Obituaries

Shirley Ann (Parnell) Hicks (10/06/04)
Shirley Ann (Parnell) Hicks, 44, of Lepanto died Sunday, Oct. 3 at Regional Medical Center of NEA in Jonesboro. Born in Osceola on December 6, 1959, she was the daughter of Bill Pannell and Wanda (Jones) Pannell. She was a member of Keiser Full Gospel Church and a lifelong area resident who attended Keiser Schools...

Kenneth F. Marr (10/06/04)
Kenneth F. Marr, 78, of Houston, Texas went to be with the Lord on Monday, Sept. 20. He was born April 15, 1926 in Tyler, Mo. to Karl and Cecil Marr. The Marr family lived in Marked Tree from 1940 to 1952 and were members of First Baptist Church. Kenneth graduated from Marked Tree High School in 1944. He worked at the Marked Tree Tribune during high school...

Gerline Brown (10/13/04)
Gerline Brown, 79, of Trumann died Saturday, Oct. 9, at her residence. Born at Walnut Ridge, she was a homemaker. Survivors include four daughters: Mary Darren of Paragould, Linda Hamm of Poughkeepsie, Brenda Brown of Trumann and Sharon Daniels of Sydney; six sons: James Brown of Dyess, Orville Brown and Troy Brown, both of Lepanto, Bobby Brown and Douglass Brown, both of Trumann, and Bennie Brown of Paragould; two sisters: Marcel Colby of Illinois and Juanita Johnson of Lakeland, Fla.; 51 grandchildren; and a number of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.. ...

Charles "Chuck" Nelson Burres (10/13/04)
Charles "Chuck" Nelson Burres, 70, of Manila died Tuesday, Oct. 5, at St. Bernard's Medical Center. Born in Jonesboro, he was a driver for the Northeast Arkansas Area Agency on Aging and of the Baptist belief. Survivors include his wife, Emma Steinbach Burres of Manila; one son, Mike Burres of Jonesboro; four stepsons, Howard Harwood of Detroit, James Harwood of South Lyon, Mich., and Robert Harwood and Kenneth Harwood, both of Manila; two daughters, Tammy Burres of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Patricia Burres; one stepdaughter, Flora Cassidy of Manila; 27 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.. ...

Mary Johnson (10/13/04)
Mary Johnson, 86, of Malvern passed away Monday, Oct. 4 in a hospital in Hot Springs. She was formerly of Dyess. She was born November 3, 1917 in Bradley to the late Luther McDonald Keen and the late Mattie May Newport Keen. She was a former dietician for the Hot Springs County Hospital in Malvern. She was a member of the Riverside Baptist Church in Donaldson and a former member of the Eastern star...

Flinton Kimble (10/13/04)
Flinton Kimble, 71, of Lepanto died on Friday, Oct. 8, at his residence. Born at Nettleton, Miss., he was a farm worker and of the Pentecostal belief. Survivors include his wife, Mary Kimble of Lepanto; two daughters, Brenda Brown of Lepanto and Janice Carruth of Manila; one sister, Stella Raines of Lepanto; three brothers, London Kimble, Johnny Kimble and Melvin Kimble, all of Nettleton, Miss.; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren...

Edna Mabyn Williams (10/13/04)
Edna Mabyn Williams, 89, of Marked Tree died Friday, Oct. 8, at NEA Medical Center. She was a member of the Marked Tree Church of God. Survivors include a brother, Buel Adamson of Marked Tree; two grandchildren, Annette Relue and Bobbie Kirk, both of Brownsburg, Ind.; and six great-grandchildren...

Glissen (10/21/04)
Funeral services for Virginia Glissen, 88, of Harrisburg were held last Saturday at the First Baptist Church Family Life Center in Harrisburg. Glissen died Oct. 13 at the Woodbriar Nursing Home in Harrisburg. Born in Tipper County, Miss., Glissen had lived in Harrisburg since 1966 and...

