Obituaries from January 2008

Kenneth David Knoble (01/30/08)
Kenneth David Knoble, 89, of Rector died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. A native of Wisconsin, he was born March 26, 1918. Mr. Knoble recently was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Crow Knoble, retired school teacher, librarian and former co-publisher of the Clay County Democrat, who died Nov. 14, 2007...

Arvilene Marcelle (Bradsher) Hardin (01/30/08)
Arvilene Marcelle (Bradsher) Hardin, 80, of Piggott, formerly of Marmaduke, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, at Piggott Community Hospital. Mrs. Hardin was born Feb. 9, 1927, to the late Arvin and Cleoffie Starnes Bradsher. She had lived in this area all of her life. She was of the Methodist faith and enjoyed writing poetry, singing and volunteering at nursing homes...

Larry Murrell Cook (01/30/08)
Larry Murrell Cook, 65, of Rector died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. He was born Jan. 27, 1943, and had worked as a billing clerk for a bonding company in Michigan. He was preceded in death by his father, Murrell Luther Cook. He is survived by his mother, Irene (Geauaway) Cook, of the home...

Edith Irene Chapman (01/30/08)
Edith Irene Chapman, 95, of Cordova, Tenn., formerly of Rector, died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, at the Memphis Jewish Home in Cordova. Born July 14, 1912, to the late Herbert and Mary Ann French, she was a seamstress by trade, of the Methodist faith and a member of the Central Non-Denominational Church in Collinsville, Tenn...

Myrtle Bible (01/30/08)
Myrtle Bible, 97, of Paragould, formerly of Marmaduke, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Mrs. Bible was born Sept. 23, 1910, to the late Samuel and Mable Bostick. She enjoyed crafting and quilting and made sure all her grandchildren had quilts made by her before she died...

Ruby Bell Williams (01/17/08)
Ruby Bell Williams, 94, formerly of Marmaduke, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Evergreen Health and Rehabilition in Rector. She was born July 2, 1913, in Greene County to the late Oliver and Joyce Smith. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Williams...

Scott Alan Farmer (01/17/08)
Scott Alan Farmer, 34, of Marmaduke died Friday, Jan. 11, at his home. He was born in Paragould on Jan. 29, 1973, to Dennis and Barbara (Runyan) Farmer. Farmer was of the Baptist faith, worked at Emerson Electric in Paragould as a machine operator for 12 years and will be remembered as an avid hunter and fisherman...

Wanda Lee Gatewood Hardin (01/24/08)
Wanda Lee Gatewood Hardin, 79, of Marmaduke died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, at her home. She was born in Lafe to the late James and Nancy Belle (Beaton) Stephens and was a member of the Gravel Hill General Baptist Church, but attended the First Baptist Church in Marmaduke...

Andrew E. "Andy" Niederkorn (01/24/08)
Andrew E. "Andy" Niederkorn, a 1976 graduate of Greenway High School, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. He was born May 5, 1958, in Paragould and moved to Jacksonville, Fla., in May 1976. He was the owner of Hard Times of Jax long haul trucking company...

D. M. (Buster) Morris (01/24/08)
D. M. (Buster) Morris of Paragould died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008. Morris was born on March 15, 1913, near Rector. He was the son of Melvin and Grace Easton Morris. His father preceded him in death while the family was fairly young and his mother was remarried to W.J. Rogers, a man Morris admired greatly. That marriage joined two families together with a wide age range...

Nelma Rhea Waugh (01/17/08)
Nelma Rhea Waugh, 74, of Rector died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. She was born May 29, 1933, in Blue Cane to the late Arnold and Ivera (Layne) Hicks. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend and a faithful member of Blue Cane General Baptist Church...

Euro Elonzo "Bud" Stone (01/17/08)
Euro Elonzo "Bud" Stone, 95, of Rector, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, at his home. He was born Nov. 18, 1912, in Clarita, Okla., to the late W.E. and Mattie (Hoover) Stone. He is survived by his wife, Pat (Nunnery) Stone of the home; one son, Joe Kelly Stone McCarty of Clarita, Okla.; one daughter, Shirley Milner of Montana; three brothers, William Newell Stone, Allan Stone and Loyd Stone, five grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends...

Rachel Lee (Hampton) Carroll (01/10/08)
Rachel Lee (Hampton) Carroll, 91, of Marmaduke died Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Mrs. Carroll was born Jan. 13, 1916, to the late William Hall and Flossie Pearl (Starnes) Hampton. She was orphaned at age two and was raised by her maternal grandparents, Moses and Belle Starnes...

Valerie A. Ergle (01/10/08)
Valerie A. Ergle, 56, of Mapleton, Ill., died Monday, Dec. 24, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill. Born Nov. 6, 1951, in Lafe to Osborn and Mary Reynolds Wilcoxson, she attended grade school and two years of high school in Rector. She was employed as a school teacher for Manual High School in Peoria for 29 years, retiring in June 2007...

Nadine Lanelle Wilson (01/10/08)
Nadine Lanelle Wilson, 88, of Greenwood, Ind., a native of Rector, died Friday, Jan. 4, 2008. She was born Nov. 16, 1919, in Rector to the late Thomas Owen and Madge (Fitzgerald) Harp. She was a graduate of Rector High School and had worked in the Lines and Transmission Planning Departments of Indiana Bell for over 25 years before retiring in 1980. While at Indiana Bell, she was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America...

Maurice Humphrey "Hump" Ray (01/10/08)
Maurice Humphrey "Hump" Ray, 80, of the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell, formerly of Marmaduke, died Monday, Dec. 30, 2008 at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born Dec. 7, 1927, in Marmaduke to the late Shad Ray and Reba (Graves) Ray, he was manager of a service station in California, of the Baptist faith and was in the Marines...

Mark Wilson (01/10/08)
Mark Wilson, 41 of Rector, formerly of Conway, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008, at UAMS in Little Rock. He was born Dec. 18, 1966, in Pasadena, Texas, and worked as a mason brick layer. He was of the Baptist faith and was a veteran of the National Guard...

Raymond Travis Clark (01/17/08)
Raymond Travis Clark, 83, of Paragould died Thrusday, Jan. 3, 2008. Memorial services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, at Irby Funeral Home in Marmaduke.

William Orville "Mac" McCord (01/17/08)
William Orville "Mac" McCord, 79, of O'Fallon, Mo., a native of Rector, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008. He was born Feb. 23, 1928, in Rector and was an Army veteran of the Korean War. He was a retired member of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local #25 and was an avid fisherman and gardener...

Rose Zetta Rogers Sheffield (01/02/08)
Rose Zetta Rogers Sheffield, 85, of St. Charles, Mo., formerly of Rector, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, at her home. She was born March 12, 1923, in Rector to the late William and Cordie Thrasher Rogers and grew up here. She had worked in sales at a department store and was a member of the West Side General Baptist Church in St. Ann, Mo...

Lowell Mae Lindsey (01/02/08)
Lowell Mae Lindsey, 86, of Rector died Monday, Dec. 24, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell, Mo. Born March 7, 1921, in Ponotoc, Miss., to the late Wilson D. and Anna Bell Turner Lindsey, he was married to Margaret Rutledge on May 22, 1942...

Manson Ardell Heath (01/02/08)
Manson Ardell Heath, 92, of the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell, Mo., formerly of Rector, died Friday, Dec. 28. Born Nov. 28, 1915, in Rector to the late Manson Everett and Susan Rosie (Yancey) Heath, he was a 1935 graduate of Rector High School, a member of the Poplar Avenue Baptist Church in Memphis and had worked as a welder-pipe fitter...