Obituaries

Rev. Leonard Bunch (04/09/04)
Rev. Leonard Bunch, 74, of Black Oak, died Sunday, April 4, 2004, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis. He was born in Black Oak, but lived in Jonesboro most of his life. He also lived in Piggott before moving back to Black Oak four years ago...

Pleas Henderson Akers (04/09/04)
Pleas Henderson Akers, 81, of Piggott died at the VA Nursing Home in Poplar Bluff on Monday, April 5, 2004. He was born in Kennett on July 6, 1922, son of Pleas A. and Florence Henderson Akers. He married Nelldean Smith on Nov. 1, 1941. He was a veteran of World War II where he served in the Old Hickory Division. He was wounded in action and taken as a prisoner of war during the Battle of the Bulge...

Clifford "Pa" Hoyt Barnhart (04/09/04)
Clifford "Pa" Hoyt Barnhart, 91, of Marmaduke, died Sunday April 4, 2004, at Greene Acres Nursing Home in Paragould. He was born Aug. 26, 1912, in Greene County to the late Lilburn Barnhart and Lena (Smith) Barnhart. He was retired from the Greene County Road Department after 31 years of service, was a newspaper deliverer in Marmaduke for the Paragould Daily Press and a Marmaduke city employee. He was a lifelong member of the community and a member of Marmaduke General Baptist Church...

Arthur Louis Baggett Jr. (04/09/04)
Arthur Louis Baggett Jr., 27, of Campbell died Tuesday, March 30, 2004. He was born Jan. 20, 1977, in Poplar Bluff, the son of Arthur Louis Baggett Sr. and Brenda Lee Paul Baggett of Campbell. He married Lisa Christine Innes on Oct. 1, 2002, in Piggott...

Almeda Nettles Woodard (04/09/04)
Almeda Nettles Woodard, 85, of Campbell died Tuesday, March 30, 2004, in the National Health Care in Franklin, Tenn. She was born March 3, 1919, the daughter of the late Harvey and Grace Warren Gower. She married Bynum Borden Nettles on June 18, 1938. He preceded her in death in 1978. She married Orlie Woodard on March 5, 1988. He preceded her in death in 1996...

Marty Edward Hoggard (04/09/04)
Marty Edward Hoggard, 41, of Piggott died Thursday, April 1, 2004, at the Baptist Hospital in Memphis. He was born July 22, 1962, in Piggott, the son of Cornelious "Punk" and Joyce Gatlin Hoggard. He was united in marriage to Laura Speer on December 14, 1996, to this union two sons were born...

William E. Bell (04/09/04)
William E. Bell, 89, of Decatur, Ind., died Sunday, April 4, 2004, at Bluffton Regional Medial Center. He was born Dec. 10, 1914, in Piggott, the son of Clarence Bell and Lennie Underwood. He married Letha Bell on Oct. 14, 1939. He is survived by one son, Gerald Harmon of Enterprise, Okla.; two daughters, Linda Shaw of Liberty Center, Ind., and Shirley Davis of Piggott; one brother, Earnest Bell of Piggott; one sister, Martha Blalack of Paragould; 10 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.. ...

Marty Edward Hoggard (04/14/04)
Marty Edward Hoggard, 41, of Piggott died Thursday, April 1, 2004, at the Baptist Hospital in Memphis. He was born July 22, 1962, in Piggott, the son of Cornelious "Punk" and Joyce Gatlin Hoggard. He was united in marriage to Laura Speer on December 14, 1996, to this union two sons were born...

Billie Lee Golden (04/14/04)
Billie Lee Golden, 72, of Jonesboro died Wednesday, April 7, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born in Alexandria, La., she lived in Fayetteville before moving to Jonesboro in 1966. She was a retired high school business education teacher and taught in Prairie Grove, Piggott and Paragould. She was a graduate of Arkansas State University and earned a master's degree in business education from the University of Arkansas...

Odell Toombs (04/14/04)
Odell Toombs, 80, of Piggott died Saturday, April 10, 2004, in the Firefighters Regional Burn Center in Memphis. He was born Feb. 4, 1924, in Senath, the son of the late Lewis Angus and Rosa Hester Wallace Toombs. He was united in marriage to Jessalie Settlemoir Gossett on Feb. 11, 1950...

Brandon Lee Chilcutt (04/14/04)
Brandon Lee Chilcutt, infant son of Jimmy Lee and Angel Christine Chilcutt of Piggott, died Saturday, April 10, 2004, at Piggott Community Hospital. He was born on March 25, 2004. Funeral services will be held at Hoggard and Sons Funeral Home. Arrangements are pending...

