Obituaries from January 2010

Geraldine Mann (01/27/10)
Geraldine Mann, 82, of Piggott, passed away Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, at Murphy Health and Rehab in Piggott. She was born Aug. 1, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Thomas and Cordie (Evans) Davis...

Bernice Elaine Gordon (01/27/10)
Bernice Elaine Gordon, 81, passed after a long journey and has gone to be with her husband Charles E. Gordon and grandson Andrew Blake. She passed away at the Golden Age Manor in Stevensville, Mich., Saturday, January 16, 2010...

Anne Pendergraph (01/21/10)
Anne M. Pendergraph, 76, a resident of Piggott for two years, passed away Jan. 12, 2010, at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Maxwell and Florance Morton and was born July 29, 1933, in Jacksonville, N.C...

Aaron Earl Garis (01/21/10)
Aaron Earl Garis, 83, of Piggott, passed away Friday, January 15, 2010 at the St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born April 1, 1926 the son of the late John Franklin and Freddie May (Lincon) Garis...

Chester Clifford Risener (01/21/10)
Chester Clifford Risener, lovingly known as "Cliff", 97, of Piggott, passed away Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Cliff was born in Waveland, Ark., July 18, 1912, to Solomon Porter and Lula (Hood) Risener. He was preceded in death by his wife of 59 years, Mildred (Eubanks) Risener; his parents; two sisters, Erma Ralaford and Lula Frye; three brothers, Herman, Outher and Joe Risener; three children, Doris Jean, Barbara and Jimmy; three granddaughters, Laurie, Shawna and Kellye, along with a host of friends.. ...

Martha Ora Hosea (01/13/10)
Martha Ora Hosea, 85, of Pollard, passed away Monday, January 11, 2010, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. She was born June 7, 1924, at Carryville, Ark., the twin daughter of the late Clarence Oran and Pearl Cleadith (Washburn) Doty...

Harriett Howard (01/13/10)
Harriett Emaline Howard, 86, of Piggott died Wednesday, January 6, 2010, at Evergreen Health and Rehab in Rector. Harriett was born in Piggott, November 23, 1923, the daughter of the late Edgar Williams, Sr., and Susan Matilda (Adams) Williams. ...

Emma Bell Howard (01/13/10)
Emma Bell Howard, 91, of the Murphy Health and Rehab in Piggott died January 9, 2010, at NEA Baptist Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Marmaduke Dec. 5, 1918, to the late Lebron Franklin and Lillian Frances (Thompson) Keller...

Dorothy Murray (01/07/10)
Dorothy Murray, 66, of Piggott, passed away Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009, at the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born July 2, 1943, in Hornersville, Mo., and was the daughter of the late Buster and Christine Poe. Dorothy was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church of Piggott...

Mary Agnes McLeskey (01/07/10)
Mary Agnes McLeskey, 84, of Piggott, passed away Friday, Jan. 1, 2010, in the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born Jan. 2, 1925, in St. Francis, and was the daughter of the late James Lowell and Barbara (Pittman) Russell...