Obituaries from July 2007

Evelyn Arveline Williams (07/26/07)
Evelyn Arveline Williams, 75, of Campbell, Mo., formerly of Piggott, died Monday, July 16, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Feb. 1, 1932, in Piggott, and was the daughter of the late Cecil and Morine Williams Lack...

Marguerite French (07/26/07)
Marguerite French, 88, of Rector died Monday, July 23, 2007, at her home. A lifetime resident of Rector, she was born Sept. 13, 1918, in Rector to the late R.A. and May Cossey. She was a housewife and a member of the Rector First United Methodist Church...

Betty Joyce McDonald (07/19/07)
Betty Joyce McDonald, 75, of Hensley, formerly of Rector, died Saturday, July 14, 2007, at UAMS in Little Rock. The daughter of the late Gilbert and Opal Garrett, she was born March 23, 1932, at Liberty Hill. She was a Methodist. She attended licensed practical nursing school in Jonesboro and later studied at Arkansas State University to become a registered nurse, choosing to serve the Lord in the medical field. ...

Bobby Joe Ramer (07/11/07)
Bobby Joe Ramer, 64, of Knob, died Sunday, July 8, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born June 4, 1943, in Knob to the late Morgan and Lena Ramer, he was a mechanic, having retired from John Deere in Corning, and was of the Baptist faith...

W.C. "Bill" O'Connor (07/11/07)
W.C. "Bill" O'Connor, 89, of Marmaduke died Friday, July 6, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. A retired safety engineer with Southern California Edison Company, he was born Aug. 8, 1917, in Oklahoma City, Okla., to the late Frank and Frances (Stripling) O'Connor. He was married Aug. 15, 1945, in Modesto, Calif., to Joy Ruth (Triplett) O'Connor, who survives...

Wilma Louise (Johnson) Lucy (07/05/07)
Wilma Louise (Johnson) Lucy, 71, of Rector died Friday, June 29, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Sept. 11, 1935, in Clay County to the late John Franklin Johnson and Margie Alice Seegraves Johnson. She also was preceded in death by a brother, Donald Johnson, and a sister, Pauline Wagster...

Laura Lynn Tate (07/05/07)
Laura Lynn Tate, 59, of Paragould died Monday, June 25, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born May 18, 1948, in Lafe to the late Lawrence and Anna Bateman Hudspeth. She was a homemaker and a member of the Calvary Baptist Church...

Floretta Mae Tanner (07/05/07)
Floretta Mae Tanner, 85, of Piggott, died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, in the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was born May 24, 1922, in Rector, and was the daughter of the late Charlie Bevil and Lula Mae Beckley Hooks. Floretta was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Piggott...

George Lemuel Palmer (07/05/07)
George Lemuel Palmer, 85, of Rector, died Thursday, June 28, 2007, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Born Oct. 30, 1921, in Senath to the late George and Fannie Palmer, he was a farmer, a World War II Army veteran and a member of Bethel General Baptist Church...

Camellia "Sue" Cox (07/05/07)
Mrs. Camellia "Sue" Cox, 78, of Hamptonville, N.C., a native of Rector and formerly of Jonesboro, died Sunday, July 1, 2007, at her home. Mrs. Cox was born Jan. 9, 1929, in Rector to the late Oscar and Hettie Barker. She worked and retired from Atlas Asphalt in Jonesboro, where she was an executive secretary...

Thomas Lee Coleman (07/05/07)
Thomas Lee Coleman, 79, of Marmaduke died Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born Nov. 6, 1927, in Hunter, Ark., to the late Lillian and Lee Coleman, he was an Army veteran of World War II, a retired saw filer with Paragould Wood Products and of the Baptist faith...