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Clarence Fate
Feb 19, 2008
Sonny died Tuesday, February 19, 2008 in Mountain Home at the age of 75. Sonny was born Friday, July 22, 1932 in Gary, Indiana, son of Joel and Ila Ainsworth Fate. He married Patricia Lindquist on December 29, 1953 at Crown Point, Indiana. Sonny was a U.S. Navy veteran of Korea. Sonny owned and operated Fate Standard Service Station in...
Betty Jane
Feb 19, 2008
Betty Jane Lee (Hemm), 81, of Mountain Home, formerly of Cambridge, Illinois, went to be with our Lord on February 19, 2008 from the Hospice of the Ozarks Hospice House. Betty enjoyed eating out, working puzzle books, crocheting and was the best cook in the world. She enjoyed reading her Bible, cooking for her family and loved being around little...
Mack Leonard
Feb 18, 2008
Mack Leonard died Monday, February 18, 2008 in Mountain Home at the age of 66. Mack Leonard was born Friday, September 12, 1941 in Mt. Carmel, Illinois, son of Lester Latham and Ida Viola Hedge. He married Darline Leonard on April 7, 1970 at Paradise, California. He worked in Maintenance for MacCarran International Airport. Mack Leonard was a veteran of...
Clovis Hainey
Feb 17, 2008
Clovis Carl Hainey of Flippin died February 17, 2008 at Hospice House. He was 83 years old. Carl was born August 25, 1924 at Ada, Oklahoma to John and Beatrice Hainey. He married Frances Agnew at Elgin, Illinois on June 20, 1953. Carl was a carpenter and an independent truck driver. He was a Veteran of the United States Navy...
Charles Farris
Feb 17, 2008
Charles Farris was born Tuesday, February 6, 1962 in Mountain Home, son of Dewey and Delores Perryman Farris. He worked as a Laborer and was a lifetime resident of Cotter. Survivors: his mother, Jean Acklin of Cotter, AR, 2 brothers, Dudley (Sandra) Mackey of Mountain Home, Bill (Brenda) Mackey of Mountain Home, 2 sisters, Julie (Eddie) Potts of Norfork, Johanna...
Billy Gann
Feb 15, 2008
Billy Gann died Friday, February 15, 2008 at Mountain Home, Arkansas at the age of 77. Billy Gann was born Monday, February 9, 1931 in Gosnell, Arkansas, the son of Tolley E. and Georgia Peck Gann. He married Beth Stubblefield on August 21, 1987 at Blytheville, Arkansas and was a farmer for 44 years. Billy lived in Mountain Home for...
Margarethe Bourland
Feb 14, 2008
Peggy Bourland died Thursday, February 14, 2008 in Mountain Home at the age of 84. She was born Monday, September 3, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of Jack and Lillian Frost. She married Calvin Bourland on June 5, 1954 at Round Lake, Illinois and worked as a payroll manager in the boat manufacturing industry. Peggy lived in Mountain Home for...
June Jud
Feb 14, 2008
June Jud died Thursday, February 14, 2008 in Mountain Home at the age of 91. She was born Wednesday, August 15, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Herbert and Caroline Fiedler Brandenburger. She was a housewife and lived in the Hand Cove community for 10 years moving from the St. Louis, Missouri area. She loved to fly and...
Frank Wilkins
Feb 13, 2008
Frank died February 13, 2008 at Baxter Regional Medical Center. He was 90 years old. Frank was born December 13, 1917 at Chicago, Illinois to Frank and Anne Wilkins. He married his wife of 69 years, Mildred, on December 30, 1936 at Chicago, Illinois. Frank worked for Acorn Ironworks as an Ironworker in ornamental iron and wire. He lived in...
Leona Blue
Feb 12, 2008
Leona "Lea" Patricia Blue died Tuesday, February 12, 2008 in Mountain Home at the age of 60. Leona Blue was born Sunday, May 25, 1947 in Briceland, California, daughter of Lee Merle Wade and Doris Elene Williams. She married James Blue on December 27, 1983 at Perry, Florida. She worked as a Homemaker. Leona lived in Peel for 2 years...
