Obituaries

Kirby & Family Obituaries

John Robnett

John Robnett

Dec 19, 2005

John D. Robnett, Jr. was born November 30, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of John D. and Mary Goldring Robnett, Sr. He married Mary A., July 13, 1988 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Mr. Robnett was the owner of JJ Crosby Trucking Company. The Robnett family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Anaheim, California in 1987. He was...

Bonnie Harry

Bonnie Harry

Dec 17, 2005

Bonnie Lou Harry was born August 29, 1930 in Mason, Michigan. She was the daughter of Merton and Woodene Henry Mizer. She married George Harry in Mason, Michigan on June 14, 1952. She was employed as a dental hygenist. The Harry family moved to Midway, Arkansas from Marshall, Michigan in 1981. She was of the presbyterian faith. Bonnie Lou Harry...

Marguerite Halsell

Marguerite Halsell

Dec 15, 2005

Marguerite Elizabeth Halsell was born August 31, 1919 in Cotter, Arkansas. She was the daughter of James and Iva Jewell Wardlow Barnett. She married Earl Halsell on June 24, 1961 in Tulare, California. She was employed as a nurse aid and hospital ward clerk and she was a member of Gassville First Baptist Church. Marguerite Elizabeth Halsell entered into eternal...

Ramona Pittman

Ramona Pittman

Dec 14, 2005

She was born May 22, 1958 at Paragould, Arkansas to Frankie and Nina Tennison West. She lived in Mountain Home since moving from Jonesboro in 1989. She loved arts and crafts and enjoyed reading and camping. She was of the Baptist faith. Survivors: Ramona C. "Chriss" Pittman is survived by one son, Thomas Pittman of Gassville, Arkansas; one daughter, Carmen...

Elmer Kempf

Elmer Kempf

Dec 14, 2005

Elmer L. Kempf was born on September 20, 1917 in Marathon, Wisconsin. He was the son of Albert and Selma Bartel Kempf. He married Dorothy M. Herrman on September 5, 1944 in Edgar, Wisconsin. Mr. Kempf was employed as an electrical machinist for Cherry Electric Company in Waukegan, Illinois for 20 years. He has resided in Mountain Home, Arkansas since...

Zelma Ross

Zelma Ross

Dec 8, 2005

Zelma R. Ross was born May 23, 1937, in Norfork, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Charlie and Edna Wheeler Woods. She married Wayne Ross, February 21, 1959, in Wichita, Kansas. She was employed with Mar-Bax for eighteen years and lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas most of her life. She enjoyed her grandkids, being outside, and gardening. She was of...

Sterling Triplett

Sterling Triplett

Dec 7, 2005

Sterling L. Triplett was born April 10, 1939 in Knobel, Arkansas. He was the son of Lester and Lela Alphin Triplett. He married Dewanda Murdoch on September 21, 1958 in Knobel, Arkansas. He was a truck driver and a diesel mechanic. He lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas since he moved to the area from Indiana in 1995. He enjoyed hunting,...

Mary Swan

Mary Swan

Dec 7, 2005

Mary Ruth Swan was born August 9, 1927 in Hayward, California. She was the daughter of John Lee and Mary Lou Gore Terry. She married Guy Swan in Waco, Texas on March 22, 1952. The Swan family moved to Lakeview, Arkansas from Michigan during 1962. Mrs. Swan was a homemaker and of the protestant faith. Mary Ruth Swan passed away...

Jack Hardee

Jack Hardee

Dec 6, 2005

Jack Hardee Jr. was born June 4, 1926 in Tennessee. He was the son of Jack and Willie Sve Robertson Hardee. He married Lela Earnest, July 26, 1969, in Gonzales, California. Mr Hardee served with the United States Navy and the Marines during World War II. He was employed as a building contractor in the apartment construction industry. The Hardee...

Clint Stancil

Clint Stancil

Dec 5, 2005

Clint Stancil was born November 22, 1920 in Buford, Arkansas. He was the son of John and Lela MeGee Stancil. He married Dora Reed on October 18, 1980 in Whiteville, Arkansas. He was a farmer and resident of the Mountain Home area all of his life. He worked for State Parks and Tourism for several years and enjoyed bowling, Cardinal...

Logan Kathcart

Logan Kathcart

Dec 5, 2005

Logan Eli Kathcart was born September 9,1989 in Farmington, Missouri. He was the son of Don and Patricia Henson. Logan Eli Kathcart of Mountain Home, Arkansas, passed away December 5, 2005, at the age of 16 years, 2 months and 26 days. Survivors: His parents, Don and Patricia Henson of Mountain Home, Arkansas; one brother, Matthew J. Parks; grandparents; great-grandmother;...

William Clements

William Clements

Dec 4, 2005

William H. Clements was born July 11, 1933 in Waverly, Tennessee. He was the son of William D. and Julia M. Bates Clements. He married Paula Grbic in Munich, Germany on December 22, 1955. Mr. Clements served with the United States Army during World War II. He was employed as a cement mason with Albin Carlson Construction for twenty-five years....

Marie Metcalf

Marie Metcalf

Dec 3, 2005

Marie E. Metcalf was born March 22, 1921 in Sully, Iowa. She was the daugher of Harry and Johanna Palzter Vanwyk. She married Donald Metcalf, November 1, 1942, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Metcalf family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Pella, Iowa in 1981. Mrs. Metcalf was employed as a machine operator with the Pella Window Company. She loved...

William Kangas

William Kangas

Dec 2, 2005

William Sven Kangas was born March 4, 1942 in Mellen, Wisconsin. He was the son of Toivo and Ellen Raito Kangas. He was employed as a custodian with the United States Postal Service. He served with the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He lived in Bull Shoals, Arkansas since 2000, when he moved to the area from Waukegan,...

Effie Porter

Effie Porter

Dec 2, 2005

Effie Sease Porter was born February 24, 1915 in Cartney, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Herbert Prestor and Dessie McMahan Sease. She married John Joseph Porter, August 29, 1940, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Porter family moved to Cotter, Arkansas from Dallas, Texas in 1985. Mrs. Porter attended Southeastern Teacher's College, East Central College, Oklahoma A & M, and the...

Robert Campbell

Robert Campbell

Nov 30, 2005

Robert Edwin Campbell was born September 1, 1932, in Kentfield, California. He was the son of Elbert Edwin and Alice Nadean Turner Campbell. He married Grace Guiley on March 20, 1976 in Reno, Nevada. Robert Campbell served in the Korean War with the United States Marine Corps. The Campbell family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Grass Valley, California in...

Cleve Wolfe

Cleve Wolfe

Nov 28, 2005

Cleve Wolfe, Jr. was born December 11, 1923 in Oakwood, Illinois. He was the son of Cleveland and Iantha See Wolfe. He married Doris Brown on November 28, 1946 in Burbank, California. He was a Marine veteran of WWII and a mechanic in the aircraft industry. Cleve Wolfe, Jr. lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas since moving from Mountain View, Missouri...

Virginia Hatfield

Virginia Hatfield

Nov 25, 2005

Virginia B. Hatfield was born December 25, 1920 in Greenville, South Carolina. She was the daughter of Virgil and Olga Pearson Butler. She was proud of her Swedish heritage, especially Nisse and Inger Hult of Lomma, Sweden. She married Philip Hatfield on February 1, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Evanston Hospital School of Nursing in 1943 and was...

Wayne Aurand

Wayne Aurand

Nov 23, 2005

Wayne Aurand was born April 1, 1934, at Elizabeth, Illinois, to Harry and Louella Aurand. He married Pauline Garcia in 1952 at DeKalb, Illinois. He was a welder for the railroad. Mr. Aurand lived in Bull Shoals since moving from Sycamore, Illinois, in 1994. Wayne Aurand entered into eternal rest on November 23, 2006, at Mountain Home, Arkansas, at the...

Eleanor Wilcox

Eleanor Wilcox

Nov 22, 2005

Eleanor Barbara Wilcox was born December 5, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Stanley and Mary Gebis Szczepaniak. She was employed as a mail room clerk for seventeen years. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Leyden Township, Illinois in April of 2002 and was of the Catholic faith. Eleanor Barbara Wilcox passed away at Baxter Regional...