Obituaries from July 2005

Alfred Emmit Crumley (07/12/05)
Alfred Emmit Crumley, 90, of Cave City, died July 5, 2005,at White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born July 7, 1914, near Mobley, Ark., to Charles Emmit and Naomi Mobley Crumley. He was retired from the Arkansas Highway Department, served in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II and was of the Protestant faith...

Helen Evans McCurley (07/12/05)
Helen Irene Evans McCurley, 88, daughter of the late Jeff Evans and Elsie Maddox Evans, was born Oct. 5, 1919, in Rush Creek, Ark. She died June 28, 2005, in Calico Rock. She was united in marriage to James Ewell McCurley on May 18, 1934, in Melbourne, until his death in 1997. ...

Nancy Ola Taylor Hall (07/12/05)
Nancy Ola Taylor Hall, 86, daughter of the late Ed Taylor and Margaret Elizabeth Lewis Taylor was born April 22, 1919, in Sidney, Ark. She died June 25, 2005, in Batesville. She was united in marriage to J.D. Hall on July 17, 1937, and to this union two children were born. Ola was a wife, mother, grandmother and homemaker...

Ozella Mobley (07/12/05)
Ozella Mobley, 92, of Cave City, died July 6 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born Oct. 1, 1912, at Poughkeepsie to Jim II and Rittia M. Vance Jarrett. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include two sons -- Jim H. ...

Stella Irene Mann (07/12/05)
Stella Irene Mann, 89, Cherokee Village went home to be with the Lord Jesus Christ July 1, 2005 in Fulton County Hospital in Salem of natural causes. She was born Jan. 5, 1916, in Needles, Calif., to Grover and Eva (Owings) Winton who preceded her in death. She was an avid reader, crafter and was a member of the Eastern Star, Daughters of the Nile and a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Cherokee Village...

Virgie M. Landers (07/12/05)
Virgie Mae Gaston Landers, daughter of the late William Harrison Gaston and Maude Ora Weathers Gaston, was born May 28, 1911, in LaCrosse, Ark. She died June 29, 2005, in Calico Rock at the age of 94 years. She was united in marriage to Robert Harris Landers on Nov. ...

Zora Estes Brown (07/12/05)
Zora Estes Brown, of Horseshoe Bend was born Oct. 13, 1906, in Agnos, daughter of the late John Matthew and Dora Agnes Hall Estes. She died July 7, 2005, at Salem at the age of 98 years. She was united in marriage to William Edward Brown Oct. 26, 1924, as Ash Flat, and to this union 12 children were born. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother and a homemaker. She was a member of the Oxford Baptist Church...

Donald "Sonny" Wooldridge (07/19/05)
Donald "Sonny" Wooldridge, 68, of Cave City died July 16, 2005, at the Cave City Nursing Home. He was born Oct. 3, 1936, at Cave City, the son of Grover "Dattie" and Ruth Kerr Wooldridge. He was a retired truck driver and a member of the Maxville Missionary Baptist Church...

George Leo James (07/19/05)
George Leo (Leon) James, age 61, of Williford, Ark., died July 11, 2005, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro, Ark. He was born in Ravenden, Ark. on Dec. 12, 1943, the son of Earl and Idah Marie Dubois James. He was united in marriage in Joliet, Ill. June 28, 1964, to Edna Marie Rogers. He was employed as a lab technician by Martin Marietta Materials in Black Rock and was a member of the Church of Christ...

Jason Warren Russell-Fleener (07/19/05)
Jason Warren Russell-Fleener, age 30, of Cherokee Village, Ark., died July 9, 2004, at his home. He was the son of Amber Russell Fleener and Russell Fleener. He was employed as a mechanic. Survivors include his mother, Amber Russell Fleener of Cherokee Village; his father, Russell Fleener of Indianapolis, Ind.; two brothers -- Shane Fleener of Indianapolis, and Russell Fleener II of Cherokee Village...