Robert Lohrei
Feb 12, 2008
Robert Lohrei died Tuesday, February 12, 2008 in Oakland at the age of 77. Robert Lohrei was born Monday, November 3, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois, son of Jesse Lohrei and Katherine McCracken. He married Kathy Curtin on September 2, 1978 at Carol Stream, Illinois. He worked 30 years in management for GTE Telephone. Robert Lohrei was a veteran of the...
Toni Gray
Feb 11, 2008
Toni Helena Gray, nee Nielsen, age 57 of Mountain Home, Arkansas, formerly of Park Ridge, Illinois, went to our Lord on February 11, 2008. Survivors: Beloved wife of Paul Dwayne Gray; devoted mother to Rebekka Lynne Gray and Rikki Danielle Deal; grandmother of Christian Michael Rains; cherished daughter of Elsie Lorraine Nielsen; sister to Joanne E. Brunke, Vicki L. (James)...
Mildred Shipla
Feb 10, 2008
Mildred Shipla died Sunday, February 10, 2008 in Gainesville at the age of 93. Mildred Shipla was born Sunday, April 5, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of James Toffel. She married Joseph Shipla and worked as a homemaker. Mildred lived in Gainesville for 30 years moving from Chicago, Illinois. Survivors: a daughter, Janet Evans and grandson, J.R. Evans Preceded in...
Wanda Smith
Feb 10, 2008
Wanda Smith died Sunday, February 10, 2008 in Longmont at the age of 81. Wanda Smith was born Tuesday, February 23, 1926 in Fredericktown, Missouri, daughter of Gertrude Howell Walter. She married John Smith on June 23, 1947 at Fredericktown, Missouri and moved to Palatine, Illinois with her family in 1960. Her working career started many years ago at New...
Russell Polan
Feb 9, 2008
Russell Warren Polan was born November 2, 1920 at Milton, Wisconsin the son of Guy Polan and Norma Jones Polan. He married June Olson at Milton, Wisconsin on December 11, 1943 and had resided in the Bull Shoals area since moving from Santa Barbara, California in 1998. He served with the US Air Force during World War II and was...
Viola Somers
Feb 9, 2008
Viola Margaret Somers was born November 7, 1925 at Little Rock, Arkansas the daughter of James and Etta Mae DeHart LeMaster. She married Charles Somers at Benton, Arkansas on February 5, 1944 and had resided in the Gassville area since moving from Harrison, Arkansas 12 years ago. She was a former Sales Rep for McClellan Department Stores. She was a...
Linda Martin
Feb 8, 2008
Linda Ann Martin was born March 22, 1943 at Westbrook, Maine the daughter of Alan Taylor and Edna Berube Taylor. She had lived in the Mountain Home area since moving from Massachusetts in 1996. She was a homemaker and a member of the Memorial Christian Church. Mrs. Martin died February 8, 2008 at Baxter Regional Medical Center at the age...
Luther White
Feb 8, 2008
Luther E. "Pete" White was born May 22, 1921 at Hardinville, Missouri. On November 3, 1925 he married Lorene Trivitt in Mountain Home and worked in his own retail business and farmed. Pete also worked on the Bull Shoals, Greers Ferry, Norfork, Canyon Ferry (Montana) and the Sam Rayburn (Texas) Dams as a concrete worker and superintendent. Pete was a...
Beulah Durham
Feb 6, 2008
Beulah M. Miller was born November 7, 1912 at Strawberry, Arkansas the daughter of George and Lena Sneed Miller. She married Everett Gordon Durham at Strawberry, Arkansas on August 25, 1935 and had resided in the Mountain Home area since moving from Strawberry, Arkansas in 1987. She was a homemaker and enjoyed bowling, quilting and gardening. She was a member...
Robert Langbein
Feb 5, 2008
Lawrence Robert Langbein died Tuesday, February 5, 2008 in Lakeview at the age of 82. Lawrence R.Langbein was born Tuesday, December 1, 1925 in Miami Beach, Florida, son of Lawrence R. Langbein and Louise Deloste. He married Ann E. "Honey" Losch on February 7, 1948 at River Forest, Illinois. He worked in Sales for Marshal Fields Department store. Lawrence Langbein...
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