Obituaries

Kirby & Family Obituaries

Ray Ballard

Ray Ballard

May 9, 2005

Ray Junior Ballard was born January 15, 1935 in West Plains, Missouri. He was the son of Ted R. and Lilly Cook Ballard. He married Glenda Moler on April 17, 1992 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Ballard owned the 89er's Restaurant in Springfield, Missouri for twenty years and lived in Pensacola, Florida prior to moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas in...

Hazel Robinson

Hazel Robinson

May 7, 2005

Hazel Poston Robinson was born December 10, 1901, in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Richard Hezakiah and Mayme Sarah Bowels Poston. She was a homemaker and lived in Chicago, Illinois prior to moving to Mountain Home in 1979. Mrs. Robinson was a member of the Baptist faith. Hazel Poston Robinson passed away at Pine Lane Nursing Home on...

Kerry Epler

Kerry Epler

May 6, 2005

Kerry Epler was born March 14, 1948 in Lansing, Michigan. He was the son of Elwin and ImoJean Harmon Epler. He married Brenda Hunter on August 22, 1970 in Grand Ledge, Michigan. He was owner of a recycling plant and lived in Charlotte, Michigan prior to moving to Gassville in 1989. Mr. Epler was a member of the Baptist faith....

Donna Hogan

Donna Hogan

May 5, 2005

Donna Hogan was born October 24, 1943 in Oak Park, Illinois. She was the daughter of James and Anna Libert Snow. She married John W. Hogan on March 27, 1978 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She was an assembler for Actronix in Flippin, Arkansas and lived in Phoenix, Arizona prior to moving to Mountain Home in 1994. She attended St. Peter...

Ronald Eppley

Ronald Eppley

May 4, 2005

Ronald E. Eppley was born September 22, 1927 in Dundee, Illinois. He was the son of Raymond and Emma Wiechert Eppley. He married Juanita Duvall in Mountain Home, Arkansas on June 17, 1985. He was the manager of Carscope Railroad with the Soo Line Railroad. He was a sports fan, and his hobbies included fishing, model cars and golfing. Mr....

Marshall Johnson

Marshall Johnson

May 4, 2005

Marshall Ruez Johnson was born December 12, 1931 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was the son of Olin H. and Olethea Marshall Johnson. He married Joycelyn Van Daalen on September 18, 1953 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was vice president of operations for Economy Machine Tool for thirty-three years and he was a United States veteran of the Korean War. He...

Diane Thurman

Diane Thurman

May 3, 2005

Diane R. Thurman was born January 26, 1950 in Winsor, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Robert Dewitt and Minnie Marie Schliski Hodge. She married Danny Thurman on December 31, 1984 in Cabot, Arkansas. She was an LPN and lived in Jacksonville prior to moving to Gassville, Arkansas in 1998. She enjoyed working in her yard, dancing, playing pool, flowers,...

Mary Wells

Mary Wells

May 2, 2005

Mary Louise Wells was born April 2, 1917 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Henry V. and Mary Emma McLendon Brinkley. She married Thurman (Red) Wells on December 21, 1979 in Lakeview, Arkansas. She was a housewife. Mrs. Wells Moved to Lakeview from Guatemala in 1959. She was a former resident of southern Arkansas. She and her...

David Craven

David Craven

Apr 30, 2005

David Verne Craven was born October 28, 1921 in Thomas, West Virginia. He was the son of Lloyd H. and Marjorie Phelps Craven. He married Lois Gene Hilliard April 18, 1942 in North Tonawanda, New York. David was a retired supervisor of the DuPont Chemical Plant in Niagara Falls, New York and a United States Army Veteran of World War...

Versa Poynter

Versa Poynter

Apr 29, 2005

Versa M. Poynter was born October 21, 1920 in Rea Valley, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Ewing and Laura Jones Duggins. She married Steve Poynter Jr. on December 25, 1935 in Rea Valley. She was a housewife and spent all her life in this area. Versa M. Poynter passed away on April 29, 2005 at Baxter Regional Medical Center...

