Obituaries from July 2009

JONESBORO -- Geneva Baine Leggett, 82, of Jonesboro went to be with our Lord on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Mrs. Leggett was born in Tyronza. She had lived in Jonesboro for the past 27 years and was formerly of Trumann. She was a homemaker and was a member of the Birch Street Church of God in Trumann...

LOUDON, Tenn. -- Ronnie Darnell Hayworth, Sr., died Friday, June 26, 2009 at his home. Many Marked Tree residents may remember Hayworth. He was one of the Vietnam veterans who visited last September while the "Wall that Heals" visited Marked Tree. Although he was facing terminal cancer, Hayworth's family helped push his wheelchair to the traveling Wall so he could see his brother's name...

Virginia Hunt, was born June 28, 1924 at Black Oak, the daughter of the late Samuel David and Fannie McHalffey. She died Monday, June 29, 2009 at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboroat the age of 85...

Mr. Ralph D. Burris, 84, of Trumann died Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at the family residence. Formerly of California, he was born in Winslow, Ark. and had lived in Trumann for the past 14 years Mr. Burris was a retired heavy equipment operator, a veteran of the U.S. ...

Harold Wayne Wood was born February 16, 1970 in Osceola to Kenneth and Effie Wood. He was a farm worker, a lifetime resident of Poinsett County and of the Pentecostal Faith. Wood passed away June 23 in Marked Tree at the age of 39...

Hazel Juanita Madden, 85, of Trumann, Ark., died Monday, July 6, 2009 at the home of her daughter in Festus, Missouri. She was born in Tuckerman and had lived most of her lifetime in Trumann. She was a homemaker and a member of the Providence Baptist Church. ...

William Edward Criswell, Jr., 18 of Tyronza, died Saturday, July 11, 2009, at UAMS in Little Rock.He was a senior at Marked Tree High School. He was a member of ROTC, ROTC Cadet Challenge, band, and a member of Black Oak Baptist Church. Survivors include his father, William E. ...

Dessie Irene Baine, 89, of Trumann, AR, died Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at Trumann Health and Rehab. She was born in Caledonia, Miss., and had lived in the Harrisburg area her lifetime. Baine was a homemaker and a member of the Burch Street Church of God. ...

TRUMANN - J.P. Penter, 82, of Trumann, died Monday, July 20, 2009 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born in and a lifetime resident of Trumann, he loved fishing and hunting, was a farmer, veteran of the U.S. Army, member of the Trumann American Legion and of the Baptist faith...

MARKED TREE - Lucille Blake Morrison, 91, of Marked Tree died Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at Willowbend Nursing Center in Marion. She was born in and was a lifetime resident of Marked Tree. She was a retired business owner and a member of the Victory Church...

John L. Hendon, 82 of Urbana, Ill. died at Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at home. Funeral services were Saturday, July 25at Renner-Wikoff Chapel and Crematory in Urbana with Andy Dallas officiating. Burial followed in Grandview Memorial Gardens in Champaign...

TRUMANN -- Ethel Elizabeth Easter, 93, of Trumann died Friday, July 24, 2009, at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Born in Portia, she lived most of her lifetime in Trumann. She was a homemaker and of the Pentecostal faith...

MARKED TREE -- Thomas Richard Kemp, 67, of Marked Tree died July 27, 2009 at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. He was a member of Sneed Street Baptist Church and a retired member of the Marked Tree Fire Department. He was also retired from E. Ritter Equipment Company...

TRUMANN - Murielene McDaniel, 79, of Trumann, died Monday, July 20, 2009 at Trumann Health and Rehab. She was born in Trumann and had lived most of her lifetime in the Trumann area. She was a former employee of the Area Agency on Aging and was a member of Freer Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late John Nathan and Edna Bell Hammons Chaffin...

Jimmy D. McKenzie, 71, of Millbrook, Ala., passed away on July 23, 2009. Funeral services were held July 27 at the chapel of Brookside Funeral Home with ministers Lanier Tatum and Don Campbell officiating. Interment followed in Alabama National Cemetery with full military honors...