Obituaries

Kirby & Family Obituaries

Otsie Sperry

Otsie Sperry

May 19, 2005

Otsie Mae Hill was born June 22, 1909 in Ada, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of James Lee and Callie Stapleton Melton. She married Woodrow W. Hill on December 2, 1960 in Wichita, Kansas. She was seamstress and lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma prior to moving to Lakeview, Arkansas in 1971. She was a member of the Emmanuel Church. Otsie...

Ellinor Sperry

Ellinor Sperry

May 18, 2005

Ellinor M. Sperry was born June 7, 1921 in Topeka, Kansas. She was the daughter of James W. and Julia Ellin Coyne Carroll. She married Burgess N. Sperry on March 29, 1941. She was a bookkeeper for AT&T and lived in Kansas City, Missouri prior to moving to Gassville,Arkansas in 1972. Mrs. Sperry was a member of the Eastern Star...

Earl Kahle

Earl Kahle

May 17, 2005

Earl F. Kahle was born October 28, 1916 in River Grove, Illinois. He was the son of the late Frank and Sophie Kahle. He married Sigrid Vensberg on October 3, 1936 in Rivergrove, Illinois. Earl attended the Lutheran Church School and Leyden High School in Franklin Park, Illinois, and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. In 1974 after 32...

Andrew Kincaid

Andrew Kincaid

May 15, 2005

Andrew Blair Kincaid was born March 29, 1930 in West Virginia. He was the son of Rufus and Pearl Stover Kincaid. He married the late Margaret Peeks in 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Kincaid was a United States Army veteran. He worked as a dispatcher for Ohio Bell for thirty-two years. He was a member of Telephone Pioneers, VFW, and...

Charles McVea

Charles McVea

May 12, 2005

Charles Edward McVea was born January 29, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of John H. and Mary Lohrengel McVea. He married Mary Jane Mason on January 11, 1941 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a retired salesman for C.M. Business Service and was a United States Navy veteran. Mr. McVea lived in Waukegan, Illinois prior to moving...

Dolores LeGate

Dolores LeGate

May 12, 2005

Dolores LeGate was born October 28, 1906, in Cananea, Mexico. She was the daughter of Joseph and Grace Seaton Benson. She was a homemaker. She loved to play bridge and she was a member of the Women's Club and Emblem Club in California. Dolores LeGate passed away at Auburn Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center on May 12, 2005, at the...

Pansy Puckette

Pansy Puckette

May 11, 2005

Pansy Mae Puckette was born June 13, 1917 in Magnolia, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Thomas Otis and Arrie Wilkerson Puckette. She graduated from Magnolia High School in 1934. She obtained an A.A. degree from Southern Arkansas University in 1936. She received her B.A. degree from Henderson State University in 1938, with a dual major in mathematics and English....

Kenneth Neel

Kenneth Neel

May 11, 2005

Kenneth "Red" Gene Neel was born February 11, 1955 in Yellville, Arkansas. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wayne Neel. He was a self employed carpenter. Kenneth "Red" Gene Neel passed away on May 11, 2005, at the age of 50 years, and 3 months. Survivors: Sons, Phillip Neel of Norfork, Arkansas, Toby Neel of Mountain Home,...

Ray Ballard

Ray Ballard

May 9, 2005

Ray Junior Ballard was born January 15, 1935 in West Plains, Missouri. He was the son of Ted R. and Lilly Cook Ballard. He married Glenda Moler on April 17, 1992 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Ballard owned the 89er's Restaurant in Springfield, Missouri for twenty years and lived in Pensacola, Florida prior to moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas in...

Gene Woodke

Gene Woodke

May 9, 2005

Gene Arthur Woodke was born April 6, 1933 in Duluth, Minnesota. He enjoyed Minnesota Vikings football, garage and estate sale shopping and he was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police in Minnesota. He moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Minnesota in 1989. Gene Arthur Woodke passed away at his residence on May 9, 2005, at the age of...

