Obituaries
In our Care
Robert Ira (Pappaw) Roberts
Jul 18, 2011
Robert Ira (Pappaw) Roberts, age 68 of Pine Bluff died, Monday, July 18, 2011 at Gardner Nursing Home in Star City. He was born February 22, 1943 in Pine Bluff, a son of the late Alexander Roberts and Irene Brown Roberts. Mr. Roberts was a graduate of Rison High School; and a fork lift driver for Hoover...
Ann Norton
Jul 17, 2011
Ann Norton, age 82 of Rison, went to be with the Lord, Sunday, July 17, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born October 4, 1928, a daughter of the late Clifford Elder and Jennie Day Elder. Mrs. Norton was a high school and Bible College graduate. She was a homemaker and a caregiver for the...
James Harold (Red) Power
Jul 11, 2011
James Harold (Red) Power, age 59 of Rison, died Monday, July 11, 2011 at his home. He was born March 24, 1952 in Pine Bluff, a son of the late Martin Edward Power and Bea Hamilton Rembowski of Pine Bluff. Mr. Power was a 1972 graduate of Pine Bluff High School. He married Brenda Greenlee on June...
Herman "Tap" Hyatt
Jul 10, 2011
Herman Tap Hyatt Jr., age 77 of Rison, went to be with the Lord Sunday, July 10, 2011 at his home. He was born on April 8, 1934 in Cleveland County, a son of the late Herman Clifton Hyatt Sr., and Clarice Holderfield Hyatt. Mr. Hyatt retired from Potlatch in Arkansas City, where he was a Millwright...
Helen Floyd Roberts
Jul 10, 2011
Helen Floyd Roberts, age 89 of Rowell, died Sunday, July 10, 2011 at her home. She was born November 18, 1921 in Palmyra, a daughter of the late Henry and Ora Henderson Floyd. Mrs. Roberts married Jessie Lee Roberts on October 6, 1939 in Rowell. She was a homemaker and member of Center Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs....
Laura Brown
Jun 29, 2011
Laura Brown, age 38 of the Macedonia Community near Rison, died Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at her home. She was born November 5, 1972, in Andrews, Texas, a daughter of the late Lawrence Dennis and Glenna Andrews Dennis. Mrs. Brown was a 1993 graduate of Rison High School. She was a homemaker and member of Macedonia Missionary...
Clifton W. Simmons
Jun 24, 2011
Clifton William Slim Simmons, age 87 of Rison, passed away Friday, June 24, 2011 at the Green House Cottages of Southern Hills Nursing Home in Rison. He was born June 7, 1924 in New Edinburg, the eighth of ten children of the late Henry James Simmons and Mattie Lee Sims Simmons. Mr. Simmons was a farmer and...
Harvey Dean Massey
Jun 18, 2011
Harvey Dean Massey, age 63 of Grapevine, Arkansas died Saturday June 18, 2011. He was born July 27, 1947 in Reno Nevada to the late Everett Leslie and Opal Virgina Massey. Harvey was a member of Bethany #1 Missionary Baptist Church, Grapevine, Arkansas. He was a graduate of Grapevine High School, a United States Marine Corp Veteran,...
Grady Pat Grider
Jun 18, 2011
Grady Pat Grider, age 72 of White Hall, died Saturday, June 18, 2011 at his home. He was born May 14, 1939 in Rowell, a son of the late Lester Grider and Maggie Spakes Grider. Mr. Grider attended Woodlawn High School. He retired from the United States Army, having served in Vietnam, where he was awarded the...
Ophie Harper Ryburn
Jun 4, 2011
Ophie Harper Ryburn, 95, of Pine Bluff, died Saturday, June 4th at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born December 31, 1915 in Cleveland County, Arkansas to Daniel Govan Harper and Irene Vinson Harper.
Mrs. Ryburn was reared in Pansy, Arkansas and attended Woodlawn Schools. She married John Wharton Ryburn, Jr. (J.W.) in 1934. Together...
Maxine Reed Rogers
Jun 3, 2011
Maxine Reed Rogers age 79 of Pine Bluff, went to be with the Lord Friday, June 3, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was born April 18, 1932 in Rison, a daughter of the late William Jack Reed and Mary Audrey Broach Reed Ballew. Mrs. Rogers was a homemaker, and enjoyed gospel singing and bowling. She...
Dewey Cotton
Jun 2, 2011
Dewey Dude Edward Cotton of Sheridan, Arkansas was born February 7, 1923, the son of the late Henry and Eliza Cotton. He was a member of Hope Pentecostal Church in Sheridan and an honorary member of Taylor Smith Hunting Club. He served in the Army during World War II in Germany by building bridges. Dewey and was...
Pebbel Lee Taylor
May 24, 2011
Pebbel Lee Smith Taylor, ( 91), formerly of Rison, Arkansas died May 24, 2011 in Lufkin, Texas. She was born June 4, 1919 in Grant County, Arkansas and was the daughter of Ethel Virginia (Carleton) and George Griffin Smith. Her family was among the early pioneers in Grant County, Arkansas and included her maternal grandparents Margaret Jane...
Charles Ray Briant
May 23, 2011
Charles Ray Briant, age 89 of the Rowell Community, died Monday, May 23, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. He was born on July 15, 1921 in New Edinburg, a son of the late Walter Cleveland Briant and Mattie B. Thompson Briant. Mr. Briant served in the United States Army during World War II;...
Verdie Elizabeth Reap
May 11, 2011
Verdie Elizabeth Rauls Reap, age 97 of Rison, died Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at the Greenhouse Cottages of Southern Hills Nursing Home. She was born on March 27, 1914 in Herbine, a daughter of the late Bester Moore Rauls and Zelphia Puckett Rauls. Mrs. Reap attended school at the two room school house at Herbine. She enjoyed...
Carthel Lee Harris
May 10, 2011
Carthel Lee Harris, age 84 of Sheridan, Arkansas, died Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at his home. He was born September 29, 1926 in Prattsville, Arkansas, a son of the late Harvey L. Harris and Vida E. Hope. Mr. Harris was a retired Iron worker. He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, and fishing. Mr. Harris attended Bethany #1 Missionary...
Thomas Raymond Royal
May 9, 2011
Thomas Raymond Royal age 68 of Sheridan, died Monday, May 9, 2011 at his residence. He was born August 8, 1942 in Monroe, a son of the late Verble Henry Royal and Elsie Lucille Horton. He was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by two sons, Ronnie (Carol) Royal of Sheridan and...
Maxine Attwood
May 8, 2011
Maxine Attwood, age 92 of Rison, passed away on Sunday, May 8, 2011 in Pine Bluff. She was born on February 27, 1919 in Glenwood, Arkansas to the late Tobe and Celia Garrett Hare. She graduated from Glenwood High School and married Malcolm Attwood in 1949. She was a member of Rison United Methodist Church. Mrs. Attwood...
Pauline A. Ray
May 8, 2011
Pauline A. Ray, age 87, of Grapevine, Arkansas, died Sunday, May 8, 2011 at her residence. She was born on October 10, 1923 in Cleveland County, a daughter of late Mary Elsie Taylor. Mrs. Ray was a member of Bethany Number One Baptist Church.
Mrs. Ray is survived by her husband, Leneard Lecoy Ray of...
David Allen Wilson
May 3, 2011
David Allen Wilson, age 56 of Randall Community, died, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. He was born September 17, 1954 in Kansas City, Kansas, a son of the late Abraham Wilson and Opal Ratliff Wilson. Mr. Wilson was a Baptist. He enjoyed spending time with his family, the outdoors, fishing, camping and gardening....
