Obituaries from April 2009

James E. Schultz Sr. (04/30/09)
James E. Schultz Sr., 88, of Cherokee Village, Ark., died April 22 at his home. He was born June 8, 1920, at Moline, Ill., the son of Fred P. and Kathryn E. (Snyder) Schultz. He was U.S. Coast Guard veteran having served during World War II and was a retired machinist for Northrop Grumman in California...

Walter Cyril Ruuska (04/30/09)
Walter Cyril Ruuska, 91, of Cherokee Village, Ark., died April 21, 2009, a the Fulton County Hospital in Salem, Ark. He was born March 1, 1918, at Two Harbors, Minn., the son of Julius and Olga (Kemppainer) Ruuska. He was of the Lutheran faith. Survivors include: his wife, Pearl Ruuska of the home; a son, C. Gene Ruuska of Cherokee Village; a daughter, Linda Welsh of Ohio; a brother, Waino Ruuska of Eerie, Pa.; a sister, Vieno Borg of Grand Rapids, Minn.; five grandchildren, Kevin Ruuska of Alexandria, Va., Keri Flatten of Hartland Wis., Kyla Outlaw of Floral and Douglas Welsh and Daniel Welsh both of Ohio; and a host of other relatives and friends.. ...

Lolita Herstedt (04/30/09)
Lolita Herstedt, of Cherokee Village, Ark., daughter of the late Charles Hanssen and Clara Alfreda Bengston Hanssen, was born Sept. 14, 1917, in Moline, Ill. She died April 18, 2009, at Fulton County Hospital in Salem at the age of 91. During her working years, she was employed by McDonnell Douglas Areospace Manufacturing Company...

Betty Lea Traw Whited (04/30/09)
Betty Lea (Traw) Whited, 66, of Evening Shade, Ark., died April 25, 2009, at her home. She was born Nov. 8, 1942, the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Maggie Iola (Athey) Traw. She was married to Junior Glenn Whited on May 9 1959. She was a CNA, a homemaker and an active member of the Ash Flat Church of Christ...

Esther Louise McGuire (04/30/09)
Esther Louise McGuire, 98, of Poughkeepsie, Ark., died April 21, 2009, at her home. She was born Aug. 5, 1910, at Medicine Lodge, Kan., the daughter of the late George W. and Eula (Fife) Colborn. She was married to Burt Mcguire Aug. 29, 1933, at Medicine Lodge, Kan. ...

Norma Wiles (04/30/09)
Norma Wiles, 95, of Hardy, Ark., died April 23, 2009, at the Stone County Nursing Home in Mountain View, Ark. She was born May 9, 1913, at Ash Flat, Ark., the daughter of the late William Otto and Fannie Paralee Biggers. She was homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church in Hardy...

Gladys Townsley (04/23/09)
Gladys Milligan Townsley, 91, of Batesville, Ark., died April 14, 2009, at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born Sept. 19, 1917, at Calamine, Ark., to Samuel Jackson and Elizabeth Anne (Hardin) Milligan. She was a homemaker and a member of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Batesville...

Russell Haley Carter (04/23/09)
Russell Haley Carter, 66, of Evening Shade, Ark., died April 16, 2009, at the White River Medical Center in Batesville, Ark. He was born Nov. 29, 1942, at Evening Shade to Clyde and Flava (Haley) Carter. He was a farmer and a weather observer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for 30 years...

Viola Joyce Overton (04/23/09)
Viola Joyce Overton, 76, of Horseshoe Bend, Ark., daughter of the late Walter Henry and Emma Clara (Schewe) Weide, was born Dec. 21, 1932, at Palatine, Ill. She died April 14, 2009, at the Fulton County Hospital in Salem, Ark. She was united in marriage to Davis Charles Overton on June 6, 1953, at Palatine, Ill. ...

