Obituaries

J. P. Madden (05/03/06)
J. P. Madden, 81 of Tyronza, died Sunday morning at the family residence. Born in Hoxie, he had lived in Tyronza for the past 36 years and was formerly of Trumann. He was a fitter welder for Trumbo Manufacturing in Memphis, Tenn., and a member of the Upper Room Apostolic Church in Tyronza...

Clarence Alvin Brock (05/03/06)
Clarence Alvin Brock, 74, of Lincoln Park, Mich., died Friday, April 28, 2006 at the Henry Ford Wyandotte Center in Wyandotte, Mich. He was born in Trumann and had lived in Michigan since 1951. He was a factory worker for General Motors Hydromantic and of the Church of God faith...

Barbara Sewell (05/03/06)
Barbara "Dubby" Sewell, 68, of Liberty, died Monday, May 1, 2006 at the Bayside Community Hospital in Anahuac. She was born October 22, 1937 in Paragould to her parents, Ira Randall and Ardena Downey Randall. She was a member of the Baptist faith and a homemaker who enjoyed reading, gardening and spending time with her grandchildren...

Louis Orville Powers (05/10/06)
Louis Orville Powers, 84, of Trumann died Sunday, May 7 at the family residence. Born in Weona, he had lived in Trumann since 1977 and was formerly of Memphis. Powers was a nurse's aide for the V. A. Hospital in Memphis and a deacon of the Faith Baptist Church in Trumann. He was a veteran of the United States Army in WWII...

Charles Elbert Evans (05/17/06)
Charles Elbert "Charlie" Evans, 86, of Trumann died Wednesday May 10, 2006 at the family residence. He was born in Light and he had lived in Trumann for the past 75 years. He was a retired farmer, a bus driver for the Trumann Public School system for 25 years and was a member of the Viva Drive Church of Christ...

Patsy Jean Hendrix (05/17/06)
Patsy Jean Hendrix, 72, of Trumann, died Friday, May 12, 2006 at the family residence in Trumann. Hendrix was born in and a lifetime resident of Trumann. She was retired from the United Telephone Company and Southern Pioneer and a member of the Freer Baptist Church...

Vickie Ruthlee Crist (05/17/06)
Vickie Ruthlee Crist, 58, of Trumann, died Friday, May 12, 2006 at the family residence. She was born in Trumann where she lived most of her lifetime. She was a housewife and of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by three sisters; two brothers and was the daughter of the late Authur David and Elizabeth Pauline Willcockson Goodwin...

Edward Stacy Maddox (05/25/06)
Edward Stacy Maddox, 95, retired attorney and judge, died Friday, May 19, 2006, at St. Bernard Regional Medical Center. A Native of Harrisburg, he was a graduate of Harrisburg High School and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Between the time he finished school at the University and the time he was admitted to the Bar, he worked for the University of Arkansas supervising the conducting of a delinquent tax survey of Poinsett County...

Martha Ann Peifer (05/25/06)
Martha Ann Peifer of Harrisburg, died Tuesday May 16, 2006 at the NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro at the age of 64. She was born on Feb. 4, 1942 in McCormick, the daughter of Clovis Totty and Lucille Haley Totty. She was a lifetime resident of Harrisburg and member of the Calvary Baptist Church. She was a homemaker who enjoyed reading, shopping and spending time with her grandchildren...

J.D. Reeves (05/25/06)
J.D. Reeves, 58, of Bay, died Sunday, May 21, 2006, at his home of natural causes. Born in Dyess, Reeves lived several years in Trumann before moving to Bay in 1978. He was an employee of Roach Manufacturing for 28 years and was a Security Guard for Boling Security for many years...

Shelia Darna Mitchell (05/31/06)
Shelia Darna Mitchell, 50, of Trumann died Friday, May 19, 2006 at the NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Jonesboro and was a lifetime resident of Trumann. She was an inventory control clerk for Rowsey Furniture in Jonesboro and had formerly worked for 21 years for K-Mart. She was a member of the McCormick Baptist Church...

Barbara Jo Roedel (05/31/06)
Barbara Jo Roedel, 37, of Trumann, died Thursday, May 25, 2006 at the family residence. She was born in Jonesboro and had lived most of her lifetime in Trumann. She was a homemaker and member of the Highway Valley Pentecostal Church. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Jack and Inez Young, two uncles and three aunts...

Geraldine Bailey (05/31/06)
Geraldine Bailey, 49, of Harrisburg died Sunday at NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born at Trumann, she lived at Harrisburg most of her lifetime. She was a graduate of Harrisburg High School and was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include her husband, Herkus Gene Bailey of the home; one daughter,...

Mary Louise Vickers (05/31/06)
Mary Louise Vickers, 60, of Jonesboro died Thursday May 25, 2006 at NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Jonesboro and had lived there for the past eight years. Formerly of Texarkana and the Trumann area, she was a housewife and member of the Church of God of Prophecy in Jonesboro...