Eugene Greene

Eugene Greene

Apr 27, 2005

Eugene Francis Greene was born November 12, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the son of Charles W. and Anna Nelke Greene. He owned and operated Fouts Boat Dock in Gamaliel for eighteen years, and was a United States Navy Veteran. Mr. Greene lived in St. Louis, Missouri prior to moving to Gamaliel in 1976. He loved boating and...

Helen Byrd

Helen Byrd

Apr 26, 2005

Helen Dolores Byrd was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on June 24, 1913. She was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Molnar Egyed. She married the late Eugene C. Byrd in Crown Point, Indiana on February 27, 1935. Mrs. Byrd was employed as a post master secretery with the post office for twenty-five years. She was also a member of the...

James Srbeny

James Srbeny

Apr 26, 2005

James Srbeny was born in Karlin, Michigan on September 6, 1919. He was the son of Anton and Mary Srbeny. He married Josephine Bator in Chicago, Illinois on May 11, 1946. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was employed as an electrician with Exelon for forty-three years. Mr. Srbeny was a member of Ozark...

Chester Kraft

Chester Kraft

Apr 26, 2005

Chester L. Kraft was born August 30, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Leon J. and Pearl Irene Kraft. He married Mildred J. Kohnke on September 19, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a retired buyer who worked at Montgomery Wards for twenty-five years. Mr. Kraft was a United States Navy veteran of World War II. He...

Clarke Hall

Clarke Hall

Apr 23, 2005

Clarke Edwin Hall was born in Elmwood, Nebraska on July 4, 1915. He was the son of Edwin Kelsey and Ruth Sutherland Hall. He married Pearl Fentimen in 1935. He later married Anna Huelsberg-Panko in Prairie Home, Nebraska, on February 21, 1939. Mr. Hall was a well-known farmer in the Cass County area. Along with operating a garage and blacksmith...

Glenn Roberts

Glenn Roberts

Apr 21, 2005

Glenn Roberts was born July 10, 1915 in Willow Springs, Missouri. He was the son of Larkin and Martha Sweicker Roberts. He married Ruth Lorene Jones on August 23, 1935 in Crown Point, Indiana. He was a boiler operator for forty years with Common Wealth Edison in Chicago, Illinois. He lived in Crown Point, Indiana prior to moving to Oakland,...

Iris Brown

Iris Brown

Apr 21, 2005

Iris O. Brown was born February 26, 1933, in Brownsville, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Earle and Vertna Clements Osborne. She married William Brown on July 14, 1953 in Hernando, Mississippi. She was a homemaker and lived in Memphis, Tennessee prior to moving to Mountain Home in 1985. She enjoyed yard sales and was a thankful person and counted...

Doris Wolfe

Doris Wolfe

Apr 19, 2005

Doris Louise Wolfe was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 9, 1919. She was the daughter of Roy F. and Marie Catherine Terteling Brown. Her mother, Marie, died when Doris had just turned nine years old. A few years later her father married Gail B. Kelley. Doris had one sister and one brother who preceded her in death. She also...

George Liaromatis

George Liaromatis

Apr 17, 2005

George D.Liaromatis was born January 15, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Danie and Margaret Payette Liaromatis. He married Virginia Hogan on June 14, 1947, in Wheaton, Illinois. Mr Liaromatis served with the United States Navy during World War II. He owned Liaromatis Roofing for firty-two years. He was a life member, since 1944, of V.F.W. Post...

John Shaffer

John Shaffer

Apr 16, 2005

John W. Shaffer was born November 19, 1915 in Boone, Iowa. He was the son of Tobias and Elsie Stiffler Shaffer. He married Hazel Dillon on January 9, 1946 in Webster City, Iowa. He was a fabricator for Martin-Marietta and lived in Boone, Iowa prior to moving to Lakeview, Arkansas in 1999. Mr. Shaffer was a United State Army Veteran...