Obituaries

Aug 14, 2017

Mrs. Nora Jones , age 78 of Maud, Texas passed away, Monday, August 14, 2017 in St. Michael's Hospital, Texarkana, Texas.  She was born July 22, 1939 to Adele Breaux and Henry LaJaunie. She was a House wife, Mother and member of Moss Spring Baptist Church in New Boston, TX. She was preceded in death by her...

Aug 11, 2017

Mrs. Joyce Dunn, of Hope, Arkansas, age 78 passed away, Friday, August 11, 2017 in Texarkana, Texas. Mrs. Dunn was born in Swifton, Arkansas on May 27, 1939 to Virgil and Lettie Hayes. She is a retired school teacher from Hope Public Schools, where she taught for 29 years, after teaching one year at Dardanelle Public Schools. She is...

Aug 8, 2017

Mr. Thomas E. Cain, age 86 of Saratoga, Arkansas passed away, Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at his home in Saratoga. Mr. Cain was born on May 11, 1931 in Hazlehurst, Georgia to Ernest and Alma Carter Cain. He is a retired U.S. Army Staff Sergeant, serving four tours in Vietnam and was a member of the Columbus Baptist Church...

Aug 8, 2017

Mr. Tommy Matchett, age 59 of Prescott, Arkansas passed away, Tuesday, August 8, 2017 in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Tommy was born in Angleton, Texas on November 26, 1957 to Thomas H. and Wilma Taylor Matchett. He was a maintenance technician for Heather Manor Nursing Home and a member of Hope Community Church. His hobbies include; duck hunting, fishing and spending...

Aug 7, 2017

Early in the morning of August 7, 2017, Donna Potter, age, 63, beloved daughter of Freddie and Louis Hatfield Smith, and mother of Troy Reed, and Cody Zepeda, slipped away to join her deceased husband, Otto Potter, in the hereafter.

Donna is survived by her mom, Louise Smith, of Spring Hill, Arkansas, sons; Troy Reed, wife, Mandy...

Aug 5, 2017

Mr. William "Bill" Cassin, age 91 of Hope, Arkansas passed away, Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Texarkana, Texas. Mr. Cassin was born in West Palm Beach, Florida on June 9, 1926.  He was of the Christian faith, and a retired U. S. Navy Veteran of 22 years, serving in the Pacific during World War II and serving during the...

Aug 3, 2017

Mr. Cecil Edward Jester, 80, of Houston, Texas, peacefully passed away on Thursday, August 3, 2017.  Cecil was born February 25, 1937 in Patmos, AR to Clarence Richard "C.R." Jester and Sally Easterling Jester. Cecil retired as an electrician with tenures at both Cameron Iron Works and Cy-Fair ISD. He was an avid sportsman with golf being his greatest...

Aug 2, 2017

Mr. Claudie White, age 99 of Rosston, Arkansas passed away Wednesday, August 2, 2017, in a local nursing home. Mr. White was born April 24, 1918 in Cale, Arkansas to Eugene White and Dovie Martindale White.  He was a retired employee of Myers Bakery and a member of the Willisville United Methodist Church.  Mr. White is preceded in death...

Aug 1, 2017

Mr. Bill Martin, age 85 of Guernsey, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, August 1, 2017 in Texarkana, Texas.  Mr. Martin was born in Hope, Arkansas on June 9, 1932 to Ezekiel Parks Martin and Eunice Mae Gilbert Martin.  Bill was of the Christian Faith, an U.S. Air Force Veteran of the Korean War, and a retired Policeman with the City...

Jul 27, 2017

Floyd Winston Wright, 81, of Hope, AR, passed away early Tuesday, July 27 in Texarkana, TX.

Floyd was born in Bodcaw, AR to J.T. and Lorena May Wright on July 9, 1936.

Floyd worked as a maintenance shop manager at Lonestar Army Ammunition Plant in Texarkana and retired from there after 35 years but he...

Jul 26, 2017

Mrs. Rosa Whatley, age 87 of DeAnn, Arkansas passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2017 in Prescott, Arkansas. Mrs. Whatley was born January 7, 1930 in the Forrest Hill Community to the late John T. and Phronia Arterbury Barham. She is a retired clerk with Ward & Son Drug Store and a member of White Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church...

Jul 26, 2017

Mrs. Judy Ann Hughes, age 72 of Russellville, formerly of Prescott, Arkansas passed away, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 in Dardanelle, Arkansas. She born in Prescott, Arkansas on September 24, 1944 to Thomas and Lucille Mae Harris Buie. Judy was a home maker as well as a waitress and restaurant manager. She is preceded in death by her maternal grandparents;...

Jul 20, 2017

Mrs. Lura Jean Willis, age 83 of Hope, Arkansas passed away Thursday, July 20, 2017 at her home.  Mrs. Willis was born on April 5, 1934 in the Holly Grove Community of Hempstead County, Arkansas to Herman and Luvegia Willis Worthey.  She was a member of Emmet United Methodist Church in Emmet, a choir member and a Sunday School...

Jul 19, 2017

Mr. Tom Jester, age 79 of Boughton, Arkansas passed away, Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at his home. He was born in Antoine, Arkansas on August 13, 1937 to Doyle and Maggie Winderleen McNeil Jester. Tom is retired from the Nevada County Road Department and had done construction work, where he worked with concrete and he is of the Christian...

Jul 16, 2017

Mrs. Ruth Ann Bickerstaff, age 45 of Hope, Arkansas passed away, Sunday, July 16, 2017 in a local nursing home. She was born in Tampa, Florida on May 10, 1972 to Billy and Carolyn Lavender Dodson. She was employed with the Hope Star as a photographer and she was a Baptist by faith. Ruth Ann is preceded in death...

Jul 15, 2017

Mr. Eugene P. Hill, III, age 67 of Chidester, Arkansas, passed away Saturday, July 15, 2017 in Hope, Arkansas. Mr. Hill was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on December 18, 1949 to Eugene P. Hill, Jr, and Claire Blakeseley Hill. He was a retired Boiler Maker working in a steel mill.     He is preceded in death by parents, Eugene...

Jul 14, 2017

Mrs. Barbara Buchholzer, 79, of Hope, Arkansas, passed away, July 14, 2017 in Tyler Texas.  She was born June 28, 1938 to Frank and Pearl Millett in Dayton, Ohio.   She grew up in Ohio and met her husband Tom Buchholzer as a teen, at her Lutheran church!   They were married on her eighteenth birthday!

With three young...

Jul 13, 2017

Mrs. Daisy Mae Jurls, age 65 of Fulton, Arkansas passed away, Thursday, July 13, 2017 in Texarkana, Texas.  She was born in Hope, Arkansas on May 4, 1952 to John Alford and Erma Martindale Cox.  She was a home maker and of the Christian faith.  She is preceded in death by her parents; John and Erma Cox, her husband,...

Jul 13, 2017

Mrs. Louise Fowler, age 93 of Hope, Arkansas, passed away Thursday, July 13, 2017, at her home.  She was born in McCaskill, Arkansas on October 27, 1923 to William Thomas and Era Blakely Barber.  She was a retired telephone operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone for over 35 years and a member of Friendship United Methodist Church in McCaskill. Mrs....

Jul 12, 2017

Mrs. Elda Chism, age 83 of Hope, Arkansas passed away peacefully, July 12, 2017 in Tucson, Arizona. She was born in Wallaceburg, Arkansas on October 22, 1933 to Troy and Eura Ann Johnson Irwin. Mrs. Chism was a member of the Assembly of God Church in Hope and a retired bookkeeper. She is preceded in death by her parents;...