Obituaries

Kirby & Family Obituaries

Viola Sahlin

Viola Sahlin

Mar 8, 2007

Viola passed away March 8th, 2007 at Care Manor in Mountain Home under Hospice care at the age of 95. She was born August 8th, 1911 at Merrill, Wisconsin to Theodore and Martha Zahn Weber. She married Lynn Sahlin on November 11, 1939 in Merrill, Wisconsin. She was the secretary for the original Church Mutual Insurance Company in Merrill, Wisconsin...

Donald Wyborny

Donald Wyborny

Mar 8, 2007

Donald Ray Wyborny was born March 28, 1918 to Edward and Lulu Witham Wyborny at Mason City, Iowa. On July 16, 1941 he married Lucile Nelson at Plymouth, Iowa. He farmed, operated an implement shop and the last fifteen years before retirement was service manager and pilot for Hagie Manufacturing of Clarion, Iowa. He was an avid fisherman and gardener....

Phyllis Hamrick

Phyllis Hamrick

Mar 8, 2007

Phyllis Pearson Hamrick, 96, a long-time resident of the Kanawha Valley, W.Va. died on March 8, 2007 in Mountain Home, Arkansas, where she resided since 2001. Mrs. Hamrick was the youngest daughter of the late Effie Morris Pearson and Creed Judson Pearson, a prominent real estate developer and banker in St. Albans, W.Va. during the early part of the last...

Tony Parashis

Tony Parashis

Mar 6, 2007

Anthony "Tony" Parashis was born June 28, 1932, at Chicago, IL, to Daniel and Rose Smith Parashis. He married Karen J. Fikar on January 8, 1990 in Las Vegas, NV. He was a Fork Lift Operator for Dominicks Foods for over 23 years. He was an Army veteran who served during the Korean War as a private 1st class Medic...

Carl Lueker

Carl Lueker

Mar 5, 2007

Reverend Carl Lueker was born December 25, 1920 at Dover, Arkansas to Charlie and Louise Harms Lueker. He married Minnie Gerdes on July 28th, 1946 at Lafe. He was a retired Lutheran Pastor being a graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary of Springfield, Illinois in 1946. He served his vicarage at St. John's Lutheran church in Chicago, Illinois. During his ministry...

Florence Vaughn

Florence Vaughn

Mar 3, 2007

Florence F. Vaughn of Mountain Home died Saturday, March 3, 2007 at Hospice of the Ozarks Hospice House. She was 89. Funeral: Private

Robert Childress

Robert Childress

Mar 2, 2007

Robert Eugene "Geno" Childress was born October 21, 1955 at Clarksville, Mississippi to Harry R. and Laverne Tibbs Childress. He married Vickie Williams on August 17, 1979 at Cleveland, Mississippi. He Graduated from Delta State University in 1979 with a BS degree in Criminal Justice and received an Associate degree in nursing in 2004 from MDCC. He worked as an...

Frank Hahaj

Frank Hahaj

Mar 1, 2007

Mr. Hahaj died Thursday March 1, 2007 at Pine Lane Healthcare. He was 88. Frank Hahaj was born October 9, 1918 at Gary, Indiana to Walter and Mary Kania Hahaj. He married Lillian Bruness in October of 1941 in Chicago, IL. He was a carpenter for most of his career. Mr. Hahaj was a Navy veteran of WWII. He lived...

Frank Hahaj

Frank Hahaj

Mar 1, 2007

Frank Hahaj was born on October 9, 1918 at Gary, Indiana to Walter and Mary Kania Hahaj. He married Lillian Bruness in October of 1914 in Chicago, IL. He was a carpenter for most of his career. Mr. Hahaj was a Navy veteran of WWII. He lived in Chicago, IL before moving to Mountain Home in 1976. He was a...

Betty Anderson

Betty Anderson

Mar 1, 2007

Betty Anderson died March 1, 2007 at Pine Lane Health Care in Mountain Home at the age of 88. She was born May 8th, 1918 to Darrell and Lena Shankland Morse in Floyd, Iowa. She worked as a secretary in banking. She had lived in Mountain Home for 35 years, moving from Iowa. Survivors: Husband, Andy Anderson of Mountain Home...

