Obituaries

Mary Etta Hardin (05/11/05)
Mary Etta Hardin, 87, a resident of Rector Healthcare, died Wednesday, April 27, 2005. Born Aug. 13, 1917, in Greenway to the late George and Cynthia (Williams) Sanders, she was a homemaker and a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Piggott. She was married June 2, 1934, to the late Jewell Butler and was married April 8, 1939, to the late Delmar Lee (Dude) Hardin. Both preceded her in death...

Wylie Gale Harmon (05/11/05)
Wylie Gale Harmon, 63, of Rector died Thursday, April 28, 2005, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Aug. 29, 1941, in Keeler, Mich., to the late Wiley Dude Harmon and Viola Hall Harmon and was married Oct. 11, 1963 in Kennett, Mo., to Alice Pauline Wake...

Clarice Watson Schultz (05/11/05)
Clarice Watson Schultz, 96, of St. Francis, died Monday, May 2, 2005, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was born May 24, 1908, in Camden, Tenn., the daughter of the late Granville Ura and Ura Lee Bomar Watson. She was united in marriage to Orville Schultz on Dec. 21, 1928. They had three children...

Dorothy Enolis Boyd Cosby (05/11/05)
Dorothy Enolis Boyd Cosby, 83, retired school teacher and resident of Union Place Court in Columbia, Tenn., died Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at Maury Regional Hospital. A native of Paragould, she was the daughter of the late J.O. Boyd and Stella Brown Boyd O'Hara. ...

Aynne Marie Kimbrell (05/11/05)
Aynne Marie Kimbrell, 73, a former secretary with the FBI, died April 8, 2005, in the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. She was born in Jackson on May 10, 1931, the daughter of the late J.W. and Aynne Walker Daniel. She was a graduate of Sumner High School where she was a long-time associate of "The Crowd." As a secretary she was formerly associated with the FBI and Colonial Saving and Loan...

Janice J. Byrd (05/11/05)
Janice J. Byrd (nee White), 64, of Waterloo, Ill., formerly of Clay County, died Saturday, April 23, 2005, in Waterloo. She was born March 27, 1941, in Tuckermann, Ark., the daughter of the late Bernard and Tressie White (nee Tharp). She grew up in Clay County and attended the Piggott and Pollard schools until 1957, which was when she married and moved to Illinois...

Juanita Roslee Davidson (05/11/05)
Juanita Roslee Davidson, 75, of Brookland, died Wednesday, May 4, 2005, in St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Feb. 27, 1930, in Piggott, the daughter of the late William Elmo Day and Belle Dickerson Day. She was united in marriage to Thomas Davidson on Dec. 21, 1946, in Piggott. They had three children. Mr. Davidson preceded her in death on March 12, 1997...

Leborn Estes (05/18/05)
Leborn Estes, 76, of Piggott died Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at his residence. He was born June 15, 1928, in Brilliant, Ala., the son of the late John and Cannie Haney Estes. He was united in marriage to Sarah Mae Bratcher on Sept. 18, 1948. They had four children...

Bobby Joyce Campbell (05/18/05)
Bobby Joyce Campbell, 78, of Piggott died Saturday, May 15, 2005, in the St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born April 7, 1927, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Robert "Bob" E. and Muriel J. McLeskey Cox. She was united in marriage to James Delaine Campbell on August 13, 1944. They had two daughters...

Marie Haywood Elder (05/18/05)
Marie Haywood Elder, 89, of Jonesboro died Monday, May 16, 2005, in the General Baptist Nursing Home at Campbell. She was born on Dec. 31, 1915, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Louis (Sam) and Susan Bradford Haywood. She was united in marriage to Vilas H. Elder on Feb. 4, 1935. They had three children...

Darrell Delaine Davis (05/18/05)
Darrell Delaine Davis, 71, died April 14, 2005, in Glendale, Ariz. He retired from Allied Signal in 1991. He was a licensed motor mechanic and an Army Veteran. He was preceded in death by his parents, Floye Davis and Elisha Earl Davis. He is survived by his wife, Ginny; his brother, Gaylon Davis and wife, Betty, of Patterson, Mo.; his sister, Emma Thompson and husband, Danny, of Poplar Bluff. ...

Lily Marcella Hardin (05/18/05)
Lily Marcella Hardin, 88, of Qulin, died Friday, May 13, 2005, at her residence. Mrs. Hardin was born Nov. 8, 1916, in Piggott. She was a homemaker and a member of the Qulin Church of Christ. On Dec. 1, 1937, she married Charles J. Hardin in Detroit, Mich. He preceded her in death on April 21, 1968...

Imogene Ort (05/18/05)
Imogene Ort, 83, of St. Francis died Thursday, May 12, 2005, at her home. She was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Owen Ray Stewart and Mary Cox Stewart; and four brothers, Howard, Marion, Eugene and Delaine Stewart...

Betty Sue (Parker) Sharp (05/26/05)
Betty Sue (Parker) Sharp, 67, of Toledo, Ohio, died Saturday, Feb. 27, 2005, in her home surrounded by her loving family. She was born Aug. 19, 1937, in Portageville, Mo., the daughter of Willis Parker and Joy Sherfield. She worked for Swanton Ohio Health Care and retired in May of 2004 after a courageous battle with cancer. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her...

Luther Hensley (05/26/05)
Luther Hensley, 80, of Memphis died Monday, May 16, 2005, in the St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. He was born March 31, 1925, in Nimmons, the son of the late Drew and Lilly Frances Goodman Hensley. He was united in marriaage to Jewell Crews on Jan. 26, 1943. They had four children...

Alma Gross (05/26/05)
Alma Gross, 80, of Pollard, died Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was born April 4, 1925, in Pollard, the daughter of the late Thomas Clay and Nancy Baker Permenter. She married Fred Gross on March 20, 1945. They had one son...

Donald Jay Elliott (05/26/05)
Donald Jay Elliott, 69, of Ocean Springs, Miss., died Sunday, April 24, 2005, in Biloxi, Miss. He was born Aug. 19, 1935, in Boydsville, the son of Thelma Wilson Elliott Banks and the late Virgil Elliott and grandson of the late Alva and Rosetta Hall Wilson...

Dot Dees Cribbs (05/26/05)
Dot Dees Cribbs, 71, of St. Louis died Monday, May 16, 2005, in the Town and Country Healthcare in St. Louis. She was the daughter of Lloyd and Zelma Pearl Cullum Dees. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse L. Cribbs; and her father, Lloyd Dees...