Obituaries

Obituaries for Southern Arkansas

Ruby Gill Moore

Ruby Gill Moore

Jan 25, 2009

Ruby Evelyn Gill Moore, 85, of North Little Rock died Sunday January 25, 2009 at Baptist Medical Center in North Little Rock. She was born September 30, 1923 in the Bucksnort Community of Dallas County. She was preceded in death by her parents Edgar and Versa Wood Gill; husband, Bernard Moore; brothers, Paul and Fred Gill; sister, Georgia Rogers and...

Billy Maxwell Gilbert

Billy Maxwell Gilbert

Jan 24, 2009

Billy Maxwell Gilbert, 68 of Fordyce died Saturday January 24, 2009 at Arkansas Hospice in Little Rock. Born August 6, 1940 at Harrell. He was a son of the late Jefferson Davis and Mabel Constanza Haynes Gilbert. He graduated Arkansas A and M College, now UAM, in 1964 and was a United States Department of Agriculture inspector. Billy was a...

Walter Lewis Wells

Walter Lewis Wells

Jan 20, 2009

Walter Lewis Wells, 73, of Little Rock, Arkansas, died Tuesday January 20, 2009. He was born April 12, 1935, in Imboden, Arkansas and grew up in Lewisville, Arkansas. He graduated from The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. For more than 40 years, Lewis was an active member of St. Paul United Methodist Church. He served in the Navy aboard the...

Lorice Ramsay Dunlap

Lorice Ramsay Dunlap

Jan 14, 2009

Lorice Ramsay Dunlap, 87, of Holly Springs died Wednesday at her home. She was born October 14, 1921 in Holly Springs. She was a retired merchant and a member of Holly Springs Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert Earl Alexander and Nannie Lou Hogg Alexander; husbands, Marvin Ramsay and Raymon Dunlap; son, Lynn Ramsay and...

Leland Eldridge Huffman

Leland Eldridge Huffman

Jan 14, 2009

Leland Eldridge Huffman, known as L.E., 85 of Fordyce, died Wednesday, January 14, 2009. He was born March 15, 1923 in Belmont, MS to the late Charles Arthur and Mary Harris Huffman. He was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Imogene Miles Huffman. He was a member of the Beech Grove Missionary Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge...

Maxine Benson Reddin

Maxine Benson Reddin

Jan 12, 2009

Maxine Benson Reddin, 80 of Little Rock died Monday January 12, 2009 at Arkansas Hospice Center in Little Rock. She was born August 12, 1928 in Hampton, Arkansas. She was a homemaker and a retired real estate agent. She was also a member of First Baptist Church in Hampton. She is preceded in death by her parents, William Collie Benson...

Dorothy Lee Harris

Dorothy Lee Harris

Jan 12, 2009

Dorothy Lee Williams Harris, 84 of Camden died Monday January 12, 2009 at her home. She was born March 6, 1924 in Hampton Arkansas. She was a homemaker and a member of Elliott Baptist Church in Camden. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jessie Williams and Bertha Underwood Williams; one son, Michael Holcombe and one sister, Audrey Bush....

Danny Joe Emerson

Danny Joe Emerson

Jan 3, 2009

Danny Joe Emerson, 36, of Fordyce, died Saturday January 3, 2009. Mr. Emerson was born in Fordyce, AR on September 26, 1972. He was a Baptist and worked as a Logger. He is survived by his parents, Tommy & Janice Emerson of Fordyce, AR; his wife Debra Emerson of Spurger, TX; two sons, William & Lucas Emerson of Spurger, TX;...

Jack L. Tomlinson

Jack L. Tomlinson

Jan 1, 2009

Jack L. Tomlinson, 72 of Hampton, Arkansas, died Thursday, January 1, 2008. He was born October 4, 1936 in Hampton to the late Doyle and Beulah Porter Tomlinson. He is also preceded in death by his wife Mary L. Tomlinson. He is survived by three children, Tammye Begnaud of Lafayette, Louisiana; Pamela Cuvillier and husband Red of Morgan City, Louisiana;...

Ruth Crutchfield

Ruth Crutchfield

Jan 1, 2009

Wilda Ruth Crutchfield, 84, of Bearden died Thursday January 1, 2009 at St. John's Place in Fordyce. She was born January 23, 1924 in Woodberry, Arkansas. She was a homemaker and a member of First Assembly of God in Bearden. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ira Summers and Lurlie Proctor Summers; her husband, Troy Crutchfield, four brothers,...

