Obituaries

Bobby Joe Broadway (05/06/04)
Bobby Joe Broadway, 72, of Austell, Ga., formerly of the Piggott area, died Wednesday, April 28, 2004, in Well Star Cobb Hospital in Austell, Ga. He was born Sept. 27, 1931, in Nimmons, the son of the late James Henry and Laura Elizabeth Howell Broadway...

Dennis Michael "Babe" Conner (05/06/04)
Dennis Michael "Babe" Conner, 54, of Piggott died Sunday, May 2, 2004, at his home in Piggott. He was born August 5, 1949, in Qulin, the son of Elmer G. and Jamima Winingnear Conner. He was united in marriage to Shirleen "Sherry" Smith on Sept. 27, 1974, to this union one son was born, Michael Wade...

Lyman Sneed (05/06/04)
Lyman Sneed, 94, of Piggott died Monday, May 3, 2004, in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Funeral services were incomplete at press time. A complete obituary will appear in next week's edition. Hoggard and Sons Funeral Home of Piggott is in charge of the arrangements...

Lyman Sneed (05/12/04)
Lyman Sneed, 94, of Piggott died Monay, May 3, 2004, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born Dec. 2, 1909, in McLeansboro, Ill., to the late Arthur and Iva Knight Sneed. Mr. Sneed married Miriam Latta on Jan. 22, 1937, in Pollard. She died on Oct. 24, 1997...

Imogene Phyllis Little (05/12/04)
Imogene Phyllis Little, 63, of McDougal died Saturday, May 8, 2004, in the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Feb. 13, 1941, in Campbell, Mo. The daughter of the late James F. and Cora Thomas Ray. She was united in marriage to Owen Lee Little on Nov. 1, 1956, to this union six children were born...

Maedelle Johnson (05/12/04)
Maedelle Johnson, 83, of Corning, died Sunday, May 9, 2004, at the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born June 2, 1920, in Halliday, Tenn., daughter of G.V. "Bud" Ellis and Ethel Erten Bond Ellis. She married E.C. Johnson on Dec. 23, 1939, in Kennett...

John William Beaver (05/21/04)
John William Beaver, 72, of Piggott, died Tuesday, May 11, 2004, in the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born June 26, 1931, in Rector, son of the late Everett Raymond and Eva Lillian Kreigle Beaver. On Dec. 21, 1955, he was united in marriage to Mildred Angeline Belyew. To this union five children were born...

Leroy French (05/21/04)
Leroy French, 82, of Piggott died Sunday, May 16, 2004, at Poplar Bluff Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born on Dec. 20, 1921, in Piggott, the son of the late Barney and Arabell Doty French. He was united in marriage to Anna Mae Fisher on Jan. 26, 1946, to this union three children were born...

Mary Ruth Birmingham (05/21/04)
Mary Ruth Birmingham, 75, of Columbia, Mo., died Friday, May 14, 2004, at Boon Hospital Center. She was born Feb. 22, 1929, in Clay County to Ray and Loretta Sanderfer Turner. On June 7, 1945, she married Edward J. Birmingham in Piggott. She was employed with the University of Missouri for 21 years...

Clifford Gerald Mayo (05/21/04)
Clifford Gerald Mayo, 73, of Henderson, Ky., died at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at Methodist Hospital. He retired from Sears in Evansville, Ind. He was a Korean War, U.S. Army veteran and a member of the American Legion. He was preceded in death by his parents, Arbra and Sidney Edwards Mayo; one sister, Ramey Lee O'Neal; and one brother, Kenneth Mayo...

Fern Tompkins (05/21/04)
Fern Tompkins, 68, of Pollard died Saturday, May 15, 2004, in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center North. She was born Oct. 21, 1935, in Qulin. She lived around Qulin and Pollard all of her life. She was united in marriage to Ray Tompkins on Sept. 1, 1951...

Henrietta Young Willis (05/21/04)
Henrietta Young Willis, 90, of McDougal, died Friday, May 14, 2004, in the Murphy Health and Rehabilitation Center in Piggott. She was born June 14, 1913, in McDougal, the daughter of the late Henry J. and Anna Hudspeth Young. She was united in marriage to Harve Willis and to this union one son was born...

Elizabeth Elaine Bomar (05/21/04)
Elizabeth Elaine Bomar, 70, of Piggott died Tuesday, May 11, 2004, at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born Feb. 25, 1934, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Claude Otis and Vera Mae Braden Montgomery. She married Gene Bomar on Feb. 21, 1959, to this union three children were born...

David Charles Gregory (05/26/04)
Piggott businessman and civic leader David Charles Gregory , 74, died of heart complications as a result of rheumatoid arthritis on Friday, May 21, 2004. He was born Oct. 31, 1929, in Detroit, Mich., where his parents, David and Nora Gregory, had moved to find work during the Great Depression, but lived most all of his life in Piggott...

Jim Watson (05/26/04)
Piggott businessman Jim Watson, 61, of Piggott died Saturday, May 22, 2004. Watson was involved in a wide range of civic activities in Piggott. Watson started working at Brown Shoe Company in 1960. He retired from Brown Shoe in 1983. He served as the plant manager for 10 years...

Leland Cole Sells (05/26/04)
Leland Cole Sells, 18, of Piggott died Wednesday, May 19, 2004, in the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. He was born Nov. 16, 1985, in Paragould, the son of Larry Sells and Kathy O'Bryant Mauldin. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Ruth and William O'Bryant; maternal great-grandparents, Benton and Artie Lacey; and his paternal great-grandparents, Lewis and Bessie Sells...

Nelda Miriam Settlemoir (05/26/04)
Nelda Miriam Settlemoir, 94, of Piggott died Tuesday, May 18, 2004, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was the wife of the late Frank Settlemoir. She was born Aug. 14, 1909, in Springerton, Ill., the daughter of the late Edmond "Ed" and Clara (Pifer) Johnson...

Wilma A. Roach (05/26/04)
Wilma A. Roach, 88, of Ann Arbor, Mich., died Monday, May 10, 2004, at her home after a short illness. She was born Dec. 12, 1915, in Pollard, the daughter of Arthur and Minnie Belle Bennett. She married Doyle Presley in 1934. He preceded her in death. She married Noel Roach in McDougal on Oct. 14, 1938...