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John Schwinkendorf
Aug 4, 2005
John Paul Schwinkendorff was born November 27, 1942. He was the son of Earl and Mary Rhue Schwinkendorf. He married Karen Rohrer on September 20, 1991 in Elyria, Ohio. He was a steel erector in the construction industry. He and his wife moved to Clarkridge, Arkansas from La Grange, Ohio in 1997. John Paul Schwinkendorf passed away at his residence...
Sarah Van Meter
Aug 4, 2005
Sarah Elizabeth Van Meter was born August 4, 1929 in Humboldt, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Floyd H. and Mary V. Turpen Osborne. She married Winton O. Van Meter on May 12, 1994 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She was a retired secretary and lived in Paris, Indiana before moving to the Mountain Home area in 1982. She loved crafting...
Martha Clark
Aug 3, 2005
Martha J. Clark was born August 27, 1917 in Dumfermlin, Illinois. She was the daughter of Desire A. and Elma Depris Duquenne. She married Nathaniel J. Clark on November 20, 1937 in Moline, Illinois. She was a homemaker. The Clark family moved to Republic, Missouri from Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1998. Martha J. Clark passed away at Christian Health Care...
James McIntyre
Aug 2, 2005
James McIntyre was born September 29, 1921 in Scotland. He was the son of John and Isabella Marshall McIntrye. He married Evelyn Low on February 14, 1945 in Newburgh, Scotland. He was a retired commercial artist. He served in the United States Air Force as a navigator, 1st Lieutenant during World War II. He and his wife resided in Glen...
Emma Lewis
Aug 1, 2005
Emma Grace Lewis was the infant daughter of Devin Lewis and Stacey Jones of Mountain Home, Arkansas. Emma Grace died Monday, August 1, 2005 at Baxter Regional Medical Center. Survivors: Her parents, Devin Lewis and Stacey Jones of Mountain Home, Arkansas; one brother, Brannon Lewis of Mountain Home; paternal grandfather, Tommy Lewis of Clarkridge, Arkansas; paternal grandmother, Daina and husband...
Luke Turinski
Jul 31, 2005
Luke Turinski was born June 29, 1981 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. He was the son of James F. and Debra Johnson Turinski. He was a lifetime resident of the Mountain Home, Arkansas area. He was employed as a cook. Luke James Turinski passed away on July 31, 2005, at the age of 24 years, 1 month and 2 days. Survivors: His...
Helen Drabczyk
Jul 30, 2005
Helen Laverne Drabczyk was born February 15, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Sylvester and Leona Nowakowski Kantorski. She married Richard J. Drabczyk on April 15, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Drabczyk was employed as a mail clerk with the United States Postal Service. Richard and Helen Drabczyk moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1972. She was...
Bernard Lewis
Jul 29, 2005
Bernard J. Lewis was born July 31, 1923, in Atwood, Kansas. He was the son of Albert and Carrie Jackson Lewis. He married Carol Ross on August 7, 1955 in Los Angeles, California. He was a structural ironworker for the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers, and a member of the Local 433 Union for fifty-three years. Mr....
Paul Sivitskis
Jul 27, 2005
Paul A. Sivitskis was born March 6, 1940 in Joliet, Illinois. He was the son of Paul P. and Edna Kabellis Sivitskis. He married Carol Ausec on September 12, 1964 in Joliet, Illinois. Mr. Sivitskis was a United States Air Force veteran. He was employed as a postal worker. Paul A. Sivitskis passed away on July 27, 2005, in Mountain...
Edith Hargleroad
Jul 27, 2005
Edith M. Hargleroad was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 10, 1909. She was the daughter of Franklin Leslie and Nellie Elizabeth Stiles Lang. She married James C. Hargleroad on Dec. 28, 1946 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Edith was a homemaker and enjoyed ceramics and sewing. She was also an avid gardener, which can be attested to by the...
