Stories from Monday, February 12, 2018

MARKED TREE - Nora Faye Scull Pitts, 86, departed this life Monday, February 5, 2018. She was born February 12, 1931 to George Franklin and Nora Jane Amos Scull. She was a member of Neiswander Baptist Church. Her occupation was being a wife, mom and granny. She loved shopping, quilting, and playing games...

JONESBORO - Mrs. Loretta Lee Swain, 76, departed this life Thursday, February 1, 2018 at St. Bernards Medical Center. She was born in Ozark, Mo., and lived most of her lifetime in Jonesboro. She was a retired biology teacher after serving 30 years with the Trumann School District and of the Christian faith. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Lynn Swain, Sr., and her parents, Leon & Beatrice Morrison Colbert...

TRUMANN - Mr. David Lewis Gibson, 78, departed this life Friday, February 2, 2018 at the family residence in Trumann. He was born Tuesday, May 23, 1939 in Lufkin, Tex. and had lived in Trumann for the past two years and was formerly of Dallas, Tex. Mr. Gibson was a heat and air technician, a U. S. Army veteran and of the Christian faith. He was preceded in death by one daughter, Lacey Dureen Gibson; one sister Bethany Brousard and was the son of the late Lewis Jake and Arbutus McKinney Gibson...

TYRONZA - William Earl “Hippie” Morrow, 60, died Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Mr. Morrow was a retired carpenter. He was preceded in death by his father, Homer Franklin Morrow, Sr.; a daughter, Laura Morrow and his step father, Louis Norwood Sr...

TRUMANN - Selita Marie Jones, 50, was born March 11, 1967 in Memphis, Tenn. to James and Doris Campbell Hood. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. Ms. Jones passed away February 6, 2018 at her home. She is survived by one son, Jeffery Jones of Lepanto; one daughter, Kimberly Carey of Trumann; two brothers, James (Sylvia) Hood and Roger Hood of Trumann; one sister, Liz (Michael) Simpson of Payneway and four grandchildren. ...

BRADFORD - Mr. Thomas Leo “Tom” Cook of Bradford, Ark., 87, departed this life on Wednesday, February 8, 2018 at White County Medical in Searcy, Ark. He was born on January 31, 1931 in Trumann to the late John Franklin “Bill” and Ethel Mae Hendrickson Cook and lived the last 30 years in Bradford. ...