Obituaries

Oliver Carter (11/02/06)
Oliver Carter, 75, of Marked Tree died October 26, 2006 at NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born December 17, 1930, in Poinsett County and was a farmer. He was preceded in death by one grandchild, Vanessa Scott. Survivors include four daughters, Sue Leadford, Shirley Ware and Norma Jean Carter, all of Florence, Ala., and Rachel Arreola of Marion; eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren...

Aunvy Christine Turner (11/09/06)
Aunvy Christine Turner, 71, of Lepanto died Nov. 4, 2006 at her residence. Born May 21, 1935 in Oil Trough, she was a homemaker and a member of Red Oak Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Cecil Foster and Mabel Pilgrim; one sister, Carolyn Walling; and one brother, Jerry Foster...

Billy Ray Brown (11/09/06)
Billy Ray Brown, 63, of Caraway died at his residence Tuesday, Oct. 31. He was a lineman for a power company and a member of Buffalo Chapel Baptist Church in Caraway. Survivors include his daughter, Melinda Brown of Newark; two brothers: Don Brown of Moline, Ill. and Roy Brown of Lepanto; and two sisters: Joy Fay Roach of Lepanto and Loretta Dubose of Wimauna, Fla...

Bobbie Jean Turner (11/09/06)
Bobbie Jean Turner, 69, of Lepanto died at St. Bernard's Medical Center on Wednesday, November 1. She was a Baptist. She was preceded in death by her parents, Chester and Virgie Carson; one sister, Eva Doris Thomas and one brother Earl Carson. Survivors include four sons, David, Duane, Doug and Bobby Don Turner, all of Lepanto; two daughters, Glenda Cavitt and Connie Milam of Tyronza; two sisters, Virgie Harvey of Marked Tree and Loretta Fike of Lowell, Mass.; two brothers, L.B. ...

June Donham (11/16/06)
June Donham, 79 of Memphis, passed away Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006 at Baptist Hospital following an eight month bout with leukemia. June was the daughter of the late William and Louise Taush. June was married to Dr. Bill "Doc" Donham. They raised their six children in Lepanto. Before retiring, June owned Aaron Answering Service in Memphis, Tenn...

Gladys Pauline Perkins (11/16/06)
Gladys Pauline Perkins, 90, of Marked Tree, died Nov. 8 at Three Rivers Nursing Home. She was a homemaker and a member of Marked Tree Church of God. Mrs. Perkins was preceded in death by two daughters, Carol June Perkins and Sandra Perkins Green and one son, Chester Aaron Perkins Jr...

Bill Parnell (11/16/06)
Bill Parnell, 71, of Keiser, died Monday, Nov. 6, 2006 in Lepanto. Born Thursday, July 25, 1935 in Michie, Tenn. to the late A.C. Pannell and Ella Mae Webb Pannell, he moved to Mississippi County as a young man and went to work for Lee Wilson and Company. He retired after 50 years...

Rebecca Lyn Atchley (11/30/06)
Rebecca Lyn Atchley, 56, of Marked Tree died Nov. 21, 2006 at her residence. Born in Joiner, she was a homemaker and of the Pentecostal Faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence Raymond Hold and Eileen Cavitt; two sons, Jackie Ray Atchley and Kevin McDonald; and one brother, Wesley Holt...

Lena Collier (11/30/06)
Lena Collier, 93, of Trumann died Friday, Nov. 24, at Three Rivers Nursing Center in Marked Tree. She was a member of Anderson Tully Baptist Church and was preceded in death by her husband William Travis Collier. Survivors include her son, Miles Collier of Trumann; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren...

Troy McDaniel (11/30/06)
Troy McDaniel, 68, died Thursday, Nov. 23. He was a longtime resident of Marked Tree, a member of Refreshing Springs Church of God and Christ and was a retired farm worker. Survivors include his sister, Lena Mae Hopkins of Parkin; five daughters, Debra Davis of Little Rock, Tolisha of Chicago, Ill. ...

Billy Ray Rudd (11/30/06)
Billy Ray Rudd, 31, of Vilonia died in a one vehicle accident on Nov. 22, 2006. He was the son of Bill and Lynda Rudd of Weiner and Vilonia. He leaves behind one daughter, Shelby Paige Rudd; three siblings: Scott Rudd of Oklahoma City; Josh Rudd of Hot Springs and Wendi Marshall of Jacksonville; numerous aunts, uncles cousins and special friend Danielle Bornhort of Gravel Ridge...

Edgar "Jerry" Wyrick (11/30/06)
Edgar "Jerry" Wyrick, 58, of Marked Tree died Nov. 18, 2006 at the VA Hospital in Memphis. Born in Dyess, Wyrick was the manager of the auto stop. He was an army veteran of the Vietnam war and of the Pentecostal faith. He was preceded in death by his parents, Buster Wyrick and Flossie Yearber...

Reba Jean Eldridge (11/30/06)
Reba Jean Eldridge, 47, of Tyronza died Wednesday, Nov. 15 at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. She was a member of the Upper Room Apostolic Church in Tyronza. Survivors include her husband Clyde Eldridge of Tyronza; one son, Jamie Eldridge of Tyronza; two daughters, Amber Coble of Bristol, Tenn. and Heather Eldridge of Kesier; one brother, Fred Drew of Marked Tree and two grandchildren whom she loved very much...

William Nathaniel Mayfield (11/30/06)
William Nathaniel "Nathan" Mayfield, 79, of St. Louis, Mo. died Sunday, Oct. 15 at Missouri Veteran's Home. Born at Delmar, Ala. to William H. and Margie (Harper) Mayfield, he was a resident of Lepanto from about 1938 through 1950. Nathan was a member of Operating Engineers Local #513 for more than 50 years and a 42 year member of the Church of Christ in Arnold, Mo. ...

Gladys Pauline Perkins (11/30/06)
Gladys Pauline Perkins, 90, of Marked Tree, passed away Nov. 8 at Three Rivers Nursing Home in Marked Tree where she had been a resident for nine years. Born Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1916 in Detroit, Ala. to the late John Alvin Rye and Maude Chandler Rye. The Rye family later moved to the Tyronza area. There Gladys met and married the life of her life, Chester Perkins...