Cave City & Batesville, AR Obituaries
Local obituaries for Sharp & Independence Counties in AR
Raymond H. Hower
May 22, 2009
Raymond H. Hower, age 89 of Smithville died Friday, May 22, 2009 at his home. He was born August 2, 1919 at Jeannette, Pennsylvania to Herley and Emma Duncan Hower. He was U. S. Navy veteran, having served during World War II and retired from the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville as a industrial maintenance instructor. He attended...
Carl Boles
May 21, 2009
Carl 'Cotton' Boles age 52 of Tunica, Mississippi (formerly of Cave City) died Thursday, May 21, 2009, at Tunica, Mississippi. He was born July 10, 1956, at Noblesville, Indiana, to Eldon and Cora Boles. He was a security officer for Hollywood Casino in Tunica and a member of the Maxville Missionary Baptist Church at Cave City. He was preceded in...
Bulah Mae Tackett
May 21, 2009
Bulah Mae Tackett, age 69 of Cave City died Thursday May 21, 2009, at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born March 27, 1940, at Cave City, Arkansas, to George Alexander and Dorris Pauline (Pinkston) Blankinship. She was a homemaker and attended Eastside Southern Baptist Church in Cave City. She was preceded in death by her parents;her...
Ronald Lee Shults
May 15, 2009
Ronald Lee 'Dude' Shults age 55 of Batesville, Arkansas died Friday, May 15, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born June 6, 1953 at Kerrville, Texas to L.C. and Maydell (morris) Shults. He was a carpenter and a member of the Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Cave City, Arkansas.He was preceded in death by...
Florence Gladys Tanner
May 15, 2009
Florence Gladys Tanner age 87 of Poughkeepsie died Friday May 15, 2009 at the Fulton County Hospital in Salem. She was born December 19, 1921 at Poughkeepsie, Arkansas to William and Cora (Green) Eaves. She was a retired cook for the Poughkeepsie School and a member of the Poughkeepsie Church of Christ.She was preceded in death by her parents; two...
Inez Kent Dickey
May 12, 2009
Inez Kent Dickey age 91 of Cave City died Tuesday May 12, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born May 27, 1917 at Sidney, Arkansas to Walter L. and Lottie Boles Kent. She was a homemaker and enjoyed gardening and spending time with her family. She was a member of the First Missionary Baptist Church...
J. T. Goforth
May 10, 2009
J.T. Goforth age 81 of Batesville died Sunday May 10, 2009 at his home. He was born November 6, 1927 in Independence County Arkansas to Jesse Albert and Erma Ida (Maley) Goforth. He was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII, receiving the Victory Medal and the Army Occupational Medal-Japan. He was retired from Diemer Trucking in Batesville and inducted into...
Gerldine Gilmer Davenport
May 4, 2009
Gerldine Gilmer Davenport age 74 of Cave City died Monday May 4, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born December 7, 1934 at Manila, Arkansas to Clayton Eugene and X L (Stanfield) Nimmo. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Assembly of God in Cave City.She was preceded in death by her...
William Ray Jean
May 3, 2009
William Ray Jean age 90 of Ozark, Missouri (formerly of Cave City) died Sunday May 3, 2009 at his home. He was born January 25, 1919 at Eaton, Arkansas to William and Ina (Montgomery) Jean. He was a U. S. Army veteran having served during WWII and a retired U.S. Government employee having retired from the ASCS office in Pocahontas....
F. Elwanda Curley
May 3, 2009
F. Elwanda (Bearden) Curley age 79 of Hutchinson, Kansas (formerly of Ash Flat) died peacefully at her home on Sunday May 3, 2009. She was born May 17, 1929 in rural Sharp County Arkansas to William (Bill) and Estie Harrison Bearden. She was married to James L. Curley on June 17, 1961. Elwanda was a member of the Eastwood Church...
Pearl Milligan Boyd
Apr 28, 2009
Pearl Milligan Boyd, age 90, of Oppelo, died Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at the Perry County Nursing Center in Perryville. She was born December 18, 1918, at Calamine, Arkansas, to Henry Asberry and Rosie Viola (Anderson) Milligan. She was a homemaker and a member of the Grace Baptist Church in Conway.She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband,...
Betty Lea Whited
Apr 25, 2009
Betty Lea (Traw) Whited age 66 of Evening Shade died Saturday April 25, 2009 at her home.She was born November 8, 1942 at Wirth, Arkansas to Robert Lee and Maggie Iola (Athey) Traw. She was united in marriage to Junior Glenn Whited on May 9, 1959. She was a CNA, a homemaker and an active member of the Ash Flat...
Russell Carter
Apr 16, 2009
Russell Haley Carter age 66 of Evening Shade died Thursday April 16, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville.He was born November 29, 1942 at Evening Shade, Arkansas to Clyde and Flava Haley Carter. He was a farmer and a weather observer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration for 30 yearsHe was preceded in death by his...
Gladys Milligan Townsley
Apr 14, 2009
Gladys Milligan Townsley, age 91 of Batesville died Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born September 19, 1917 at Calamine, Arkansas to Samuel Jackson and Elizabeth Anne (Hardin) Milligan. She was a homemaker and a member of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Batesville. She was preceded in death by her parents,...
Jerry Lee Huskey
Apr 11, 2009
Jerry Lee Huskey age 68 of Saffell died Saturday April 11, 2009 at his home. He was born May 11, 1940 at Saffell, Arkansas to Willie Edward and Julia Augusta (Bailey) Huskey. He was a farmer and a member of the Mt. Harmony Free Will Baptist Church at Saffell.He was preceded in death by his father and an infant sibling.Survivors...
Maxine Evelyn Carpenter
Apr 9, 2009
Maxine Evelyn Carpenter, age 84 of Ash Flat died Thursday, April 9, 2009 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born January 16, 1925 at Lansing, Michigan to Floyd and Marion Norma Bennett Waters. She was a retired Assistant Vice President for First National Banking Company in Ash Flat and a member of the Ash Flat Church...
Clemon Lewis Williams
Apr 9, 2009
Clemon Lewis Williams, 84 of Strawberry died Thursday, April 9, 2009 at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Walnut Ridge. He was born December 2, 1924 at Strawberry, Arkansas to Lewis and Maude Penn Williams. He was a U. S. Army veteran having served during World War II and a cattle farmer. He enjoyed spending time with his family, hunting and...
Hazel Meherg Lindsey
Apr 6, 2009
Hazel Meharg Lindsey, age 88 of Pleasant Plains died Monday, April 6, 2009 at a Searcy hospital. She was born March 28, 1921 at Pleasant Plains to Henry Arthur and Genila Adaline Blankenship Meharg. She was a school teacher, licensed cosmetologist, retired from Teletype Corporation in Little Rock. She enjoyed traveling and going to races. She was a member of...
Neil Wilkerson
Apr 4, 2009
Neil Wilkerson, age 82 of Cave City died Saturday, April 4, 2009 at his home. He was born October 14, 1926 at Grange, Arkansas to John Robert and Ophelia Powell Wilkerson. He was a U. S. Army veteran, a Missionary Baptist minister, a trustee for Budd Creek Baptist Camp in Greers Ferry for 15 years and a member of the...
Gladys E. Reeves
Apr 2, 2009
Gladys E. Reeves age 87 of Cave City died Thursday April 2, 2009 at her home. She was born May 27, 1921 at Salem, Missouri to Albert Henry and Alice Beatrice (Cloak) Schmitt. She was a homemaker and a member of the Shepherd's Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas.She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Lorenzo Dillon Reeves, one...
