Clay County Times-Democrat: Obituaries from July 2007

Evelyn Arveline Williams (07/26/07)
Evelyn Arveline Williams, 75, of Campbell, Mo., formerly of Piggott, died Monday, July 16, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Feb. 1, 1932, in Piggott, and was the daughter of the late Cecil and Morine Williams Lack...

Marguerite French (07/26/07)
Marguerite French, 88, of Rector died Monday, July 23, 2007, at her home. A lifetime resident of Rector, she was born Sept. 13, 1918, in Rector to the late R.A. and May Cossey. She was a housewife and a member of the Rector First United Methodist Church...

Betty Joyce McDonald (07/19/07)
Betty Joyce McDonald, 75, of Hensley, formerly of Rector, died Saturday, July 14, 2007, at UAMS in Little Rock. The daughter of the late Gilbert and Opal Garrett, she was born March 23, 1932, at Liberty Hill. She was a Methodist. She attended licensed practical nursing school in Jonesboro and later studied at Arkansas State University to become a registered nurse, choosing to serve the Lord in the medical field. ...

Bobby Joe Ramer (07/11/07)
Bobby Joe Ramer, 64, of Knob, died Sunday, July 8, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born June 4, 1943, in Knob to the late Morgan and Lena Ramer, he was a mechanic, having retired from John Deere in Corning, and was of the Baptist faith...

W.C. "Bill" O'Connor (07/11/07)
W.C. "Bill" O'Connor, 89, of Marmaduke died Friday, July 6, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. A retired safety engineer with Southern California Edison Company, he was born Aug. 8, 1917, in Oklahoma City, Okla., to the late Frank and Frances (Stripling) O'Connor. He was married Aug. 15, 1945, in Modesto, Calif., to Joy Ruth (Triplett) O'Connor, who survives...

Wilma Louise (Johnson) Lucy (07/05/07)
Wilma Louise (Johnson) Lucy, 71, of Rector died Friday, June 29, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Sept. 11, 1935, in Clay County to the late John Franklin Johnson and Margie Alice Seegraves Johnson. She also was preceded in death by a brother, Donald Johnson, and a sister, Pauline Wagster...

Floretta Mae Tanner (07/05/07)
Floretta Mae Tanner, 85, of Piggott, died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, in the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was born May 24, 1922, in Rector, and was the daughter of the late Charlie Bevil and Lula Mae Beckley Hooks. Floretta was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Piggott...

Laura Lynn Tate (07/05/07)
Laura Lynn Tate, 59, of Paragould died Monday, June 25, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born May 18, 1948, in Lafe to the late Lawrence and Anna Bateman Hudspeth. She was a homemaker and a member of the Calvary Baptist Church...

George Lemuel Palmer (07/05/07)
George Lemuel Palmer, 85, of Rector, died Thursday, June 28, 2007, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Born Oct. 30, 1921, in Senath to the late George and Fannie Palmer, he was a farmer, a World War II Army veteran and a member of Bethel General Baptist Church...

Camellia "Sue" Cox (07/05/07)
Mrs. Camellia "Sue" Cox, 78, of Hamptonville, N.C., a native of Rector and formerly of Jonesboro, died Sunday, July 1, 2007, at her home. Mrs. Cox was born Jan. 9, 1929, in Rector to the late Oscar and Hettie Barker. She worked and retired from Atlas Asphalt in Jonesboro, where she was an executive secretary...

Thomas Lee Coleman (07/05/07)
Thomas Lee Coleman, 79, of Marmaduke died Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born Nov. 6, 1927, in Hunter, Ark., to the late Lillian and Lee Coleman, he was an Army veteran of World War II, a retired saw filer with Paragould Wood Products and of the Baptist faith...

Evelyn Arveline Williams (07/26/07)
Evelyn Arveline Williams, 75, of Campbell, formerly of Piggott, died Monday, July 16, 2007, in the St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Feb. 1, 1932, in Piggott, and was the daughter of the late Cecil and Morine Williams Lack. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Everett Williams; her son, James Robert Huffman; and two brothers, J.W. and Bobby Lack...

Margie Estelle Farmer Wallis (07/26/07)
Margie Estelle Farmer Wallis, 89, of Pine Bluff, former long-time resident of Athens, Tenn., died Sunday, July 22, 2007. She was a homemaker and a member of the Athens Church of Christ. Wallis was a native of Clay County and a daughter of the late Charles Wilson Farmer and Amelia Dyer Farmer. She was preceded in death by two husbands, Otis Long and Olis Wallis; son, James Lowell Long; and sisters, Orba Jackson, Charlene Slayton, Lucille Stahl, and Oma Whitmore...

Avis Frank Faulk (07/26/07)
Avis Frank Faulk, 83, of Piggott, died Sunday, July 22, 2007, at his home in Piggott. He was born March 28, 1924, in Green County, to the late William Jet and Myrtle (Hutchins) Faulk. He will be sadly missed by his wife, Phyllis Faulk; son, Avis Frank Faulk, Jr. and fiancée Teresa Morris of Piggott; grandson, Brian Snyder of Mich.; and granddaughters, Felicia Faulk of Piggott and Brittinee Gray of Fla.; and great-grandson, Cody Westbrook of Kennett...

Mary Alma Binkley (07/19/07)
Mary Alma Binkley, 71, died Friday, July 6, at her daughter's home in Crystal Lake, Ill. Mary was born on July 10, 1935, in Piggott, to Carl Marcus and Lucille (McLeod) Binkley. She was born in the same house where her mother was born. She was the sister of Charles Ray (Maggie) Binkley of Tulsa, Okla., Wilma (Jack) Wilson of Murray, Ky., Jane (Jerry) Webster of Piggott and Robert Daniel (deceased infant)...

Cassie Carmaleda Kilbreath Tyler (07/19/07)
Cassie Carmaleda Kilbreath Tyler, 76, of McDougal, died July 14, 2007, in the Northeast Arkansas Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born July 15, 1930 in Pollard. She was preceded in death by her mother, Pearlie Kilbreath; three husbands, one daughter, four grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and two brothers...

Floretta Mae Tanner (07/05/07)
Floretta Mae Tanner, 85, of Piggott, died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, in the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was born May 24, 1922, in Rector, and was the daughter of the late Charlie Bevil and Lula Mae Beckley Hooks. Floretta was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Piggott...

Alice Elizabeth Island (07/11/07)
Alice Island, 74, died Saturday, May 30, 2007 in St. Louis. She was born Jan. 4, 1933 in Pollard, the daughter of Clara (Vaughn) and John Gettings. She was united in marriage to Emmett Island. She was preceded in death by four sisters: Martha Gettings, Betty Gettings, Kathern Young, and Lorene Raines; Three brothers; Melvin Gettings, Charles Gettings and Lavell Gettings...

Sue Jordan (07/05/07)
Sue Jordan, 74, of Piggott, died Sunday, June 24, 2007, in the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. She was born Dec. 2, 1932, in Pollard, and was the daughter of the late Edd and Dovie Brady Helton. She united in marriage to Jim Jordan on July 3, 1950, and they had one child...

George Lemuel Palmer (07/05/07)
George Lemuel Palmer, 85, of Rector, died Thursday, June 28, 2007, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Born Oct. 30, 1921, in Senath to the late George and Fannie Palmer, he was a farmer, a World War II Army veteran and a member of Bethel General Baptist Church...