Obituaries
Obituaries for Southern Arkansas
George Woolf
Feb 2, 2009
Robert George Woolf, 60, of Batesville, AR, died Monday February 2, 2009 at UAMS in Little Rock. Mr. Woolf was born in Little Rock on September 1, 1948 to the late James Lee & Mary Elmo Hornaday Woolf. Mr. Woolf worked for 25 years at Entergy of Arkansas. He served as a deacon at Sylvan Hills First Baptist in Sherwood...
Grady Lynn Childers
Feb 1, 2009
Grady Lynn Childers, 67, of Fordyce, died Saturday January 31, 2009 at the Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. Mr. Childers was born in Calhoun County on May 22, 1941 to the late Melvin & Ollie Mae Childers. He is survived by his son, Grady Lynn Childers Jr. & his wife Brenda of Houston, TX; two daughters, Karen Palacios...
Juanita Dunn
Feb 1, 2009
Juanita Dunn, 92, of Hampton, AR died Sunday, February 1, 2009. Juanita was born April 22, 1916 in Clarks, LA, a daughter of the late Thomas Vanna Blake and Bertha DePriest Blake. She was a homemaker, she worked for Jacket King, now DM Apparel and was a member of Faustina Methodist Church. To her children she was a wonderful mother,...
Gordon Langford
Jan 27, 2009
Gordon Langford, 81 of Fordyce, died Tuesday, January 27, 2009 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was born May 1, 1927 in Warren, Arkansas to the late Hiram and Pearl Towery Langford. He was formerly the mayor of Kingsland, served his country as a Marine, and was a Baptist. He was also preceded in death by a daughter, Sonya Haltom; a...
James Edward Turner
Jan 27, 2009
James Edward Turner, Sr. 86, of Fordyce died Tuesday January 27, 2009 at his home. He was born August 27, 1922 in Thornton, Arkansas to the late William Jesse Turner and Allie Sevier Turner. Mr. Turner honorably & faithfully served his country in the United States Air Force during World War II. He was a member of First Christian Church...
Clio V. Clary
Jan 26, 2009
Clio Vick Clary, passed away on January 26, 2009 at the age of 104 years at Little Rock, AR. She was born on October 24, 1904 in Prescott, AR, the fifth of six children to Anderson & Lydia Vick. Upon graduation from Prescott High School, Clio moved to Fordyce, AR where she worked at the A.B. Banks Insurance Company. In...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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