Frank Hahaj

Frank Hahaj

Mar 1, 2007

Frank Hahaj was born on October 9, 1918 at Gary, Indiana to Walter and Mary Kania Hahaj. He married Lillian Bruness in October of 1914 in Chicago, IL. He was a carpenter for most of his career. Mr. Hahaj was a Navy veteran of WWII. He lived in Chicago, IL before moving to Mountain Home in 1976. He was a...

Frank Stetler

Frank Stetler

Feb 28, 2007

Frank Osborn Stetler was born October 8, 1917 at Chicago, Illinois to Jack and Mayme Heller Dougherty. He married Virginia Blommaert on August 31, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a Research and Development Engineer in Food Processing with Union Carbide. Frank was a U.S. Army WW II veteran. Mr. Stetler lived in Bull Shoals for 25 years, moving from...

Phillip Gadberry

Phillip Gadberry

Feb 26, 2007

Phillip Gadberry was born August 12, 1958, at Osceola, AR to Raymond and Pat Dorris Gadberry. He married Donna Penner on November 16, 1980 at Greers Ferry, AR. He was a painter. Mr. Gadberry was an Air Force veteran. He lived in Edgemont, AR before moving to Gassville in January of 2003. Survivors: Phillip Gadberry is survived by his wife,...

Robert Nebe

Robert Nebe

Feb 25, 2007

Robert John Nebe, Sr. was born March 20, 1928 at Chicago, Illinois to Reinhold and Regina Gent Nebe. He married Audrey Rosenow on June 5th, 1948 at Chicago. He owned El Sombrero restaurant in Mountain Home for 21 years and was a Navy veteran of WW II. Mr. Nebe lived in Mountain Home for 32 years, moving from Chicago. He...

Elizabeth Newell

Elizabeth Newell

Feb 23, 2007

Elizabeth B. Newell, 93, of Mountain Home, Arkansas was born November 15, 1913 in Laporte, Indiana to Claude H. and Helen Stratton Bowlby. She was a graduate of South Side High School and volunteered many years and managed the Gift Shop at Parkview Memorial Hospital in Ft. Wayne. She also volunteered at Baxter Regional Memorial Hospital in Mountain Home, Arkansas....

Charles Wedge

Charles Wedge

Feb 23, 2007

Charles A. "Chuck" Wedge was born March 29, 1923 at Lake Villa, Illinois to Clarence and Jessie McClelland Wedge. He married Lowayne A. Henningfield on June 18, 1949 at Racine, Wisconsin and worked as a Refrigeration Engineer for Ames Refrigeration and the Condell Hospital. He was a U.S. Army WWII veteran, a member of the Ozark VFW Post 3246 and...

Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson

Feb 21, 2007

Carol Jean Anderson, 68, of Flippin, died Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at Baxter Regional Medical Center. She was born September 14, 1938 to Clinton and Angeline Duran Kelly in Cleveland, Ohio. She married Art Anderson November 19th, 1964 in Las Vagas, Nevada. Carol was a homemaker and lived in the Mountain Home area for 14 years, moving from Grand Terrace,...

Orville Hamilton

Orville Hamilton

Feb 21, 2007

Orville L. Hamilton was born January 15, 1925 at Altoona, Pennsylvania the son of Jack and Lillian Hamilton. He married Margaret Anstead at Cresson, Pennsylvania on February 5, 1948 and had resided in the Cave City area since moving from Mountain Home in 2005. He moved to Mountain Home from Buffalo Grove, Illinois.. He served with the US Army during...

Alida Battjes

Alida Battjes

Feb 20, 2007

Alida Battjes was born November 20, 1924 at Sonoma, California to Pieter and Marije VanRyn deJonge. She married Nicholas Battjes on August 27, 1946 at Sonoma and they moved to Mountain Home in March 1979 from Arcadia, California. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, AARP, United Methodist Women and sang in the Choir at the church.Alida...

Arnold Maki

Arnold Maki

Feb 19, 2007

Arnold Maki was born October 26, 1914, at Wakefield, Michigan, to Victor and Louise Latthe Maki. He married Laila Lonnberg on October 25, 1952 at Waukegan, IL. He was a painter most of his career for the civil service. Mr. Maki was an Army veteran of WWII. He lived in Lake Villa, IL before moving to Mountain Home in July...