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Leon Blankenburg
Oct 7, 2006
Funeral services for Leon DeWitt Blankenburg, 86, of Mountain Home will be at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 11 at the First Presbyterian Church with Dr. Bruce McClendon officiating. Military honors will be provided by the North Central Arkansas Veterans Council with honor guard by Ozark VFW Post #3246. Mr. Blankenburg died Saturday, October 7, 2006, at Hospice House. Visitation was...
Dorothy Everly
Oct 7, 2006
Dorothy Mae Everly was born April 26, 1924 at Cleveland, Oklahoma to Francis M. and Stella Oliphant Crosswhite. She married Elzie Everly on November 7, 1942 at East Prairie, Missouri. She moved to Gamaliel, Arkansas in 1975 from East Prairie and worked at the Baxter Manor Nursing Home as a dietitian. She attended the Gamaliel Baptist Church. Dorothy passed away...
Donnie Porter
Oct 5, 2006
A graveside memorial service for Donnie Kay Porter, 61, of Cotter, Arkansas, will be at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, October 12 at Egner Cemetery in Southside, Arkansas. Mrs. Porter died Thursday, October 5, 2006, at Hospice House in Mountain Home. A celebration of life memorial service will be held in Jonesboro at a later date. Donnie Kay Porter was born February...
Patricia Steger
Oct 5, 2006
Funeral services for Patricia J. Steger, 67, of Mountain Home will be at 10:00 A.M. Friday, October 6, 2006, at Redeemer Lutheran Church with Pastor Kenneth Taglauer officiating. Patricia Steger died Tuesday, October 3, 2006, at Care Manor Nursing Home. Visitation will be from 5:00-8:00 P.M. Thursday, October 5, 2006, at Kirby-Boaz Funeral Home Chapel. She was born December 24,...
Catherine Campbell
Oct 3, 2006
Catherine C. Campbell was born April 13, 1918, at Virginia, Minnesota, to Charles and Katherine Garretsen Claypool. She married Henry Campbell in Gadsden, Alabama, and was a homemaker. Mrs. Campbell lived in Alabama before moving to Henderson in 1993. She was of Episcopalian faith. Catherine Campbell entered into eternal rest on October 3, 2006, at Mountain Home, Arkansas, at the...
Annbert Salisbury
Oct 2, 2006
She was born February 26, 1919 at Aurora, Illinois to Jesse and Henry Thornton. She married Dale Salisbury on December 11, 1937 at Oswego, Illinois and worked as a bookkeeper. She was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church. Survivors: Anabert is survived by two daughters Diann Petschke and husband Dean of Cadiz, Kentucky and Sherry Johnson and husband Max...
Curtis Hibbard
Sep 29, 2006
Mr. Hibbard was born August 19, 1924, at Mt. Holly, AR, the son of Joseph and Rebecca Chastain Hibbard. He married Mary L. Cerini on January 26, 1946 at Rose Hill, Minnesota. Mr. Hibbard was a career military veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam who served in the Army and the Air Force. He retired to the Mountain Home area...
Raymond Embrey
Sep 28, 2006
Raymond B. Embrey was born January 26, 1930, in Plymouth, Wisconsin, to Bernice and Raymond Embrey. He lived for many years in Cary, Illinois (in the Chicago area), where he developed and ran his own insurance business. He retired from that business in 1982, turned to raising Charolais cattle and other livestock and developing a greenhouse business in Cary. While...
Ednamae Falmlen
Sep 26, 2006
Funeral services for Ednamae L. Falmlen of Mountain Home will be at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, September 30, 2006; at Kirby-Boaz Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Max Pyron officiating. Mrs. Falmlen died Tuesday, September 26, 2006; at Baxter Regional Medical Center. She was 85. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 P.M.; Friday, September 29, 2006; at Kirby-Boaz Funeral Home. Mrs....
Loanne Dorethy
Sep 25, 2006
Loanne Mary Dorethy was born December 4, 1931, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Norman and Alice O?Dean Bouchea. She was a professional real estate agent who worked for Colonial Realty most of her career. Mrs. Dorethy lived in Gassville, AR for 31 years moving from Mundelein, Illinois in 1975. She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary and the Moose...
