Obituaries

Kirby & Family Obituaries

Hazel Ballard

Hazel Ballard

Aug 31, 2006

Hazel Floy Ballard was born February 17, 1909, at Pottersville, Missouri, to Joab and Lola Crider Dent. She married Connor Caldwell Ballard on March 12, 1940, at West Plains, Missouri. She was a homemaker who lived in Mountain Home since moving from Seabright, New Jersey, in 1975. Hazel loved reading the Bible and Bible studies. She also enjoyed genealogy. She...

William Miller

William Miller

Aug 30, 2006

William Brown Miller was born on September 21, 1925 in Scotland to Thomas and Margaret Brown Miller. He married Dorothy Foster April 27, 1949 at Covington, Kentucky. He worked as a postal clerk and retired to Mountain Home in 1971 from Santa Barbara, California. He was a WWII U.S. Navy veteran and a member of the Disabled American Veterans. He...

Hannah McLean

Hannah McLean

Aug 29, 2006

Hannah Jane McLean was born December 21, 1941, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Alfred and Hannah Dryburg. She married Wayne McLean on March 15, 1973, at Royers Ford, Pennsylvania. She was a recreational therapist for Allentown State Hospital for ten years. Mrs. McLean lived in Gassville since moving from Redfield, Iowa, in 2005. She enjoyed computers, hummingbirds and flowers. She was...

Dr Hoffpauir

Dr Hoffpauir

Aug 28, 2006

Dr. James Hoffpauir was born December 16, 1947 at Woodville, Texas to Oscar and Violet Jimmie Kirkland Hoffpauir. He married Catherine Ann Bartels on March 27, 1970 in Beaumont, Texas. Dr. Hoffpauir served as pastor of the Mountain Home Baptist Church since 1995. Before coming to Mountain Home, Dr. Hoffpauir pastored for 28 years at various churches in Texas. Dr....

Jimmy Dial

Jimmy Dial

Aug 27, 2006

Jimmy D. Dial Sr. was born January 22, 1934, at Union City, Tennessee, to Bill and Christine Jones Dial. He married Dorothy Alford on March 2, 1958, at Union City, Tennessee. He was an Army veteran and a special agent for Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. Mr. Dial lived in Mountain Home since moving from Granite City, Illinois, in 1976. He...

Leroy Higgins

Leroy Higgins

Aug 26, 2006

F. Leroy Higgins was born on December 27, 1915 at Glenelder, Kansas to David and Mae Oliver Higgins. He married Alice M. Trivett on August 18, 1939 at Rosedale Kansas. He was a U.S. Army WWII Veteran and a Presbyterian. Leroy Higgins was a school teacher in the Shawnee Mission Kansas School district for 25 years. He moved to the...

Marvin Smith

Marvin Smith

Aug 23, 2006

Marvin Clark Smith was born April 24, 1930, at Sharon Springs, Kansas, to Clark and Leona Brundige Smith. He was a biological technician for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 24 years and an Air Force veteran of the Korean Conflict. Mr. Smith enjoyed fishing, hunting and gardening. He was a member of the VFW and the First Presbyterian...

Barbara Petersen

Barbara Petersen

Aug 22, 2006

Barbara Petersen was born December 21, 1930, at Coral, Michigan to Frank and Grace Parker. She married David Petersen on October 10, 1953, at Coral, Michigan. They lived in California 10 years, then moved to Brighton, Colorado for 28 years and have lived here in Mountain Home for the past 15 years. They are members of the First Presbyterian Church...

Georgia Leighty

Georgia Leighty

Aug 19, 2006

Georgia P. Leighty was born March 27, 1924, at Tennessee, Illinois, to George D. and Nellie Moran Webb. She graduated from Colchester High School and Quincy Business College and married William ?Bill? Leighty on December 11, 1943 at Colchester, Illinois. Mrs. Leighty worked at McDonough District Hospital in Macomb, Illinois before moving to Arkansas in 1966 where they owned and...

Martha Sudduth

Martha Sudduth

Aug 18, 2006

Martha Louise Sudduth was born December 9, 1929, at Memphis, Tennessee, to John and Opal Taylor Arterburn. She married Curtis Sudduth on December 19, 1954, at Cusetta, Georgia. Mrs. Sudduth was a homemaker who lived in Mountain Home since moving from Florida in 1992. She enjoyed racing and showing corvettes. Martha Louise Sudduth died Friday, August 18, 2006, at Hospice...

