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Edmund Pfeiffer
Feb 8, 2005
Edmund G. Pfeiffer was born September 18, 1910 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was the son of Gottlieb and Roselie Jingling Pfeiffer. He married Ruby Hewitt on October 10, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Pfeiffer was an engineer with the Chicago Fire Department. He loved to travel and moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1975 from Chicago Illinois. He was a...
James Herron
Feb 8, 2005
James Archie Herron was born December 18, 1926 in Blakesburg, Iowa. He was the son of Archie and Virga L. Harsfield Herron. He married Mary Frances Carter in Centerville, Iowa on March 13, 1944. He lived in the Gamaliel area since moving from Moravia, Iowa in 1973. He was former owner of Echo Point Resort, and sold real estate for...
Madisy Andrews
Feb 8, 2005
Madisyn-Claire Andrews, beloved of her family, passed away on February 8, 2005. Survivors: Parents; Jeremy Andrews & Trisha Ables Andrews of Gassville, Arkansas; paternal grandmother, Etta Andrews of Mountain Home; maternal grandparents, Tim and Kathy Ables of Mountain Home; paternal great-grandmothers, Geneva Kenner of Mountain Home and Angie Spears of DeRitter, Louisiana; maternal great-grandparents, Lester and Carla Gaskill of Payson,...
Clara Shipe
Feb 5, 2005
Clara Jean Shipe was born December 21, 1932 in Hammond, Indiana. She was the daughter of Emil and Louise Dockweiler Koehn. She married Howard Earl Shipe on October 17, 1953 in Lansing, Illinois. Mrs. Shipe was a homemaker. She moved from S. Holland, Illinois to Mountain Home, Arkansas in August 1990. Mrs. Shipe volunteered at Baxter Regional Medical Center in...
Etta Deitz
Feb 4, 2005
Etta Fredericka Deitz was born August 27, 1907 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was the daughter of John Washington and Mary Worzel Heuse. She married Herbert Deitz on July 15, 1925 in Huntsville, New Jersey. Mrs. Deitz was a seamstress, and active with the Beehive Hospital Auxillary in Newton, New Jersey. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1997 from...
Estelle Allen
Feb 4, 2005
Estelle Taylor Allen was born January 15, 1921 in Grandview, Texas. She was the daughter of John C. and Arlie M. Farmer Taylor. She married Virgil Allen on August 6, 1938 in Levelland, Texas. She was a homemaker and co-owner with her husband of Allen Plumbing for 30 years. She moved to Arkansas in 1946 from Texas. She was a...
Shirley Bodkin
Feb 3, 2005
Shirley Bodkin was born August 11, 1908 in Irasburg, Vermont. She was the daughter of George and Mary Locke. She married John Bodkin on April 14, 1934 in Evanston, Illinois. She resided in Evanston, Illinois until moving to Lakeview, Arkansas in 1974. Mrs. Bodkin was a homemaker who enjoyed reading and spending time with friends. She was also a member...
Henrietta Rutzen
Feb 2, 2005
Henrietta Rutzen was born September 23, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Frank and Jozephine Wismierski Zimney. She married Theodore Rutzen in Mountain Home on June 11, 1993. Mrs. Rutzen resided in the Gassville area since moving from Dolton, Illinois in 1963. She worked at R R Donnelley Company for 10 years as a Paste Up and...
Sylvester Klish
Jan 30, 2005
Sylvester Klish was born October 11, 1919 in Chicago Illinois, to Anthony and Katherine Biegun Klish. He married Iris Tibor March 9, 1940 in Iowa. Mr. Klish was a machinist, and a U.S. Army Veteran. While serving his country he received a Good Conduct Medal and The Purple Heart. Mr. Klish lived in Dixon, Illinois before moving to Bull Shoals...
Garry Sperry
Jan 29, 2005
Garry Sperry was born August 24, 1943, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Burgess N. and Ellinor M. Carroll Sperry. He married Margaret Warmath on August 29, 1981 in Mountain Grove, Missouri. Mr. Sperry was employed as a Fishing Guide for a professional guide service. He lived in Kansas City, Missouri before moving to Gamaliel in 1980. Mr. Sperry was a...
