Obituaries

Gerald Wayne Speer (10/02/03)
Gerald Wayne Speer, 62, of Rector died Sunday, Sept. 28, 2003, at Regional Medical Center of NEA in Jonesboro. He was born Aug. 3, 1941, in Greenway, the son of the late Earl Estel Speer and Emma Jean (Cox) Speer. He was retired from 33 years of military and civil Service and was a softball coach for the Red Birds/NAPA. He was a member of Rector First Baptist Church and a lifelong member of the community...

Ruth G. Jones Collier (10/02/03)
Ruth G. Jones Collier, 82, of Piggott died Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2003. She was born July 20, 1921, to Anderson and Ethel Williams Jones, then of Patterson, Ark., in Clay County. She was united in marriage to Wayne Collier on Jan. 30, 1942. To this union one son was born...

Mary Lucille Butler (10/02/03)
Mary Lucille Butler, 86, of Paragould died Thursday, Sept. 25, 2003, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. She was born March 28, 1917, in Rector, the daughter of the late George and Ida Stallings. She was a housewife and was of the Baptist faith...

Harold Trice Vincent (10/10/03)
Harold Trice Vincent, 87, of Rector died Friday Sept. 26, 2003, at Green Park Nursing Home in St. Louis. He was born April 10, 1916, in Rector to the late Samuel Bond and Bertha Vincent. He was a metalergist and a WWII decorated veteran who served in New Guinea and the Phillipines...

William Edward Wade (10/10/03)
William Edward Wade, 76, of Jonesboro died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003, at Jonesboro. He was born April 21, 1927, in Clay County to the late Walter and Ola Mae Wade. He was a shipping clerk, an Army veteran of WWII, and a member of the Westview Baptist church in Paragould...

James Byron Sonney (10/15/03)
James Byron Sonney, son of the late Oliver Sonney and Mae Graham Sonney, was born on June 1, 1942, in Greene County, Ark., and died in the Missouri Southern Healthcare at Dexter on Sept. 27, 2003, at the age of 61. Mr. Sonney was a member of the Second General Baptist Church in Dexter, a former forklift operator at Stanislaus Food in Modesto, Ca., and a resident of Dexter...

Mildred L. Matthews (10/15/03)
Mildred L. Matthews, 87, of Ironton, Mo., formerly of Greenway, died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003. She was born on Sunday, Oct. 17, 1915, in St. Louis. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, 2003, in The Baptist Home Chapel with Rev. Tommy Harper officiating. Interment followed in The Baptist Home Cemetery in Ironton, Mo...

Charles W. Thompson (10/15/03)
Charles W. Thompson, 67, of Marmaduke died Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003, at the Regional Medical Center of NEA in Jonesboro. He was born on Oct. 12, 1935, in Clay County, the son of the late Clifton and Ethel Priest Thompson. Mr. Thompson was a farmer. He coached summer baseball for many years, loved to teach waterskiing and was an active supporter of Marmaduke and Williams Baptist Athletics...

Goldie L. Elam (10/29/03)
Goldie L. Elam, 85, of Memphis, formerly of Rector, passed away Oct. 24, 2003 in Memphis. She was born June 4, 1918 to the late John and Bertha Patten, and was a 1937 graduate of Rector High School. A long time resident of Rector, she moved to Memphis in 1967 and was employed by Ace Appliance Company for 23 years, retiring in 1990. She was a member of Central North Church in Bartlett, Tenn...