Obituaries

Kirby & Family Obituaries

Shirley Bodkin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Teddy Hall

Teddy Hall

Jan 20, 2005

Teddy D. Hall, 65, beloved husband of Virgie May Hall entered into eternal rest January 20, 2005 after a brief illness. Survivors: Teddy Hall is survived by three sons; John M. of Greenville, South Carolina, Terry D. of Elyria, Ohio and Larry W. of Lewiston, New York; three daughters; Donna K. Calhoun of Elyria, Ohio, Mary A. McCown and Natasia...

Dessie Pitts

Dessie Pitts

Jan 19, 2005

Dessie M. Pitts was born January 23, 1925 in Wichita, Kansas. She was the daughter of David B. and Eva Brown Duncan. She married Carl R. Pitts on June 14, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas. She graduated from East High School in Wichita, Kansas in 1942. Mrs. Pitts moved from Wichita to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1952. In the same year...

Bill Conner

Bill Conner

Jan 16, 2005

Bill J. Conner was born on August 10, 1963 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was the son of James Alvin and Dianne Mary Trudell Conner. He married Teresa Ann Langston on June 22, 2001 in Morriston, Arkansas. Mr. Conner was a graduate of Alton High School in Missouri. After high school he attended and graduated from Gradwohl School of Lab...

Clyde Phillips

Clyde Phillips

Jan 15, 2005

Clyde Phillips was born on December 12, 1921 in Lawrence County, Arkansas. He was the son of Oscar and Dahlia Phillips. He married Ruby Ray in Fayette, Missouri on December 22, 1948. Mr. Phillips moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Marshall, Missouri in 1977. He was a member of the Mountain Home Masonic Lodge #225. Clyde Phillips passed away at...

Lorraine Triemstra

Lorraine Triemstra

Jan 6, 2005

Lorraine C. Triemstra was born on July 12, 1919 in Evergreen Park, Illinois. She was the daughter of Melville and Emma Schiedler Cowan. She married John Triemstra in 1987 in Worth, Illinois. In addition to being a homemaker, Mrs. Triemstra was an office worker for Central Steel and Wire. She moved from Evergreen Park, Illinois to Mountain Home, Arkansas in...

Dolores Pfieffer

Dolores Pfieffer

Jan 6, 2005

Dolores Veronica Pfieffer was born on December 23, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Edward and Helen Nowicki Wolowicki. She married William J. Pfieffer on May 3, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Pfieffer was a homemaker. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas, where she resided for six years, after moving from Cicero, Illinois. Dolores Veronica Pfieffer passed...