Obituaries

Bobby Ray Smith (01/02/08)
Bobby Ray Smith, 60, of Trumann died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 at the family residence in Trumann. Mr. Smith was born in Trumann and was a lifetime member of the Trumann area. He was a factory worker. He was preceded in death by one sister, Melba Stevens; two brothers, James Lee Smith and Lucion Leonard Smith and his parents, Mack H. and Omer Edna Willcockson Smith...

Paul Edward Allred (01/02/08)
Paul Edward Allred, 56, died Monday, Dec, 17, 2007, at the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. He was born on Thursday, May 17, 1951, son of the late Robert Holston and Gracie Earlene Baine Allred. He was born in Harrisburg and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann. He was disabled, a veteran of the U.S. Army and of the Church of God belief...

Neva LaVerne Hickman (01/02/08)
Neva LaVerne Hickman, 86, was born on Thursday, Nov. 10, 1921, daughter of the late Logan and Neva Workman Coker. She died Sunday, Nov. 16, 2007 at NEA Baptist Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Harrisburg and had lived most of her lifetime in the Central Community near Harrisburg before moving to Jonesboro in 2004. She was a homemaker and a member of the County Line Church of Christ...

Bryon Landis Long (01/02/08)
Bryon Landis Long, 41, of Harrisburg, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Mr. Long was born in Trumann and had lived his lifetime in the Trumann and Harrisburg area. Mr. Long was self employed as a Acoustical Ceiling Tile installer and of the Church of Christ faith...

Carl Dewayne Stevens (01/02/08)
Carl Dewayne Stevens, 60, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at his residence. He was born Dec. 23, 1947, at Jonesboro. He worked as a piano assembly worker. He was a Vietnam veteran, serving in the United States Army. He liked the outdoors, hunting, fishing and camping...

David Creemore (01/02/08)
David Creekmore died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born in Parkin and had lived in Trumann for the past 30 years. He was a retired farmer and of the Assembly of God faith. Mr. Creekmore was preceded in death by one granddaughter and his parents, M.H. and Dovie Mae Martin Creekmore...

Todd Maness (01/02/08)
Todd Maness, 46, of Lepanto died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007. He was of the Baptist belief and a retired construction worker. Survivors include his wife, Evylen Maness; two daughters: April Maness and Angela Maness; his parents, A. J. Maness and Bonnie Adams; and one brother, Tony Maness...

Sammie Charlene Shelton (01/02/08)
Sammie Charlene Shelton, 80, of Marked Tree, died Monday evening at Craighead County Nursing Center where she had resided briefly. Born in Risco, Mo., Mrs. Shelton moved to McCormick in 1958 and then to Marked Tree in 1963. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church in Marked Tree...

Gloria Nadine Johnson (01/09/08)
Gloria Nadine Johnson, 66, of Portland, Tenn., died Monday, Jan. 7, 2007 at Highland Manor Nursing Home in Portland, Tenn. of natural causes. She was born in Bradford on Aug. 5, 1941 to the late Dewey Daniel Walk, Sr. and Berldean Parrigan Walker. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Danny Walker and Roger Dale Walker...

Ruby Earline Waters (01/09/08)
Ruby Earline Waters, 94, died Monday, Jan. 7, 2008 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born on Monday, November 24, 1913, the daughter of the late John Lewis and Elizabeth in Waterloo, Ala. She had lived most of her lifetime in Trumann. She was a retired timekeeper from the former Singer Company and a member of the Central Missionary Baptist Church in Trumann...

Minnie Joyce Claytor (01/16/08)
Minnie Joyce Claytor, 68, was born June 7,1939 in Dallas, Tex. and departed this life on Jan. 9, 2008 in Harrison. She was preceded in death by her parents, Utah Carl Lamb and Callie Elizabeth Kilgore Lamb; a brother, Utah Carl Lamb, Jr.; a sister, Wanda Charlene Iverson and a grandson, Lee'O Tilton Housden III...

Julia Maxine Bradley (01/16/08)
Julia Maxine Bradley, 76, of Malvern passed away January 9, 2008 at HSC Medical Center. She was born June 15, 1931 in Tuckerman the daughter of George and Ruth (Winkles) Crisp. She was a homemaker who devoted her early life to her family and church. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and the Women's Sunday School Class, the Hot Spring County Extension Homemakers, the Malvern Keeno Club, and the Moose Lodge, where she loved to play bingo...

Gloria Nadine Johnson (01/16/08)
Gloria Nadine Johnson, 66, of Portland, Tenn., died Monday, Jan. 7, 2008 at Highland Manor Nursing Home in Portland, Tenn. She was born in Bradford on Aug. 5, 1941 to the late Dewey Daniel Walker, Sr. and Beryldean Parrigan Walker. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Danny Walker and Rodger Dale Walker...

Wilma Mae Wells (01/23/08)
Wilma Mae Wells, 85, of Trumann, died Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 at Trumann Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born in Greenfield and had lived most of her lifetime in Trumann. She was a homemaker and a member of the Healing Hands Community Church...

Angela Benson Pippinger (01/23/08)
Angela Benson Pippinger, 31, of Harrisburg, passed away on Sunday Jan. 20, 2008, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. She was born in Jonesboro on January 5, 1977. Mrs. Pippinger was a homemaker and of the Baptist belief. She was a 1995 graduate of Trumann High School...

John Paul Goodman (01/23/08)
John Paul Goodman, 64, of Trumann died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008 at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. He was born Caraway and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann. He was a service representative for Dupont and was a deacon at the Elm Grove Baptist Church...

Peggy Jean Raymond Owens (01/23/08)
Peggy Jean Raymond Owens, 66, of Trumann, died Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. She was born on May 26, 1941 and had lived in Trumann for the past 61 years. She was a homemaker and a member of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church...

Ernest Marlin Adams (01/30/08)
Ernest Marlin "Cooney" Adams, 78, died Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 at the family residence. He was born on Wednesday, April 24, 1929, the son of the late Ernie and Emma Mae Richards Adams. He was born in and a lifetime resident of Trumann, a retired crop duster and a member of the First Baptist Church...

Charles W. Qualls (01/30/08)
Charles W. Qualls, 85, died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, at the family residence. He was born on Tuesday, October 10, 1922, the son of the late Ernest and Mattie Sue Glover Qualls. He was born in Humboldt, Tenn., and had lived most of his lifetime in Poinsett County. He was a retired employee of the General Electric Company, veteran of the U.S. Army and World War II and a member of the Harrisburg V.F.W...

Clifford Marie Biggers (01/30/08)
Clifford Marie Biggers, 78, of Little Rock died Saturday, January 26, 2008 at the Parkview Rehab Nursing Center in Little Rock. She was born on Wednesday, January 22, 1930, daughter of the late R. C. and Vola Sartin Morgan. She was born in Wynne and had lived in Little Rock for the past three years and was formerly of Payneway. She was a retired factory worker and member of the Church of Christ in Marked Tree...

Dorothy L. Allen (01/30/08)
Dorothy L. Allen, 85, died Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008 at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro following a lengthy illness. She was born on Sunday, March 19, 1922, daughter of the late Willie and Novella Conatser Pepper. She was born in Lepanto, and had lived most of her lifetime in Trumann. ...

Maggie Loretta Toler Moore (01/30/08)
Maggie Loretta Toler Moore, 85, died Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born on Monday, October 9, 1922, daughter of the late Thomas Monroe and Mary Lou Burns Toler. She was born in Paragould and had lived in Trumann most of her lifetime before moving to Jonesboro four years ago...