Obituaries

Dencial E. Crews (08/05/04)
Dencial E. Crews, 71, of Piggott, died Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at his home. He was born Dec. 2, 1932, in Boydsville, the son of the late Virgil and Flossie McElyea Crews. He married Norma Harrell on Nov. 9, 1951, and they had three children. He was preceded in death by one sister, Sue Staggs...

Joey Fry (08/05/04)
Joey Fry, 39, of Piggott died Wednesday, July 28, 2004, in Little Rock. He was born Nov. 14, 1964, in Piggott, the son of James Dallas and Genetta Parks Fry. He is survived by one son, Chad Allen Fry of Hardy, Ark.; his mother, Genetta Fry of Piggott; his father, James Dallas Fry and wife, Sharon, of Campbell; three brothers, Benny Fry and wife, Susan, Lynn Fry and wife, Pam, and Todd Fry, all of Piggott; and many other relatives and friends...

Zora M. Watson (08/05/04)
Zora M. Watson, 95, of Piggott died Saturday, July 31, 2004, in the Westwood Hills Health Care in Poplar Bluff. She was born Sept. 26, 1908, in Pollard, the daughter of the late Lenzey Vard and Lula Belle Johnson Underwood. She was united in marriage to Loy Roosevelt Watson on Dec. 24, 1924, and they had three children...

Stephen Douglas Pollock (08/12/04)
Stephen Douglas Pollock, 57, died June 15 after an 18-month struggle with cancer. He was the grandson of the late James W. and Sylvania Throgmarton and the late Thomas Kyle and Ardelia Mayo Pollock, who will be remembered by older Piggott residents...

Eugene M. "Bud" French (08/18/04)
Eugene M. "Bud" French, 80, of Pollard died Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2004, in the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. He was born April 15, 1924, in Piggott, the son of the late Barney and Arabell Doty French. He was united in marriage to Charlene Palmer on Jan. 14, 1950. They had four children...

James Clifford Glidewell (08/18/04)
James Clifford Glidewell, 76, of Caraway, died Tuesday morning, Aug. 10, 2004, at his home. He was born in St. Francis and lived most of his adult life in Caraway. He was a retired depot agent with Cotton Belt Railroad, a member of the Eastern Star Masonic Lodge 207 in St. Francis and a member of the First Baptist Church in Caraway, where he served as a deacon and Sunday school teacher...

Emogene Simpson Irby (08/18/04)
Emogene Simpson Irby, 91, of Piggott died Aug. 15, 2004, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a faithful and loyal member of the South Thornton Church of Christ. She was happiest spending time with her family and attending her church. Her hobbies included sewing, cooking, playing golf and traveling. She worked with her husband through many successful business ventures...

Jackie Eldon Stahl (08/18/04)
Jackie Eldon Stahl, age 64, of Mulkeytown, Ill. died Aug. 12, 2004, at Heartland Regional Medical Center, Marion, Ill. Mr. Stahl was born Oct. 1, 1939, to the late Eldon and Opal (Neeley) Stahl. He was preceded in death by his parents, Eldon and Opal Stahl; one brother; Bob Stahl; and one grandson, Terry Lynn Roth...

William Paul Foulk (08/25/04)
William Paul Foulk, 82, of Piggott died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Sept. 16, 1921, in Stanford, Ark., the son of William Judson Foulk and Myrtle Elizabeth Hutchins Foulk. Foulk was a life-long farmer and until his death also owned and operated Foulk's Two-Way Radio Supply...

Wallace B. Lewallen (08/25/04)
Wallace B. Lewallen, 76, of Corning died Aug. 19, 2004, at the Med Center in Memphis. He was born Sept. 24, 1927, in Alicia, Ark., the son of Bill and Carrie Dobbs Lewallen. He was united in marriage to Freida Oneita Sauls on Sept. 3, 1947. Mr. Lewallen was of the Methodist faith and a member of a Masonic Lodge in Hoxie. He was a retired farmer...

Omer Meade (08/25/04)
Omer Meade, 86, of Piggott died Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004, at the Murphy Health Care in Piggott. He was born Jan. 5, 1916, in Piggott, the son of the late Robert and Annie Mae Lindley Meade. He was preceded in death by his wife, Myrtle Meade in 1993; one son Homer Meade Jr.; one sister; Dovie Crittenden; two brothers, Dewayne Meade and Lennis Meade...

Kenneth Howard Harmon (08/25/04)
Kenneth Howard Harmon, 72, of Melber, Ky., died Friday, Aug. 13, at his residence. He was a farmer, a member of New Concord Baptist Church, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and a lifetime member of Plymouth Rock Masonic Lodge No.47 in Michigan...