Obituaries from November 2004

Elaine Rippy Roberts (11/26/04)
Elaine Rippy Roberts, 46, of Hernando, Miss., formerly of Marmaduke, died Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004, at Methodist Hospital Central. She was born Sept. 17, 1958, in Hernando. A 1976 graduate of Marmaduke High School, she graduated from Freed-Hardeman College with a degree in accounting. She was of the Church of Christ belief and was employed at Sam's Town...

Sherry Hope Rose (11/18/04)
Sherry Hope Rose, 53, of Berry Creek, Calif., formerly of Rector, died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004, in Stockton, Calif. She was born in Kennett, Mo., and lived in the Rector area as a young girl. Her family later moved to the Los Angeles area and in 1968 to Stockton. ...

Ruby Geneva (Hosea) Wright (11/18/04)
Ruby Geneva (Hosea) Wright, 85, of Piggott died Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, in the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born Aug. 5, 1919, in Pollard, the daughter of the late WIlliam Oscar and Lelah Pearl Harbert Hosea. She was united in marriage to William Herbert Doty on Dec. 7, 1935. They had one son. He preceded her in death. She married George Rigney Wright on Oct. 26, 1941, and he also preceded her in death...

Dennis Wayne Hedrick (11/18/04)
Dennis Wayne Hedrick, 59, of Rector died peacefully Monday, Nov. 7, 2004, in El Cajon, Calif. He was born Feb. 4, 1945, in San Diego, where he attended Hoover High School and Miramar College. He retired from the San Diego City Fire Department, then worked as an Adjunct Professor of Fire Technology at Miramar College...

Avis Lavern Price (11/04/04)
Avis Lavern Price, 82, of Senath Nursing Center, formerly of Rector, died Friday, Oct. 29, 2004, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. She was born June 28, 1922, in Clay County to the late Eliaphus Andrew Edwards and Addie (Futen) Edwards. She was a homemaker, a member of the Rector First General Baptist Church and a member of the Rector Extension Homemakers Club...

Robert F. Cooper (11/10/04)
Robert F. Cooper, 81, of Marion, a native of Rector, died Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. He worked as chief deputy with the Crittenden County Sheriff's Department and retired after 40 years with the Arkansas State Police. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Marion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars...

Larry Junior Horner (11/10/04)
Larry Junior Horner, 63, of Paragould, formerly of Rector, died Thursday Nov. 4, 2004, at Lakeside Nursing Home in Lake City. He was born July 29, 1941, in Clay County to Juanita (Oldham) Horner and the late Marvin Horner. He was a disabled Navy veteran, having served in Vietnam, and worked as a UPS driver. He was of the Baptist faith...

Essie Lewis (11/04/04)
Essie Lewis, 85, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., a native of Boydsville, died Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004. She was born Dec. 12, 1919, in Boydsville to the late General Deniston and Sarah Ethel Wright Deniston. She was a member of the East Haven Baptist Church, a homemaker and a loving mother and grandmother...

Dr. Joshua Irving Tracey Jr. (11/04/04)
Joshua Irving Tracey Jr., 89, of Arlington, Va., husband of Rector native Frances Louise (McBride) Tracey, died Thursday, Oct. 18, at Virginia Hospital Center of heart failure. A noted geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, he was recognized for pioneering studies which helped support Charles Darwin's theory on the development of atolls...

John Henry Weller Jr. (11/26/04)
John Henry Weller Jr., 48, of Greenway died Nov. 17, 2004, at the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Oct. 20, 1956, in Granite City, Ill., the son of John Henry and Pearl J. Blair Weller. He was united in marriage to Carol Jean Nash on June 11, 1994. She preceded him in death in 2001...

Emmis E. Vaughn (11/26/04)
Emmis E. Vaughn, 78, of Pollard died Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004, in the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Sept. 27, 1926, in Pollard, the son of the late Thomas Jefferson and Nancy Ann Lemonds Vaughn. He married Lou Vonda Grissom on Feb. 27, 1946. They had two daughters...