Andy Anderson
Sep 24, 2006
Mr. Anderson died April 18th at Pine Lane Heathcare in Mountain Home at the age of 94. He was born September 24, 1912 at Rushford, Minnesota to Hans Jacob and Mary Benson Anderson. He married Marjorie Berry on September 12, 1935 in Mason City, Iowa. After her death on January 2, 1967 he married Betty Morse on October 19, 1968...
Claudia Pugmire
Sep 23, 2006
Claudia Ann Pugmire was born April 1, 1928 at West Frankfort, Illinois to Thomas and Bettie Neal Gilbraith. Claudia married Joseph Knea in July 1969 at Palm Springs, California. She worked as a waitress and loved to play pinochle and cribbage. She moved to the Mountain Home area in 1993 from Seattle, Washington and passed away on September 23, 2006...
Eleanor Goettsche
Sep 23, 2006
Eleanor Irene Goettsche was born October 27, 1910 at Chicago, Illinois to Carl E. and Ingrid Eck Westerlund. She was a Circuit Board Technician and read blueprints for Circuit Boards for the Mercoid Corporation for 25 years. She married Charles Lester Goettsche on August 22, 1936 at Chicago. She was a member of the Twin Lakes Church of the Nazarene....
Larry Davidson
Sep 22, 2006
Larry Don Davidson was born on March 29, 1933 at Beulah North Dakota to Steve and Rena Cone Davidson. He married Ellen Morris on June 23, 1962 in Hyattsville, Maryland and worked as a Security Programmer for Allstate Insurance Company. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of the Korean War and spent 39 years of duty in the Army Reserves....
Sylvia Glenn
Sep 22, 2006
Sylvia Jane Glenn was born March 19, 1945 at Valley Falls, Kansas to James Alfred and Sophia Ann Best Evans. She graduated from the Washburn University in Topeka Kansas with a Masters Degree in Nursing and BA degree in Journalism. She married Calvin Glenn on February 17, 1987 at Topeka. They moved to Mountain Home on May 31, 2000 from...
Harold Leibinger
Sep 22, 2006
Harold G. Leibinger was born May 4, 1919 at Chicago, Illinois to Gustav and Mary Schwedler Leibinger. He married Dorothy Eismueller on May 31, 1941 in Chicago and worked as a Sheet Metal Contractor. He was a WWII U.S. Navy veteran and a member of the Hovel-Barnett VFW, Lakeview Community Club and Christ by the Lake Lutheran Church. Harold loved...
Mark Minnie
Sep 21, 2006
Mark O. Minnie was born on March 21, 1925 to Austin and Clara Stone Minnie at DeKalb, Illinois. He married Dorothy Kolle on July 24, 1982 at Linn, Kansas. He worked as an extruder operator for RTP Plastics Manufacturing. Mark was a U.S. Army Veteran of World War II and a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church. He enjoyed fixing...
Gary Kruchten
Sep 21, 2006
Gary J. Kruchten was born April 9, 1953 at Chicago, Illinois, to Leslie and Eileen Tracey Kruchten. He worked for a carpet company and loved to listen to the Blues and collect music. He was a Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a tanker with the Americal Division. He was a member of the American Legion and the Vietnam...
Keith Palmer
Sep 20, 2006
Funeral services for Keith E. Palmer Sr., 63, of Gassville will be at 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 25 at Kirby-Boaz Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Nancy Palmer officiating. Mr. Palmer died Wednesday, September 20, 2006, at Baxter Regional Medical Center. Keith E. Palmer Sr. was born August 30, 1943, at Almyra, New York, to John and Vielda Spencer Palmer. He...
Melanio Perez
Sep 19, 2006
Melanio C. Perez was born January 8, 1930 in Puerto Rico to Nicolas and Pilar Caamano Perez. He moved to Mountain Home in Feb. 1994 from Northlake, Illinois. Mel worked as a school custodian for the Cotter School system. Mel Married Darlene Larsen August 26, 1996 at Cotter. He was a U.S. Army Korean War Veteran and a Catholic. Mel...
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