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Helen Drabczyk
Jul 30, 2005
Helen Laverne Drabczyk was born February 15, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Sylvester and Leona Nowakowski Kantorski. She married Richard J. Drabczyk on April 15, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Drabczyk was employed as a mail clerk with the United States Postal Service. Richard and Helen Drabczyk moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1972. She was...
Bernard Lewis
Jul 29, 2005
Bernard J. Lewis was born July 31, 1923, in Atwood, Kansas. He was the son of Albert and Carrie Jackson Lewis. He married Carol Ross on August 7, 1955 in Los Angeles, California. He was a structural ironworker for the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers, and a member of the Local 433 Union for fifty-three years. Mr....
Edith Hargleroad
Jul 27, 2005
Edith M. Hargleroad was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 10, 1909. She was the daughter of Franklin Leslie and Nellie Elizabeth Stiles Lang. She married James C. Hargleroad on Dec. 28, 1946 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Edith was a homemaker and enjoyed ceramics and sewing. She was also an avid gardener, which can be attested to by the...
Paul Sivitskis
Jul 27, 2005
Paul A. Sivitskis was born March 6, 1940 in Joliet, Illinois. He was the son of Paul P. and Edna Kabellis Sivitskis. He married Carol Ausec on September 12, 1964 in Joliet, Illinois. Mr. Sivitskis was a United States Air Force veteran. He was employed as a postal worker. Paul A. Sivitskis passed away on July 27, 2005, in Mountain...
Dale Finstrom
Jul 26, 2005
Dale Patrick Finstrom was born October 1, 1937 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the son of Earl and Bertha Tabor Finstrom. He married Nancy Flood on December 26, 1968 in Chicago. He was a detective for the Chicago Police Department. After retiring he moved to Bull Shoals, Arkansas in 1993 from Chicago. He was a United States Army veteran and...
Kenneth Heroux
Jul 26, 2005
Kenneth T. Heroux was born October 24, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Albert and Tony Dellefsen Heroux. He married Dolores Thielen on November 24, 1962 in Des Plaines, Illinois. He was a retired manager in the industrial sales industry, and a United States Navy World War II veteran. He and his wife lived in Naperville, Illinois...
Merle Brown
Jul 26, 2005
Merle Lee Brown was born September 16, 1924 in Birch Tree, Missouri. He was the son of Elzy J. and Della Dean Brown. He married Gentry Floyd on August 19, 1946 in Reno, Nevada. He was a self-employed miner. Merle and his wife, Gentry, lived in Burney, California prior to moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 2003. He was a...
Lorraine Dickey
Jul 23, 2005
Lorraine B. Dickey, Age 87, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, formerly of Hazard, Kentucky, Panama City, Florida and Belvidere, Illinois, died Saturday, July 23, 2005 in Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home after a brief illness. Lorraine was born March 23, 1918 in Scarbro, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Samuel D. and Edith (Taylor) Settle. Lorraine was a...
Pearl Hellberg
Jul 19, 2005
Pearl Frances Hellberg was born July 8, 1918 in Joliet, Illinois. She was the daughter of David K. and Antionette M. Miscklewitz Johnson. She married George A. Hellberg on June 29, 1941 in Joliet, Illinois. Mrs. Hellberg was employed as a waitress. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Coal City, Illinois in October, 2000. She was a member of...
Marcel DeFyn
Jul 18, 2005
Marcel Joseph DeFyn was born October 11, 1928 in Centerville, Iowa. He was the son of Marcel and Sophie Dudek DeFyn. He married Virginia Witek in Chicago, Illinois in 1962. He was employed in the distribution center of the telephone company. Mr. DeFyn resided in Mountain Home, Arkansas for nearly twenty years, after moving from the Chicago area. He was...
Harold Schiefelbein
Jul 18, 2005
Harold Edward Schiefelbein was born November 2, 1928 in Champaign, Illinois. He was the son of Harold R. and Lily Schwartz Schiefelbein. He married Lois Schultz on September 4, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Schiefelbein was a United States Army veteran. He served during the Korean War. He was employed in Special Services with Wisconsin Bell Telephone Company. He moved...
John Gresham
Jul 15, 2005
John Fred Gresham was born February 28, 1916 in Bernice, Louisiana. He was the son of John R. and Fannie O'Bannon Gresham. He married Doris Stephens on October 4, 1939 in Smackover, Arkansas. He was an ARKLA Gas manager for forty-seven years and a United States Navy veteran. He was a member of the ARKLA Retirees, Silver Haired Legislature, VFW...
Irene Evers
Jul 15, 2005
Irene Eleanor Evers was born October 19, 1909 in Kewaunee, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Thomas W. and Emma Johnson Nelson. She married Emil J. Evers on August 19, 1950 in Harvard, Illinois. She was employed as a bookkeeper with Hummel-Dowing Milk in Wisconsin. She moved to Lakeview, Arkansas from Harvard, Illinois in 1975. She was a member of...
Robert Lapp
Jul 15, 2005
Robert Edgar Lapp was born January 30, 1923 in Springer, New Mexico. He was the son of John Isaac and Lillian Lapp. He married Leota Williamette Stark on April 16, 1947 in Gloreata, New Mexico. He retired as Senior Chief in 1963, after twenty-one years in the Navy. He then worked for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, retiring in 1988...
Charles McDonald
Jul 14, 2005
Charles L. McDonald was born February 21, 1921 in Howard City, Michigan. He was the son of Warner and Carrie Bogardus McDonald. He served with the United States Army during World War II. He married Maxine J. Plath in Coral, Michigan on December 21, 1946. They made their home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Upon his retirement from Kelvinator Corp in...
Mary Giamanco
Jul 14, 2005
Mary Margaret Giamanco was born February 20, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John and Mary Theresa Sullivan Burns II. She married Ignacio Giamanco in New Hampshire. She was a housewife and a United States Navy veteran of World War II. She lived in Daytona Beach, Florida prior to moving to Bull Shoals, Arkansas in 2004. Mary...
Jean McCune
Jul 11, 2005
Jean sloan McCune was born February 14, 1926 in East Liverpool, Ohio. She was the daughter of Okey and Sara Picken Smith. She married harold L. McCune on May 31, 1954 in Numa, California. She was of the Methodist faith. Jean Sloan McCune passed away at her residence on July 11, 2005, at the age of 79 years, 4 months...
Bonnie Swain
Jul 11, 2005
Bonnie N. Swain was born October 8, 1933 in Joplin, Missouri. She was the daughter of Herman R. and Rhoda M. Jackman Hutto. She married Samuel Swain on February 5, 1950 in Bentonville, Arkansas. She was employed as an office manager in the medical field. Mrs. Swain moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1993. She enjoyed skiing,...
Robert Nave
Jul 10, 2005
Robert Louis Nave was born July 18, 1925 in Springfield, Ohio. He was the son of Louis A. and Avis Strecther Nave. He was a retired truck guard, employed with Brink's Incorporated for twenty-five years. Mr. Nave was a United States Navy veteran and lived in Chicago, Illinois prior to moving to Cotter, Arkansas in 1990. He enjoyed square dancing...
Joseph Beasley
Jul 9, 2005
Joseph G. Beasley was born July 4, 1924 in Gary, Indiana. He was the son of Joseph Reed and Ida Mae Moore Beasley. He was a retired ironworker and a United States Navy World War II Veteran. He lived in Hobart, Indiana prior to moving to Gassville, Arkansas in 1978. He enjoyed singing and playing music, fishing, directing the church...
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