All Obituaries
Merill Moore
Jan 12, 2007
Merill E. Moore, age 85 of Bismarck died at the Fountain Lake Nursing Center in Hot Springs. He was born Nov. 27, 1921 in Bismarck, AR the son of the late Oliver and Zeller Prince Moore. He was a retired factory worker, a Pentecost and WWII Army Air Corps Veteran. He was preceded in death by his wife, Joy B....
James Garrett
Jan 10, 2007
James Ware Garrett, age 86 of Hope formerly of Okolona died Wednesday, Jan 10, 2007 at the Twin Rivers Health & Rehab. He was born July 12, 1920 in Emmett, AR the son of the late Ware and Edith Day Garrett. He was employee of Arkansas Louisiana Gas, member of the Emmett United Methodist Church and a WWII Army veteran....
Opal Holt
Jan 9, 2007
Mrs. Opal Maebelle Morden Holt, 75, of Jacksonville, Arkansas died peaceful in her sleep in a local hospital January 9, 2007. She was born August 22, 1931 in Jacksonville to Horace G. and Venie Clement Morden. Mrs. Holt was retired form the V.A. Hospital Little Rock after many years of service. She grew-up in the Bethel United Methodist Church and...
Cora Herrin
Jan 9, 2007
Cora Juanita Herrin, age 80 of Bismarck died Tuesday, January 09, 2007 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center. She was born Oct 16, 1926 in Bismarck, AR the daughter of the late Patrick Henry and Ola Mae Loy Thomas. She was a retired seamstress for Levi Strauss Co in Arkadelphia and a member of the DeRoche Missionary Baptist Church. She...
Judith Wright
Jan 8, 2007
Judith Ann Donham Wright, of Daphne, Alabama, and a native of Little Rock, died peacefully on January 8, 2007 at her home, surrounded by those she loved, after a long and valiant struggle against cancer. She was 59. Judy was known by family and friends alike for her gentleness, graciousness and kindness to everyone around her. Her sweet disposition and...
Lucille Barnett
Jan 8, 2007
Lucille Barnett, 95, of Jacksonville passed away Monday, January 8, 2007. She was a member of First General Baptist Church and liked to do quilt work. She is survived by two sons, Robert Barnett and his wife, Pernie, of Jacksonville and David Barnett and his wife, Karen, of Garland, Texas; daughter, Mary Lawhon and husband, Elmer, of Hensley; sister, Loretta...
Lillian Thompson
Jan 7, 2007
Lillian Marie Thompson, 83, of Little Rock, died January 7, 2007. She is survived by her son, Herman Lasker Snipes; daughter, Jeanette St. Clair; brother, Carl Smith; sisters, Ann Burkett, Evelyn Little and Mable Wheeler; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Alvin S. and Dovie Whitt Smith; daughter, Sandra Scott; sister, Della Mae...
Irene Mclemore
Jan 6, 2007
E. Irene McLemore, 82 of North Little Rock, passed away on Saturday, January 06, 2007. She was a member of Park Hill Baptist Church. She is survived by a son, Randy McLemore and his wife Davette of Sherwood; 3 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; a brother, James Robert Compton of Pennsylvania; a sister, Mary Emily Holland of North Little Rock; and numerous...
Joseph Simmons
Jan 6, 2007
Joseph Raymond Simmons of NLR, age 62, passed away January 6th. Born in Charleston, AR, July 19, 1944, son of Clifton and Christine Erman Simmons. He was the youngest of nine children. His mother, father and one sister precede him in death. After serving in the United States Air Force, he moved to NLR where he met and married Dorothy...
Daniel Grandon,
Jan 5, 2007
Daniel George Grandon, Jr., 36, of North Little Rock lost his courageous battle with pancreatic cancer on Friday, January 5, 2007. He was employed with Springhill Wine and Spirits for 7 years and a 1988 graduate of Ole Main High School. He is survived by his wife, Jennifer Payne Grandon; son, Daniel George Grandon, III; daughter, Samantha Payne, all of...
