Former Marmaduke school board member Charles Richey died Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, at his home at age 67. Richey, a farmer, also had served on the Greene County Quorum Court and on the board of Delta Cotton Coop and the Production Credit Association (PCA).

He was born July 21, 1938, in Lawrence County to the late Otto and Faye (Davis) Richey and was married Feb. 2, 1988, in Marmaduke to Phyllis (Morgan) Richey. He was a member of the Marmaduke First Baptist Church and had been a Jaycee.

Survivors include his wife, Phyllis Richey, of the home; two sons and daughters-in-law, Steve and Ginger Richey and Charles Keith and Debbie Richey, all of Marmaduke; one daughter and son-in-law, Kristy and Terry Wilson of Walnut Ridge; seven brothers, Otis Richey and Bud Richey of Phoenix, Ariz., Eugene Richey and Rodney Richey of Paragould, Roger Richey of Jonesboro, Carl Richey of Benton and Gary Richey of Paragould; four sisters, Irene Hawley of Marmaduke, Martha Kamarat of Jacksonville, Fla., Mada Barrett of Lumberton, Texas, and Brenda Jordan of Marmaduke, and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, at Irby Funeral Home Chapel in Marmaduke with Carl Richey and Kim Bridges officiating. Burial was in Harvey's Chapel Cemetery near Marmaduke. Pallbearers were his nephews.