A Funeral Service for Wilma Jean Neel of Mountain Home, Arkansas, will be 2:00 pm, Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at Kirby & Family Funeral Home Chapel, with Reverend Remil Layton officiating. Visitation will be Tuesday, May 1, 2018, from 1:00 pm until service time, at Kirby & Family Funeral Home Chapel.
Jean passed away April 27, 2018, in Mountain Home, Arkansas at the age of 80. She was born November 28, 1937, in Batesville, Arkansas, the daughter of Forrest and Mary Hazel Morrison Qualls. She married Eldon Neel on April 26, 1958, in Mountain Home, Arkansas and worked for Baxter Laboratories. Jean lived in Mountain Home since moving from Boswell, Arkansas, in 1968. She was a member of the East Side Baptist Church and enjoyed sewing, crocheting, photography, and gardening.
Jean is survived by her two sons, Roger (Eve) Neel of Bull Shoals, AR, and Richard Neel of Mountain Home, AR; daughter, Melissa (Michael) Lapio of Mountain Home, AR; three grandchildren, Bruce (Kristin) Neel, Jordan Lapio, and Karissa (Alex) Fry; two great-grandchildren, Natalie and Kaden Fry; and sister, Toots Autry of Big Flat, AR.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; and brother, Virgil Qualls.
Entombment will be in the Kirby's Tucker Memorial Mausoleum, Mountain Home, Arkansas, with Roger Neel, Richard Neel, Bruce Neel, Michael Lapio, Jordan Lapio, and Stephen Autry as pallbearers.
Memorials may be made to East Side Baptist Church.
Arrangements are by Kirby and Family Funeral and Cremation Services.