was born January 13, 1930 in Hope, Arkansas to Fred and Pearl Curtis Aaron. Mr. Aaron was a member of the Anderson Baptist Church in Spring Hill, retired from the Arkansas Highway Department with over 30 years of service, an served his country in...

Mildred Eggleston

Mildred Eggleston

May 10, 2009

Mrs. Mildred Wren Eggleston, 89 of Sutton passed away on Sunday morning, May 10, 2009. in Medical Park Hospital in Hope, Ark. She was born on September 14, 1919, in Sutton, Arkansas, to Edgar and Glen Sutton Wren. She was a retired partner and general manager of Wren Theaters. Throughout her retirements years she continued to be actively involved in...

Melvin Clifton Joy, Jr.

Melvin Clifton Joy, Jr.

May 8, 2009

Mr. Melvin Clifton Joy, Jr., 69, of Memphis, Tenn.,passed away Friday, May 8, 2009, at his home. He was born September 2, 1939, in Bryan, Texas, to Melvin and Irene Joy. He graduated from Hope High School in 1957. He retired from Eco Laboratory in Memphis. Melvin Clifton was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Elizabeth Ann Waller...

Jimmie D. Phillips

Jimmie D. Phillips

May 7, 2009

Mr. Jimmie D. Phillips, 71, of Baxter Springs, Kansas, (Formerly of McCaskill, Arkansas) passed away May 7, 2009 in Kansas. He was born on October 7, 1937, in McCaskill, Arkansas, to the late Floyd and Nora Phillips. Survivors Include: One Sister: Lois Nelson, Pontiac, Michigan. Two Brothers: Jackie Phillips, Springfield, Oregon, and Victor Phillips, McCaskill, Arkansas; and a number of...

Laymon "Bud" Robinson

Laymon "Bud" Robinson

May 7, 2009

Mr. Laymon Bud Robinson, 79, passed away Thursday, May 7, 2009, in Dickinson, Texas. He was born on January 28, 1930, to the late Ben and Pearl Robinson, in Hope, Arkansas. He was preceded in death by his parents; by his wife of 40 years, Frances Robinson; by his daughter, Annette White; by one brother, Raymon Robinson and by three...

William Stanley Dowings

William Stanley Dowings

May 5, 2009

Mr. Stanley Dowings, 19 of Burleson, TX, passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2009, at his home in Burleson. Stanley was born September 27, 1989 in Fort Worth, TX to Donald Lester and Lucy Thompson Dowings, he was a graduate of Joshua High School in Joshua, TX, where he played varsity football for three years and moved on to play semi-pro...

W. Bruce Crapps

W. Bruce Crapps

May 4, 2009

Mr. William Bruce Crapps, 64, of Spring Hill, Arkansas, passed away Tuesday morning May 5, 2009, as a result of a truck accident in Waverly, Kentucky. He was born in San Antonio, Texas on August 10, 1944, to Grady Ney and Dorothy Mae Turner Crapps. He was a truck driver with the former Meyers Bakery, now Southern Bakeries for 22+years....

Ernest Frederick Struckman

Ernest Frederick Struckman

May 3, 2009

Mr. Ernest Frederick Struckman, 99 of Fulton, Arkansas passed away Sunday, May 3, 2009, at his home. He was born in Indian Springs, California on August 30, 1909 to Henry Ernest Struckman of Oldenberg, Germany and Emma Stauffer Struckman of Taylor, Texas. He worked for the CCC as a young man before he started farming for himself. He cleared 400...

Ethel Adams

Ethel Adams

Apr 30, 2009

MRS. ETHEL ADAMS, 93, of Joliet, Illinois, (Formerly of Prescott, Arkansas), passed away on Thursday, April 30, 2009 in Illinois. She was born on March 12, 1916, in McCaskill, Arkansas, to Jeff and Tempe Long Overton. She was homemaker and resided most of her adult life in Prescott, Arkansas. She was a member of the Worldwide Church of God. She...

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