Stories from Monday, January 2, 2017

Don Franklin Simpson, 76, of Piggott, Ark., passed away December 27, 2016, at the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. He was born on December 20, 1940, in Greenway, Ark., and was the son of the late Emil Don and Edith (Book) Simpson. Don served in the United States Navy and was Honorably Discharged. He later retired after many years of working for the railroad in Michigan...

Monday evening, December 26, 2016, marked a long awaited welcoming party, as Edmond Henry Hurst entered through God's eternal gates. He was born in St. Louis, Mo., on October 2, 1923, to Edmond August, and Leona Vogt Hurst. His siblings included a brother, Garland "Bud" Hurst (2008) (Joline) of Warren, Mich., sister, Verna Lee Thomas, (Richard, 2013) of La Habra, Calif. and a sister-in-law, Wilma (Cooper) Whitlock (Glenn, 1979)...

Dorothy June "Dot" (Cavaness) Parrish, 77 of Marmaduke, Ark., passed from this life to her eternal home on Friday December 30, 2016, at the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro, Ark. She was born on May 8, 1939, in Rector, to the late Raymond and Pearl (Davidson) Cavaness. She was a member of the White Oak General Baptist Church and was united in marriage to the love of her life, Allie Eugene Parrish, on Sept. 27, 1958, in a simple ceremony conducted in Rector...