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Marcel DeFyn
Jul 18, 2005
Marcel Joseph DeFyn was born October 11, 1928 in Centerville, Iowa. He was the son of Marcel and Sophie Dudek DeFyn. He married Virginia Witek in Chicago, Illinois in 1962. He was employed in the distribution center of the telephone company. Mr. DeFyn resided in Mountain Home, Arkansas for nearly twenty years, after moving from the Chicago area. He was...
Harold Schiefelbein
Jul 18, 2005
Harold Edward Schiefelbein was born November 2, 1928 in Champaign, Illinois. He was the son of Harold R. and Lily Schwartz Schiefelbein. He married Lois Schultz on September 4, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Schiefelbein was a United States Army veteran. He served during the Korean War. He was employed in Special Services with Wisconsin Bell Telephone Company. He moved...
John Gresham
Jul 15, 2005
John Fred Gresham was born February 28, 1916 in Bernice, Louisiana. He was the son of John R. and Fannie O'Bannon Gresham. He married Doris Stephens on October 4, 1939 in Smackover, Arkansas. He was an ARKLA Gas manager for forty-seven years and a United States Navy veteran. He was a member of the ARKLA Retirees, Silver Haired Legislature, VFW...
Irene Evers
Jul 15, 2005
Irene Eleanor Evers was born October 19, 1909 in Kewaunee, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Thomas W. and Emma Johnson Nelson. She married Emil J. Evers on August 19, 1950 in Harvard, Illinois. She was employed as a bookkeeper with Hummel-Dowing Milk in Wisconsin. She moved to Lakeview, Arkansas from Harvard, Illinois in 1975. She was a member of...
Robert Lapp
Jul 15, 2005
Robert Edgar Lapp was born January 30, 1923 in Springer, New Mexico. He was the son of John Isaac and Lillian Lapp. He married Leota Williamette Stark on April 16, 1947 in Gloreata, New Mexico. He retired as Senior Chief in 1963, after twenty-one years in the Navy. He then worked for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, retiring in 1988...
Mary Giamanco
Jul 14, 2005
Mary Margaret Giamanco was born February 20, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John and Mary Theresa Sullivan Burns II. She married Ignacio Giamanco in New Hampshire. She was a housewife and a United States Navy veteran of World War II. She lived in Daytona Beach, Florida prior to moving to Bull Shoals, Arkansas in 2004. Mary...
Charles McDonald
Jul 14, 2005
Charles L. McDonald was born February 21, 1921 in Howard City, Michigan. He was the son of Warner and Carrie Bogardus McDonald. He served with the United States Army during World War II. He married Maxine J. Plath in Coral, Michigan on December 21, 1946. They made their home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Upon his retirement from Kelvinator Corp in...
Bonnie Swain
Jul 11, 2005
Bonnie N. Swain was born October 8, 1933 in Joplin, Missouri. She was the daughter of Herman R. and Rhoda M. Jackman Hutto. She married Samuel Swain on February 5, 1950 in Bentonville, Arkansas. She was employed as an office manager in the medical field. Mrs. Swain moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1993. She enjoyed skiing,...
Jean McCune
Jul 11, 2005
Jean sloan McCune was born February 14, 1926 in East Liverpool, Ohio. She was the daughter of Okey and Sara Picken Smith. She married harold L. McCune on May 31, 1954 in Numa, California. She was of the Methodist faith. Jean Sloan McCune passed away at her residence on July 11, 2005, at the age of 79 years, 4 months...
Robert Nave
Jul 10, 2005
Robert Louis Nave was born July 18, 1925 in Springfield, Ohio. He was the son of Louis A. and Avis Strecther Nave. He was a retired truck guard, employed with Brink's Incorporated for twenty-five years. Mr. Nave was a United States Navy veteran and lived in Chicago, Illinois prior to moving to Cotter, Arkansas in 1990. He enjoyed square dancing...
Joseph Beasley
Jul 9, 2005
Joseph G. Beasley was born July 4, 1924 in Gary, Indiana. He was the son of Joseph Reed and Ida Mae Moore Beasley. He was a retired ironworker and a United States Navy World War II Veteran. He lived in Hobart, Indiana prior to moving to Gassville, Arkansas in 1978. He enjoyed singing and playing music, fishing, directing the church...
Frank Prohaska
Jul 9, 2005
Frank James Prohaska III was born March 24, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Frank James and Emily Rose Carl Prohaska II. He married Carol Wallin on March 14, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a retired photo engraver for the Chicago Tribune and a United States Marine Corp World War II Veteran. He owned and operated...
Thomas Kerns
Jul 4, 2005
Thomas D. Kerns was born February 21, 1950 in Logansport, Indiana. He was the son of Robert L. and Juanita Cole Kerns. Mr. Kerns served with the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was employed as a private investigator with law enforcement. He lived in Gassville, Arkansas since September, 2004, when he moved from Auburn, Alabama. Thomas D....
Selina Whitesell
Jul 4, 2005
Selina Whitesell was born June 27, 1943 in Beverly, New Jersey. She was the daughter of William and Edna Van Adams Whitesell. She was employed as a stock replenisher with JC Penny Corporate. She lived in Elizabeth, Arkansas since February, 2005, when she moved from Burlington, New Jersey. Selina Whitesell passed away at her residence on July 4, 2005, at...
Edward Moravek
Jul 2, 2005
Edward Robert Moravek, Jr. was born August 12, 1925 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was the son of Edward Robert Moravek, Sr. and Anne Carter Moravek. He married Betty Brusherd in Chicago, Illinois on December 7, 1974. He resided in the Mountain Home, Arkansas area since moving from Western Springs, Illinois in 1993. He served with the United States Navy...
Edward Anderson
Jun 28, 2005
Edward J. "Andy" Anderson was born March 7, 1924 in Boone, Iowa. He was the son of John and Ann Anderson. He married Virginia E. Stutler on April 3, 1958 in Ocaia, Florida. He was a consumer finance agent, employed with AVCO Financial Services for thirty-two years. He retired as vice president in the insurance division. He was a United...
Patricia Straw
Jun 27, 2005
Patricia Marie Straw was born June 3, 1931 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Leroy and Josephine Beno Carmichael. She was a school teacher and earned her B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. She graduated from Marinette County Teachers College with five children at home in 1962. She lived in Media, Pennsylvania prior to...
Leopoldine Kuestner
Jun 27, 2005
Leopoldine "Olly" Kuestner was born May 27, 1925 in Krug, Austria. She was the daughter of Karl and Anna Kloiber Kraus. She married Wilhelm Kuestner on April 14, 1943 in Wien, Austria. She was a court stenographer in Vienna, Austria until after WWII. She married during the war and moved to Germany in 1945, then to Venezuela in 1953, and...
Leta Fritz
Jun 27, 2005
Leta M. Fritz was born August 28, 1911 in Hawkeye, Iowa. She was the daughter of Frank and Mary Engel Dietel. She married J. Martin Fritz on November 5, 1930 in Hawkeye. She was a homemaker and lived in Oelwein, Iowa prior to moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1969. She was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church. Leta Fritz...
Angeline Dobrowolski
Jun 25, 2005
Angeline Dobrowalski was born June 25, 2005 in Kowoel, Poland. She was the daughter of Anthony and Mary Ragivil Dubelik. She was self-employed as a beautician. She lived in Bull Shoals twenty-nine years, after moving to the area from Chicago. Angeline Dobrowolski passed away at Baxter Regional Medical Center on June 25, 2005, at the age of 94 years, 2...
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