Obituaries

Kirby & Family Obituaries

Wilma Dix

Wilma Dix

Feb 10, 2005

Wilma May Dix was born May 6, 1932 in Elvins, Missouri. She was the daughter of Everet E. and Grace F. Sebastian Logan. She married James Dix on October 4, 1950 in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Mrs. Dix worked in retail accounting. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in August of 2004 from Universal City, Texas and was a member of Twin...

Robert Knudson

Robert Knudson

Feb 9, 2005

Robert C. Knudson was born February 8, 1919 in Ellsworth, Iowa. He was the son of Rueben and Belle Dyrland Knudson. He married Marjorie Vigus in Mountain Home on September 14, 2000. He served with the US Army during World War II and was a former Underwriting Manager at the St. Paul Insurance Companies. He moved to the Mountain Home...

Edmund Pfeiffer

Edmund Pfeiffer

Feb 8, 2005

Edmund G. Pfeiffer was born September 18, 1910 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was the son of Gottlieb and Roselie Jingling Pfeiffer. He married Ruby Hewitt on October 10, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Pfeiffer was an engineer with the Chicago Fire Department. He loved to travel and moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1975 from Chicago Illinois. He was a...

George Nielsen

George Nielsen

Feb 8, 2005

George L. Nielsen was born September 20, 1919 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the son of George Arthur and Lydia Peterson Nielsen. He married Jean Lorraine Hedberg in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 22, 1940. He served with the US Navy during World War II and was a former Traffic Signal Specialist and General Foreman Electrician for the city of Minneapolis...

James Herron

James Herron

Feb 8, 2005

James Archie Herron was born December 18, 1926 in Blakesburg, Iowa. He was the son of Archie and Virga L. Harsfield Herron. He married Mary Frances Carter in Centerville, Iowa on March 13, 1944. He lived in the Gamaliel area since moving from Moravia, Iowa in 1973. He was former owner of Echo Point Resort, and sold real estate for...

Madisy Andrews

Madisy Andrews

Feb 8, 2005

Madisyn-Claire Andrews, beloved of her family, passed away on February 8, 2005. Survivors: Parents; Jeremy Andrews & Trisha Ables Andrews of Gassville, Arkansas; paternal grandmother, Etta Andrews of Mountain Home; maternal grandparents, Tim and Kathy Ables of Mountain Home; paternal great-grandmothers, Geneva Kenner of Mountain Home and Angie Spears of DeRitter, Louisiana; maternal great-grandparents, Lester and Carla Gaskill of Payson,...

Carl Foster

Carl Foster

Feb 8, 2005

Carl R. Foster was born on March 9, 1933 in Rockford, Illinois. He was the son of Glenn M. and Dorothy Smith Foster. He was employed twenty years in floor cleaning with Kelly Building Maintenance. Mr. Foster moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Rockford, Illinois. Carl R. Foster bassed away at Care manor Nursing Home in Mountain Home on February...

Clara Shipe

Clara Shipe

Feb 5, 2005

Clara Jean Shipe was born December 21, 1932 in Hammond, Indiana. She was the daughter of Emil and Louise Dockweiler Koehn. She married Howard Earl Shipe on October 17, 1953 in Lansing, Illinois. Mrs. Shipe was a homemaker. She moved from S. Holland, Illinois to Mountain Home, Arkansas in August 1990. Mrs. Shipe volunteered at Baxter Regional Medical Center in...

Estelle Allen

Estelle Allen

Feb 4, 2005

Estelle Taylor Allen was born January 15, 1921 in Grandview, Texas. She was the daughter of John C. and Arlie M. Farmer Taylor. She married Virgil Allen on August 6, 1938 in Levelland, Texas. She was a homemaker and co-owner with her husband of Allen Plumbing for 30 years. She moved to Arkansas in 1946 from Texas. She was a...

Etta Deitz

Etta Deitz

Feb 4, 2005

Etta Fredericka Deitz was born August 27, 1907 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was the daughter of John Washington and Mary Worzel Heuse. She married Herbert Deitz on July 15, 1925 in Huntsville, New Jersey. Mrs. Deitz was a seamstress, and active with the Beehive Hospital Auxillary in Newton, New Jersey. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1997 from...

