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Frances Shroeter
Sep 21, 2005
Frances Marie Schroeter was born February 26, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of John and Marie Horwath Kainrath. She married the late Carl A. Sorgatz on September 7, 1946. The Sorgatz family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1970 from Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Sorgatz passed away on October 5, 1972. Frances later married the late Arthur H....
Virgil Newberry
Sep 21, 2005
Virgil L. Newberry was born March 30, 1936 in Holland, Missouri. he was the son of Leonard and Lottie Cooper Newberry. He married Wanda Eagan on November 3, 1967 in Southaven, Michigan. He owned Virgil's Towing for thirty-two years and formerly drove a Pepsi truck. Mr. Newberry lived in Gassville for twenty-nine years, moving from Southaven, Michigan where he was...
Edmund Savage
Sep 18, 2005
Edmund H. Savage was born January 6, 1931 in Palatine, Illinois. He was the son of Edmund H. Sr. and Madge Gibbs Savage. Mr. Savage served with the United States Army during the Korean War. He was employed as an operations agent with United Airlines. He moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Palatine, Illinois in 1996. He was a member...
Lawrence Larson
Sep 17, 2005
Lawrence C. Larson was born in Woodstock, Illinois on November 18, 1942. He was the son of Archie and Virginia Roth Larson. He married Barbara Romme on August 13, 1989 in Empire, Michigan. He was an electrician. Mr. Larson lived in Wonder Lake, Illinois before moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas in September, 2004. He enjoyed fishing, camping, woodworking, gardening, hot...
Roberta Roberts
Sep 15, 2005
Roberta Lee Roberts was born August 24, 1914 in Lonoke, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Charles Cleveland and Mae Sizemore Falls. She married Glenn Kenneth Roberts on August 15, 1989. The Roberts family moved to Bee Branch, Arkansas from Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1999. Mrs. Roberts enjoyed her grandchildren; reading; and sewing, including clothing and drapery construction. She was...
Beatrice Walkinshaw
Sep 14, 2005
Beatrice Walkinshaw was born October 12, 1903 in Ohio. She was the daughter of John and Martha Ann Shoemaker Walkinshaw. She married Tom Walkinshaw. The Walkinshaw family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Kansas City, Kansas in 1966. Mrs. Walkinshaw was a homemaker and member of First Christian Church. Beatrice Walkinshaw passed away at Care Manor on September 14, 2005,...
John Demand
Sep 12, 2005
John D. Demand was born April 20, 1919 in Pilot Knob, Missouri. He was the son of John J. and Margaret Miller Demand. He married Maxine Webb on July 21, 1940 in Herculinum, Missouri. They moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1984 after he retired as local manager of AP&L in Monette, Arkansas with a thirty year service record. Mr....
Mary Cooper
Sep 10, 2005
Mary E. Cooper was born December 19, 1925 in Brookland, and lived much of her life in Jonesboro , Arkansas before moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas six years ago. She worked several years in the family business of Cooper Lime in Jonesboro, and also worked for General Electric in Jonesboro before retirement. Mary Ellen Cooper passed away on September 10,...
Joan Sanford
Sep 10, 2005
Joan Gail Sanford was born March 27, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the daughter of George and Lila Richardson Cook. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1979, from West Memphis, Tennessee. Joan was employed with the Steak House Restaurant. She was a Baptist. Joan Gail Sanford passed away at her residence on September 10, 2005, at the age...
Florence Rutkowski
Sep 9, 2005
Florence Rutkowski was born July 13, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Cyrille and Eugenie Boisvert Royer. She married Henry Theodore Rutkowski on May 4, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. The Rutkowski family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Chicago, Illinois in May, 1979. Mrs. Rutkowski was a homemaker and member of the Catholic faith. Florence Rutkowski passed...
Mildred Sanders
Sep 8, 2005
Mildred G. Sanders, known to her friends as Millie, was born April 6, 1908 in Seelyville, Indiana. She was the daughter of Alexander and Maxamelia Gostow, natives of Russia. She married Raymond E. Sanders in Crown Point, Indiana on January 18, 1936. In 1949, Ray and Millie, along with their two children, Steve and Jill, vacationed in Arkansas where they...
Andy Yasko
Sep 7, 2005
Andy Yasko was born November 23, 1923 in Colver, Pennsylvania. He was the son of George Sr. and Anna S. Sado Yasko. He married Erma Jean Scott on November 16, 1952 in Jackson, Tennessee. The Yasko family moved to Lakeview, Arkansas from Highland, Indiana in 1974. Mr. Yasko was employed as supervisor with Mountain Home Manufacturing for fifteen years. He...
Douglas Rector
Sep 7, 2005
Douglas Eugene Rector was born July 12, 1932 in Williamsport, Ohio. He was the son of Harry and Ruth Jones Rector. Mr. Rector served with the United States Navy during the Korean War and was Leutenant Commander for twenty-two years. He obtained his master's degree in industrial hygiene from the University of Ohio in Wilmington, Ohio. He moved to Mountain...
Joseph Etges
Sep 3, 2005
Joseph A. Etges was born March 25, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of John and Tharsilia Renk Etges. He married Annette O'Rourke on December 4, 1948. Mr. Etges served with the United States Army during World War II, and was a member of the VFW for fifty-five years. He was employed as an automobile parts manager. Joseph...
Winfred Church
Aug 31, 2005
Winfred "Win" R. Church was born March 27, 1919 in Dighton, Kansas. He was the son of Leo and Alma Durr Church. He married Hazel Filbert on May 2, 1969 in Alexandria, Virginia. Win was area director for the USDA and was an Air Force veteran of WWII. He lived in Mountain Home for 19 years, moving from Charlotte Hall,...
Marie Hazard
Aug 31, 2005
Marie Alice Hazard was born July 5, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Joseph and Josephine Kubick. She was a graduate of the Art Institure of Chicago and the Chicago School of Fine Arts. She was a dress designer for Blum's Vogue of Chicago, and life member of Chicago Outdoor Art League. She moved to Mountain Home,...
Doris Stahlberg
Aug 31, 2005
Doris Anita Stahlberg was born November 23, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Arthur Harry and Catherine Marie Mertes Lauer. She was a homemaker and member of Redeemer Lutheran Church, where she participated in the Cheer Group, Travel Club and Social Club. She also volunteered for the Welcome Wagon. Doris Anita Stahlberg passed away at her residence...
Robert Ryan
Aug 30, 2005
Robert V. Ryan was born June 10, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Daniel W. and Clara Bender Ryan. He married Minerva Martinez on August 1, 1945 in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Mr. Ryan served with the United States Army during World War II. He was employed as building superintendent at the Wrigley Building. He moved to Lombard,...
Robert Ryan
Aug 30, 2005
Robert V. Ryan was born June 10, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Daniel W. and Clara Bender Ryan. He married Minerva Martinez on August 1, 1945 in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Mr. Ryan served with the United States Army during World War II. He was employed as building superintendent at the Wrigley Building. He moved to Lombard,...
Vonnie Hancock
Aug 29, 2005
Vonnie M. Hancock was born February 2, 1924 in Nancy, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Alva and Ora Benge New. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Bloomington, Illinois in 1979. She was a homemaker. Vonnie M. Hancock passed away at Baxter Regional Medical Center on August 29, 2005, at the age of 81 years, 6 months and 27...
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