Charles Vincent Beck

Charles Vincent Beck

Dec 30, 2008

Charles Vincent Beck, 67 of Hampton, Arkansas, passed away December 30, 2008. Born January 9, 1941 in Sheridan, Arkansas to the late Clifton and Lilly Beck. He loved his hunting and fishing. He is retired from Iron Workers local 321 and International Paper Company. Charles was a Baptist and member of Woodberry Baptist Church. He is preceded in death by...

Faye Bonner Lansdale

Faye Bonner Lansdale

Dec 20, 2008

Faye Bonner Lansdale, 81 of Sun City, Arizona died December 20, 2008 in Tucson, Arizona. Born October 23, 1927 at Fordyce, Arkansas, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Ida Bonner. She was retired from the Arizona Department of Corrections where she was an administrative assistant. Mrs. Lansdale was preceded in death by her parents; her son Thomas...

Verna J. Mcvay

Verna J. Mcvay

Dec 17, 2008

Verna Jean McVay gave up this imperfect life for the perfection we all hope for on December 17, 2008. She was preceded in death by her father, William Vern Garrison, her mother, Beulah Edrie Worsham, and her step-father, Woodrow Wilson Worsham. She is survived by her brother, Don Garrison and his wife, Carol of Fort Walton Beach, Florida; by her...

Doris Earline Russell

Doris Earline Russell

Dec 17, 2008

Doris Earline Russell, 75, of Kingsland, AR died Wednesday December 17, 2008 at her home in Kingsland. Mrs. Russell was born in North Little Rock, AR on April 9, 1933 to the late Earl Heath & Elvia Keesee Marchant. She was a retired school bus driver & a member of the Southside Baptist Church in Fordyce. She is survived by...

Juanita Gaston

Juanita Gaston

Dec 11, 2008

Juanita Gaston, 96, of Sparkman, died Thursday December 11, 2008 at her home. Mrs. Gaston was born in Ouachita County Arkansas on May 17, 1912 to the late Claude & Mattie Overman Dunlap. She was a homemaker & the oldest active member of the First Baptist Church in Sparkman. She is survived by her son, Tommy Gaston & his wife...

Ruby Mae Parham

Ruby Mae Parham

Dec 10, 2008

Ruby Mae Lynn Parham, 95, of Fordyce died December 10, 2008 at St. John's Place in Fordyce. She was born January 21, 1913 to the late James N. and Birthel Johnson Lynn. For more than 60 years she was a member of Temperance Hill United Methodist Church where she served as pianist. After the closing of the Temperance Hill Church,...

Linda K. Loan

Linda K. Loan

Dec 9, 2008

Linda K. Loan, 55 of Bearden died December 9, 2008. She was born August 9, 1953 in El Dorado, Arkansas. She was preceded in death by her parents, C.A. Hathcoat and Mary Looney Hathcoat and one sister, Joyce Hathcoat. She is survived by one son, Kevin Gray, Sr. of Fordyce; two daughters, Leslie Givens of Thornton and Stephanie Earley of...

Ruth Tamburo

Ruth Tamburo

Nov 27, 2008

Ruth Tamburo, 76, of Thornton died Thursday, November 27, 2008 at the Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden. Born March 14, 1932, she was a daughter of the late Walter and Grace Smith. She is survived by her husband, Pete Ronnie Tamburo of Thornton; one daughter, Patricia Lynn Word of Bearden; one brother, Junior Smith of Rison; one sister, Doris...

Johnnie Mae Nutt

Johnnie Mae Nutt

Nov 26, 2008

Johnnie Mae Nutt, 87, of Pasadena, TX died Wednesday November 26, 2008 at Bayshore Medical Center in Pasadena, TX. She was born April 1, 1921 in Blountstown, FL. She was a retired supervisor for Nabisco and early in her life she worked in a circus as a trapeze artist. She was preceded in death by her parents, Thom Newsom and...

Diana Parker Strickland

Diana Parker Strickland

Nov 24, 2008

Diana Parker Strickland, 51, of Hampton died Monday November 24, 2008 at Golden Living Center in Camden. She was born February 26, 1957 in Waltham, MA. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lynn Strickland and her father, Fred Parker. She is survived by her mother, Edna Parker of El Dorado; one brother, Richard Parker of Hampton and one...

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