Obituaries
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Vera Payne Mcclellan
Mar 5, 2011
Vera Payne McClellan, age 80 of New Edinburg, died, Saturday, March 5, 2011 at Bradley County Medical Center in Warren. She was born October 8, 1930 in New Edinburg, a daughter of the late William Lee Payne and Myrtle Dyer Payne McClellan. Mrs. McClellan was a homemaker and a member of Macedonia Free Will Baptist Church. She...
Curtis Marks Sr
Mar 5, 2011
Curtis Marks Sr., age 69 of Rison, died, Saturday, March 5, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. He was born October 28, 1941 in Rison, a son of the late Harvey Marks and Margaret Flannagan Marks. Mr. Marks was a member of Greater Faith Church of God in Christ. He was also preceded in...
William "Billy Ray" Lane
Mar 1, 2011
William Billy Ray Lane, age 71 of Rison, died, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at his home. He was born November 1, 1939 in Mabscot, West Virginia, a son of the late William Earnest Lane and Helen Bishop Lane. Mr. Lane retired from Commercial Insulation Incorporated where he was a contractor, and was a member of Macedonia Missionary...
Charles Raymond Wiggins
Mar 1, 2011
Charles Raymond Wiggins, age 76 of Sheridan, Arkansas, died Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at Hot Springs County Medical Center in Malvern. He was born on February 12, 1935 at Grapevine to the late Tom Wiggins and Doris Ross Wiggins. He graduated from Sheridan High School in 1953. Mr. Wiggins was a member of North Main Baptist Church...
Jacqueline Susan Stokes Jones
Mar 1, 2011
Jacqueline Susan Stokes Jones, 52, of Sheridan, Arkansas, died Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at Sheridan Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on Januray 21, 1959 in Sheridan to the late Charles S. Stokes and Ruth Stokes. Ms. Jones was a Baptist and loved her Lord and Savior. She enjoyed painting and witnessing to her family and...
John W. Pitts
Feb 28, 2011
John W. Pitts, age 84 of White Hall, Arkansas, died Monday, February 28, 2011 at his home. He was born May 29, 1926 in Glendale, Arkansas, a son of the late T.I. Pitts and Lula Mae Sederry. Mr. Pitts was a retired street department manager with the city of Pine Bluff. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and watching...
Reverend Marion Clinton Ballard
Feb 22, 2011
Reverend Marion C. Ballard, 89, of Little Rock, went to be with the Lord Tuesday February 22 after a long and courageous battle with Parkinsons disease. Born November 4, 1921, he was an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and served as a pastor and builder of churches throughout Arkansas for 58 years. He was an...
James (J.C.) Gray
Feb 17, 2011
James (J. C.) Gray, age 91, of Sheridan, Arkansas passed away on Thursday, February 17, 2011 in St. Vincent Hospital in Little Rock from a concussion due to a serious fall. He was born on December 28, 1919 in Bruno, Arkansas, to the late Oscar Franklin Gray and Edna Chloe Burns Gray. He is preceded in death...
Robert Rodgers
Feb 13, 2011
Robert Rodgers, age 87 of the Randall community near Rison, died, Sunday, February 13, 2011 at his home. He was born February 17, 1923 in the Randall Community, a son of the late Charlie Rodgers and Lillian Orton Rodgers. Mr. Rodgers served in the United States Army during World War II. He was a retired logger and...
Mack "Bub" Riggins
Feb 12, 2011
Mack "Bub" Riggins, age 86 of Rison, died, Saturday, February 12, 2011 at his home. He was born November 16, 1924 in Cleveland County, a son of the late William Calvin Bill Riggins and Jessie McLaughlin Riggins. Mr. Riggins served in the United States Army during World War II and was a retired truck driver. He was...
James Ringer
Feb 11, 2011
James Ringer, age 74 of Rison formerly of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, died, Friday, February 11, 2011 at his home. He was born September 1, 1936 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, a son of the late Fredrick Ringer and Anna Worlund Ringer. Mr. Ringer retired from Consolidated Papers in 1998, after thirty nine years of service. He was also...
Bill Willis
Feb 5, 2011
Bill Willis, age 91 of the Randall Community, went to be with the Lord, Saturday, February 5, 2011. He was born January 10, 1920, in the Woodlawn Community near Rison, a son of the late Andy Willis and Maudie Rodgers Willis. Mr. Willis was a graduate of Woodlawn High School. He served four and a half years...
Ella Norton Harvill
Jan 25, 2011
Ella Norton Harvill, age 83, of Pine Bluff, died Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at her home. She was born February 3, 1927 in Waldron, a daughter of the late Fred Norton and Parally Barnard Norton. Mrs. Harvill was an active volunteer for local food banks through her church; supported the Childrens Christian Network, and delivered the Pine...
James R. Hopson
Jan 25, 2011
James R. Hopson, age 74, of Rison, died Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. He was born March 22, 1936 in New Edinburg, a son of the late Raymond and Frances Attwood Hopson. In 1954, Mr. Hopson graduated from University of Arkansas at Monticello with a B.A. in Business. On June 21, 1959 he...
Marilyn K. James
Jan 20, 2011
Marilyn K. James, 55, of Hensley, Arkansas, died Thursday, January 20, 2011 at UAMS in Little Rock. She was born on January 1, 1956 in New Orleans, Louisiana to the late Raymond Kinkaid and Beulah Kinkaid. Ms. James was of the Roman Catholic faith and enjoyed spending time watching television and feeding her animals. She was preceded...
Annleen Crain
Jan 18, 2011
Annleen Crain age 81 of Kingsland, died, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at Baptist Hospital in Little Rock. She was born June 5, 1929 in Toledo, a daughter of the late Robert A. Hall and Audrey Browning Hall. Mrs. Crain was a homemaker and a member of Dialion Missionary Baptist Church. She was also preceded in death by...
John Wilson Morgan
Jan 18, 2011
John Wilson Morgan, age 94, of Pine Bluff, died Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. He was born October 22, 1916 in Herbine, a son of the late William Robert Morgan and Annie Mae McKinney Morgan. Mr. Morgan married Mildred Patrick on March 6, 1938. He loved gardening, hunting and fishing and just being...
Althea Georgie Gray
Jan 13, 2011
Althea Georgie Gauldin Blakely Gray age 97 of Rison, formerly of Fordyce, passed from this world on January 13, 2011 at the Green House Cottages of Southern Hills Nursing Home in Rison. She was born December 28, 1913, in Baskin, Louisiana, a daughter of the late George and Althea Chandler Gauldin. During her childhood, her family moved...
Jeff David Burt Sr
Jan 11, 2011
Jeff David Burt Sr. Junk Jack age 78 of Kingsland, died, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at the Wagon Place Nursing Home in Warren. He was born April 12, 1932 in Winona, Mississippi, a son of the late Edward E. Burt Sr., and Mary Dovie Phillips Burt. Mr. Burt retired for the glass industry where he was a...
Catherine Terry Owens
Jan 7, 2011
Catherine Terry Owens age 77 of Rison, died, Friday, January 7, 2011 at her home. She was born February 13, 1933, in Cleveland County, a daughter of the late Edd Riggins and Mary Anderson Riggins. Mrs. Owens enjoyed her family, friends, and church. She also enjoyed quilting and dancing. Mrs. Owens retired from the healthcare industry, the...
