Obituaries from May 2001

Gregory Alan Allkins, 52, of Trumann, died Friday morning, April 27, at the family residence in Trumann. Allkins was born August 22, 1948, in Watervliet, Mich., and had lived in Trumann for the past 20 years. He was a truck driver for the Hedger Brothers Concrete Company in Trumann; veteran of the U.S. Army and Vietnam War and a member of the First General Baptist Church near Trumann...

Funeral services for Paul Edwin Dudley, 87, of Jonesboro were held Saturday, May 5, at the First United Methodist Church in Trumann with Rev. Pat Sims officiating. Burial was in Oaklawn Cemetery in Jonesboro with Thompson Funeral Home of Trumann in charge of arrangements...

Funeral rites for Mrs. Dorthey June Throgmartin, 64, of Hickory Flatt, MS, were held Saturday, May 5, in the chapel of Thompson Funeral Home in Trumann with Rev. Fred Parker officiating. Burial was in Holly Spring Cemetery in Harrisburg with Thompson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements...

Mrs. Unitha Bunnell, 59, of Trumann died May 5 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro of natural causes. Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 08, 2001 in the chapel of Thompson Funeral in Trumann with Rev. Tommy Jordan officiating. Burial was in Farm Hill Cemetery in Harrisburg with Thompson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements...

Funeral services for Mr. Herbert Coats, 73, of Trumann were held Wednesday morning, May 9, 2001 at the Viva Drive Church of Christ in Trumann with Joe Spangler and Bill Willard officiating. Burial was in Nettleton Cemetery at Jonesboro with Thompson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mr. Coats died Saturday, May 5, at the family residence of natural causes...

Graveside services for Malinda Anne Vad of Jonesboro were held Monday, May 7, at Pine Log Cemetery in Jonesboro preceding interment there. Rev. Pat James officiated at the services. Burial arrangements were handled by Roller-Farmers Union Funeral Home...

Robert Gene Robinson, 87, of Brookland, passed away Tuesday, May 1, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Mr. Robinson was retired from Colson Caster Co., and was a member of New Antioch Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother and four sisters...

Margaret Lois Harris, 85, of Grand Prairie, Texas, passed away Saturday, May 5, in Duncanville, Texas. Mrs. Harris was a former Marked Tree resident. She was a homemaker and a very loving mother. She was a member of the Forum Terrace Church of Christ in Grand Prairie and was baptized into the Church of Christ at the age of 15. She was preceded in death by her husband, Perry Harris, on August 31, 1991...

Mrs. Ola Fay Scarbrough Coopwood, 83, of North Little Rock Baptist Health Center, passed away Tuesday, May 1, at her residence. Mrs. Coopwood was a Protestant. She worked in retail, and was preceded in death by her husband, John Coopwood, 13 brothers and sisters...

Funeral services for William "Bill" Shores, 85, of St. Louis, MO, were held recently in St. Louis at the Schumaher Chapel. Mr. Shores died April 11, 2001, of natural causes. A resident of Trumann for several years, he resided in St. Louis for the past 35 years. Prior to his retirement, he worked as an engineer for a barge line...

Funeral services were held for Pauline A. Tolbert, 90, of Belton, MO, were held May 9 at the Grandview Church of Christ in Belton. Burial was in Belton Cemetery. Mrs. Tolbert, formerly of Payneway, was born in Mississippi and had lived the past 45 years in Grandview and Belton, MO. She was a resident of Beautiful Savior Home in Belton the past three years...

Thomas Jefferson 'T.J.' Pate, 77, of Victoria, passed away Thursday, May 10, at the Manila Nursing Center. Mr. Pate was a retired farmer and was of the Pentecostal faith. Survivors include one daughter, Margie Riney of Osceola; one son, Thomas Pate of Victoria; one sister, Pearl Tucker of Harrisburg; one brother, Earl Pate of Lepanto; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren...

Mrs. Estelle Kathleen 'Katy' Johnson, 69, of Marked Tree, passed away Monday, May 7, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Mrs. Johnson was a member of the Church of God. She was preceded in death by one son, Terry Lynn Johnson, and two sisters, Earline and Maxine...

Funeral services for Mrs. Lala Lois Grimes, 85, of Trumann will be held today (Wednesday, May 23) at the chapel of Thompson Funeral Home in Trumann with Rev. Joel McMasters and Rev. Woodrow Wilson officiating. Interment will be in Jonesboro Memorial Park Cemetery with Thompson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements...

Funeral rites for Mr. John Thomas McLemore, Jr., 91, of Blytheville were held Sunday, May 20, in the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home in Trumann with Rev. Bill Maxwell officiating. Burial was in Harrisburg Memorial Park Cemetery with Thompson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements...

Loretta Mae Williams, 41, died recently. Loretta was born of May 18, 1960 to Rev. Henry and Pearline Williams. Loretta moved to California when she was nine years old. Later she moved to Houston and was married to Michael Brown and had three children...

Cindy Tyler, 43, of Lepanto, died Monday morning, May 21, 2001, at her home in Lepanto. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Lepanto. She worked for Portis Mercantile CO. in Lepanto for many years. Previously she worked as a teller for Little River Bank, also in Lepanto...

Sylvillia Mae Neiswander Wells, formerly of Marked Tree, died at her home on Wednesday, May 9, in Foly, Ala., following a long illness. She is survived by her husband, Lee J. "Smokey" Wells of Foly, Ala.; one brother, E.G. Neiswander of Wynne; numerous nieces and nephews and a host of friends...

Linda Mae Roland Pierce, 56, of Payneway, died Wednesday, May 16, at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro, of heart failure. Pierce was a homemaker. She is survived by four daughters, Joyce Mendora and Linda Ford of Payneway, Joyce Crum of Hardy and Regina Burns of Trumann; one sister, Virginia Diaz of Earle; four brothers, Robert Roland of Kansas City, Kan., Melton Roland of Pawhaska, Okla., David Roland of Trumann and John Roland of Bellingham, Wash; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.. ...

Thelma Opal Broadway, 78, of Trumann, died Tuesday morning, May 22, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro of natural causes. Broadway was born in Greenway, and had lived in Trumann since 1946. She was retired from the Singer Company and a member of the First Baptist Church in Piggott. ...

Diana Lynn Wade, 22, of Trumann, died Friday morning at the Regional Medical Center of Northeast Arkansas from injuries received in a car accident. She was born on November 5, 1978, at Memphis, Tenn. the daughter of George Barnes and Judy (House) Wade...

Funeral services for Joseph Lawrence Stephens, 81, of Sun City, California were held Wednesday, May 9, at the SunKist Baptist Church with Rev. Ed Bartel officiating. Burial was in the Westminster Memorial Park. Local arrangements were made by Emerson Funeral Home. Mr. Stephens died May 6, 2001...

George Henry Lane, 79, of Brookland, died Wednesday evening at St. Bernard's Medical Center. He was born in Evening Shade and had lived in Brookland for 28 years and had formerly lived in Trumann. He was a plumber and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Brookland Church of Chirst, the American Legion and the VFW. He was preceded in death y his wife, Jacequeline B. Lane and a son, Gerald Henry Lane...

Odessa Mallard Leggett died Friday, May 25, at Rock Island, Iowa. A graveside service was held at Rock Island. Leggett was a schoolteacher in Lepanto for several years. She is survived by a sister, Carrine Masbey and a nephew, Johnny Masbey of Rock Island, Iowa...

Essie L. Bryor, 92, of Trumann died Wednesday, May 23 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro of heart failure. She was a retired cosmetologist and a member of the First Baptist Church of Lepanto. She was formerly of Lepanto, and for the past two years lived in Trumann at Plantation Homes...