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Alene Strand
Jun 2, 2009
Alene Francis Strand, 78, of Little Rock, passed away June 2, 2009. She graduated from nursing school in Memphis as an RN and retired from the Arkansas Human Services Department as a nursing home inspector. In the 1950's she worked with Dr. Jonas Salk in Los Angeles and was involved with the development of the first polio vaccine. She was...
Kerry Wingard
Jun 2, 2009
Kerry Wingard, 41, of North Little Rock, passed away Tuesday, June 2, 2009. He was a state employee for many years until his illness of a few months ago. Kerry was a member of Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his father, Henry and grandparents Dollie and Henry Wingard, Sr. and Johnny Manees. Survivors include...
Daisy Stein
Jun 2, 2009
Cremation Services for 93 year old Daisy Stein of Sherwood will be private. Mrs. Stein passed away Tuesday evening at Sherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Claudia Lemke
Jun 2, 2009
Claudia A. Lemke, 92, of Little Rock, passed away Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Born June 3, 1916 in Gowrie, Iowa, she was the daughter of Joe and Alice Liljegren. She was a WWII U.S. Navy nurse stationed in the Aleutian Islands. She left the Navy as a Lieutenant and then worked at the VA Hospital for 35 years until her...
Bobby Jones
Jun 2, 2009
Bobby O. Jones, 79, of McRae, Arkansas, died Tuesday, June 02, 2009. He was retired from Supersweet Feeds in Beebe, and was an Army veteran of the Korean War. Bobby was a member of McRae First Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Teresa Jones of McRae; three sons, Mike Jones and wife Joy, Greg Jones and wife Mary,...
Lyla Calkins
Jun 1, 2009
Lyla F. Calkins, 76, of Little Rock passed away peacefully surrounded by her family, Monday June 1, 2009. She was a spirit full of smiles and love. Lyla had a big heart for animals and her family. She will be dearly missed by her daughter, Gail Briley and husband, Jim; son, Eric Masters and wife Dee; grandson, Cory Scott and...
Kathryn Moen
Jun 1, 2009
Kathryn Ann Moen, age 85 of Arkadelphia died Monday June 1, 2009 at home. She was born July 11, 1923 in Spirit Lake, Iowa the daughter of Bill and Zabeth Waechter. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 52 years, Thomas Moen. She is survived by one daughter, Barbara Moen of Arkadelphia and one son, Stephen, wife...
Emma Dodson
Jun 1, 2009
Emma Haltom Dodson age 94 of Caddo Valley died Monday, June 1, 2009 in Little Rock. She was a housewife and a member of the Caddo Valley Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband Neal Dodson, two sons, Eddie Dodson and Bill Jones, a grandson Mike Jones and granddaughter Lee Dodson. Survivors include one daughter Donna Dodson...
Ozell McMahan
Jun 1, 2009
Ozell McMahan age 81 of Friendship passed away on June 1, 2009 in Little Rock. She was born in Caney, Arkansas the daughter of Lee and Mamie Morrison. Her husband, Paul N. McMahan preceded her in death in 2004 after sixty years of marriage. Also, she was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Benny, sister, Vada and grandson, Steve....
Emile Eckart
May 31, 2009
Emile P. Eckart, M.D. died on Sunday, May 31, 2009, age 88. A native of New Orleans, LA, he was born on September 13, 1920, and was a resident of Little Rock for 34 years. A long-time member of Immaculate Heart of Mary church, he served as Lector, and Eucharistic minister. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife...
Walter Rupert
May 31, 2009
Lt. Colonel Walter Parke Rupert III, Retired USAF, of Sherwood, Arkansas joined his Lord and Savior on his 86th birthday, May 31, 2009. Affectionately called "Walt," "Parke", "the Colonel" and "Colonel Rupert," he was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the oldest child of Walter Parke Rupert II and Jean Campbell Beatty Rupert, both now deceased. As a dashing and...
Efrain C.
May 31, 2009
Efrain Garzo'n C., 76 of Little Rock, passed away on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at Arkansas Hospice Center. He was born on August 29, 1932 in Cajamarca, Tolima in Columbia; he was the son of Vicente Garzo'n and Sara Camargo. Efrain was a resident of the Little Rock area for over thirty years, moving from Columbia. He was a lifelong...
Shirley Barger
May 31, 2009
Shirley Spence Barger, 70, of Austin, Arkansas, went to be with the Lord on May 31, 2009. She was retired from the Bank of Cabot. She is preceded in death by her husband, James Darrell Barger and her father, Oris Eugene Spence. She is survived by her mother, Arlene Ann Spence of Austin; her sister, Gale Sikes and husband, Doug...
Ocie Johnson
May 29, 2009
Ocie Leona Bryant Johnson., 84, of Little Rock, passed away on Friday May 29, 2009. She was born in Little Rock on January 24, 1925 to William Thomas Bryant and Ocie Ola McCumpsey. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Clarence Milton Johnson; sister, Sarah Helen Bryant; brother, William Junior Bryant; nephews, Paul Clifton Mooney and Bruce...
Joe Kuykendall
May 29, 2009
Joe Kuykendall, 68, of Little Rock, died Friday, May 29, 2009 in the comfort of his home. Born August 21, 1940 in Rock Island, Illinois, the son of Kirk (W.J.) and Mary Aspinall Kuykendall, he graduated from the University of Houston, where he was a member of the University's #1 Men's Tennis team. He began his professional career as the...
Debra Pilkington
May 29, 2009
Debra Penney Pilkington, 54 of Little Rock died on Friday, May 29, 2009. She was born in LeCompte, Louisiana to Ottie Mae (Wells) Thomas and the late William Loy Thomas. She was a devout Catholic. She worked for Baptist Health for 21 years as a registered nurse. She received her B.S. degree at Henderson College and her Masters degree in...
Bonnie Padgett
May 28, 2009
Bonnie McGrew Padgett age 89 of Arkadelphia died May 28, 2009 in Springdale. She was born July 11, 1919 in Hawes, AR to Elza and Lillie Brady McGrew. She was retired employee of the business office at Henderson State University. Bonnie was preceded in death by her husband Arlie C. Padgett. Survivors include one son, Ronald B. Padgett and wife...
Sylvia Mckinzie
May 28, 2009
Sylvia Whillock McKinzie, 62, of Sherwood passed away Thursday, May 28, 2009. She was the daughter of the late William T. and Elieen Couch Whillock of Clinton, Arkansas. She was a member of Levy United Methodist Church and the Eastern Star. She was born in Clinton where she graduated from Clinton High School, and attended UCA in Conway. She was...
Elli McKellips
May 27, 2009
Elli K. Heinrich Beaumont McKellips was born in Freeport, Illinois on May 14, 1933 to the late Otto A. G. Heinrich and Karoline Bingert Heinrich. She passed away on May 27, 2009 after a long battle with non-smoker's lung cancer. After moving to Little Rock with her grandparents in 1947, she attended Pulaski Heights Junior High School and graduated from...
Robert Robertson
May 27, 2009
The Rev. Robert Wilson (Bob) Robertson, 83, of Little Rock, a United Methodist retired clergy elder, passed away on May 27, 2009. He was born May 28, 1926 in Colt, Arkansas, the sixth son and eighth child of Rev. Bailey E. and Minnie Robertson. His father was a Methodist minister in Arkansas for 40 years as was his uncle, Rev....
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