Obituaries

Wayne Estes Phillips (07/01/04)
Wayne Estes Phillips, 89, of Kennett, Mo., formerly of Rector, died Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at NHC in Kennett. Born Dec. 15, 1914, to the late Alvie Phillips and Beaulah (Province) Phillips, he was a farmer, a lifelong member of this community and a member of the Church of Christ...

Faye Harrison (07/01/04)
Faye Harrison, 55, of South Amboy, N.J., formerly of this area, died Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy Division. She had worked as a nursing assistant at Monroe Village, Monroe. Born in Busy, Ky., she lived most of her younger years in the Blooming Grove Community near Rector. She was a graduate of Greenway High School. She lived most of her adult life in Bayonne, N.J., before moving to Spotswood, N.J., and then to South Amboy four years ago...

Donnie Walker (07/01/04)
Donnie Walker, 53, of Reyno, formerly of Rector, died Thursday, June 24, 2004, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Dec. 26, 1950, in Knob to Verba Lee (Farley) Walker and the late E.J. Walker. He was a retired bindery supervisor for Corning Publishing...

Bernice Williams (07/01/04)
Bernice Williams, 77, of Greene Acres Nursing Home in Paragould, died Thursday, June 24, 2004, in Paragould. She was born Feb. 1, 1927, in Clay County to the late Claud McMillin and Anna Kreigle McMillin. She was a homemaker, a lifelong member of this community and of the Baptist faith...

Eula Lee Hopper (07/07/04)
Eula Lee Hopper, 94, of Ash Flat, formerly of Rector, died Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at Eastern Ozarks Health System in Cherokee Village. She was born Oct. 10, 1909, in Clay County to the late William Thomas Beal and Lula Trantham Beal. She was owner and operator of Eula's Grill and also supervisor of the Rector School lunchroom. She was a member of the United Methodist Church...

Doris Pauline Huggins (07/07/04)
Doris Pauline Huggins, 89, of Jonesboro, formerly of Rector and Paragould, died Friday July 2, 2004, at Skill Care Nursing Center in Jonesboro. She was born Oct. 13. 1914 in Rector to the late John William Medlin and Alta Lou (Miller) Huggins. She was a homemaker and a member of the Walnut Ridge First Baptist Church...

Willa Jones (07/07/04)
Willa Jones, 79, of Kennett, Mo., died Monday, June 28, 2004, at Twin Rivers Medical Center in Kennett. She was born Jan. 11, 1925, in Rector, to the late Ernest and Sadie Long Gatewood and was married June 7, 1947, to William S. Jones Jr., who preceded her in death Nov. 19, 1984...

Mildred Rosalee Hause (07/07/04)
Mildred Rosalee Hause, 81, of Paragould, died Saturday July 3, 2004, at her residence in Paragould. She was born Oct. 5, 1922, in Rector to the late Reuben Louis Davison and Sarah Elizabeth Ray Davison. She was owner/operator of a grocery store and a member of the Church of Christ...

Henry Dewayne Jackson (07/07/04)
Henry Dewayne Jackson, 81, of Paragould, died Friday, June 25, 2004, at his old home place in the middle of the woods. Born on Nov. 15, 1922, in Greene County, he was a believer in Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord. He was a World War II veteran who served in the Army...

Carroll "L.C." Strader (07/15/04)
Carroll "L.C." Strader, 82, of Missouri, formerly of Rector, died Friday July 2, 2004. He was born July 22, 1921. He operated a grain elevator at Leonard with partner, Pete Boyd, for a number of years before moving to Missouri. He will be remembered by several friends and acquaintances...

Wesley Franklin Beck (07/15/04)
Wesley Franklin Beck, 54, of Rector died Sunday, July 4, 2004, in the Baxter County Regional Hospital in Mountain Home, Ark. He was born Nov. 20, 1949, in Piggott, the son of the late Carl F. Beck Sr. and Beatrice Morris Beck. He was united in marriage to Janice Kay Arant on Nov. 4, 1972, they had three children...

Mildred F. Morrisett (07/28/04)
Mildred F. Morrisett, 82, of Rector died Friday, July 23, 2004, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. She was born April 8, 1922, in Nevada County, Ark., to the late Richard Stone and Priscilla Walker Stone. She was a homemaker and a member of Leonard United Methodist Church...

Ann Benson (07/28/04)
Ann Benson, 83, of Rector died Thursday, July 22, 2004, in Senath, Mo. She was born Nov. 22, 1920, in Gibson, Mo., to the late John Eaton and Emma Melvina Piercy. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. She also was preceded in death by her husband, Glessner Benson; one son, David Benson; two brothers, Johnny Piercy and Raybourn Wright, and one sister, Minnie Kroeker...

Mildred Smith (07/28/04)
Long-time Piggott resident Mrs. Mildred Smith died on Tuesday, July 20, 2004, at the Piggott Community Hospital. Mrs. Smith was 106-years-old. She was born March 9, 1898, in Clay City, Ill., the daughter of the late Charles Henry and Hannah Blessing Brissenden. The Brissendens moved to Piggott in 1905 when she was just seven-years-old...