Obituaries
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Shirley Ann Main
Aug 13, 2011
Shirley Ann Main, age 67 of Stuttgart, Arkansas formally of Sheridan, died Saturday August 13, 2011 at her home in Stuttgart. She was born October 19, 1943 in Brinkley, Arkansas the daughter of the late Samuel Adams and Stella (Vest) Main. She loved listening to music, doing arts and crafts and people. Shirley had a very giving...
Arminta Rose (Cantrell) Hope
Aug 12, 2011
Arminta Rose (Cantrell) Hope, age 80 of Prattsville, Arkansas died Friday August 12, 2011. She was born February 24, 1931 in Mansfield, Arkansas, to the late Omer R. and Nana Estella Cantrell. Arminta was a member of Harmony Baptist Church, Prattsville, Arkansas; she was a former Bible School Teacher and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary. She...
Robert A. Tolson Sr
Jul 26, 2011
Robert A. Tolson Sr., age 89 of Cleveland County, died, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. He was born June 19, 1922, in Rison, a son of the late Roy Tolson and Mae Bridges Tolson. Mr. Tolson was a 1940 graduate of Rison High School. He received his Bachelors degree in 1948 from the University of Arkansas at Monticello...
Shon Zachary Smith
Jul 25, 2011
Shon Zachary Smith, age 18 of Sheridan, Arkansas, died Monday, July 25, 2011. He was born March 16, 1993 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Charles Chuck Smith and Misty Alynn Schultz. Shon attended Glen Rose High School and also Little Creek Baptist Church. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and anything that involved the outdoors. Shon also enjoyed skateboarding...
James Eugene Smith
Jul 22, 2011
James Eugene Smith, age 63 of Pine Bluff, died, Friday, July 22, 2011 at his home. He was born July 21, 1948 in Little Rock, a son of the late James Ivy Smith and Helen Marie Miller Smith. Mr. Smith retired from the United States Navy after thirty years of service. He loved singing, hunting and fishing...
Ruby Mitchell King
Jul 21, 2011
Ruby Mitchell King, age 71 of Springdale, formally of Rison, died, Thursday, July 21, 2011 at her home. She was born June 11, 1940 in Kingsland, a daughter of the late T. O. Mitchell and Florence McMurtrey Mitchell. Mrs. King retired from Tyson Foods after thirty years of service and was a member of Rison Baptist Church....
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;...