Obituaries

Carol June Stricklin Hillis (05/05/04)
Carol June Stricklin Hillis, 59, of Harrisburg died Sunday, May 1 at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Hillis was born in Marked Tree and was the daughter of St. Elmo Stricklin and Laverne Stephen Stricklin. She was a cosmetology teacher and homemaker...

James Thomas Young (05/05/04)
James Thomas Young died April 29 in San Francisco, California. Young was born and raised in Marked Tree. Survivors include one sister: Kathryn Albonetti of Bartlett, Tenn.; one nephew: Christopher Albonetti of Atlanta, Ga. and one niece: Haley Carson of South Haven, Miss...

Jessie Mae Corley (05/05/04)
Jessie Mae Corley, 90, of Osceola died Monday, April 26, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Osceola. She was a homemaker and a member of Holy Temple Church of God in Christ in Blytheville. Survivors include a son, Gene King of Fayetteville, N.C.; a sister, Annie Mae Goodman of Blytheville; 16 grandchildren; 48 great-grandchildren; and 19 great-great-grandchildren...

Mildred C. Morgan (05/05/04)
Mildred C. Morgan, 81, of Memphis died Sunday, May 2 at St. Bernard's hospital in Jonesboro. Formerly a resident of Marked Tree, Morgan was a homemaker. She was a member of the Eastern Star and Trinity Baptist Church in Southaven, Miss. where she sang in the senior choir...

Myrtle Lee Voyles (05/05/04)
Myrtle Lee Voyles, 80, of Sardis, Miss. died Sunday, May 2 at her residence. She was born in Marked Tree on July 6, 1923 to Thomas and Minnie Holbrook. Voyles also resided in Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Voyles was retired from the Southern Central Paper Company of Memphis and was a former member of the First Baptist Church of Marked Tree...

Billy Huff (05/12/04)
Billy Huff, 71, of Marked Tree died Thursday, May 6, at his residence. He was retired from the Air Force and was a member of the United Pentecostal Church at Lepanto. Survivors include his wife, Mable E. Huff of Marked Tree; two sons, Jimmy Huff of Marked Tree and David Huff of Stafford, Va.; three daughters, Angela Prentice of Columbia, Tenn., Nancy Maier of Stafford and Martha O'Brien of Redwood City, Calif.; two brothers, Melvin Huff of Atlanta and Arnold Huff of Texarkana; a sister; 14 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.. ...

Burton Henry "Buddy" Adams (05/12/04)
Burton Henry "Buddy" Adams, 75, of Lepanto died Wednesday, May 5. A Marine veteran of World War II, he was a retired farmer and a member of the American Legion and Etowah Pentecostal Church of God. Survivors include his wife, Pearline Adams of Lepanto; a son, Buddy Junior Adams of Lepanto; a daughter, Patricia Hendrix of Lepanto; two grandchildren, Ronda Kaye Worsham of Wilson and Whitney Elise Adams of Dallas; and three great-grandchildren...

Luvicie Ingle (05/12/04)
Luvicie Ingle, 97, of Cabot died May 4, 2004 at Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton. Ingle, formerly of Tyronza, was a homemaker of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her husband Dolphus Ingle of Tyronza. Survivors include one daughter: Mary Sue Smith of Alexander; one sister: Willie Mae Hobson of Tiptonville, Miss.; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren...

Orval Robert "Bob" Glover (05/12/04)
Orval Robert "Bob" Glover, 70, died at his residence in Lepanto on Sunday, May 9. He was a member of the Lepanto Church of Christ, where he served as an elder and the Education Director for many years. He was a retired Arkansas Highway Transportation Department District materials supervisor for 35 years and Veteran of the Naval Reserve. He also served on the board of Stevens Square...

Delois Shockley (05/19/04)
Delois Shockley, 64, of Chicago died Monday, May 10, at her residence. She was born in Imboden. Survivors include one daughter, Nancy Lee Trice of Chicago; six brothers, Jimmy Shockley, Statin Shockley and Darrell Eugene Shockley, all of Marked Tree, Leroy Shockley and Joe Henry Shockley, both of Chicago, and Louis Edward Shockley of Detroit; one sister, Phyllis Shockley of St. Louis; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren...

James Arthur Adkins (05/19/04)
James Arthur "Blu Boy" Adkins, 43, of Osceola died Thursday, May 6, in Osceola. Born in Osceola, he was a farmer and was of the Baptist belief. Survivors include his parents, Thelma Virgies of Osceola and William Adkins of Columbia, S.C.; a sister, Jeannie Adkins of Osceola; and a brother, Darrell Adkins of Kansas City, Mo...

John D. Bryan (05/19/04)
John D. Bryan, 58, of Lepanto died Monday, May 10, at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. He was a farmer and a member of Little River Church of Christ. Survivors include a son, Johnny Bryan of Ohio; two daughters, Jennifer Bryan of Canada and Meredith Bryan of Ohio; two sisters, Sally Blake of Marked Tree and Virginia Oberste of Fort Smith; a brother, Benny Joe Bryan of Osceola; and three grandchildren...

John Carlisle Rhodes (05/19/04)
John Carlisle Rhodes passed away May 15, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah of a brain tumor. He was born the fourth or four boys to Charles F. and Alma Bennett Rhodes, on September 26, 1923 in Greenville, MO. John was an avid golfer, and spent countless hours honing his skills with Jack and the boys. He would pass on endless stories of adventure and misadventure which remained remarkably free of embellishment even after much repetition...

Russell Brittain Ryals (05/19/04)
Russell Brittain Ryals, 47, of Mountain View died Friday, May 14. Born in Memphis, Tenn., Ryals was a diesel Mechanic and attended a Church of Christ church. He was survived by his wife, Julia Pritchett Ryals; one brother: Tim Ryals of Muskogee, Okla.; three sisters: Lynn Pirani of Clarksdale, Luann Jones of Little Rock and Amy Armstrong of Jacksonville; and two stepchildren: Hunter Rosamond and Tessa Rosamond, both of Mountain View...

Walter A. "Art" Johnson (05/19/04)
Walter A. "Art" Johnson, 77, of Jonesboro died Sunday at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. A World War II Navy veteran, Johnson was a New York businessman, an instructor at New York University and the founder of Stonybrook Girls School in New York. Johnson served as a missionary for many years in Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Canada and at Indian reservations in New Mexico and Oklahoma, before becoming the pastor of Upper Room Church in Tyronza, where he retired in 1985...

Bertha Marie Norton (05/26/04)
Bertha Marie Norton, 86, of Harrisburg, died Sunday, May 23, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born at Sitka, she was a homemaker, a former school cafeteria supervisor and worked providing care for children and the elderly. She was a member of Harrisburg Church of Christ...

Clyde Atkins (05/26/04)
Clyde Atkins, 69, of Osceola died Wednesday, May 19, at Osceola Health Care. Born in Valley Park, Miss., he was a construction worker and of the Baptist belief. Survivors include a daughter, Lodena Brown of Minneapolis; two sons, Wyman Clyde Atkins of Minneapolis and Mark Atkins of Chicago; two brothers, Curtis Atkins and Cleveland Atkins, both of Chicago; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren...

Garner Hamilton Morrisett, Jr. (05/26/04)
Garner Hamilton Morrisett, Jr., 58, of Marked Tree died Saturday, May 22 at Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Morrisett was a member of the Marked Tree Church of God and was active in organizing Special Olympic Events. He was preceded in death by his father Garner Hamilton Morrisett, Sr...