Obituaries from August 2003

Irvin Verdane (I.V.) "Doc" Stahl (08/27/03)
Irvin Verdane (I.V.) "Doc" Stahl, 76, of Rector died Monday, Aug. 25, 2003, at St. Bernards Regional Medical in Jonesboro from complications stemming from lung cancer surgery. He was born March 8, 1927, in Greene County, the son of the late Alonzo Orabin and Wilma Bertie Ratledge Stahl. His father preceded him in death in 1981 and his mother in 1983...

Mary Lucille Baker (08/27/03)
Mary Lucille Baker, 92, of Rector HealthCare died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. She was born Jan. 3, 1911, in Broken Arrow, Okla., the daughter of the late James Monroe and Iona Jenkins Cooper. She married Radius Henry Baker on Jan. 9, 1927. He preceded her in death in 1979...

Bud James Shaw (08/27/03)
Bud James Shaw, 84, of Rector died Saturday August 23, 2003. He was born Oct. 7, 1918, at Hargrave Corner, the son of the late James Marion and Louissia Shaw. He was a farmer and was of the General Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Zachary and Bob Shaw, and two sisters, Lottie Tucker and Lydia Myricks...

Fidel Merin Rodriguez (08/27/03)
Fidel Merin Rodriguez, 29, of Rector died Thursday August 21, 2003, in an automobile accident on Highway 84 West in Kennett. Born May 30, 1974, in Obrajuele Acambaro-GTO, Mexico to Samuel Rodriguez and Juana (Merin) Rodriguez, he had been a member of the community for 10 years. He was a roofer/foreman for Quality Roofing and was of the Catholic faith...

Steven Ray Taylor (08/27/03)
Steven Ray Taylor, 46, of Rector died Thursday, Aug. 22, 2003, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Sept. 1, 1956, in Kennett, the son of Edward and Ozella Bowman Taylor. He was united in marriage to Alice Darlene Johnson on April 7, 1978, in Piggott...

Robert E. Householder (08/20/03)
Robert E. Householder, 86, of Trumann, formerly of Rector, died Aug. 14, 2003, in Rose Care Nursing Home in Trumann. He was born Oct. 16, 1916, in Clay County, the son of the late Henry Householder and Stella (Freeman) Householder. He was a grain elevator operator and a farmer and was of the Methodist faith...

Gordon Arlen Nutt (08/20/03)
Gordon Arlen Nutt, 61, of Rector died Friday, Aug. 15, 2003. He was born Aug. 6, 1942, in Blue Earth, Minn., the son of the late Gordon Nutt and Dolores Nutt. He married Karen Marie Hardin July 4, 1975 in Caruthersville. He was a retired machinist and a member of the First United Methodist Church in Rector...

Miles Edward King (08/20/03)
Miles Edward King, 75, of Ash Flat, formerly of Rector, died Saturday Aug. 16, 2003, at Eastern Ozarks Regional Health System. He was born Sept. 1, 1927, in Rector, the son of the late Marie and Jewell King. He was a retired riverboat worker and was retired from the railroad. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and of the Baptist faith...

Randell Neal Little (08/20/03)
Randell Neal Little, 52, of Rector died Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, at his home. He was born June 22, 1951, in Rector, the son of Bob and Ellene Dudley Little. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, John and Ella Dudley and Ben and Effie Little. He was a rural mail carrier and was of the Pentecostal faith...

Raymond W. Braman (08/14/03)
Raymond W. Braman, 82, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, formerly of Rector, died Monday, Aug. 11, 2003, at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital in Sulphur Springs. He was born May 18, 1921, in Clay County, the son of the late Ernest and Pearl Kitchen Braman. He married Christine Poppe on July 6, 1942...

Henry Riley Morris (08/14/03)
Henry Riley Morris, 76, of Rector, formerly of the Pollard area, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2003, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Sept. 4, 1926, in Fagus, Mo., the son of the late Ersel and BirdieWatson Morris. He married Norma Jean Wright on May 27, 1949, in Piggott...

Joan Lilly Cannon (08/06/03)
Joan Lilly Cannon, 69, of Blytheville, the widow of Minor Lilly and Jim Cannon, died Sunday, Aug. 3, 2003, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born June 1, 1934, in Pollard, the daughter of the late John and Martha Kirk Barkemeyer, she was a longtime Blytheville resident and a retired secretary of the Engineering Dept. at the Randall Corp...

Mildred Margarett Johnson (08/06/03)
Mildred Margarett Johnson, 92, of Shreveport, La., formerly of Marmaduke, died Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at Christus Schumpert Medical Center in Shreveport. She was born April 16, 1922, in Marmaduke, the daughter of the late Tom and Sylvia Vestal. She was a homemaker and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Marmaduke...

Nancy Ann Boyd Webb (08/06/03)
Nancy Ann Boyd Webb, 59, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., formerly of Rector, died Monday, Aug. 4, 2003, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 3, 1944, in Leonard, the daughter of the late John William "Bill" and Flora Jesse Elrod Boyd...

Violet Higgins (08/06/03)
Violet Higgins, 81, of Paragould, formerly of Rector, died Monday Aug. 4, 2003, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. She was born Aug. 12, 1912, in Paragould, the daughter of the late Hill and Della (Taylor) Smith. She was a homemaker and was of Methodist belief...

Murley Burke Price (08/06/03)
Murley Burke Price, 69, of Doniphan, Mo., died Monday, July 28, 2003, at Ripley County Memorial Hospital. She was born Feb. 4, 1934, in Rector, the daughter of the late Abner and Evaline (Utley) Vowell. She was a member of the Doniphan Lionesses and a lifetime member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. She was also a member of the Doniphan United Methodist Church and was a businesswoman...

Johnny W. Mills (08/06/03)
Johnny W. Mills, 91, of Rector died Monday, Aug. 4, 2003, at Rector Healthcare. He was born June 26, 1912, in Malden, Mo., the son of the late William Arthur and Ida Kreigle Mills. He was first married to Edith Lovelady, who preceded him in death in 1932. He then married Carlene Moore, who preceded him in death on May 30, 2002...

Ruby E. Vaden (08/06/03)
Ruby E. Vaden, 89, of the Paragould Nursing Center died Sunday Aug. 3, 2003, at the center. She was born July 9, 1914, in Clay County, the daughter of the late William Nichols and Rosie Settlemire Nichols. She was a homemaker and was of Baptist faith...

Freeda McKay Dodd (08/06/03)
Freeda McKay Dodd, 58, of Lonedell, Mo., formerly of this area, died July 24, 2003, at her home. Survivors are her husband of 42 years, Jerry Dodd of Lonedell; two daughters, Melissa Lawrence of Sullivan, Mo., and Kim and Jason Vogelsang of Union, Mo.; two sons and daughters-in-law, Jeff and Kerry Dodd of Indiana and Curtis and Diana Dodd of St. ...

Nina Gogue Richmond (08/06/03)
Nina Gogue Richmond, 61, of Oak Hill, Va., formerly of Rector, died Tuesday, July 22, 2003, in Washington, D.C. She was born Nov. 26, 1941, in Rector to the late Harold Eugene and Rheda Aline Gogue. She was a program manager for American System Corporation in Virginia and was of the Baptist faith...