Hazel Robinson

Hazel Robinson

May 7, 2005

Hazel Poston Robinson was born December 10, 1901, in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Richard Hezakiah and Mayme Sarah Bowels Poston. She was a homemaker and lived in Chicago, Illinois prior to moving to Mountain Home in 1979. Mrs. Robinson was a member of the Baptist faith. Hazel Poston Robinson passed away at Pine Lane Nursing Home on...

Kerry Epler

Kerry Epler

May 6, 2005

Kerry Epler was born March 14, 1948 in Lansing, Michigan. He was the son of Elwin and ImoJean Harmon Epler. He married Brenda Hunter on August 22, 1970 in Grand Ledge, Michigan. He was owner of a recycling plant and lived in Charlotte, Michigan prior to moving to Gassville in 1989. Mr. Epler was a member of the Baptist faith....

Donna Hogan

Donna Hogan

May 5, 2005

Donna Hogan was born October 24, 1943 in Oak Park, Illinois. She was the daughter of James and Anna Libert Snow. She married John W. Hogan on March 27, 1978 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She was an assembler for Actronix in Flippin, Arkansas and lived in Phoenix, Arizona prior to moving to Mountain Home in 1994. She attended St. Peter...

Marshall Johnson

Marshall Johnson

May 4, 2005

Marshall Ruez Johnson was born December 12, 1931 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was the son of Olin H. and Olethea Marshall Johnson. He married Joycelyn Van Daalen on September 18, 1953 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was vice president of operations for Economy Machine Tool for thirty-three years and he was a United States veteran of the Korean War. He...

Ronald Eppley

Ronald Eppley

May 4, 2005

Ronald E. Eppley was born September 22, 1927 in Dundee, Illinois. He was the son of Raymond and Emma Wiechert Eppley. He married Juanita Duvall in Mountain Home, Arkansas on June 17, 1985. He was the manager of Carscope Railroad with the Soo Line Railroad. He was a sports fan, and his hobbies included fishing, model cars and golfing. Mr....

Diane Thurman

Diane Thurman

May 3, 2005

Diane R. Thurman was born January 26, 1950 in Winsor, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Robert Dewitt and Minnie Marie Schliski Hodge. She married Danny Thurman on December 31, 1984 in Cabot, Arkansas. She was an LPN and lived in Jacksonville prior to moving to Gassville, Arkansas in 1998. She enjoyed working in her yard, dancing, playing pool, flowers,...

Mary Wells

Mary Wells

May 2, 2005

Mary Louise Wells was born April 2, 1917 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Henry V. and Mary Emma McLendon Brinkley. She married Thurman (Red) Wells on December 21, 1979 in Lakeview, Arkansas. She was a housewife. Mrs. Wells Moved to Lakeview from Guatemala in 1959. She was a former resident of southern Arkansas. She and her...

David Craven

David Craven

Apr 30, 2005

David Verne Craven was born October 28, 1921 in Thomas, West Virginia. He was the son of Lloyd H. and Marjorie Phelps Craven. He married Lois Gene Hilliard April 18, 1942 in North Tonawanda, New York. David was a retired supervisor of the DuPont Chemical Plant in Niagara Falls, New York and a United States Army Veteran of World War...

Versa Poynter

Versa Poynter

Apr 29, 2005

Versa M. Poynter was born October 21, 1920 in Rea Valley, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Ewing and Laura Jones Duggins. She married Steve Poynter Jr. on December 25, 1935 in Rea Valley. She was a housewife and spent all her life in this area. Versa M. Poynter passed away on April 29, 2005 at Baxter Regional Medical Center...

Eugene Greene

Eugene Greene

Apr 27, 2005

Eugene Francis Greene was born November 12, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the son of Charles W. and Anna Nelke Greene. He owned and operated Fouts Boat Dock in Gamaliel for eighteen years, and was a United States Navy Veteran. Mr. Greene lived in St. Louis, Missouri prior to moving to Gamaliel in 1976. He loved boating and...

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