Lucie Pavlovich (04/23/09)
Lucie Pavlovich (Hennig) died March 22, 2009, in The Villages, Fla. She was born in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 27, 1920, and came to the United States in 1949 with her husband Ratko. They lived in Milwaukee, Wisc., until 1973 and retired to Cherokee Village, Ark., where she stayed until moving to Florida in 2005 to be near her family...

Imogene T. Seley (04/23/09)
Imogene T. Seley, 84, of Thomasville, Mo., was born April 4, 1925, in Verdon, Okla., and died April 12, 2009, at her home. She is survived by: her husband, Al Gordon "Bob" Seley of the home; five children; Jean Crossland of Thomasville, Mo., Carol McElroy of Las Vegas, Nev., Michael Seley of West Plains, Mo., Stephen Seley of Thomasville, Greg Seley of Granite City, Ill.; one sister-in-law, Florence McDaniel of West Plains, Mo.; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and numerous other relatives and friends.. ...

Floyd Sanford Shetrone Jr. (04/23/09)
Floyd Sanford Shetrone Jr., 52, of Salem, Ark. son of the late Floyd Sanford and Mary Ellen (Brooks) Shetrone Sr., was born on Aug. 6, 1956, at Indianapolis, Ind. He died April 15, 2009, at the Southfork River Therapy and Living Center in Salem, Ark...

Randy McComas (04/16/09)
Randy Mark Anthony McComas, 34, of Highland, Ark., died April 8, 2009 in Hardy, Ark. Randy was born March 27, 1975, in Salem, Ark., the son of Mark D. McComas and Tamara Ann (Goodwin) McComas. He was united in marriage to Michal (Seibert) McComas on Nov. 12, 1994, in Salem...

Dorothy Elizabeth St. John (04/16/09)
Dorothy Elizabeth St. John, was born May 2, 1921, in Minnesota, the daughter of Clair and Oleva Stockwell Witham. She died March 31, 2009. She lived many years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She and her husband retired to Horseshoe Bend, Ark., in 1977 where she was a charter member of the First Church of the Nazarene. She moved to Hermitage, Mo., in 2006...

Neil Wilkerson (04/16/09)
Neil Wilkerson, 82, of Cave City, Ark., died April 4, 2009, at his home. He was born Oct. 14, 1926 at Grange, Ark., to John Robert and Ophelia Powell Wilkerson. He was a Missionary Baptist minister, a trustee for the Budd Creek Baptist Camp at Greers Ferry and a member of the First Missionary Baptist Church in Cave City...

Jerry Lee Huskey (04/16/09)
Jerry Lee Huskey, 68, of Saffell, Ark., died April 11, 2009, at his home. He was born May 11, 1940, at Saffell, Ark., the son of Willie Edward and Julia Augusta (Bailey) Huskey. He was a farmer and a member of the Mt. Harmony Free Will Baptist Church at Saffell...

Junior McCradic (04/16/09)
Jewell Dean McCradic, Jr., was born March 22, 1941, the son of Jewell Dean McCradic Sr. and Goldie Marie Collins McCradic. He died April 4, 2009, in Mammoth spring, Ark., at the age of 68. He was married in 1962 at Rawlins, Wyo., to Merle VanZandt. He was married on Oct. 4, 1985, at Mammoth Spring, Ark., to Veda Traw...

Maxine Evelyn Carpenter (04/16/09)
Maxine Evelyn Carpenter, 84, of Ash Flat, Ark., died April 9, 2009, at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born Jan. 16, 1925, at Lansing, Mich., to the daughter of Floyd and Marion Norma Bennett Waters. She was a retired assistant vice president for First National Banking Company in Ash Flat and a member of the Ash Flat Church of Christ...

George Earl Huff (04/09/09)
George Earl Huff, 86, of Cherokee Village, Ark., died Dec. 16, 2008, at White River Medical Center in Batesville, Ark. He was the son of the late George and Vida (Robertson) Huff. Earl retired from the state of Indiana as an entomologist. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a member of the Masons, the American Legion and the Lions Club...

