Obituaries from December 2009

Lois Smith Milburn (12/30/09)
Lois Smith Milburn, 97, of Azle, Texas, formerly of Dover, Arkansas, died Friday, December 25, 2009, in Azle, Texas. The daughter of Robert and Marcia Estelle Forehand Smith, she was born December 18, 1912, at Linker Mountain near Dover. She married Robert Carl Milburn in 1935 in Detroit, Michigan. The family lived in Rector, Arkansas, from 1943 through 1958. She and her husband later retired to...

George Elliott Hurt (12/30/09)
George Elliott Hurt, 73, of Marmaduke died December 22, 2009, at the Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. He was born December 20, 1936, to the late Clarence Robert and Ethal "Bowman" Hurt...

Marvelle Swindle Harmon (12/30/09)
Marvelle Swindle Harmon of Sherwood, Arkansas, 82, left this earth to be with her heavenly father surrounded by her family on December 22, 2009, at Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas...

Charles Woodrow Jackson (12/24/09)
Charles Woodrow Jackson of Paragould died December 18,2009. Born October 28, 1928, in Marmaduke, he was a retired diesel mechanic and was of the Baptist faith. He is survived by Debra Reed, of the home; five sons, Gary Jackson of Holland, Michigan, Roy Jackson of St. ...

Joseph "Joe" Edward Jr. Whitaker (12/17/09)
Joseph "Joe" Edward Jr. Whitaker of Detroit died at his home on Sunday, December 6, 2009. He was born April 17, 1928, in Rector, the son of the late Joseph and Eva Whitaker. Joe is preceded in death by son Joey and brothers Don and Albert Whitaker...

Patricia Susan "Patty" Settlemoir (12/17/09)
Patricia Susan "Patty" Settlemoir died October 29, 2009, in Burbank, California. She was 84. Mrs. Settlemoir was born in Marmaduke, Arkansas, in 1925 to Dr. O.H. and Olinda Clopton. She attended Rector High School and Murray State College and married William Settlemoir of Kennett. They were married for 53 years until his death in 2003...

Mamie Etta Hargrave (12/17/09)
Mamie Etta Hargrave was born on July 21, 1916, to the late Clifford T. Linam and Mamie Etta Linam in Rector, Arkansas. She departed this life at the age of 93 to be with her beloved Savior on December 11, 2009, in the Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her family was with her as she was translated to her new home in heaven...

Deborah Anne Gist (12/17/09)
Deborah Anne Gist, age 39, of Kennett, Mo., daughter of Richard and Karen Langille of Rector, passed from this life on December 2, 2009, in the Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett. Deborah was born August 25, 1970, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...

NAOMI RUTH BRANNAN (12/02/09)
Naomi Ruth Brannan was born on May 9, 1931, to the late Luther Winslow and Ruby Beatrice (Houston) Clayton, in Rector. She departed this life on Dec. 1, 2009, in the St. Bernards Regional Medical Center at the age...

Velis Ray "Tootie" Bateman (12/02/09)
Velis Ray "Tootie" Bateman, 78, of Marmaduke passed away on Nov. 27, 2009. Mr. Bateman was born on Aug. 11, 1931, to the late Sidney and Stella (Morley) Bateman in Rector, Ark. He was retired from U.S. Pipe...