Obituaries

Charles E. Parks (08/06/07)
Charles E. Parks, 89 of Trumann died Monday, July 23, 2007 at Trumann Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Harrisburg on May 9, 1918, and had lived in Trumann for the past 40 years. He was retired from the Singer Company and a member of the First Baptist Church...

Mable Waters Haws (08/06/07)
Mable Blasingame Waters Haws, 90, of Trumann died Sunday, July 29, 2007 at Woodbriar Nursing Center in Harrisburg. Born in Mound City, she had lived in the Trumann area most of her lifetime. She was a retired volunteer grandparent at the Children's Colony in Jonesboro and retired CNA at Melody Nursing Center in Trumann...

Lorene Mae Haynes (08/15/07)
Lorene Mae Haynes, 83, of Jonesboro died Monday, August 6, 2007, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Saturday, Nov. 17, 1923 in Sturkie and had lived most of her lifetime in Trumann before moving to Jonesboro five years ago. She was retired from the Singer Company and a member of the First Christian Church in Trumann...

Marvin Lee Pippinger (08/15/07)
Marvin Lee Pippinger, 83 of Trumann, died Thursday at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born in Harrisburg and had lived most of his lifetime in the Trumann area. He was a former employee of the McCormick Gin, Singer Company, City of Trumann and Trumann Schools. He lived a long life and will be missed dearly by the people who got a chance to know him...

Freeman Travis French (08/22/07)
Mr. Freeman Travis French, 67 of Jonesboro died Tuesday at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. Mr. French was born May 14, 1940 in Harrisburg and had lived in Jonesboro for the past 11 years and was formerly of Trumann. Mr. French was a retired engineer draftsman for Craighead Electric and a member of Temple Baptist Church...

James Davis (08/29/07)
James W. "Dick" Davis, 87, of Bay died Monday, Aug. 12, 2007 at Trumann Health and Rehab Center where he had lived for two months. Born in Qulin, Mo. he lived in Jonesboro before moving to Bay several years ago. He operated Dick's Barber Shop in Bay for several years and farmed. He was a U.S. Army veteran of W.W. II...

Johnathan Grant Long (08/29/07)
Johnathan Grant Long, 20, of Trumann died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007 from injuries received in a one car accident near Trumann. He was born on Wednesday, June 17, 1987, the son of Marlin Grant and Etta White Long. He was born in West Memphis and was a lifetime resident of the Trumann and Harrisburg area. ...

Nona Lee Long (08/29/07)
Nona Lee Long, 98, of Marked Tree died Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born on Sunday, August 15, 1909, to the late William Robert and Bertie Myrtle Moore Davis. She was born in Prentis County, Miss., and had lived in the Trumann and Marked Tree area for the past 57 years. She was a housewife and of the Baptist faith...

Pauline Ballinger (08/29/07)
Pauline Ballinger, 91, of Auberndale, Fla. died July 6, 2007 at Winter Haven Hospital in Winter Haven, Fla. She was a former resident of Trumann where she was active in the First Baptist Church. She was the daughter of Charles and Laura Thorne. Of her 12 siblings, she was the last surviving one...

Veoma Isaacs (08/29/07)
Veoma Isaacs, 84, of Trumann, died Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 at her home. She was born in Bay and moved to Trumann in 1943. She was a Past Matron of the Nettleton Eastern Star #409. She is survived by two sisters, Irene Bush and Nelma Pauline Barnhill, both of Jonesboro and one brother Donald Isaacs of Las Vegas, Nev...