Obituaries

Lorenia Mae Cato (06/07/06)
Lorenia Mae Cato, 85, of Qulin died on Wednesday, May 31, 2006, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. She was born on May 26, 1921, in Qulin, the daughter of the late Alonzo Thomas Fonville Jr. and Rhoda Mae Jordan Fonville. She was united in marriage to William Arthur Cato Sr. on May 14, 1939, in Qulin. He preceded her in death on July 28, 1989...

Emma Katherine Book (06/07/06)
Emma Katherine Book, formerly of Piggott, died Sunday, June 4, 2006, in Lake Orion, Mich. She was born Sept. 2, 1922, in Vincennes, Ind., to the late Fred and Althea Chambers. She was united in marriage to Amos Book on Jan. 15, 1945. He preceded her in death on Jan. 13, 1990...

Anna Janie King (06/07/06)
Anna Janie King, 75, of Sugar Grove, Ill., died Thursday, May 25, 2006, at Provena Mercy Center in Aurora, Ill. She was born Dec. 11, 1930, in Smithville, the third child of the late Thomas O. and Thelma J. Flowers Coyle. She graduated from high school at Hardy and went on to attend Southern Baptist College at Walnut Ridge...

Ewell Edgar Baker (06/14/06)
Ewell Edgar Baker, 83, of Piggott died Sunday, June 4, 2006, in the Piggott Community Hospital. He was born on Oct. 16, 1922, in Lawrence County, the son of the late Oscar and Alberta Herring Baker. He was united in marriage to Lois Rowland on June 17, 1940. They had four sons...

Raymond Chadwell (06/14/06)
Raymond Chadwell, 76, of Piggott died Sunday, June 11, 2006, in the Piggott Community Hospital. He was born March 11, 1930, in Flint, Mich., the son of the late Raymond and Mildred Lane Chadwell. He was united in marriage to Claudine Rimmer in 1948 and they had five children. She preceded him in death in 2003. He was then united in marriage to Marie Roark on May 14, 2005...

Olive Piland (06/14/06)
Olive Piland, 94, of Piggott died June 10, 2006, in the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born July 31, 1911, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Samuel and Isadora Ellis Haley. She was united in marriage to Boman Ralph Piland on Dec. 25, 1932. They had two children...

James Harold Lankford (06/14/06)
James Harold Lankford, age 65, of Searcy, a native of Rector, died Saturday, June 3, 2006. He was born Nov. 13, 1940, in Rector to James Howard and Ivalene Vangilder Lankford. He was retired from the United States Navy. He was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, Glenda Faye Sullivan, and one niece, Kristi Sullivan Small...

Jonothan Christopher Ray Baker (06/21/06)
Jonothan Christopher Ray Baker, 25, of Pollard, died Friday, June 16, 2006. He was born Sept. 25, 1980, in Poplar Bluff, the son of Melvin Leon Baker and Pamela Kay Vinson Baker of Pollard. He attended the United Voice of Zion Church in Malden. He was preceded in death by one sister, Angela Vinson; and his paternal grandparents, Melvin and Florendia Baker...

Flora E. Milde (06/21/06)
Flora E. Milde, 92, of Piggott died Saturday, June 17, 2006, at Murphy Health and Rehabilitation Center in Piggott. She was born March 14, 1914, in Anniston, Mo., and was the daughter of the late William B. and Mary Aliphant Jones. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one granddaughter, Patricia Presson; two sons-in-law, David Presson and Dallas Hatcher; and three sisters and one brother...

Eva Norene Braden (06/21/06)
Eva Norene Braden, 81, of Pollard died Saturday, June 17, 2006, at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born April 21, 1925, in Pollard, the daughter of the late John Henry and Florence Crocker Brawner. She was united in marriage to Nolan Braden on May 2, 1942. They had three children...

Marvin Owen (06/28/06)
Marvin Owen, 72, of Piggott died Thursday, June 8, 2006, in the Piggott Community Hospital. He was born June 13, 1933, in Nimmons, the son of the late Vessie and Mary Williams Owen. He was united in marriage to Betty Sue Evans on June 29, 1951. They had three children...

Nelldean Akers (06/28/06)
Nelldean Akers, 81, of Piggott, died Friday, June 23, 2006, at her home in Piggott. She was born Dec. 21, 1924, in Datto, the daughter of the late Randall and Ora Henderson Smith. She was united in marriage to Pleas "P.H." Henderson Akers on Nov. 1, 1941, in Kennett. He preceded her in death on April 5, 2004...

Jimmie Harold White (06/28/06)
Jimmie Harold White, 68, of Piggott died Thursday, June 22, 2006, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Dec. 25, 1937, in Pulaski, Tenn., the son of the late Millard Boyd and Ovie Mae (Dugger) White. He was united in marriage to Nellie Weller on Dec. 25, 1981...

Rebecca Lorene (Haywood) Staples (06/28/06)
Rebecca Lorene (Haywood) Staples, 81, of Piggott died Friday, June 23, 2006, at the Med Center in Memphis. She was born April 9, 1925, the daughter of the late Herbert and Neatie (Edwards) Haywood. She was united in marriage to Wayne Staples on Dec. 26, 1945. They had three children...

Helen Webster (06/28/06)
Helen Webster, 90, of Piggott died Saturday, June 24, 2006, at the NEA Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born Aug. 23, 1915, in Piggott, the daughter of the late Poley Dow and Daisy Francis (Moore) Simpson. She was united in marriage to Silas Webster on Oct. 14, 1933. He preceded her in death in 1985. They had four children...

Lorene Eloise Baker (06/28/06)
Lorene Eloise Baker, 85, formerly of Pollard, died Tuesday, June 20, 2006, at the Yalobusha County Nursing Home in Water Valley, Miss. She was a homemaker and a member of the First United Pentecostal Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Homer William Baker; parents, Charlie and Lula (Richardson) Ellis; one son, Gary Baker; two sisters, Thela Jane Stinett and Beatrice Thompson; and two brothers, Charlie Ellis and Bill Ellis...

Jimmie Robert Travillian (06/28/06)
Jimmie Robert Travillian, 77, of Rector died Saturday, June 24, 2006, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Born July 13, 1928, in Rector to the late Robert Newton Travillian and Lula (Edwards) Travillian, he was a service man and meter reader for the Clay County Rural Water Association. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and a member of Hitts Chapel General Baptist Church...

Joyce Lee Burr (06/28/06)
Joyce Lee Burr, 67, of Niles, Mich., formerly of Rector, died Thursday, June 22, 2006, in Memorial Hospital at South Bend, Ind. She was born June 23, 1938, in Paragould to the late Everett Highfill and Audie Walker and was married Dec. 22, 1984, to Jack Burr. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith...