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Frances Hambleton
Sep 27, 2005
Frances F. Hambleton was born April 11, 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Hyman and Ida Finesilver Oranburg. She married the late Gilbert Hambleton on January 13, 1941 in Somerville, Massachusetts. The Hambleton family moved to Bull Shoals, Arkansas from New London, Connecticut in 1970. She was a homemaker and "worthy matron" of Eastern Star #277, V.F.W....
Resa Climer
Sep 27, 2005
Resa Joan "Joanie" Climer was born June 23, 1959 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Joseph Austin and Ruby Monelle Green Climer. She enjoyed bowling, special olympics, square dancing, and her cat, Max. Joanie attended Eastside Baptist Church. Resa Joan "Joanie" Climer passed away September 27, 2005 at the age of 46 years, 3 months and 4...
Jacqueline Runyan
Sep 27, 2005
Jacqueline Runyan was born June 8, 1926 in Gadsden, Alabama. She was the daughter of Charles and Alice Richie. She married Julius Runyan on June 19, 1996 in Cotter, Arkansas. Mrs. Runyan was employed in the health care industry as a certified nurses aid. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Aurora, Illinois in 1975. She was a member of...
Bobby Watts
Sep 26, 2005
Bobby Dean Watts was born July 3, 1935 in Gamaliel, Arkansas. He was the son of Earl and Nellie Davidson Watts. He was a lifetime resident of the Gamaliel area and enjoyed hunting, fishing and his cattle. He was a member of the Church of Christ. Bobby Dean Watts passed away at his residence on September 26, 2005, at the...
Bennie Hall
Sep 24, 2005
Bennie Pete Hall was born August 14, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of Charles and Pearl Palmer Hall. He was a dental technician and an Army veteran of the 101th Airborne. He lived in Norfork, Arkansas since moving from Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2000. Survivors: Two sisters, Charlene (Bill) Casto of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Marcia (Jack) Speir of...
Samuel Pestock
Sep 24, 2005
Samuel Pestock ws born December 6, 1978 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of John and Melissa Hull Pestock. He was a warehouseman in the manufacturing industry. Mr. Pestock lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas since moving from Kansas City, Missouri in 2003. He was a member of the Methodist church. Samuel Pestock passed away September 24, 2005, at...
Leona White
Sep 24, 2005
Leona Gladys White was born April 30, 1910 in Medford, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Daniel Joseph and Minnie V. Archer Boruff. She married Arthur M. White in Yuma, Arizona on July 18, 1951. The White family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1968. Mrs. White was a homemaker. Arthur and Leona White were former owners of Shady Grove...
Frances Schroeter
Sep 21, 2005
Frances Marie Schroeter was born February 26, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. She married the late Carl A. Sorgatz on September 7, 1946. The Sorgatz family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Chicago, Illinois in 1970. Mr. Sorgatz passed away on October 5, 1972. Frances later married the late Arthur H. Schroeter on September 1, 1975 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Mrs....
Bernard Gillen
Sep 21, 2005
Jack Gillen was born April 5, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Harry and Elsie Zeplin Gillen. He married the late Margaret Bell on June 26, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a truck driver for Midwest Welding and Supply in Chicago and lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas since he moved to the area from Chicago, Illinois...
Frances Shroeter
Sep 21, 2005
Frances Marie Schroeter was born February 26, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of John and Marie Horwath Kainrath. She married the late Carl A. Sorgatz on September 7, 1946. The Sorgatz family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1970 from Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Sorgatz passed away on October 5, 1972. Frances later married the late Arthur H....
Virgil Newberry
Sep 21, 2005
Virgil L. Newberry was born March 30, 1936 in Holland, Missouri. he was the son of Leonard and Lottie Cooper Newberry. He married Wanda Eagan on November 3, 1967 in Southaven, Michigan. He owned Virgil's Towing for thirty-two years and formerly drove a Pepsi truck. Mr. Newberry lived in Gassville for twenty-nine years, moving from Southaven, Michigan where he was...
Edmund Savage
Sep 18, 2005
Edmund H. Savage was born January 6, 1931 in Palatine, Illinois. He was the son of Edmund H. Sr. and Madge Gibbs Savage. Mr. Savage served with the United States Army during the Korean War. He was employed as an operations agent with United Airlines. He moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Palatine, Illinois in 1996. He was a member...
Lawrence Larson
Sep 17, 2005
Lawrence C. Larson was born in Woodstock, Illinois on November 18, 1942. He was the son of Archie and Virginia Roth Larson. He married Barbara Romme on August 13, 1989 in Empire, Michigan. He was an electrician. Mr. Larson lived in Wonder Lake, Illinois before moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas in September, 2004. He enjoyed fishing, camping, woodworking, gardening, hot...
Roberta Roberts
Sep 15, 2005
Roberta Lee Roberts was born August 24, 1914 in Lonoke, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Charles Cleveland and Mae Sizemore Falls. She married Glenn Kenneth Roberts on August 15, 1989. The Roberts family moved to Bee Branch, Arkansas from Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1999. Mrs. Roberts enjoyed her grandchildren; reading; and sewing, including clothing and drapery construction. She was...
Beatrice Walkinshaw
Sep 14, 2005
Beatrice Walkinshaw was born October 12, 1903 in Ohio. She was the daughter of John and Martha Ann Shoemaker Walkinshaw. She married Tom Walkinshaw. The Walkinshaw family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Kansas City, Kansas in 1966. Mrs. Walkinshaw was a homemaker and member of First Christian Church. Beatrice Walkinshaw passed away at Care Manor on September 14, 2005,...
John Demand
Sep 12, 2005
John D. Demand was born April 20, 1919 in Pilot Knob, Missouri. He was the son of John J. and Margaret Miller Demand. He married Maxine Webb on July 21, 1940 in Herculinum, Missouri. They moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1984 after he retired as local manager of AP&L in Monette, Arkansas with a thirty year service record. Mr....
Mary Cooper
Sep 10, 2005
Mary E. Cooper was born December 19, 1925 in Brookland, and lived much of her life in Jonesboro , Arkansas before moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas six years ago. She worked several years in the family business of Cooper Lime in Jonesboro, and also worked for General Electric in Jonesboro before retirement. Mary Ellen Cooper passed away on September 10,...
Joan Sanford
Sep 10, 2005
Joan Gail Sanford was born March 27, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the daughter of George and Lila Richardson Cook. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1979, from West Memphis, Tennessee. Joan was employed with the Steak House Restaurant. She was a Baptist. Joan Gail Sanford passed away at her residence on September 10, 2005, at the age...
Florence Rutkowski
Sep 9, 2005
Florence Rutkowski was born July 13, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Cyrille and Eugenie Boisvert Royer. She married Henry Theodore Rutkowski on May 4, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. The Rutkowski family moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Chicago, Illinois in May, 1979. Mrs. Rutkowski was a homemaker and member of the Catholic faith. Florence Rutkowski passed...
Mildred Sanders
Sep 8, 2005
Mildred G. Sanders, known to her friends as Millie, was born April 6, 1908 in Seelyville, Indiana. She was the daughter of Alexander and Maxamelia Gostow, natives of Russia. She married Raymond E. Sanders in Crown Point, Indiana on January 18, 1936. In 1949, Ray and Millie, along with their two children, Steve and Jill, vacationed in Arkansas where they...
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