Nancy Hickman
Jan 28, 2005
Nancy Joanne Hickman was born November 20, 1956 in Urbana, Ohio. She was the daughter of Kenneth Sr. and Nancy Stevens Pack. She married Kenneth Hickman on November 9, 1985 in Larned, Kansas. Mrs. Hickman moved to Clarkridge, Arkansas from Branson, Missouri in October of 2004. She was employed as a waitress. She enjoyed crafts, fishing, and playing cards. She...
Haythen
Jan 28, 2005
Haythen & Rylan Burch died at Baxter Regional Medical Center on Friday, January 28, 2005. Survivors: Parents Kevin and Samantha Cooper Burch of Mountain Home; paternal grandparents, Darren Burch of Salem and Anita Walde of Mountain Home; paternal great-grandparents, Loyd Burch of Pocahontas, Lorene Elliot of Mountain Home and Betty Hankins of Vilonia; maternal grandparents; James Cooper of Del Rio,...
William Murray
Jan 27, 2005
William J. "Bill" Murray was born July 11, 1953 in Wichita, Kansas. He was the son of John D. and Eileen Leis Murray. He married Diana Long on June 25, 1986 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. This was also the year Mr. Murray moved to Mountain Home from Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Murray attended Gem City college and worked thirty years as...
Frankie Bradshaw
Jan 27, 2005
Frankie Marie Bradshaw was born January 1, 1914, in Dumas, Arkansas, to Carter F. and Mary J. Hamilton Hoover. She married Walter Bradshaw Sr. on November 28, 1937 at Dos Palos, California. Frankie was a homemaker and lived in Dos Palos, California before moving to Mountain Home in 1940. Frankie enjoyed reading, gardening, sewing and attending church. She was a...
Melonee Turley
Jan 26, 2005
Melonee Y. Turley was born March 22, 1927 in Lakeland, Florida to Tom and Hazel Droughty Warmack and was married to the late William Thomas Turley. Melonee Turley was a retired Executive Secretary for Walgreens, Inc., a member of the V.F.W. Auxiliary in Lady Lake, Florida and loved to play golf. She moved to Jordan, Arkansas from Oconee, Florida in...
Kenneth Kennedy
Jan 25, 2005
Kenneth Kennedy was born May 10, 1922 at Thaxton, Mississippi to Gus and Lella Spears Kennedy. He married Bernice B. Buckowski on June 17, 1950 in Pacagoula, Mississippi. He was retired from the United States Air Force where he served as an Air Traffic Controller for 30 years. He was also a member of the First United Methodist Church, Mountain...
Vera Lucas
Jan 24, 2005
Vera Mae Lucas was born July 25, 1916 in Murphysboro, Illinois to Luther and Ethel Smith. She married Charles Lucas, May 2, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to Bull Shoals, AR from Zeigler, Illinois in 1994. Vera was a homemaker andd attended the Methodist church. Vera Mae Zeigler passed away at the Twin Lakes Nursing Home on January 24,...
Doyle Bushong
Jan 24, 2005
Doyle James Bushong was born November 14, 1948 at La Junta, Colorado to Rudolph and Mabel Dobbs Bushong. He was a small engine mechanic and had lived in the Mountain Home area since moving from Kansas in 1984. He loved his children and enjoyed reading and fishing. Doyle James Bushong passed away at Baxter Regional Medical Center on January 24,...
Dallas Brock
Jan 24, 2005
Dallas W. Brock was born April 19, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois, to Jessee James and Brenda Meadows Brock. He married Rita Hajek on April 26, 1993 in Cirero, Illinois. Dallas was employed as a Residential Contractor. He lived in Chicago, Illinois prior to moving to the Mountain Home area in 2002. He was a full time Ordained Baptist Minister, and...
Betty Rose
Jan 20, 2005
Betty Jean Rose was born April 14, 1930 at MaComb, Missouri to Everett and Nellie Williams Graves. She married Kenneth Rose on April 26, 1991 in Mountain Home. She was retired having worked for 17 years in the Supply Department of Baxter Lab. She was a member of the Ozark V.F.W. Post #3246 Auxiliary, the Eastern Stars and St. Peter...
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