Megan Smith
Jan 5, 2007
Megan Marie Smith, 17, of Arkadelphia, died Friday, January 5, 2007 at Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock. She was born August 15, 1989 at Arkadelphia. She was a member of the First Assembly of God Church in Arkadelphia, the Junior Class at Arkadelphia High School, the Girl's Soccer Team, and the Arkadelphia Students for Christ. She was preceded in death...
Patricia Brown
Jan 4, 2007
Patricia L. Winters Brown, age 67 of Malvern died Thursday, January 04, 2007 at the Hot Spring Co Hosp. She was born Sept 18, 1939 in Mansfield, AR the daughter of the late Cleston John and Ola Katherine Primm Winters. She was a housewife and a member of the Rayburn Creek Missionary Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, Billy J....
Rex Henley
Jan 4, 2007
Surrounded by family and friends, Rex Carthel Henley, 79, of Cabot passed into eternity at Baptist Springhill Hospital on January 4, 2007. He was predeceased by his parents William F. and Ethel Lovell Henley; two sisters, Ethel Wickett and Thelma Plemmons. He served his country in World War II with the U.S. Navy and was a member of the Masonic...
Truit Smith
Jan 3, 2007
Truit W. Smith, age 72 of Bismarck died Wednesday, Jan 3, 2007 at his home. He was born April 29, 1934, in Bismarck, AR the son of the late Clark W. and Gracie Alice Ledbetter Smith. He was a printer for the Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center and a Sunday school teacher and a member of the Midway Missionary Baptist Church....
George Rish
Jan 2, 2007
George William Rish, 67, of Little Rock, died January 2, 2007. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Sue Johnson Rish; son Steven Rish and wife Lori; daughter, Shelly Caress and husband, Michael Hall; sons, George Rish and Rocky Rish; brother Stephen Rish; sisters, Beverly Ford and Starr Hager; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home,...
Stanley Johnson
Jan 1, 2007
Stanley R. Johnson, 53, of Clinton passed away Monday, January 1, 2007. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Clinton. He is survived by his mother, Betty (Robert) Carter, of Hilliard, Florida; daughter, Melody (Jamie) Brown, of Darlington, South Carolina; son, David Johnson of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; three sisters, Margaret Haddock, of King?s Ferry, Florida, Betty Jean Conner...
Cecil Hartsell
Dec 31, 2006
Cecil Webster Hartsell, age 73 of Caney died Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006 at the St. Joseph Regional Health Care. He was born April 16, 1933 in Caney, AR the son of the late Fred and Florence Burris Hartsell. He was retired county road supervisor for Hot Spring Co and Clark County, and a member and Deacon of the Caney Missionary...
Beverly Remmel
Dec 30, 2006
Beverly Best Remmel, artist, of Little Rock, passed away on Saturday, December 30, 2006. She was born February 10, 1917, in Wynne, Cross County, Arkansas, the oldest of four daughters of William Capers and Mary Ellen Hales Best. She graduated in 1935 from Ritenour High School in St. Louis County, Missouri. She attended Washington University School of Fine Arts and...
Sandra Scott
Dec 30, 2006
Sandra Kaye Scott, 62, of Little Rock, passed away on December 30, 2006. She is survived by her mother, Lillian Smith Thompson of Little Rock; her son, Justin Scott of Little Rock; sister, Jeanette St. Clair and husband, Walter, of Mayflower; brother, Herman L. Snipes of Mabelvale; and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and friends. She was preceded...
Vivian Hays
Dec 30, 2006
Vivian Tucker Hays, 94, daughter of Washington Irving Tucker and Ethel Thompson Tucker Butler, died in a local Little Rock hospital on December 30, 2006. She was born in Camden, Missouri on August 2, 1912 and raised in Emporia, Kansas. She married Edmund Davis Hays in Colorado in 1936. They moved to Arkansas in 1939, raising their family in Fort...


