Obituaries

Erich Scott Smallwood (06/06/07)
Sgt. Erich Scott Smallwood died Saturday, May 26, 2007 near Balad, Iraq at the age of 23. Born Sunday, May 20, 1984 in Blytheville, he lived most of his lifetime in the Trumann and Jonesboro area. He was a lifeguard at the Trumann Country Club and of the Baptist faith...

Alan Marple (06/06/07)
Alan Marple, 43, of Harrisburg died Sunday, June 3, 2007 at the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Aug. 10, 1963 in Blythe, Calif., the son of Andy Marple and Barbara Ferguson Marple. Marple was a heavy equipment operator and carpenter. He married Laura Qualls in 1981 and they enjoyed 26 years together. He enjoyed fishing, woodworking, drawing, riding three wheelers and horses...

Norma Fecher (06/06/07)
Norma Fecher, 58, of Jonesboro, died Wednesday, May 30 at her home. She had lived in Jonesboro for a short while, having lived most of her life in the Truman and Marked Tree areas. She was preceded in death by her husband, Tommy Fecher; her parents, Mitchell and Helen Scott Busby; a brother, Larry Busby; and a niece, Charlotte Ward...

Judith Dianne Presley (06/06/07)
Judith Dianne "Judye" Presley, 55, of Trumann died Sunday, May 27, 2007, at the family residence in Trumann. Born in Jonesboro, she had lived in Trumann her all her life and was a medical technician, a graduate of Arkansas State University and a member of the First General Baptist Church in Trumann...

Wilma Irene Davies (06/06/07)
Wilma Irene Davies died Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro at the age of 52 years. Born in Trumann Friday, March 18, 1955, she was the daughter of the late Robert L. and Wilma Elnora Kirby Whitlow. She was born in and a lifetime resident of Trumann, a homemaker and a 1973 graduate of Trumann High School...

Mary Dean Barker (06/06/07)
Mary Dean Barker, 86, of Bay died Thursday, May 24, 2007 at Craighead County Nursing Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Guntersville, Ala., and she had lived most of her lifetime in the Bay area. She was a homemaker and member of the First Baptist Church in Bay...

Treva Dawne Moss (06/13/07)
Treva Dawne Moss, 23, of Harrisburg died June 3, 2007. She was born in West Memphis on Feb. 7, 1984. She was a graduate of Trumann High School and an Arkansas State University student majoring in early childhood education, where she was on the Dean's List...

Tracy Michelle Academia (06/13/07)
Tracy Michelle Academia, 20, of Trumann, died Friday, June 8, 2007, at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., from injuries received in an automobile accident, May 28, 2007, near Harrisburg. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, she had lived in Trumann for the past eight years and was formerly of Pine Bluff. She was a sales associate for the Sam's Club in Jonesboro, a 2005 graduate of Trumann High School and of the Baptist faith...

Stella Hill Duncan Gann (06/13/07)
Stella Hill Duncan Gann, 82, of Trumann died Sunday, May 10, 2007, at the family residence in Trumann. She was born in Henderson, had lived in Trumann for the past 30 years and was formerly of Mountain Home. She was a housewife and of the Pentecostal faith...

Charles Franklin Rhoads (06/13/07)
Charles Franklin Rhoads, 79, of Bay died Friday, June 8, 2007, at the family residence. He was born in Hominy, Miss., and had lived at Bay for 11 years moving there from the Trumann area where he had lived his lifetime. Rhoads was preceded in death by his parents, Ernest and Minnie Hall Rhoads; three sisters, Bertha Weaver, Alta Blankenship and Edna Blankenship and by three brothers, James, Tom and Ted Rhoads...

James Robert Rouse, Jr. (06/13/07)
James Robert "Jimmy" Rouse, Jr., age 43, of Bono, died Tuesday, June 5, 2007 in Jonesboro. Born in Elaine, Jimmy lived in Trumann and Jonesboro before moving to Bono seven years ago. He was a driver for KEG Enterprises of Jonesboro. He was preceded in death by his father, James Robert Rouse, Sr...

Alta Mae Newell (06/13/07)
Alta Mae Newell, 74, of Trumann died Sunday, June 3, 2007, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born in Bay, she had lived in Trumann for the past 50 years. She was a retired nurses aide and of the Assembly of God faith. Newell was preceded in death by her husband, James Noel Newell; one daughter, Ester Kathleen Addison; two grandchildren, Jimmy Allen Hilliard and Johnny Olen Hilliard; two sisters; three brothers and her parents, Theodore Maxfield and Ester Ellen Davis Henry...

Ella Lee Bishop (06/20/07)
Ella Lee "Tootsie" Bishop, 91, of Trumann was died Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. Bishop was born on Monday, June 21, 1915, in Leachville and had lived in Trumann for the past 59 years. She was a housewife, mother and of the Baptist faith...

J.T. Adams, Sr. (06/20/07)
J.T. Adams Sr., 88, of Harrisburg died Sunday, June 17, 2007, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Jan. 12, 1919, in Tennessee, the son of Corbett A. Adams and Ola Jane Cooper Adams. He was a farmer and of the Methodist faith. He married Vada Marie Forbis on Dec. 19, 1937, and they enjoyed 62 years before her death in 1999. He attended Lebanon Baptist Church in Whitehall and was a member of the Trumann Masonic Lodge for 60 years. His passion was duck hunting...

Laylonnie Renea Dixon (06/20/07)
Laylonnie Renea Dixon, infant daughter of Jennifer Adams and Christopher Dixon died Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at a Hot Springs hospital. She is survived by her parents; paternal grandfather, Chris Dixon of Paragould; maternal grandparents, Virginia and Dalton Adams of Trumann; great-grandmother, Judith Dulaney of Murfreesboro and great-grandmother, Lois Adams of Trumann...

Sarah Louise Stotts (06/20/07)
Sarah Louise Stotts, 74, died Thursday, June 14, 2007 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born on Sunday, April 23, 1933, daughter of Kelsey Bowen and Mabel Fears Bowen Byrd in Caraway. She had lived most of her lifetime in the Trumann area. She was a homemaker and member of the Kirby Woods Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn...