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Claudia Pugmire
Sep 23, 2006
Claudia Ann Pugmire was born April 1, 1928 at West Frankfort, Illinois to Thomas and Bettie Neal Gilbraith. Claudia married Joseph Knea in July 1969 at Palm Springs, California. She worked as a waitress and loved to play pinochle and cribbage. She moved to the Mountain Home area in 1993 from Seattle, Washington and passed away on September 23, 2006...
Eleanor Goettsche
Sep 23, 2006
Eleanor Irene Goettsche was born October 27, 1910 at Chicago, Illinois to Carl E. and Ingrid Eck Westerlund. She was a Circuit Board Technician and read blueprints for Circuit Boards for the Mercoid Corporation for 25 years. She married Charles Lester Goettsche on August 22, 1936 at Chicago. She was a member of the Twin Lakes Church of the Nazarene....
Larry Davidson
Sep 22, 2006
Larry Don Davidson was born on March 29, 1933 at Beulah North Dakota to Steve and Rena Cone Davidson. He married Ellen Morris on June 23, 1962 in Hyattsville, Maryland and worked as a Security Programmer for Allstate Insurance Company. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of the Korean War and spent 39 years of duty in the Army Reserves....
Sylvia Glenn
Sep 22, 2006
Sylvia Jane Glenn was born March 19, 1945 at Valley Falls, Kansas to James Alfred and Sophia Ann Best Evans. She graduated from the Washburn University in Topeka Kansas with a Masters Degree in Nursing and BA degree in Journalism. She married Calvin Glenn on February 17, 1987 at Topeka. They moved to Mountain Home on May 31, 2000 from...
Harold Leibinger
Sep 22, 2006
Harold G. Leibinger was born May 4, 1919 at Chicago, Illinois to Gustav and Mary Schwedler Leibinger. He married Dorothy Eismueller on May 31, 1941 in Chicago and worked as a Sheet Metal Contractor. He was a WWII U.S. Navy veteran and a member of the Hovel-Barnett VFW, Lakeview Community Club and Christ by the Lake Lutheran Church. Harold loved...
Mark Minnie
Sep 21, 2006
Mark O. Minnie was born on March 21, 1925 to Austin and Clara Stone Minnie at DeKalb, Illinois. He married Dorothy Kolle on July 24, 1982 at Linn, Kansas. He worked as an extruder operator for RTP Plastics Manufacturing. Mark was a U.S. Army Veteran of World War II and a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church. He enjoyed fixing...
Gary Kruchten
Sep 21, 2006
Gary J. Kruchten was born April 9, 1953 at Chicago, Illinois, to Leslie and Eileen Tracey Kruchten. He worked for a carpet company and loved to listen to the Blues and collect music. He was a Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a tanker with the Americal Division. He was a member of the American Legion and the Vietnam...
Keith Palmer
Sep 20, 2006
Funeral services for Keith E. Palmer Sr., 63, of Gassville will be at 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 25 at Kirby-Boaz Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Nancy Palmer officiating. Mr. Palmer died Wednesday, September 20, 2006, at Baxter Regional Medical Center. Keith E. Palmer Sr. was born August 30, 1943, at Almyra, New York, to John and Vielda Spencer Palmer. He...
Melanio Perez
Sep 19, 2006
Melanio C. Perez was born January 8, 1930 in Puerto Rico to Nicolas and Pilar Caamano Perez. He moved to Mountain Home in Feb. 1994 from Northlake, Illinois. Mel worked as a school custodian for the Cotter School system. Mel Married Darlene Larsen August 26, 1996 at Cotter. He was a U.S. Army Korean War Veteran and a Catholic. Mel...
Pam Tilley
Sep 18, 2006
Services for Pam Tilley, 49, of Gassville will be private. Pam Tilley died Monday, September 18, 2006, at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Pam Tilley was born August 8, 1957, at East St. Louis, Illinois, to Earl and Sharon Duncan Martin. She married James Tilley on February 21, 1980, at Cahokia, Illinois. Mrs. Tilley was a secretary for Farm...
Richard McGregor
Sep 18, 2006
He was born March 27, 1943 at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to Robert and Margaret McGregor. He married Jeanne Bozic at Johnstown, Pennsylvania on April 22 1961. He was an Engineer who worked at Lockheed-Martin for 18 years. Dick lived in Lakeview for 4 years, moving from Littleton, Colorado. He loved the outdoors and was an avid hunter and fisherman and loved...
Ruth Newell
Sep 17, 2006
Ruth K. Newell was born May 29, 1918 at El Paso, Texas to Frank G. and Luisa Kaerwer. She graduated from El Paso High School and Business School. She married Henry Hay in 1941 at El Paso who preceded her in death. She then married Oliver J. Newell on April 10, 1971 in Ft. Worth, Texas. She worked as a...
Michael Cravotta
Sep 16, 2006
We are celebrating the life of Michael Santo Cravotta of Gassville, Arkansas at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 16, 2006 at the Kirby-Boaz Funeral Home chapel with Deacon Bob Crawford officiating. Military Honors will follow by North Central Arkansas Veterans Council with Color Guard by Alley-White American Legion Post #52. Michael S. Cravotta died Sunday morning, September 10, 2006 at...
Harry Millwood
Sep 16, 2006
Harry Charles Millwood Sr. was born March 7, 1914, at Zanesville, Ohio, to Charles and Catherine Neal Millwood. He was an aircraft engineer for National Presto Company, a plant manager for Dana Corporation, and started T & D Journeyman. He also owned an upholstery shop in Withee, Wisconsin. He was a civil servant during WWII, training T & D apprentices....
Loretta Fredin
Sep 12, 2006
Loretta Anna Fredin was born June 18, 1914 at St. Paul, Minnesota to Henry G. and Amilia Goetzke Bauer. She married Alden G. Fredin on June 20, 1938 at St. Paul and worked with her husband as owners of several Department stores in Minnesota and Montana. She moved to Mountain Home in 2001 and passed away at the Good Samaritan...
Ronald Jones
Sep 12, 2006
Graveside services for Ronald Jones, 55, of Bartlett, Tennessee, will be at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, September 16, 2006, at Douglas Cemetery with Reverend Randy Ludwig officiating. Mr. Jones died Tuesday, September 12, 2006, at Bartlett, Tennessee. Ronald Jones was born October 17, 1950, at Gassville, Arkansas, to Guy and Lorene Holland Jones. He was a forklift mechanic for the Kimberly-Clark...
Frank Sandoval
Sep 12, 2006
Frank Sandoval was born July 13, 1926 at San Diego, California to Frank G. and Amanda Lockhart Sandoval. He was a Cabinetmaker and worked for Modern Cabinet Company for 30 years. He moved to Lakeview, Arkansas in 2003 from South San Francisco, California. He was a U.S. Navy Veteran of WWII. He passed away at the Pine Lane Nursing Center...
Gerhard Pilz
Sep 12, 2006
Gerhard Otto Pilz was born September 3, 1909 in Germany. He owned a Bakery in Chicago before retiring to Bull Shoals in 1973. Gerhard married Lucille A. Weber on April 16, 1943 in Chicago and she preceded him in death in August of 2001. He loved to play the harmonica and keyboard. He enjoyed hiking and the outdoors, to sail...
Louise Fleming
Sep 11, 2006
Louise Hope Fleming was born September 20, 1917, at Detroit, Michigan, to Samuel and Dell Herrington Fleming. She was a news writer for the Baxter Bulletin and a published author. She was a longtime member of Friends of the Baxter County Library and the Area Art Club. She also enjoyed gardening and was of Protestant faith. Louise Hope Fleming died...
Alan Brenner
Sep 10, 2006
Funeral services for Alan Brenner of Mountain Home will be private in Chicago. Alan Brenner died Sunday, September 10, 2006, in the V.A. Hospital in Maywood, Illinois, at the age of 59. Alan Brenner is survived locally by his father Lester; a brother, James Brenner; and an aunt and uncle, Charlotte and Neal Monroe of Mountain Home. Other survivors include...
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