Obituaries

Christine Boren (04/02/03)
Christine "Toy" Boren of Lebanon, Mo passed away Sunday, March 23, 2003. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Boren was born on Jan. 31, 1913 in Boone County, Miss. She lived in the Jonesboro area several years during the late 1940's and 1950's. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist belief. Her husband, Henry Talmedge Boren, one son, James Andrew Boren, four brothers and three sisters preceded her in death...

Homer Smith (04/02/03)
Homer (Dick) Littleton Smith of Marked Tree died March 24, 2003 at Regional Medical center. He was 82 years old. Mr. Smith was a member of the Apostolic Church in Tyronza. He served in the U.S. Army and was a WWII veteran. Mr. Smith had been a resident of Poinsett County for over 50 years. He was preceded in death by one son, Charles Homes Smith; two daughters, Nancy Smith and Ivy Russell; and his parents Frank and Maudie Smith...

Ida Carman (04/09/03)
Ida Othel Carman, 87, of Berwyn, Ill., died March 26, 2003, at the Victoria Manor Nursing Center in LeGrange, Ill. of natural causes. She was born in Walnut Ridge and had lived in Berwyn for the past 23 years. She was formerly of Pocahontas. She was a homemaker and of the Church of Christ faith. She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl Carman in 1993; one son, Jimmie Carl Carman; her foster parents, Sam and Clyde Sisco and her parents, John T. and Ida L. Tillman Raglin...

Ella Mae Inzer (04/23/03)
Ms. Ella Mae Inzer, 83, of Trumann passed away on Friday, April 18 at Craighead Nursing Center. She was a member of the First United Pentecostal Church in Trumann. Ms. Inzer spent all of her life in Trumann. She was a former employee of Singer. She was preceded in death by her parents, Luther and Rosie Inzer; three sisters, Juanita Brake, Betty R. Brake and Katherine Martin; two brothers, Frank Inzer and Fritz Inzer...

Lee Matthew Dye, Jr. (04/23/03)
Lee Matthew Dye, Jr., passed away April 15, 2003, due to injuries received in an auto accident. He was six years old. Lee Matthew Dye, Jr., was born on April 20, 1996, in Rockford, Ill., and had lived in Trumann for the past two years. He was a kindergarten student at Central Park Elementary School...

Patricia Jean Dillard (04/23/03)
Mrs. Patricia Jean "Pattie" Dillard passed away April 11, 2003, at the family residence in Buena Park, Calif., of natural causes. She was 68 years old. Mrs. Dillard was born in Trumann, Ark., and had lived in Buena Park since 1967. She was formerly from Seattle, Wash. ...

Judy Ann Thomas (04/23/03)
Miss Judy Ann Thomas passed away April 10, 2003 at the Ridgecrest Nursing Center in Jonesboro of natural causes. She was 56 years old. Miss Thomas was born in Jonesboro and had lived in Jonesboro since 1993. She was formerly of Trumann and was of the Pentecostal faith. Miss Thomas was the daughter of the late Drue Edward and Gwindal Johnnie Rogers Thomas...

Bonnie Furnish (04/30/03)
Bonnie Marie Furnish, 79, of Trumann died Friday, April 25, 2003, at the Regional Medical Center of Northeast Arkansas in Jonesboro. Born in Newport, she lived in Trumann for 25 years. She was formerly of Bay. She was of the Baptist faith and was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ben Harper and Clara Tinkle Harper...

William Sharp (04/30/03)
William Leon Sharp, 70, of Harrisburg died Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at the Woodbriar Nursing Home in Harrisburg. He was born Jan. 1, 1933, in Savannah, Tenn., the son of Joe Sidney Sharp and Linnie Pearl (Shepherd) Sharp. He married Dorothy Lindsey on Dec. ...