Obituaries from September 2008

Nathan Vardell (09/24/08)
Nathan Vardell, 54, of Paragould, died Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Mr. Vardell was born Aug. 30, 1954, in St. Louis, Mo. He was a retired fork lift operator...

Marcadean Sharrow (09/24/08)
Marcadean Sharrow, 83, of Piggott, died Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at Murphy Health and Rehabilitation in Piggott. She was born February 17, 1925 at Malden to Luther Melton Hinshaw and Ruby (Halsey) Hinshaw. They preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by her husband, William "Bill" Johnson...

Rev. Ted Thrasher (09/18/08)
Rev. Ted Thrasher, 65, of Warren, MI, formerly of Rector, died Sunday Sept. 14 at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Warren. Born June 3, 1943 in Rector to the late Lafe and Willie Thrasher, he was employed at the Chrysler Warren Stamping Plant and was Pastor of Waltham Avenue Baptist Church...

Pamela Dooley (09/18/08)
Pamela D. Dooley, 40, of Piggott, died Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born July 11, 1968, in St. Louis, the daughter of Pat and Mike Cook and Verlin and Margaret Covert...

Raymond Lamp (09/18/08)
Raymond Eugene Lamp, 95, of Piggott, died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at Murphy Health and Rehabilitation Center in Piggott. He was born July 6, 1913, in Carryville, the son of the late Samuel and Lena (Myers) Lamp...

Alma Louise Blake (09/11/08)
Alma Louise Blake, 80, of Piggott, died Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, at Heritage Nursing Center in Kennett, Mo. She was born April 21, 1928, in Piggott, to the late Jessie A. and Edith A. (Miller) Crow and was married Sept. 3, 1949, to Samuel A. Blake Jr., who preceded her in death in 1996...

Jerry Howard Gookin (09/11/08)
Jerry Howard Gookin, 70, of Farmington, Ark., died Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008, in Farmington. He was born Sept. 13, 1937, in Luxora and was the son of Virgil Eugean and Ethel Pauline (Anglin) Gookin. He was a veteran of the United State Air Force, retired as a supervisor after 28 years with Whirlpool Industries and was a member of the Denver Baptist Church in Greenwood...

Ivan Lee Russell (09/11/08)
Ivan Lee Russell, PhD, 85, of Herrin, Ill., died Friday, Aug. 22, 2008, at his home. He was born March 12, 1923, at Pollard to the late Thomas and Jennie (Latta) Russell. He was married Dec. 27, 1943, to Talulah Choate Russell, who preceded him in death Jan. 14, 2005...

Pamela Jean Haley (09/04/08)
Pamela Jean Haley, 53, of Piggott, died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born March 22, 1955, in Kennett, the daughter of Stanley Clifton "Red" and Juanita Turner Haley...

Keith Skaggs (09/04/08)
Keith L. Skaggs, 44, of Campbell, died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, in Campbell. He was born Nov. 2, 1963, in Kennett, the son of Ragie and Marie Turner Skaggs. His sister, Amanda Skaggs, preceded him in death...

John Simpson (09/04/08)
John Simpson, 88, of Piggott, died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, in the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. He was born Nov. 13, 1919, in Calhoun, Miss., the son of the late Morris and Clara Harrelson Simpson...

Edith Ellis (09/04/08)
Edith Ellis, 87, of Maynard, died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, in the Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. She was born July 19, 1921, in Hardburly, Ky., the daughter of the late Curtis and Martha (Williams) Gayhart...

Pamela Jean Haley (09/03/08)
Pamela Jean Haley, 53, of Piggott, died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born March 22, 1955, in Kennett, the daughter of Stanley Clifton "Red" and Juanita Turner Haley...

Billy Elvis Smithee (09/03/08)
Billy Elvis Smithee, 64, of Rector died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. He was born March 23, 1944, in Monette to the late Jessie Carl and Jessie Marie (Huckabee) Smithee. Also preceding him in death were a son, Billy Elvis Smithee Jr., and two grandchildren, Brandy and Nathan Smithee...

Joseph Dewayne Mason (09/03/08)
Joseph Dewayne Mason, 54, of Rector died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. He was born July 23, 1954, to Joseph and Edna (Edwards) Mason in Rector. He worked at Monroe on the line assembly...

Raymond Burr (09/03/08)
Raymond Burr, 53, of Paragould died Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. He was born Sept. 8, 1954, in Kennett, Mo. He was preceded in death by his parents, Tommy "Red" and Rose Annette (Fuller) Burr. Survivors include a son, Colter Burr of Lometa, Texas; four daughters and a son-in-law, Christopher and Cameron Bruster and Cheyenne Burr of Lometa, Texas, and Amy Burr and Lisa Fudge, both of Wichita Falls, Texas; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Rose Ann and Jimmy Parrish of Lafe and Judy and Rick Guillot of Paragould, five grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.. ...

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