Vern Sawyer

Vern Sawyer

Aug 16, 2006

Vern McClellan Sawyer was born November 26, 1926 at Buttonwillow, California to Francis McClellan and Nancy Ann Turner Sawyer. He married Charlsie Whitaker on March 31, 1926 in Nashville Tennessee. Mr. Sawyer was a production supervisor who worked for Fairchild Corporation in California for 31 years. He was a member of the Mountain Home Church of Christ and a WWII...

William Hough

William Hough

Aug 16, 2006

Mr. Hough was born December 5, 1930, at Chicago, Illinois, to Lyle and Lou Diblick Hough. Mr. Hough lived in the Twin Lakes area most of his life moving from Chicago, Illinois. He was a yardman at Keeter Lumber Company here in Mountain Home. He was a Navy veteran and served on the USS Requinn during the Korean War. Preceded...

Thomas Mullen

Thomas Mullen

Aug 14, 2006

Thomas Franz Mullen was born May 16, 1933, at Owego, New York, to Theodore and Martha Franz Mullen. He married Glenna Tippett on May 6, 1972 at Altamonte Springs, Florida. Mr. Mullen was a plant engineer for General Electric and a Navy veteran of the Korean Conflict. He lived in Cotter since moving from Altamonte Springs, Florida in 1991. He...

Marvin Bolding

Marvin Bolding

Aug 12, 2006

Marvin Bolding was born March 15, 1938 in Cartney, Arkansas to Allen and Lois Fletcher Bolding. He married Wilma Ott on November 24, 1956 at Mountain Home and worked as a cattle farmer. He passed away on August 12, 2006 at the Hospice House in Mountain Home at the age of 68 years, 4 months and 27 days. Survivors: He...

James McBride

James McBride

Aug 11, 2006

James Floyd McBride was born January 7, 1953 at Moline, Illinois to Floyd J. and Zelma M. Painter McBride. He married Sharon Doose on April 29, 1972 in Green Rock, Illinois He moved to Mountain Home in February 1983 from Colona, Illinois. He was a truck driver before moving to Mountain Home and operated the McBrides Wholesale Bait Company from...

Walter Porozinski

Walter Porozinski

Aug 10, 2006

Walter Porozinski was born February 5, 1924, at Chicago, Illinois, to Michael and Anna Kornicka Porozinski. He married Wanda Kiska in June 1993 at Mountain Home. He was a machinist who lived in Mountain Home since moving from Chicago in 1978. Mr. Porozinski was an Army Air Corps veteran of WWII. He was also a member of the Ozark VFW...

Curt Schlueter

Curt Schlueter

Aug 9, 2006

Curt Walter Schlueter Jr. was born February 9, 1928, at Chicago, Illinois, to Curt and Eleanoar Wennman Schlueter, Sr. He married Dixie Thomas on May 19, 1998, at Mountain Home. He was a police officer with the Homewood, Illinois Police Department for 32 years. Mr. Schlueter was a Navy veteran of WWII who lived in Mountain Home since moving from...

Ann James

Ann James

Aug 7, 2006

Ann R. James died at 4 p.m. on Monday, August 7, 2006, at Pine Lane Healthcare in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She was born on January 28, 1909, in Memphis, Tennessee. She married Charles F. James on October 29, 1930. She was a loving daughter, mother and grandmother. She was a real estate agent for most of her career, on the...

Mary Sanders

Mary Sanders

Aug 2, 2006

Mary Ruth Sanders was born November 5, 1929, the daughter of James and Ada Shutts Grooms. She married Von Sanders on November 26, 1939, at Harrison, Arkansas. She was a registered nurse who lived in Mountain Home since moving from Greeley, Colorado, in 1986. She was a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Survivors: one son, Douglas Von Sanders of...

Edna Sutterfield

Edna Sutterfield

Aug 1, 2006

Edna May Sutterfield was born November 13, 1965, at Calico Rock, Arkansas, to Olen and Thelma Taylor Sutterfield. She was a laborer for Marthron and a lifetime resident of the area. She enjoyed computers and was of Protestant faith. She died August 1, 2006, at Baxter Regional Medical Center. Survivors: She is survived by a son, Kenneth Sutterfield and a...