Obituaries from May 2004

Homer Lewis Simpson (05/26/04)
Homer Lewis Simpson, 95, of Rector, died Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at Murphy Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Piggott. He was born March 28, 1909, in Boydsville to the late Jesse Simpson and Catherine Clements Simpson. He was a farmer, a life-long member of the community and a member of Salem Missionary Baptist Church...

Troy Elbert Morris (05/26/04)
Troy Elbert Morris, 70, of Shawnee, Okla., a native of Marmaduke, died Saturday, May 22, 2004, at Midwest Regional Medical Center in Midwest City, Okla., after a long battle with cancer. He was born Aug. 9, 1933, in Marmaduke to the late Bennie Wayne Morris and Iva Learn Morris...

Leland Cole Sells (05/26/04)
Leland Cole Sells, 18, of Piggott died Wednesday, May 19, 2004, in the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. He was born Nov. 16, 1985, in Paragould, the son of Larry Sells and Kathy O'Bryant Mauldin. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Ruth and William O'Bryant; maternal great-grandparents, Benton and Artie Lacey; and his paternal great-grandparents, Lewis and Bessie Sells...

Henrietta Young Willis (05/21/04)
Henrietta Young Willis, 90, of McDougal, died Friday, May 14, 2004, in the Murphy Health and Rehabilitation Center in Piggott. She was born June 14, 1913, in McDougal, the daughter of the late Henry J. and Anna Hudspeth Young. She was united in marriage to Harve Willis and to this union one son was born...

John William Beaver (05/21/04)
John William Beaver, 72, of Piggott, died Tuesday, May 11, 2004, in the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born June 26, 1931, in Rector, son of the late Everett Raymond and Eva Lillian Kreigle Beaver. On Dec. 21, 1955, he was united in marriage to Mildred Angeline Belyew. To this union five children were born...

Jewel Cavaness (05/21/04)
Jewel Cavaness, 31, of Rector died Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at his home. He was preceded in death by his father, Jerry Cavaness, on Feb. 10, 2000; his maternal grandfather, R.C. Weber, and his paternal grandparents, Raymond and Pearl Cavaness. Survivors include a daughter, Emerald Paige Cavaness of Paragould; his mother and step-father, Debbie and John Graue of Bragg City, Mo.; his step-mother, Debbie Cavaness of Paragould; a brother and sister-in-law, Rocky and Tina Weber of Rector; a sister and brother-in-law, Diamond and Kevin Lowe of Paragould; his grandmother, Ruby Weber of Rector; three nephews, Jade, Casey and Jerrod Lowe of Paragould; his step-grandparents, Delno and Joyce Sandefer of Campbell, Mo., and a host of aunts, uncles and other relatives and friends.. ...

Carl Dean Tyson (05/12/04)
Carl Dean Tyson, 65, of Marmaduke died Monday, May 10, 2004, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. He was born April 28, 1939, in Tuskegee, Ala., to the late Curtis Tyson and Sarah Kilpatrick Tyson. He was a non-denominational minister and had lived in the community for 12 years...

Dalton D. Priest (05/09/04)
Dalton D. Priest, 67, of Keego Harber, Mich., died Saturday, April 10, at his home. He was born Sept. 20, 1936, in Rector to the late Mr. and Mrs. Pat Priest. He also was preceded in death by one sister, Alene Jolly of Marmaduke, and two brothers, Robert Hamm of Michigan and James Hamm of Rector...

Gracie Nadine Scallion (05/07/04)
Gracie Nadine Scallion, 69, of Paragould died Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. She was born Aug. 14, 1934, in Poughkeepsie to the late Clint and Ruby Burr. She was a homemaker and a member of the White Oak Baptist Church...

Cynthia Renee Frazier Pratt (05/07/04)
Cynthia Renee Frazier Pratt, 43, of West Memphis, wife of Terry Pratt of West Memphis, formerly of Rector, died Monday, April 26, 2004, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. She worked as a server for Old Feed House. Survivors include her husband, Terry Pratt; a step-daughter, Courtney (Pratt) Barker of Jonesboro; two sons, Tommy West Jr. ...