Francis Bare (04/14/04)
Francis Bare of Piggott died Monday, April 12, 2004, in Jonesboro. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 15, 2004, in the Hoggard and Sons Chapel in Piggott. Viewing will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, 2004. Hoggard and Sons Funeral Home of Piggott is in charge of the arrangements...

Gary Gilkison (04/14/04)
Gary Gilkison, 50, of Paragould died Thursday, April 8, 2004, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born on Sept. 25, 1953, the son of Jerry Gilkison and Nellie Deweese. He was united in marriage to Karon Cheshire on April 12, 1975...

Frances Belle Bare (04/21/04)
Frances Belle Bare, 81, of Piggott died Monday, April 12, 2004, in Jonesboro. She was born May 21, 1922, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Minnie Cheatam Neely. She was united in marriage to Thomas Joe Bare on August 31, 1946, to this union three sons were born...

Claudean Bolen (04/21/04)
Claudean Bolen, 82, of McDougal, died Sunday, April 18, 2004, in Hardy. She was born Nov. 1, 1921, in Murphysboro, Ill., the daughter of the late Arlie Lee and Elvira Elizabeth Jane Coffer Herring. She was united in marriage to Silas Robert Bolen on Jan. 21, 1939...

Brandon Lee Chilcutt (04/21/04)
Brandon Lee Chilcutt of Piggott died Saturday, April 10, 2004, at the Piggott Community Hospital. He was born March 25, 2004, in Paragould, the son of Jimmy Lee and Angel Frederick Chilcutt. He is survived by his father and mother; grandmother, Katy Chilcutt of Piggott; great-grandmother, Catherine Risinger of Piggott; and other relatives and friends...

Carl Amberse Book (04/21/04)
Carl Amberse Book, 72, of Mexico, Mo., died Tuesday, April 13, 2004, in Mexico. He was born Jan. 2, 1932, in Carryville, the son of the late Floyd Ellis and Ernesteen Wright Book. He was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister. He is survived by three brothers and two sisters...

Onard Greene (04/21/04)
Onard Greene, 60, of Piggott, died Sunday, April 18, 2004, in the St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Nov. 26, 1943, in Crockett, the son of the late Eddie and Minnie Reagan Greene. He was united in marriage to Dolly Wallis on June 22, 1961. To this union four children were born...

Evelyn Payne (04/21/04)
Evelyn Payne, 89, of Columbia, Ill., died Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at the Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill. She was born May 26, 1914, in Monette. She married D.C. Payne on Nov. 17, 1936. Mrs. Payne lived in Columbia for the past eight years. Before moving to Columbia, she lived in Poplar Bluff for 13 years and lived in Fagus for about 30 years prior to that...

Barbara Sue Hines (04/21/04)
Barbara Sue Hines, 66, of Selmer, Tenn., died Monday, April 19, 2004, in Selmer. She was a retired production worker for Brown Shoe Company and Owens-Corning. She was a member of the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer. She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry Clay and Ethel Ward Parker; two sisters, Lila Leigh Parker and Lois O'Connor; and three brothers, Earl Parker, Harold Parker and Robert Parker...

Gary Gilkison (04/21/04)
Gary Gilkison, 50, of Paragould died Thursday, April 8, 2004, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born on Sept. 25, 1953, the son of Jerry Gilkison and Nellie Deweese. He was united in marriage to Karon Cheshire on April 12, 1975...

Leona Mae Conaway (04/30/04)
Leona Mae Conaway, 78, of Poplar Bluff, formerly of Piggott, died Friday, April 23, 2004, in Three Rivers Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born March 12, 1926, in Carryville, the daughter of the late Marion Wilson and Orah Allman Young. She was united in marriage to Curtis Edward Conaway Sr. on August 13, 1943. To this union six sons were born...

Earl Smith (04/30/04)
Earl Smith, 77, of Galena, formerly of Piggott, died in his home on Friday, April 23, 2004. He was born June 3, 1926, in Waterloo, Ala., the son of Arthur Herbert "Hubbard" Smith and Katie Lou Stricklin Smith. He served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. On Oct. 9, 1954, he was united in marriage to Lavern Moore...

Brandon Lee Chilcutt (04/30/04)
Brandon Lee Chilcutt of Piggott died Saturday, April 10, 2004, at the Piggott Community Hospital. He was born March 25, 2004, in Paragould, the son of Jimmy Lee and Angel Frederick Chilcutt. He is survived by his father and mother; grandmother, Katy Chilcutt of Piggott; great-grandmother, Catherine Risinger of Piggott; and other relatives and friends...