Shirley Bodkin

Shirley Bodkin

Feb 3, 2005

Shirley Bodkin was born August 11, 1908 in Irasburg, Vermont. She was the daughter of George and Mary Locke. She married John Bodkin on April 14, 1934 in Evanston, Illinois. She resided in Evanston, Illinois until moving to Lakeview, Arkansas in 1974. Mrs. Bodkin was a homemaker who enjoyed reading and spending time with friends. She was also a member...

Henrietta Rutzen

Henrietta Rutzen

Feb 2, 2005

Henrietta Rutzen was born September 23, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Frank and Jozephine Wismierski Zimney. She married Theodore Rutzen in Mountain Home on June 11, 1993. Mrs. Rutzen resided in the Gassville area since moving from Dolton, Illinois in 1963. She worked at R R Donnelley Company for 10 years as a Paste Up and...

Sylvester Klish

Sylvester Klish

Jan 30, 2005

Sylvester Klish was born October 11, 1919 in Chicago Illinois, to Anthony and Katherine Biegun Klish. He married Iris Tibor March 9, 1940 in Iowa. Mr. Klish was a machinist, and a U.S. Army Veteran. While serving his country he received a Good Conduct Medal and The Purple Heart. Mr. Klish lived in Dixon, Illinois before moving to Bull Shoals...

Garry Sperry

Garry Sperry

Jan 29, 2005

Garry Sperry was born August 24, 1943, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Burgess N. and Ellinor M. Carroll Sperry. He married Margaret Warmath on August 29, 1981 in Mountain Grove, Missouri. Mr. Sperry was employed as a Fishing Guide for a professional guide service. He lived in Kansas City, Missouri before moving to Gamaliel in 1980. Mr. Sperry was a...

Haythen

Haythen

Jan 28, 2005

Haythen & Rylan Burch died at Baxter Regional Medical Center on Friday, January 28, 2005. Survivors: Parents Kevin and Samantha Cooper Burch of Mountain Home; paternal grandparents, Darren Burch of Salem and Anita Walde of Mountain Home; paternal great-grandparents, Loyd Burch of Pocahontas, Lorene Elliot of Mountain Home and Betty Hankins of Vilonia; maternal grandparents; James Cooper of Del Rio,...

Nancy Hickman

Nancy Hickman

Jan 28, 2005

Nancy Joanne Hickman was born November 20, 1956 in Urbana, Ohio. She was the daughter of Kenneth Sr. and Nancy Stevens Pack. She married Kenneth Hickman on November 9, 1985 in Larned, Kansas. Mrs. Hickman moved to Clarkridge, Arkansas from Branson, Missouri in October of 2004. She was employed as a waitress. She enjoyed crafts, fishing, and playing cards. She...

Frankie Bradshaw

Frankie Bradshaw

Jan 27, 2005

Frankie Marie Bradshaw was born January 1, 1914, in Dumas, Arkansas, to Carter F. and Mary J. Hamilton Hoover. She married Walter Bradshaw Sr. on November 28, 1937 at Dos Palos, California. Frankie was a homemaker and lived in Dos Palos, California before moving to Mountain Home in 1940. Frankie enjoyed reading, gardening, sewing and attending church. She was a...

William Murray

William Murray

Jan 27, 2005

William J. "Bill" Murray was born July 11, 1953 in Wichita, Kansas. He was the son of John D. and Eileen Leis Murray. He married Diana Long on June 25, 1986 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. This was also the year Mr. Murray moved to Mountain Home from Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Murray attended Gem City college and worked thirty years as...

Melonee Turley

Melonee Turley

Jan 26, 2005

Melonee Y. Turley was born March 22, 1927 in Lakeland, Florida to Tom and Hazel Droughty Warmack and was married to the late William Thomas Turley. Melonee Turley was a retired Executive Secretary for Walgreens, Inc., a member of the V.F.W. Auxiliary in Lady Lake, Florida and loved to play golf. She moved to Jordan, Arkansas from Oconee, Florida in...

Kenneth Kennedy

Kenneth Kennedy

Jan 25, 2005

Kenneth Kennedy was born May 10, 1922 at Thaxton, Mississippi to Gus and Lella Spears Kennedy. He married Bernice B. Buckowski on June 17, 1950 in Pacagoula, Mississippi. He was retired from the United States Air Force where he served as an Air Traffic Controller for 30 years. He was also a member of the First United Methodist Church, Mountain...

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