Linda L. Poorman (07/19/05)
Linda L. Poorman, 62, of Cherokee Village, formerly of Peoria Heights, Ill., was born July 1, 1943 in Peoria, Ill., the daughter of Harold F. Langloss and Grace M. Stump Langloss. She died July 14, 2005, at her home. She was married to James Poorman. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith...

Ruby Wilson (07/19/05)
Ruby A. Wilson,87, of Niles, Mich., formerly of Dowagiac, Mich., was born Feb. 15, 1918, near Center, Ark., the daughter of John Henry and Edith Ellen Furnace Mann. She died at West Woods of Niles Nursing Home July 9, 2005. In 1938 she was united in marriage to George Alexander Wilson in Arkansas. ...

Thomas Morgan Browning (07/19/05)
Thomas Morgan Browning, 79, of Horse-shoe Bend died July 8, 2005, after a long illness at the emergency room in the Community Medical Center of Calico Rock. He was born Nov. 5, 1925, the son of the late Thomas Morgan and Betsy Ann Browning, in Gassaway, W. Va. He was united in marriage to June Frances Alderman on Dec. 3, 1949...

Donald Hale Webb (07/26/05)
Donald Hale Webb, 75, son of the late Orgil Web and Sarah Hiland Webb, was born July 12, 1930, in Mt. Pleasant. He died July 14, 2005, in Batesville. He was united in marriage to Imodean Phillips on July 5, 1950, in Batesville. To this union three sons were born. Donald was a self employed carpenter. He was a member of the Melbourne Church of Christ...

Dawna Jan White (07/26/05)
Dawna Jan White, of Viola, daughter of Kay Silvey Comstock and the late Darrell Comstock, was born Dec. 20, 1982, in Caney, Kan. She died July 16, 2005, at Salem at the age of 22. She was a 1999 graduate of Viola High School. She married Timothy Wayne White on March 3, 2000, at Viola. She was a homemaker and a member of Enterprise Baptist Church of Viola...

Herbert Attrill Ryckman (07/26/05)
Herbert "Papa" Attrill Ryckman, 84, of Williford, died July 13, 2005, at White River Medical Center in Batesville. Formerly a resident of Osceola, he moved to the Williford area five years ago. Ryckman was born March 24, 1921, in Vallejo, Calif., to Harry George Attrill Ryckman and Signe Elvira Larson. He was united in marriage to Helen Kriss on Feb. 11, 1944, while on duty with the United States Navy in Cleveland, Ohio. Helen preceded him in death in 1986 after 42 years of marriage...

J.D. Campbell (07/26/05)
J.D. Campbell, 80, of Evening Shade, died July 19, 2005, at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born Feb. 15, 1925, at Manchester, Tenn. to John D. and Beaulah Evelyn Simmons Campbell. He was a retired plumber and was of the Assembly of God faith...

Minnie Booth Pickens (07/26/05)
Minnie Booth Pickens, 91, died July 17, 2005, at her nieces home in DeSoto, Mo. She was a member of Ruby Chapter 191 of Eastern Star in Hardy and a member of the Church of Christ. She was the last surviving child of the late John and Dora Booth of Williford...

Ransom C. Jones (07/26/05)
Ransom C. Jones, 97, of Cave City died July 15, 2005, at the Cave City Nursing Home. He was born April 10, 1908, at Cave City to James Arthur and Alice Jackson Jones. He was a U.S. Army Air Force Veteran having served in World War II, retired city marshall and justice of the peace at Cave City. He worked as a bodyguard for Joan Crawford for several years and was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Cave City...

Raechel M. Weisman (07/26/05)
Raechel M. Weisman, 90, of Ash Flat, died July 20, 2005. She was born March 10, 1915, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the daughter of Sidney Marks and Bertha Haas Marks. She was united in marriage to Milton M. Weisman. He preceded her in death. She was employed as a secretary during her working years...