Ruby Geneva (Hosea) Wright (11/17/04)
Ruby Geneva (Hosea) Wright, 85, of Piggott died Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, in the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born Aug. 5, 1919, in Pollard, the daughter of the late WIlliam Oscar and Lelah Pearl Harbert Hosea. She was united in marriage to William Herbert Doty on Dec. 7, 1935. They had one son. He preceded her in death. She married George Rigney Wright on Oct. 26, 1941, and he also preceded her in death...

Donald Russell York (11/17/04)
Donald Russell York, 40, of Campbell died Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004, at the Elvis Presley Trauma Center in Memphis. He was born April 7, 1964, in Malden, the son of William Lee and Lucille Eva Edmonston York. He was united in marriage to Monique Hill on July 20, 2004, in Malden...

Donald Perry Thrasher (11/17/04)
Donald Perry Thrasher, 67, of Piggott died Friday, Nov. 12, 2004, at his home. He was born July 17, 1937, in Campbell, the son of the late Ambress and Myra Duncan Thrasher. He was preceded in death by one sister, Kathy Thrasher. He is survived by four children, Barbara Summer of St. ...

Earl C. "Ted" Crowson (11/17/04)
Earl C. "Ted" Crowson, 85, of Piggott died Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004, at Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock. He was born on Nov. 27, 1918, in Greenway, the son of the late C.C. Crowson and Della Davis Crowson. He was married to Lorene Carpenter on April 10, 1937. She preceded him in death on Dec. 13, 1999, after 62 years of marriage. He was married to Kathy Morris on April 7, 2004...

Mary L. Koslovsky (11/17/04)
Mary L. Koslovsky (nee Hoover) of Toledo, Ohio, died at the Comfort Cave Unit of Lake Park on Nov. 11, 2004, at age 89. She had been ill for several months. She was born on Aug. 10, 1915, in St. Francis, the daughter of Lewis C. and Estella (Stella) Mae Liddell Hoover...

Cloyd Roscoe Arnold Sr. (11/10/04)
Cloyd Roscoe Arnold Sr., 78, of Lafe, died Nov. 2, 2004, at his home. He was born on April 6, 1926, in Clay County, Ark., the son of the late Bascom Bedford Arnold and Nellie Mae Wilder. He was a veteran of World War II. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Bryan and Raymond Arnold...

Mary Lucille Crews (11/10/04)
Mary Lucille Crews, 89, of Sikeston died Nov. 3, 2004, at the Puxico Nursing and Rehab Center in Puxico, Mo. She was born on Sept. 4, 1915, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Wiley Price and Iva Templeton Thomas. She was a 50-year member of the First United Methodist Church in Sikeston and a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She had been a teacher's aide and co-owner of Crews-Welsh Funeral Home in Sikeston before retiring...

Eula Belle Nickels (11/03/04)
Eula Belle Nickels, 86, of Bridgeton, Mo., formerly of Corning, died Nov. 1, 2004, at St. Johns Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Nickels was born on Jan. 29, 1918, in McDougal, the daughter of the late Oliver Hamilton Mitchell and Susie Alice Nicholson...

Virginia Mae Riley (11/03/04)
Virginia Mae Riley, 75, of Royal Oak, Mich., died Monday, Oct. 25, 2004, at Bortz Health Care in Warren, Mich. She was born Feb. 23, 1929, in Pontiac, Mich., the daughter of the late Austin and Belle Brady. She was united in marriage to Russell Riley in Ferndale, Mich., on June 16, 1951. He preceded her in death in 1991...

Dorothy Elaine McGehee Meade (11/03/04)
Dorothy Elaine McGehee Meade, 78, of Piggott died Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004, at her home in Piggott. She was born June 12, 1926, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Andrew and Edith Maddox McGehee. She was united in marriage to Carl E. Meade on June 17, 1944. They had seven children...

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