Madge Williams Wright (04/09/09)
Madge Williams Wright, 91, of Strawberry, Ark., died March 31, 2009, at Cave City, Ark. She was born April 9, 1917, at Strawberry, Ark., the daughter of Lewis and Maude Penn Williams. She was a self-employed seamstress, active in the Senior Citizens Center at Strawberry and a member of the Strawberry Church of Christ...

Evie Marie Arnold (04/09/09)
Evie Marie Hall Johnson Arnold, daughter of the late John Hall and Arizona Pugh, was born Jan. 20, 1935, in Batesville, Ark. She died March 31, 2009, at her home in Franklin, Ark. She had a 30 year career with the International Shoe Company of Batesville as an instructor. She was united in marriage to Wesley Arnold on July 6, 1984. As husband and wife, they worked another 12 years running their grocery store, Foodways Market in Horseshoe Bend...

Sharon Renee Murphy (04/09/09)
Sharon Renee Murphy, 38, of Brock, Texas, died March 23, 2009, at her home. She was born July 20, 1970, in Memphis, Tenn. She spent her childhood in Hardy, Ark. She moved to Texas in 1994. She was a member of Beulah Baptist Church near Millsap, Texas...

Gladys E. Reeves (04/09/09)
Gladys E. Reeves, 87, of Cave City, Ark., died April 2, 2009, at her home. She was born May 27, 1921, at Salem, Mo., the daughter of Albert Henry and Alice Beatrice (Cloak) Schmitt. She was a homemaker and a member of the Shepherd's Chapel in Gravette, Ark...

Jeanette Hagerman (04/09/09)
Jeanette C. Hagerman, 68, formerly of Cherokee Village, Ark., and Louisville, Ky., died March 19, 2009, in Spartanburg, SC. Born in Louisville, a daughter of John C. and Winnie Smith Huff, Jeanette was married to Lewis Hagerman for 50 years. She was of the Baptist faith...

Cleatus Ehrhardt (04/09/09)
Cleatus Darrell Ehrhardt was born Oct. 20, 1953, at Myrtle, Mo., the son of Lehman Ehrhardt and JoRheta Ehrhardt. He died March 29, 2009, in Little Rock, Ark., at the age of 55. He was a carpenter and a construction worker. He was a veteran of the United States Army, serving his country in the Vietnam War...

Nancy Christina Riley (04/02/09)
Nancy Christina Riley, 94, of Hardy, Ark., died March 22, 2009, at White River Medical Center in Batesville, Ark. She was born March 15, 1915, at Ravenden, Ark., the daughter of James and Pansie Wrenfrow Smith. She was a homemaker and attended Spring Lake Baptist Church at Ozark Acres...

Albert Matheson Trowbridge (04/02/09)
Albert Matheson Trowbridge, 71, of Cave City, Ark., died March 23, 2009, at his home. He was born Aug. 12, 1937, at Grand Rapids, Mich., the son of Albert and Margaret Matheson Trowbridge. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran and owner of Matheson Company South, a recruiting company...

Adrain Walter Hall (04/02/09)
Adrain Walter Hall, 83, of Cherokee Village, Ark., died March 25, 2009, at Privacy Health Care. He was retired after 43 years as a train director with Burlington Northern Railroad. He was a member of the Hardy United Methodist Church and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy...

Norma Asbury (04/02/09)
Norma Asbury, 87, of Brookland, Ark., formerly of Mammoth Spring, died Saturday, March 21, 2009, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Jan. 11, 1922, in Canton, Ill. She was preceded in death by her husband, Glenn Asbury, in 1963...

Thomas Dexter Johnson (04/02/09)
Thomas Dexter Johnson, son of the late George Arnett Johnson and Vernie Caraway Johnson, was born April 29, 1957, in Batesville, Ark. He died March 24, 2009, in Melbourne, Ark., at the age of 51. He was united in marriage to Imogene Scott on Aug. 28, 1987, in Jonesboro, Ark. At the time of his death, he was a self-employed truck driver. He was of the Baptist faith...