Obituaries

Sandra Perkins Green (05/08/03)
Sandra Perkins Green, 57, of Tyronza, died April 30, 2003 at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis. A member of the First Assembly of God in Jonesboro, Green loved singing, cooking and spending time with her family. She was preceded in death by one son, Steven Paul Green, and two grandchildren, Lauren Bailey and Ashton Celeste Deckelman...

Mae Shelton (05/08/03)
Mae Shelton, 86, of Trumann, died May 5, 2003 at the Lakeside Nursing Home in Lake City. The widow of Richard Shelton, she was born in Missouri on January 20, 1917. Shelton was a homemaker of the Pentecostal faith. She was preceded in death by one so, Floyd Cato...

Ruby Elizabeth Smith (05/08/03)
Ruby Elizabeth Smith, 88, of Jacksonville, formerly of Marked Tree, died May 1, 2003. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville. Her parents, Henry and Lula Overturf, husband, Harry L. Smith and three brothers, Carroll, Cecil and Harvey Overturf, preceded her in death...

Scott Womack (05/16/03)
Scott Womack, 83, of Marked Tree, died on Thursday, May 8, 2003 at St. Bernard's Hospital in Jonesboro. A Farmer and former foreman for the Marked Tree Tribune, Womack was of the Baptist faith, a WWII Army veteran, Mason and member of Eastern Star...

Cleo Goldman (05/16/03)
Cleo Goldman, 83, of Lepanto, died on Friday, May 9, 2003, at the Trumann Nursing Home. Born on November 28, 1919 in Turrell, Goldman was a farmer and of the Pentecostal faith. Goldman was preceded in death by his wife, Lucille Mofield Goldman, his parents, Grover and Margaret Goldman and four sisters...

Linzie Thurman Griffin (05/16/03)
Linzie Thurman Griffin, 76, of Luxora, died on May 12, 2003 at his home. A mechanic, Griffin was of the Baptist faith and a resident of Mississippi County for over 55 years. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Buster Grimes and Rayford Griffin; and one son, Dwight Griffin...

Steven W. Roark (05/16/03)
Steven W. Roark, 50, of Jonesboro, died on Sunday, May 11, 2003 at St. Bernard's Hospital in Jonesboro. Roark was affiliated with the Pentecostal Church of God in Etowah. Survivors include his father, Herman "Dickie" Roark and step-mother, Carline Roark and two brothers, Gary Roark of Keiser and Clifford Roark of Gosnell...

Joe Marvin Stotts (05/16/03)
Joe Marvin Stotts, 82, of Lepanto, died on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. Born on May 21, 1920, in Lepanto, Stotts was a farmer, Veteran of WWII, member of the Church of Christ and the American Legion. Survivors include two sisters, Marguerite Hattle of West Memphis and Virginia Stotts of Lepanto...

Sara Alexis Zarate (05/16/03)
Sara Alexis Zarate, five months old, of Tyronza, died on Saturday, May 10, 2003. Survivors include her parents, Winnie Sue Bratton of Tyronza and Greg Zarate of Coldwater, Ark.; one sister, Samantha Sotelo of West Memphis; and one brother, David Wayne Bratton of Tyronza...

Lottie Elizabeth Chism (05/22/03)
Lottie Elizabeth Chism, 90, of Cordova, Tenn., died on Monday, May 19, 2003 at the Ave Maria Nursing Home. A homemaker, Chism was a member of Broadmoor Baptist Church and was preceded in death by her parents. Survivors include two sons, Harold B. Chism of Cordova, Tenn. and Larry Chism of Eads, Tenn. and four grandchildren...

Luther Darrell Jester (05/22/03)
Luther Darrell Jester, 63, of Lepanto, died on Sunday, May 18, 2003 at the Manila Nursing Center in Manila. Born January 1, 1940 in Clark County, Ark., Jester was a member of the First Assembly of God Church in Lepanto, former member of the Osceola Lions Club, retired commercial bee keeper, former executive board member of the American Honey Producers and retired school administrator...

Amanda Dora Lewis (05/22/03)
Amanda Dora Lewis, 86, of Osceola, died on Friday, May 16, 2003 at Baptist Hospital in Osceola. She was born on March 7, 1917 in Coffeeville, Miss. to Jack Davis and Ella Mae Gray. A resident of Mississippi County for over 30 year, Lewis was a housewife and a member of Grace Temple in Osceola, where she was on the mother board...

