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Obituaries

Grace Myrtle Chunn

Grace Myrtle Chunn

Feb 14, 2012

Grace Myrtle Chunn age 94 of Arkadelphia passed from this life on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arkadelphia. She was born April 23, 1917 in Sunshine, Arkansas, the daughter of the late Lewis and Rosa Kassaw. Grace was a homemaker and attended New Life Church in Arkadelphia. She loved to work in her...

Reba Diane Purifoy

Reba Diane Purifoy

Feb 12, 2012

Reba Diane Thornton Purifoy, age 62 of Caddo Valley, passed from this life on Sunday, February 12, 2012 at Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arkadelphia. She was born on April 19, 1949 in Clark County, the daughter of the late Roy and Mary Elizabeth LaRue Ezell. Reba was a member of Third Street Baptist Church. She was preceded...

Annie Harmon

Annie Harmon

Feb 10, 2012

Annie Sue Harmon, age 86 of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Friday, February 10, 2012 at her home. She was born on June 24, 1925 in Bearden, the daughter of the late James Alvah and Ethel Beatrice Sanders Chambliss. Annie worked for the Human Development Center, Levi and Hollywood Vassarette. She was a member of Faith Missionary Baptist Church....

Cyrus Timothy Rayner Iii

Cyrus Timothy Rayner Iii

Feb 9, 2012

Cyrus Timothy Rayner, III, age 84 of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Thursday, February 9, 2012 at Courtyard Gardens Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arkadelphia. He was born in New Orleans on December 2, 1927, the son of the late Lester James Hewett and Beulah Benton Beard Rayner. Tim worked in sales in the heating and air industry and...

Billie Monroe

Billie Monroe

Feb 3, 2012

Billie Rea Monroe, age 71, of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Friday, February 3, 2012 at Baptist Medical Center in Arkadelphia. She was born on April 9, 1940 in Binger, OK, the daughter of the late Stanley and Anna Mitchell Gregory. Billie worked as a prison guard, deputy sheriff and genealogist. She was a member of First General Baptist...

Betty Anthony Thompson

Betty Anthony Thompson

Jan 27, 2012

Betty Anthony Thompson age 75 of the DeGray Community passed from this life on Friday, January 27, 2012 at her home. She was born in Bearden, the daughter of the late Lloyd and Hazel Nowlin Anthony. Betty was a retired school teacher and counselor and a member of DeGray Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald...

Staci Regina Wilson

Staci Regina Wilson

Jan 25, 2012

Staci Regina Wilson, age 45 of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at her home. She was born on October 15, 1966 in Hot Springs, the daughter of J. T. Gerald and Ina Faye Killian Ledbetter. Staci was a homemaker and was associated with the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. She was a member of the...

Robert James Ruhs

Robert James Ruhs

Jan 22, 2012

Robert James Ruhs of Hot Springs, AR passed away on January 22, 2012. He was born February 7, 1933 in Waterloo, IA the son of the late Otto Martin and Alta LaMaster Ruhs. He was preceded in death by his stepfather, Henry 'Hank' Dietrech. Survivors include his wife of twenty years, Sue, two daughters, Linda (Neil Hartman) Ruhs of Gilbertville,...

Cleda Freeman

Cleda Freeman

Jan 21, 2012

Cleda Yvonne Freeman left this earth to be with our Lord on Saturday, January 21, 2012. She was born on February 15, 1934 to the late Joseph Clark and Katie Gardner Childress. As a home economics teacher for over twenty years, Mrs. Freeman prepared young women and men to be competent in their homes. Later she taught them how to...

Ollen Laron Francis

Ollen Laron Francis

Jan 5, 2012

Ollen Laron Francis, age 67 of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at his daughter's home in Delight. He was born on August 31, 1944 in Arkadelphia, the son of John Clarence and Bonnie Mae Davis Francis. Ollen was a truck driver for CJ Horner and was previously employed with Ouachita Marine Boat Plant and Acme...

