Obituaries from September 2008

Nathan Vardell (09/24/08)
Nathan Vardell, 54, of Paragould, died Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Mr. Vardell was born Aug. 30, 1954, in St. Louis, Mo. He was a retired fork lift operator...

Rev. Ted Thrasher (09/18/08)
Rev. Ted Thrasher, 65, of Warren, MI, formerly of Rector, died Sunday Sept. 14 at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Warren. Born June 3, 1943 in Rector to the late Lafe and Willie Thrasher, he was employed at the Chrysler Warren Stamping Plant and was Pastor of Waltham Avenue Baptist Church...

Pamela Dooley (09/18/08)
Pamela D. Dooley, 40, of Piggott, died Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born July 11, 1968, in St. Louis, the daughter of Pat and Mike Cook and Verlin and Margaret Covert...

Pamela Jean Haley (09/03/08)
Pamela Jean Haley, 53, of Piggott, died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born March 22, 1955, in Kennett, the daughter of Stanley Clifton "Red" and Juanita Turner Haley...

Billy Elvis Smithee (09/03/08)
Billy Elvis Smithee, 64, of Rector died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. He was born March 23, 1944, in Monette to the late Jessie Carl and Jessie Marie (Huckabee) Smithee. Also preceding him in death were a son, Billy Elvis Smithee Jr., and two grandchildren, Brandy and Nathan Smithee...

Joseph Dewayne Mason (09/03/08)
Joseph Dewayne Mason, 54, of Rector died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. He was born July 23, 1954, to Joseph and Edna (Edwards) Mason in Rector. He worked at Monroe on the line assembly...

Raymond Burr (09/03/08)
Raymond Burr, 53, of Paragould died Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. He was born Sept. 8, 1954, in Kennett, Mo. He was preceded in death by his parents, Tommy "Red" and Rose Annette (Fuller) Burr. Survivors include a son, Colter Burr of Lometa, Texas; four daughters and a son-in-law, Christopher and Cameron Bruster and Cheyenne Burr of Lometa, Texas, and Amy Burr and Lisa Fudge, both of Wichita Falls, Texas; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Rose Ann and Jimmy Parrish of Lafe and Judy and Rick Guillot of Paragould, five grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.. ...