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Rita Bodie
May 29, 2005
Rita Mae Bodie was born August 18, 1930 in Farnhamville, Iowa. She was the daughter of Melvin and Rosa Ann Davidson Johnson. She married Walter Bodie on June 20, 1976 in Matthews, Virginia. She lived in Chicago, Illinois prior to moving to Mountain Home in 1992. She was a member of the Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Rita Mae Bodie entered...
Roger Eggemeyer
May 29, 2005
Roger L. Eggemeyer was born September 13, 1929 in Chester, Illinois. He was the son of Alexander and Rose Hohgrefe Eggemeyer. He married Aletha McClure in Chester, Illinois on February 15, 1958. Mr. Eggemeyer was a United States Army veteran. He retired from Catepillar Tractor Company after working as a machinest for thirty years. He was a member of V.F.W....
Hugh Triplett
May 27, 2005
Hugh L. Triplett Jr. was born January 5, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the son of Hugh and Nona Norton Triplett. He married the "late" Genevieve Pawlak Triplett on November 30, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois. Hugh Triplett was a retired production line supervisor with General Electric and has lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas since 1988 having moved here...
Rosella Tilley
May 25, 2005
Rosella Tilley was born December 21, 1938 in Arkana, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Delbert and Laura Noel Harris. She married Chester Tilley on September 10, 1955 in Iowatha, Kansas. She was employed in lab work as an assembler. She loved flowers, fishing and her grandkids. She lived most of her life in the Mountain Home, Arkansas area and...
Betty Crawford
May 24, 2005
Betty June Crawford was born June 27, 1928 in Du Quoin, Illinois. She was the daughter of William H. and Helen L. Roper Schoppe. She married Richard Crawford on May 19, 1948 at Hamilton Field, California. She was a homemaker and lived in Dolton, Illinois prior to moving to Mountain Home in 1984. She enjoyed boating, reading, deep-sea fishing, traveling...
James Dillard
May 23, 2005
James Charles Dillard was born August 12, 1919 in Esther, Missouri. He was the son of Charles and Minnie McCall Dillard. He married Donna June Talbott in Mountain Home, Arkansas on July 4, 1994. Mr. Dillard was employed as a heavy equipment operator in construction. He enjoyed senior citizen dances, picnics, and the lake. He was a member of First...
Jack Crawford
May 22, 2005
Jack Abner Crawford was born August 6, 1918 in Joiner, Arkansas. He was the son of Luther and Mae Etta Layton Crawford. He married Iona M. Artist on June 18, 1942 in San Francisco, California. He was a civil service office machinery technician and a United States Army veteran of World War II. He lived in Pocahontas, Arkansas prior to...
Elwood Ehlert
May 21, 2005
Elwood R. "Bud" Ehlert was born March 1, 1912 in Elgin, Illinois. He was the son of Herman and Pauline Semmier Ehlert. He married Ada Mae Shinberger on May 17, 1944 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bud was a World War II veteran and lifetime member of the VFW. After his discharge from the Army, Bud and Ada Mae made their...
Otsie Hill
May 19, 2005
Otsie Mae Hill was born June 22, 1909 in Ada, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of James Lee and Callie Stapleton Melton. She married Woodrow W. Hill on December 2, 1960 in Wichita, Kansas. She was a seamstress and lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma prior to moving to Lakeview, Arkansas in 1971. She was a member of Emmanuel Church. Otsie...
Warner Berry
May 19, 2005
Warner Jack Berry was born May 18, 1935 in Berwyn, Illinois. He was the son of Byrd and Eva Lynch Daughtery. He married Tonia Kotlowski on August 22, 1990 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He served for twenty years in law enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee; Dallas, Texas; and West Helena, Arkansas before moving to Lakeview, Arkansas in 1982. He was Chief...
Carl Smithey
May 19, 2005
He was born October 9, 1929 at Mexico, MO to George Carl Smithey and Leta Nannette Bybee Smithe. He was married to Joan May Strieff. He was a resident of Lakeview, AR since moving from San Diego, CA in 1992. He was a route driver for Continental Baking Co. Survivors: He is survived by his wife, Joan of Lakeview, AR...
Otsie Sperry
May 19, 2005
Otsie Mae Hill was born June 22, 1909 in Ada, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of James Lee and Callie Stapleton Melton. She married Woodrow W. Hill on December 2, 1960 in Wichita, Kansas. She was seamstress and lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma prior to moving to Lakeview, Arkansas in 1971. She was a member of the Emmanuel Church. Otsie...
Ellinor Sperry
May 18, 2005
Ellinor M. Sperry was born June 7, 1921 in Topeka, Kansas. She was the daughter of James W. and Julia Ellin Coyne Carroll. She married Burgess N. Sperry on March 29, 1941. She was a bookkeeper for AT&T and lived in Kansas City, Missouri prior to moving to Gassville,Arkansas in 1972. Mrs. Sperry was a member of the Eastern Star...
Earl Kahle
May 17, 2005
Earl F. Kahle was born October 28, 1916 in River Grove, Illinois. He was the son of the late Frank and Sophie Kahle. He married Sigrid Vensberg on October 3, 1936 in Rivergrove, Illinois. Earl attended the Lutheran Church School and Leyden High School in Franklin Park, Illinois, and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. In 1974 after 32...
Andrew Kincaid
May 15, 2005
Andrew Blair Kincaid was born March 29, 1930 in West Virginia. He was the son of Rufus and Pearl Stover Kincaid. He married the late Margaret Peeks in 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Kincaid was a United States Army veteran. He worked as a dispatcher for Ohio Bell for thirty-two years. He was a member of Telephone Pioneers, VFW, and...
Dolores LeGate
May 12, 2005
Dolores LeGate was born October 28, 1906, in Cananea, Mexico. She was the daughter of Joseph and Grace Seaton Benson. She was a homemaker. She loved to play bridge and she was a member of the Women's Club and Emblem Club in California. Dolores LeGate passed away at Auburn Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center on May 12, 2005, at the...
Charles McVea
May 12, 2005
Charles Edward McVea was born January 29, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of John H. and Mary Lohrengel McVea. He married Mary Jane Mason on January 11, 1941 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a retired salesman for C.M. Business Service and was a United States Navy veteran. Mr. McVea lived in Waukegan, Illinois prior to moving...
Pansy Puckette
May 11, 2005
Pansy Mae Puckette was born June 13, 1917 in Magnolia, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Thomas Otis and Arrie Wilkerson Puckette. She graduated from Magnolia High School in 1934. She obtained an A.A. degree from Southern Arkansas University in 1936. She received her B.A. degree from Henderson State University in 1938, with a dual major in mathematics and English....
Kenneth Neel
May 11, 2005
Kenneth "Red" Gene Neel was born February 11, 1955 in Yellville, Arkansas. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wayne Neel. He was a self employed carpenter. Kenneth "Red" Gene Neel passed away on May 11, 2005, at the age of 50 years, and 3 months. Survivors: Sons, Phillip Neel of Norfork, Arkansas, Toby Neel of Mountain Home,...
Gene Woodke
May 9, 2005
Gene Arthur Woodke was born April 6, 1933 in Duluth, Minnesota. He enjoyed Minnesota Vikings football, garage and estate sale shopping and he was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police in Minnesota. He moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Minnesota in 1989. Gene Arthur Woodke passed away at his residence on May 9, 2005, at the age of...
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