Floyd Joseph Cornellier, Jr.

Floyd Joseph Cornellier, Jr.

Dec 17, 2011

Floyd Joseph Cornellier, Jr,, age 69, of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock. He was born on August 9, 1942 in Cornell, Wisconsin, the son of the late Floyd Joseph and Ivis Briggs Cornellier, Sr. Floyd was a truck driver and a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's...

Corda Omegene Catlett

Corda Omegene Catlett

Dec 17, 2011

Corda Omegene Catlett, age 82, of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at Courtyard Gardens Health and Rehabilitation in Arkadelphia. She was born on August 16, 1929 in Colt, AR the daughter of the late J. O. and Lovie May Allgood Mercer. Corda was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

Linda Sue Berland

Linda Sue Berland

Dec 1, 2011

Linda Berland age 61 of Rochester, MN formerly of Gurdon passed from this life on December 1, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN. Survivors are one son Erick Berland, four sisters, Mary Anne Schoonover, Betty Foster, Carolyn Jackson and Debby Powell, two brothers, James and Gary Schoonover. A memorial graveside service will be held at 1:00 PM Saturday, May 26, 2012 at...

William Penn Price Jr.

William Penn Price Jr.

Nov 28, 2011

William Penn Price Jr. age 90 of Okolona passed from this life on Monday, November 28, 2011 at Baptist Medical Center in Arkadelphia. He was born February 1, 1921 in Graysonia, the son of the late William Penn and Lillie Belle Lamb Price, Sr. Penn was a United States Navy veteran of World War II, a Pearl Harbor survivor and...

Jack Bryan Thomasson

Jack Bryan Thomasson

Nov 17, 2011

Jack Bryan Thomasson age 84 of Arkadelphia passed from this life on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at Courtyard Gardens Rehabilitation Center in Arkadelphia. He was born on November 13, 1927 in Arkadelphia, the son of the late Joe B. and Gertrude Dean Thomasson. Jack was a retired salesman for Midwest Dairy and Marlboro. He was a Baptist and a United...

Daniel Witherspoon

Daniel Witherspoon

Nov 14, 2011

Daniel Dewayne Witherspoon age 58 of Little Rock passed from this life on Monday, November 14, 2011 in Friendship. He was born June 17, 1953 in Arkadelphia the son of Peter and Milrene Karr Witherspoon. Dan was a retired overland truck driver and a United States Army veteran. He was preceded in death by his father. Dan is survived by...

Jim Dupont

Jim Dupont

Nov 8, 2011

Jim DuPont age 67 of Bryan Texas passed from this life on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at his home. He was born April 6, 1944 in Jennings, LA, the son of the late Joseph Elias and Charlotte Odell Arceneaux DuPont. Jim was a former district manager for Foam Air and the owner and operator of Beds For Kids. He was...

Helen Louise Cash

Helen Louise Cash

Nov 3, 2011

Helen Louise Cash age 76 of Arkadelphia, passed from this life on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock. She was born June 19, 1935, in Portland, Oregon the daughter of the late Ivan E. & Lillian Bagley Anderson. Helen was a homemaker and a Baptist. She was preceded in death by her husband James Cash....

Donald Alan Judge

Donald Alan Judge

Oct 30, 2011

Donald Alan Judge, age 70, of Arkadelphia passed from this life on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at his home. He was born on October 22, 1941 in Minneapolis, MN, the son of the late Robert Alan and Shirley Chapin Judge. Donald was preceded in death by his first wife, Helen Judge and his sister, Pam Zoller. He is survived by...

Janet Elois Pennington

Janet Elois Pennington

Oct 26, 2011

Janet Elois (Bonner) Pennington age 47 of Arkadelphia passed from this life on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at her home. She was born March 10, 1964 in Hanford, California the daughter of the late Henry Clay and Vivian Thornton Bonner. Janet was a homemaker and former health care provider at Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arkadelphia. She was...