Luther Flinton Kimble (10/21/04)
Luther Flinton Kimble, 71, of Lepanto died on Friday, Oct. 8, at his residence. Born at Nettleton, Miss., he was a farm worker and of the Pentecostal belief. Survivors include his wife, Mary Kimble of Lepanto; two daughters, Brenda Brown of Lepanto and Janice Carruth of Manila; one sister, Stella Raines of Lepanto; three brothers, London Kimble, Johnny Kimble and Melvin Kimble, all of Nettleton, Miss.; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren...

Griffin (10/21/04)
Ella Griffin, 93, of Trumann died Oct. 10 at the Trumann Health and Rehab Center in Trumann of natural causes. Griffin, a member of the First Baptist Church of Marked Tree was born in Prentiss County, Miss. and had lived in Trumann for the past 39 years. ...

Agnes Christine May (10/21/04)
Agnes Christine May, 83, of Monette died Oct. 14 at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born on Apr. 1, 1921, May was a homemaker and a member of the Brush Creek Baptist Church in Brush Creek, Ark. Survivors include two daughters, Mary Johnson and Nadine Davis, both of Osceola; two...

Judy Wooten Allen (10/21/04)
Judy Wooten Allen, 51, of Marked Tree died last Wednesday. Allen was born Sept. 10, 1953 in Trumann to Pearline Wooten Norman and the late Oscar Wooten. She was a member of the Industrial Street Church of Christ and was a 1972 graduate of Marked Tree High School and graduated from the Delta Vo-Tech School of Nursing. ...

Opal Ruth Cockrell (10/27/04)
Opal Ruth Cockrell, 75, of Lepanto died Monday, Oct. 18, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was a homemaker. Survivors include two sons, Steve Cockrell and Norman Cockrell, both of Lepanto; eight sisters, Lula Davis of Warrenton, Mo., Heidi Gilbert of Sebring, Fla., Wilma Jean Evans and Sue Evans, both of Wauchula, Fla., Wanda Weaver and Doris Shipman, both of Caraway, Patricia Griggs of Lepanto and Evon Harrison of Chenoa, Ill.; four brothers, Stanley Jones, Cecil Jones and Buddy Jones, all of Lepanto, and Oran Jones of Warrenton; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.. ...

Sarah Elizabeth Olsen (10/27/04)
Sarah Elizabeth Olsen, 89, of Osceola died on October 23 at her residence. Born in Waterloo, Ala., she was a house keeper at Osceola Nursing Home and attended New Beginnings Christian Fellowship Church in Blytheville. Survivors include one daughter: Debora Thomas of Osceola; three sons: Larry Olsen of Pontotoc, Miss., Don Olsen of Blytheville and Ronnie Olsen of Columbus, Ohio; one brother: James Mitchell of Lawton, Mich.; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren...

James Harold Ward (10/27/04)
James Harold Ward, 64, of Trumann died Wednesday, Oct. 20, at St. Bernard's Medical Center. Born at Blagg, Mo., he was a construction worker and was of the Pentecostal belief. Survivors include four daughters, Tammy McCorkle of Hoxie and Lisa Kilgore, Patricia Ward and Sandra Smullin, all of Trumann; one sister, Betty Dennis of Benton; two brothers, Billy Ward of Clinton and Rex Ward of Jonesboro; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren...

Eddie Taft Jones Jr. (10/27/04)
Eddie Taft Jones Jr., 71, of Batesville died Tuesday, Oct. 19, in a local hospital. Born January 6, 1933 in Tyronza, he was the son of Eddie Taft Jones Sr. and Pearline Wicker Jones Thornton. He was retired from the U.S. Postal Service, was a U.S. Navy veteran, a farmer, co-owner of Out Of The Attic, and a member of First Baptist Church of Tyronza...

Susan Oldham Lawson (10/27/04)
Susan Oldham Lawson, 53, of Baker, LA, died Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at her residence in Baker. Mrs. Lawson was a native of Tyronza, AR, a resident of Baker, Louisiana for the past nine years and a former resident of Portland and Marked Tree, AR. She was a Supervisor for the Wal-Mart Store in Baker and she was a member of the Church of God...