Cave City & Batesville, AR Obituaries
Local obituaries for Sharp & Independence Counties in AR
Kenneth D. Smith
Dec 22, 2009
Kenneth D. Smith, age 63 of Batesville, died Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born April 10, 1946 at Heber Springs, Arkansas to Frank and Clydie (Stevens) Smith. He was a U.S. Army veteran, retired Batesville Postmaster having served with the postal service for 31 years and a member of the Ruddell...
Barrett Jerone Rogers
Dec 17, 2009
Barrett Jerone 'B.J.' Rogers, age 37 of Pocahontas, died Thursday, December 17, 2009 at his home. He was born April 28, 1972 at Batesville, Arkansas, to Billy J. and Barbara Hutchison Rogers. He was a musician and of the Baptist faith.He was preceded in death by his grandparents, W.B. Hutchison, and Herbert and Ruby Rogers, and his great grandparents, Amos...
Melvin Martin
Dec 17, 2009
Melvin Martin, age 79 of Strawberry died Thursday, December 17, 2009 at the Cave City Nursing Home in Cave City. He was born November 3, 1930 at Bethesda, Arkansas to Jim and Delsie Harmon Martin. He was a retired machinist and a member of Strawberry Church of Christ.He was preceded in death by his father, Jim Martin.Survivors include his mother,...
Nellie L. Crabtrey Sharp
Dec 12, 2009
Nellie L. Crabtrey Sharp, age 91 of Ash Flat, formerly of Searcy, died Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the Ash Flat Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ash Flat. She was born April 12, 1918 at Shirley, Arkansas, to Thomas and Della Nixon Gibbons. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith.She was preceded in death by her parents; two...
Allan Hightower
Dec 2, 2009
Allan Ray 'Ray-Bob' Hightower, age 78 of Sidney, died Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at the Pioneer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Melbourne. He was born February 13, 1931 at Sidney, Arkansas, to Golden and Ethel Stroud Hightower. He was a U.S. Marine and U.S. Air Force veteran and a member of the Masonic Lodge #611 at Sidney. He was a...
William Evans
Dec 1, 2009
William 'Billy' Evans, age 63 of Batesville, died Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at the Cave City Nursing Home in Cave City. He was born December 31, 1945 at Dyess, Arkansas to William E. and Lucille Balch Evans. He was an Arkansas Army National Guard veteran, a retired electrician for Conagra Foods in Batesville and of the Baptist faith.He was preceded...
Lockie Mae Burge
Nov 27, 2009
Lockie Mae Burge age 90 of Gainesboro died Friday November 27, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born October 29, 1919 at Gainesboro, Arkansas to Horace Eli and Clara Mae (Simpson) Lundy. Lockie celebrated her 90th birthday shortly before her death. Lockie was married to Authur Burge. Together they lived on and ran their family...
Thelma Whitlock
Nov 26, 2009
Thelma Whitlock age 95 of Evening Shade died Thursday November 26, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born May 14, 1914 at Evening Shade, Arkansas to Calvin W. and Cora Alice (Royal) Rogers. She was co-owner of Whitlock Shoes in Union City, Michigan before retiring to Evening Shade and was a member of the Piney...
Gertrude Tackett
Nov 24, 2009
Gertrude Tackett, age 89 of Pleasant Plains died Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at her home. She was born July 31, 1920 at Mount Pisgah, Arkansas to Thadus and Maybelle Pittman Oliver. She was a homemaker and a member of Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in Pleasant Plains.She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Raymond Tackett, two brothers,...
Mamie Ruth Wooton
Nov 21, 2009
Mamie Ruth Walters Wootton, age 80 of Desha died Saturday, November 21, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born November 2, 1929 at Redfield, Arkansas to Johnny Edward Walters Sr. and Lennie Leola Dearmore Walters. She worked for Olan Mills Portrait Studio for many years, enjoyed her family, gardening, reading and flea markets and was...
Dorothy June Biddle
Nov 19, 2009
Dorothy June Biddle, age 71 of Batesville, Arkansas died Thursday, November 19, 2009 at the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville. She was born July 21, 1938 at Waverly, Illinois to Harry and Mary Rynders Hubble. She retired as a cook having been employed by the Northwest Arkansas Human Services, a homemaker, volunteered at the White River Medical Center in...
Kenneth W. Smith
Nov 14, 2009
Keneth W. Smith, age 73, of Batesville, died Saturday, November 14, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born December 16, 1935 at Topeka, Kansas to Roy Albert and Laura Evelyn Pretty Smith. He retired from National Welding Supply in Batesville after 26 years of service and was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in...
Elmer Leroy Killian
Nov 10, 2009
Elmer Leroy Killian, 69 of Cave City, died Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born July 3, 1940 at Soper, Oklahoma, to R.B. and Letha Vie McMinn Killian. He was retired and of the Baptist faith.He was preceded in death by his parents.Survivors include two brothers, Wayne Killian of Cave City and...
Charles Miller
Nov 8, 2009
Charles Miller, age 67 of Cave City died Sunday, November 8, 2009 at a Searcy hospital. He was born January 20, 1942 at Strawberry, Arkansas to Lowell and Nona Miller. He was of the Baptist faith.He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister Laura Belcher and a brother Rev. C. R. 'Bobby' Miller.He is survived by his wife...
Brenda Hartley
Nov 6, 2009
Brenda Hartley, age 63 of Batesville died Thursday, November 5, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born March 9, 1946 at Lynn, Arkansas to James William and Vena Patricia (Christopher) Sanders. She was a homemaker, enjoyed gardening and was of the Baptist faith.She was preceded in death by her father, James William Sanders and her...
Virginia Kunkel
Nov 5, 2009
Virginia Madeline 'Tootsie' Kunkel, age 79 of Cave City, died Thursday, November 5, 2009 at her home. She was born December 8, 1929 at Berryville, Arkansas to Joseph Ruby and Eunice Elizabeth Peterson Gosnell. She had worked for International Shoe Factory in Batesville, was a homemaker, and a member of the Maxville Missionary Baptist Church in Cave City.She was preceded...
Ted Bagwell
Nov 1, 2009
Ted Bagwell, age 43 of Strawberry, died Sunday, November 1, 2009 at Nelsonville. He was born April 11, 1966 at Galesburg, Illinois to Ed and Mary Bagwell. He was a U.S. Army veteran, worked in sales at Mark Martin Ford, enjoyed hunting, fishing and NASCAR and was a member of First Assembly of God Church in Cave City.He was preceded...
Kim Risher
Nov 1, 2009
Kim Risher, age 53 of Batesville died November 1, 2009 at a Batesville hospital. He was born April 5, 1956 in Peoria, Illinois to Basile Jasper and Florence Faye (Fangmeier) Risher. He was a Vietnam War Veteran serving in the United States Marines, a carpenter and worked as a pipeliner in the oil fields.He was preceded in death by his...
Barbara Kay Dickey Stauffer
Oct 28, 2009
Barbara Kay Dickey Stauffer, age 68 of Cherokee Village, died Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born August 29, 1941 at Poughkeepsie, Arkansas, to Homer Elmer and Beatrice Inez Kent Dickey. She was a retired district treasurer for Cave City Public School, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and...
Jane Norris McHalffey
Oct 23, 2009
Jane Norris McHalffey age 76 of Poughkeepsie died Friday October 23, 2009 at her home. She was born January 22, 1933 at Poughkeepsie, Arkansas to Jim and Luna Kent Norris. She was a homemaker and a member of the Poughkeepsie Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Buel McHalffey, one son, Chris McHalffey, one...
