Obituaries from August 2009

Gary Lee Wilkins, 65, of Trumann died Saturday evening Aug. 8, 2009 at the family residence. He was born in Batesville and lived most of his life in Trumann. Mr. Wilkins was the Executive Director of the Trumann Housing Authority and was of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his parents, Marshall Neil and Vida M. Roach Wilkins...

Eldora Lorene Long, 85, of Trumann died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 at the Trumann Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Etowah, she had lived in Trumann for the past 40 years and was formerly of McCormick and Harrisburg. She was a retired beautican and cook and of the Church of God faith...

MARKED TREE -- Charles Bradley, Jr., 84, died Friday, Aug. 7 at Three Rivers Nursing Center in Marked Tree. Born in Tuckerman April 5, 1925 to Charles and Vandora Bradley, he lived in Marked Tree his entire life as a confirmed bachelor...

MARKED TREE -- Cecil Littleton "Shady" Shaver, 93, of Marked Tree and of Leawood, Kan., died Aug. 13, 2009. He was born in Jonesboro July 24, 1916 to Cecil E. and Edna Shaver. He married Favorita Elizabeth Payne in 1938 and lived in the Marked Tree area until after he death in 2002 when he moved to Leawood, Kan...

LEPANTO -- Sherri Rena Sweeney, 48, of Lepanto died Friday, Aug. 14 at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born July 21, 1961 in Lepanto, she was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her mother, Bettye Foster...

Orilla Concila Roden Wood, 97 of Trumann died Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. She was born in Chewalla, Tenn., and had lived most of her lifetime in Trumann moving there from Corinth, Miss. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church...

TYRONZA -- Gary Don Crow, 51, of Tyronza died on Aug. 20. He was born September 15, 1957 at Charleston, S.C. Crow was a truck driver and a member of the Pentecostal faith. He is survived by his parents, Henry C. ...

LEPANTO -- James Woodrow "Sonnie" Kirk, 76, of Lepanto died Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, in Springhill Baptist Hospital in North Little Rock. He was of the Baptist faith and was preceded in death by parents, Woodrow Wilson and Mildred Bell Kirk;...