Obituaries from February 2009

Windell Harveston Speer (02/26/09)
Windell Harveston Speer, age 83, died quietly Feb. 9, 2009, at his home in Healy, Alaska. He was born Dec. 5, 1925, in Greene County, Arkansas. He resided in Alaska for 39 years. Windell joined the U.S. Army in 1944 and...

Hazel Marie Robbins (02/26/09)
Hazel Marie Robbins, 64, of Rector died Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, at Piggott Community Hospital. She was born July 4, 1944, to the late Henry Arti and Rose Etta Woodward. She was a member of Rector First General Baptist Church. Also preceding her in death were her husband, Dewayne Robbins Sr.; two grandchildren, Stephanie Sees and Dewayne Robbins III; two sisters, Loetteda Anderson and Barbara Tomtkins, and one brother, Jack Woodward...

Leonard Bell Jr. (02/26/09)
Leonard Bell Jr., 83, of Piggott died Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell, Mo. He was born June 29, 1925, in Rector and was the son of the late Leonard and Fay (Mobley) Bell...

Marion Gene Keller (02/26/09)
Marion Gene Keller, 46, of St. Louis died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born April 21, 1962, in Paragould to Bud and Mary Frances (Hogan) Keller. He worked and made his home in St. Louis...

Carolyn Gulzow (02/26/09)
Carolyn Gulzow, 59, of Lakewood, Colo., formerly of Rector, died Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, after a long bout with cancer. She was born June 6, 1949, in Wynne to Aleen Bozarth and the late Gene Bozarth. She also was preceded in death by a brother, Thomas Roy Bozarth...

M.J. Gogue (02/26/09)
M.J. Gogue, 91, of Waycross, Ga., a native of Rector, died suddenly Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, at his home. He had resided in Waycross for the last 65 years. He was a retired owner of Rosedale Florist and Greenhouses for 38 years. He was a member of Winona Park United Methodist Church and Dover's Bluff. He also was a veteran of World War II...

Tony Joe Rodden (02/18/09)
Tony Joe Rodden, 50, of Paragould died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, in an accident in Centennial, Colo. He was born March 22, 1958, to the late Hiley and Dorothy Rodden in St. Louis, Mo. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his...

Reginald Dean "Reggie" Holman (02/18/09)
Reginald Dean "Reggie" Holman, 66, of Rector, died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Jan. 5, 1943, in St. Francis to the late Oscar Holman and Beulah (Price) Holman Gordon...

Delbert McArthur Hughes (02/18/09)
Delbert McArthur Hughes, 66, of St. Francis died Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, at his home. He was born June 19, 1942, near Rector and was the son of the late Martin and Hettie (Allman) Hughes. He had a Master's Degree in chemistry and taught high school science for 30 years in the Piggott, Clarkton and Twin Rivers school districts. ...

Claude Fielder (02/11/09)
Longtime Rector fire chief Claude Fielder, 91, of Rector died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, at Craighead Nursing Center in Jonesboro. Fielder served as Rector fire chief from 1942 to 1964 and was the owner of Brewer Lumber Company in Rector from 1971 to 1977, when he retired...

Norma Faye Whitaker (02/11/09)
Norma Faye Whitaker, 90, of Rector died Friday, Feb. 6, at the Evergreen Health and Rehabilitation in Rector. She was born July 28, 1918, in Leonard to the late Norman and Calva (Randleman) Whitaker...

Reginald "Reggie" Holman (02/11/09)
Funeral services for Reginald "Reggie" Holman of Rector, who died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro, will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at the Irby Funeral Home chapel in Rector...

Larry Earl Carter (02/11/09)
Larry Earl Carter, 64, of Gibson, Mo., died Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, at John J. Pershing V.A. Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born June 8, 1944, in Arkansas to the late Eugene and Opal Ward. He was a U.S. Army veteran and a retired truck driver...

Darryl Owen Davis (02/06/09)
Darryl Owen Davis, 50, of Rector, died Jan. 25, 2009. Born Sept. 28, 1958, in Paragould to Elsie Annette (Key) Davis and the late O.W. Davis, he was a lifelong member of the community, an employee of Emerson Electric and a member of Alexander Baptist Church...