Stephen Kelly Lowe (05/22/03)
Stephen Kelly Lowe, 45, of Osceola, died at his home on Saturday, May 17, 2003. Born on March 26, 1958 in Osceola, Lowe was a lifelong resident of Mississippi County and a member of the First Baptist Church in Osceola. He was with American Greeting Corporation for 25 years. He was preceded in death by his father, Jim Lowe...

Margaret Pilgrim (05/22/03)
Margaret Pilgrim, 56, of Lepanto, died on Thursday, May 15, 2003 at her home. Born is Russellville, Ark. on October 14, 1946, Pilgrim was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church of Lepanto and worked in the bookkeeping department of Amercian Greetings. She was preceded in death by her father, Oscar Wirth...

Floyd Pollard (05/22/03)
Floyd Pollard, 65, of Caraway, died on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at his home. Born on January 30, 1938 in Caraway, Pollard was a member of New Hope Baptist Church in Caraway and a retired truck driver. Survivors include his wife, Faye Pollard of Caraway; six sons, Billy and Joey Pollard of Caraway, Bobby Pollard of Evening Shade, Ark., Randy Pollard of Kilgore, Texas, Earnest Pollard of Linn, Mo. ...

James "Dub" White (05/22/03)
James "Dub" White, 81, of Lepanto, died on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at the Veteran's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Born on January 26, 1922 in Decaturville, Tenn., White was a member of the First Baptist Church of Lepanto, former member of the Lepanto VFW, former member of the America Legion, Army WWII Veteran, and owner/operator of a service station...

Lillie Mae Blain (05/30/03)
Lillie Mae Blain, 90, of Paragould, died on Saturday, May 24, 2003 at the Arkansas Methodist Medical Center. Born on September 25, 1912 in Mississippi, Blain was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charlie Blain; parents, John W. and Penelope Cummings Cauley; six brothers and a grandson...

Mary Ann Wamble Burnham (05/30/03)
Mary Ann Wamble Burnham, 58, of Yarbro, died Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at Regional Medical Center of Northeast Arkansas in Jonesboro. Born September 24, 1944, in Blytheville, the daughter of Charles Frank and Bertha Mae Chaney, she was a lifelong area resident and a member of Yarbro Baptist Church. ...

LaKenya Marie Hall (05/30/03)
LaKenya Marie Hall, 23, of Osceola, died on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at St. Bernards in Jonesboro. Hall was born September 4, 1979 in Osceola, to Joyce Cannon and Carl Hall. She worked for Fruit of the Loom in Osceola and was a resident of Mississippi County for 23 years. She was a member of Grace Temple Baptist Church in Osceola and sang in the choir...

Margaret Marotti (05/30/03)
Margaret M. Marotti, 54, of Earle, died on Thursday, May 22, 2003 at Twist, Ark. She was a member of the First Assembly of God Church in Earle. Survivors include her husband, David L. Marotti of Earle; one daughter, Kim Marotti of West Memphis; one son, Tim Marotti of Earle; her Mayvelee Corley Bell of Marked Tree; eight sisters, Sammie Wamble of Germantown, Tenn., Sue Rose of Dallas, Texas, Ellie Mae Dilling of Russellville, Ark., Faye Ruble of Tickpaw, La., Rose Ming of Marked Tree, Diana Allison and Sharon Jones of Marion, and Cindy Rapa of Fairview, Ill.; five brothers, Curtis Bell of Tyronza, Pete Bell, Robert Bell, Johnny Bell and Bobby Bell, all of Marked Tree; and one grandchild.. ...

Glenn Russell (05/30/03)
Glenn E. Russell of West Memphis died Sunday, March 2, 2003, in West Memphis. Russell, 88, a retired farmer, was a member of Missouri Street Church of Christ. A former Marked Tree resident, Russell was preceded in death by his parents, Jasper and Lula; sister, Mary "Tootsie" Parker and brother, Junior Russell...

Mary Elizabeth Williams (05/30/03)
Mary Elizabeth Williams, 73, of Osceola, died on Friday, May 23, 2003 at Baptist East in Memphis, Tenn. Born on August 30, 1929 in Tupelo, Miss., Williams was a homemaker of the Church of Christ faith. Survivors include one son, Bill Massengill of Osceola; one daughter, Debra Johnson of Sweet Home, Ore.; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren...