Obituaries
Ottie Mae Wren
May 18, 2011
Ottie Mae Wren, 85 of Jonesboro died Wednesday, May 18, 2011. She was born in Schuggtown and had lived in Paragould, Delaplaine and Pocahontas, and was a member of the Pilgrim Lutheran Church. Mae had a love and a passion for flowers, animals and nature. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence Wren; parents, Charlie and Della...
Donald Allen Williams
May 17, 2011
Donald Allen Williams, 50, of Jonesboro, died May 17, 2001 at St. Bernards Medical Center. He was born in Clovis, California and had lived in Jonesboro for 13 years. He was a self employed handyman. Survived by his wife; Sally Williams of the home. Three sons; Christopher Williams of Pensacola, Florida, Joshua Williams of Fayetteville, Arkansas and Cody Williams...
Jerry Maynard
May 16, 2011
Luther Jerry Maynard, 79, of Jonesboro, died Monday evening, May 16, 2011, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. Born in Lepanto, Jerry was a graduate of Lepanto High School and attended Arkansas State University on a football scholarship before a knee injury ended his career. He moved to Jonesboro in 1957 and lived here the remainder of this life....
Lloyal Edgar Shaw
May 16, 2011
Lloyal E. Shaw, 57, of Jonesboro died Monday, May 16,2011, at NEA Baptist Hospital. Having come from a strong military background, Lloyal entered the Navy. He retired after 20 years, having served in San Diego, CA; Millington, TN; Maryland; Oklahoma; Maine; and Spain. After retirement, he came back to Jonesboro, and was a member of the St. Paul United...
Linda Gayle Wood Vickers
May 15, 2011
Linda Gayle Wood Vickers, age 63, of Jonesboro, AR passed away unexpectedly Sunday, May 15, 2011 at St. Bernard’s Medical Center. Gayle was employed with the City of Jonesboro as Coordinator of the Community Development Grant Block Program. Gayle had an unfailing loyalty to community development and worked untold hours trying to improve the needs of others. Gayle was...
Jessie Lee Hardin
May 15, 2011
Jessie Lee Hardin, Jr., 48, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, May 15, 2011, at his home of natural causes. Born in Trumann. Jessie lived much of his life in McKinney, Texas, before moving to Jonesboro 6 years ago. He worked most of his adult life as an auto mechanic before becoming medically disabled. Jessie enjoyed building and racing stockcars and...
Jacqueline Sue Mcinnis
May 14, 2011
Jacqueline Sue McInnis, 78 of Jonesboro died Saturday May 14, 2011 at St. Bernard’s Medical Center. Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she lived in Jonesboro since childhood and had lived in Germany, Panama and Alabama from 1954 till 1975. Mrs. McInnis moved to Jonesboro where her father worked on the Cotton Belt Railroad. After graduating from Jonesboro High School,...
Wilfred Fisher
May 14, 2011
Maj. Wilfred S. Fisher (USMC RET.) age 78, of Jonesboro, died Saturday morning at his home of natural causes. He was born in San Diego and has lived much of the past 35 years in Jonesboro. Maj. Fisher was a 1955 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and served in the U.S. Marine Corps until his retirement...
Earl Lee
May 10, 2011
Earl Lee, 78, of Jonesboro died Tuesday May 10, at St. Bernard’s Medical Center. He was born in Needham, Arkansas and had lived in Jonesboro most of his life. He was a construction worker and of the Baptist belief. He was preceded in death by his parents John and Dona McClendon Lee, sister and one grandson. Survived by his...
Sandra Joan Dulaney
May 10, 2011
Sandra “Sandy” Dulaney, 64, departed this life Tuesday, May, 10, 2011 at NEA Baptist Hospital. Sandy was born November 1, 1946. She lived most of her life in the Walnut Ridge before moving to Jonesboro 8 years ago. She was a homemaker and was of the Baptist belief, and had been a member of the Sedgwick Baptist Church for...
Marylou Branch
May 9, 2011
Marylou Branch 63, of Lake City, died Monday, May 9, 2011 at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House. She had lived in Jonesboro for three years, moving here from Memphis, Tennessee and was of the Catholic faith. Marylou was preceded in death by two sisters. Survivors are daughters, Suzi Jackson and husband Roger of West Memphis, Arkansas; Peggy...
Evalyn Lee Roberts
May 8, 2011
Evalyn Lee Roberts was born to Harold & Gladys Stone on October 9, 1925. She departed this life at 8:00 AM on May 8, 2011. She will be missed by all those privileged to have known her. Courage, loyalty and devotion are words often used in citations of noble deeds performed under very difficult circumstances. These terms also describe...
Betty Jane Vaughn
May 7, 2011
Betty Jane Vaughn, 71, of Jonesboro died May 7 at Jonesboro Heath Care. She was born in Egypt and had lived in Jonesboro most of her life. She was a homemaker and of the Pentecostal belief. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hershal Jones Sr., one son Hershal Jones Jr. and her parents James and Birdie Green...
Jerry Dean Houston
May 7, 2011
Jerry Dean Houston, 79 of Jonesboro died May 7 at the Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Born in Jonesboro and lived his lifetime here. He graduated from Jonesboro High School in 1950. In 1954 he married Erma Knopp from Paragould, and then later married Ki Nam Houston in 1981. He was a die cast operator for GE until...
Tullos Lee Mead
May 6, 2011
Tullos Mead, 77, of Jonesboro died Friday, May 6, 2011 at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House. He was preceded in death by his parents Ed and Ethel Mead, two brothers, Garland Mead and Pete Mead. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Billie Mead, two daughters, Donna Ruth Briggs of Marion, Arkansas and Lesa Rowe...
Elmer H. Holmes
May 4, 2011
Elmer H. Holmes, 91, of Jonesboro, died Wednesday at St. Bernards Medical Center. He had lived in northeast Arkansas his entire life. He was a hard worker and was a farmer in his early life. He loved to play cards and dominoes with his friends at the nursing home, and usually won. He had competed in the Senior Olympics...
Sister Elizabeth Love, O.S.B.
May 3, 2011
Sister Elizabeth Love, OSB, 69, died Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 4:00 a.m. in St. Bernards Medical Center. She was born in McGehee, Arkansas on July 26, 1941 to William Murphy Love & Dorothy Hall Love. She is survived by two daughters, Brenda Imy of Norman, Oklahoma and Debbie Buergler; one son, Matthew Thompson; one brother, Charles Love, all...
Harriet Smith Yarbrough
May 2, 2011
Harriet Smith Yarbrough, 92, of Jonesboro, died Monday night, May 2, 2011 at Ridgecrest Nursing Center. She had lived in Jonesboro for the past 13 years, moving here from Mission, Texas and attended the First United Methodist Church of Jonesboro. She was an avid square dance and line dancer and loved her exercise class at the Earl Bell Senior...
Van "Pop" Summerford Sr.
May 1, 2011
Van “Pop” Summerford, Sr. 60, of Jonesboro, died Sunday at his home. He was born in Monticello, Arkansas and lived there until moving to Jonesboro 25 years ago. He was a mechanic by trade and a member of the Bolivar Pentecostal Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, W. C. and Ollie Mae Summerford, and a brother,...
Ralph P. Gott
May 1, 2011
Ralph P. Gott, 84, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, May 1, 2011, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House. A native and life-long resident of Jonesboro, Ralph owned and operated an accounting office and insurance agency for many years. He was a member of First Baptist Church and was a U.S. Navy veteran of W.W. II. Ralph was a...
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