Obituaries

Royce Earl Midkiff (10/03/07)
Royce Earl Midkiff, 70, of Greenway, died Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell, Mo. Born July 11, 1937, in Rector to the late William Roy Midkiff and Johnnie Pearl Reynolds Midkiff, he was a mechanic, a member of Rector First General Baptist Church and a life-long member of the community...

Nettie Josephine Todd (10/03/07)
Nettie "Josie" Todd, 97, of the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell and formerly of Clarkton, died Sept. 16 at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born January 27, 1910 to the late Andrew and Minnie "Waller" Masterson and was preceded in death by her husband, Jim Todd and a granddaughter, Donna Kay Todd...

William Charles Miller (10/03/07)
Irby Funeral Home has reported arrangements are incomplete for services for William Charles Miller, 82, of Greenway. Mr. Miller died Sunday, Sept. 30th at the Piggott Community Hospital.

William Charles Miller (10/10/07)
William Charles Miller, 82, of Greenway died Sept. 30 at the Piggott Community Hospital. He was born July 6, 1925 in Detroit, Mich. the sons of the late John David and Julia "Gallus" Miller. He was a WWII veteran enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943, a retired Detroit mounted police officer, a retired bailiff for St. Petersburg, Fla. Court system, a member of the local VFW and was of the Catholic faith...

Everett Nixon (10/10/07)
Everett P. Nixon, 90, of Rector, died Wednesday, Oct. 3, at his home. He was a World War II veteran and was of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Walter and Minnie Lou "Landrum" Nixon, two brothers, Floyd and Roy Nixon and one sister, Zell Parrish Nixon...

Nettie Josephine Todd (10/10/07)
Nettie "Josie" Todd, 97, of the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell and formerly of Clarkton, died Sept. 16 at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born January 27, 1910 to the late Andrew and Minnie "Waller" Masterson and was preceded in death by her husband, Jim Todd and a granddaughter, Donna Kay Todd...

NEVA MAE LITTLE (10/17/07)
Neva Little, 89, of Rector died Sunday, Oct. 14, at Piggott Community Hospital. She was born Oct. 26, 1917, in the Leonard community. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wiley and Mary Ellis; her husbands, Lawrence Little and John Raney; one son, Gary Raney, and three daughters, JoAnn Raney, Nelda Raney...

William Charles Miller (10/17/07)
William Charles Miller, 82, of Greenway died Sept. 30 at the Piggott Community Hospital. He was born July 6, 1925 in Detroit, Mich. the sons of the late John David and Julia "Gallus" Miller. He was a WWII veteran enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943, a retired Detroit mounted police officer, a retired bailiff for St. Petersburg, Fla. Court system, a member of the local VFW and was of the Catholic faith...

Elton Lloyd Blake (10/24/07)
Elton Lloyd Blake, 70, of Greenbrier, died Thursday, Oct. 18. He was born Dec. 8, 1936, in Piggott to the late Ezra and Edna Blake. Blake, a retiree of the United States Post Office, was a member of the Greenbrier Church of Christ from 1972 to 2007, where he served as an elder. He was recently a member of the White Oak Church of Christ...

Mae Crews Glenn (10/24/07)
Mae Crews Glenn, 88, of Cleveland, Miss., died Friday, Oct. 19, at her home. She was born March 13, 1919, in Puxico, Mo., to the late John Elbert Crews and the late Bertha Lindsey Crews. She was married to the late Loyd M. Glenn on May 29, 1937, in Manila. She was a faithful member of the Cleveland Church of Christ...

Evelyn Kilbreth (10/31/07)
Evelyn "Rooster" Kilbreth, 77, of McDougal, died Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. She was born July 8, 1930, in Clay County to the late George Simmons Bradshaw and Lillie (Taylor) Bradshaw and was of the Baptist faith. She was married March 9, 1946, to Wayne Kilbreth, who survives. She also was preceded in death by a son, Thomas Franklin Kilbreth; one great-granddaughter, Randi Lynn Mooneyhan; four brothers, and one sister...

Ruth Jenkins (10/31/07)
Ruth M. Jenkins, 92, of Piggott, passed away Monday, October 29, 2007, at her home. She was born May 21, 1915, and was the daughter of the late Jessie Lee and Lilly Mae Rogers Neely. She was united in marriage to Newt Jenkins on Nov. 17, 1934, and to this union a daughter was born...

J.V. Rigdon (10/31/07)
J.V. Rigdon, 72, of McDougal, died Friday, October 26, 2007, at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis. He was born August 2, 1935, in Naylor, Missouri, and was the son of the late Jesse and Alice Campbell Rigdon. He was united in marriage to Janice Sue Robinson on Feb. 9, 1956, and to this union three children were born...