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Beulah Heathcote
Sep 6, 2006
Beulah Beth Heathcote was born May 30, 1917, at Sac City, Iowa, the daughter of Thomas and Eddith Tiffany Batie. She married Corliss R. Heathcote on October 27, 1936, at Des Moines, Iowa. She was a beautician and owned Beulah's Beauty Salon. Mrs. Heathcote lived in Mountain Home since moving from Des Moines, Iowa, in 1979. She was a hospital...
Vivian Held
Sep 4, 2006
Services for Vivian Eleanor Held, 84, of Mountain Home will be private. Vivian Held died Monday, September 4 at Baxter Regional Medical Center. She was born March 30, 1922, at Circleville, Ohio, to George and Alberta Clellan Dewey. She was a homemaker who lived in Mountain Home since moving from Mesa, Arizona, in 1993. She was of Lutheran faith. Survivors:...
Doris Mortvedt
Sep 4, 2006
Doris Maxine Mortvedt was born July 5, 1917 at Swea City, Iowa to Claude and Isabelle M. Rafdal Poole. She was a file clerk with Delta Airlines and a Lutheran. She married Clifford Ardean Mortvedt in May 1940 at Omaha, Nebraska. Doris Mortvedt moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas on September 25, 2005 from Long Beach, California. She died on September...
Harrold Siler
Sep 3, 2006
Harrold Siler was born April 9, 1930, at Grand Glaise, AR to Harrold and Anna King Siler. He was a Demerge Clerk for Burlinton Northern Railroad for 44 years. He also owned Siler Security Doors in West Memphis. He was an avid baseball fan and coach who loved the Atlanta Braves. He enjoyed square dancing and riding his tractor. He...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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