Merle Brown
Jul 26, 2005
Merle Lee Brown was born September 16, 1924 in Birch Tree, Missouri. He was the son of Elzy J. and Della Dean Brown. He married Gentry Floyd on August 19, 1946 in Reno, Nevada. He was a self-employed miner. Merle and his wife, Gentry, lived in Burney, California prior to moving to Mountain Home, Arkansas in 2003. He was a...
Dale Finstrom
Jul 26, 2005
Dale Patrick Finstrom was born October 1, 1937 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the son of Earl and Bertha Tabor Finstrom. He married Nancy Flood on December 26, 1968 in Chicago. He was a detective for the Chicago Police Department. After retiring he moved to Bull Shoals, Arkansas in 1993 from Chicago. He was a United States Army veteran and...
Kenneth Heroux
Jul 26, 2005
Kenneth T. Heroux was born October 24, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Albert and Tony Dellefsen Heroux. He married Dolores Thielen on November 24, 1962 in Des Plaines, Illinois. He was a retired manager in the industrial sales industry, and a United States Navy World War II veteran. He and his wife lived in Naperville, Illinois...
Lorraine Dickey
Jul 23, 2005
Lorraine B. Dickey, Age 87, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, formerly of Hazard, Kentucky, Panama City, Florida and Belvidere, Illinois, died Saturday, July 23, 2005 in Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home after a brief illness. Lorraine was born March 23, 1918 in Scarbro, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Samuel D. and Edith (Taylor) Settle. Lorraine was a...
Pearl Hellberg
Jul 19, 2005
Pearl Frances Hellberg was born July 8, 1918 in Joliet, Illinois. She was the daughter of David K. and Antionette M. Miscklewitz Johnson. She married George A. Hellberg on June 29, 1941 in Joliet, Illinois. Mrs. Hellberg was employed as a waitress. She moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas from Coal City, Illinois in October, 2000. She was a member of...
Marcel DeFyn
Jul 18, 2005
Marcel Joseph DeFyn was born October 11, 1928 in Centerville, Iowa. He was the son of Marcel and Sophie Dudek DeFyn. He married Virginia Witek in Chicago, Illinois in 1962. He was employed in the distribution center of the telephone company. Mr. DeFyn resided in Mountain Home, Arkansas for nearly twenty years, after moving from the Chicago area. He was...
Harold Schiefelbein
Jul 18, 2005
Harold Edward Schiefelbein was born November 2, 1928 in Champaign, Illinois. He was the son of Harold R. and Lily Schwartz Schiefelbein. He married Lois Schultz on September 4, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Schiefelbein was a United States Army veteran. He served during the Korean War. He was employed in Special Services with Wisconsin Bell Telephone Company. He moved...
John Gresham
Jul 15, 2005
John Fred Gresham was born February 28, 1916 in Bernice, Louisiana. He was the son of John R. and Fannie O'Bannon Gresham. He married Doris Stephens on October 4, 1939 in Smackover, Arkansas. He was an ARKLA Gas manager for forty-seven years and a United States Navy veteran. He was a member of the ARKLA Retirees, Silver Haired Legislature, VFW...
Irene Evers
Jul 15, 2005
Irene Eleanor Evers was born October 19, 1909 in Kewaunee, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Thomas W. and Emma Johnson Nelson. She married Emil J. Evers on August 19, 1950 in Harvard, Illinois. She was employed as a bookkeeper with Hummel-Dowing Milk in Wisconsin. She moved to Lakeview, Arkansas from Harvard, Illinois in 1975. She was a member of...
Robert Lapp
Jul 15, 2005
Robert Edgar Lapp was born January 30, 1923 in Springer, New Mexico. He was the son of John Isaac and Lillian Lapp. He married Leota Williamette Stark on April 16, 1947 in Gloreata, New Mexico. He retired as Senior Chief in 1963, after twenty-one years in the Navy. He then worked for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, retiring in 1988...
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