Obituaries
Nina Sue Speed
Mar 1, 2020
Nina Sue Speed, 75, of Colcord, Oklahoma passed away at her home on Sunday, March 1, 2020.
Nina was born on October 4, 1944 in Bethel, Ohio, a daughter of Earl Saylor and Lucy Saylor. She married the late Lonnie Speed on March 25, 1985 in Miami, OK who preceded her in death in 2013. Nina was a cafeteria worker...
Lester Bernard Hancock
Feb 29, 2020
Lester Bernard Hancock, 92, of Springdale passed away Saturday February 29th, 2020 at Washington Regional Hospice in Fayetteville.
Lester was born November 7th, 1927 in Goreville, IL a son of Almous J. Hancock and Opal Jane Platter. Lester was married to Pearl Madge Hancock in 1947 in Goreville, IL. Lester honorably served in the US Army from August of 1952...
Joyce Corrine (Blair) Luper
Feb 28, 2020
Joyce Corrine (Blair) Luper, 84, of Kansas, Oklahoma passed away at her home on Friday, February 28, 2020.
Joyce was born on July 5, 1935 in Kansas, Oklahoma, a daughter of Chandler Blair and Opal Brown Blair. She was the widow of the late Delbert Gene Luper who preceded her in death. Joyce worked for the Head Start in Lowry,...
Chad Erick Smith
Feb 22, 2020
Chad Erick Smith, 51, of Springdale, Arkansas passed away Saturday February 22, 2020 at North West Medical Center in Springdale.
Chad was born November 23th, 1968 in Springdale, AR, son of Johnny A. Smith Sr. and Nettie Jean Tidwell. Chad was with Laura Marie Turner from February 28th, 1987 and they happily married Feb 28th, 2007 in Neosho, MO. Chad...
Orville W Evans
Feb 15, 2020
Orville. W. Evans, 90, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas passed away Saturday, February 15, 2020 at the Siloam Springs Regional Hospital.
Orville was born on July 10, 1929 in Gravette, Arkansas, a son of Zeke Evans and Bertha Phillips Evans. Orville enlisted into the U.S. Air Force at a young age and served his country faithfully during the Korean Conflict, the...
Joe "Jake" L. Barnes
Feb 12, 2020
Joe “Jake” L. Barnes, Jr., 83, of Colcord, Oklahoma passed away at his home on Wednesday, February 12, 2020.
Jake was born on November 29, 1936, a son of Joe. L. Barnes, Sr. and Golda Moore Barnes. He married Donnis L. Kustanborter on May 27, 1971 in Siloam Springs. Jake worked for Franklin Electric for 36 years as the Supervisor...
Steven Wayne Williams
Feb 10, 2020
Steven Wayne Williams, 62, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas passed away Monday night at Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Steven was born on September 23, 1957 in Downey, California to Silas “Jeff” and Mary Lou Madden-Williams. On September 27, 1975, he married Mary Lois Browning in Las Vegas, Nevada and they shared a loving 43 years...
Teresa Ann Daring
Feb 6, 2020
Teresa Ann Daring, 48, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas passed away Thursday, February 6, 2020 in Springdale, Arkansas.
Teresa was born February 27, 1971 to George and Nancy Brown-Daring in Gravette, AR. She was a member of The Assembly Church of Siloam Springs for many years. She was an avid Arkansas Razorback fan and enjoyed being an usher at the...
John Lloyd Underwood
Feb 2, 2020
John Lloyd Underwood passed away on February 2, 2020 at the age of 86. He was born on August 7, 1933 in Cleora, Oklahoma to Henry and Alberta Motley-Underwood.
He joined the Army at 17 and served in the Korean War with the 45th Infantry Division out of Oklahoma. John worked at BFGoodrich for 30 years and he also...
Yong Seng Vang
Jan 31, 2020
Yong Seng Vang, 79 of Gentry, Arkansas passed away Friday, January 31, 2020 at the Legacy Village Circle of Life in Bentonville.
Yong was born on March 15, 1940 in Chieng Khouag, Laos, a son of Nhia Thao Vang and Chia Lor Vang. He was a farmer, a member of the Northwest Arkansas Hmong Alliance Church and enjoyed hunting and...
Deverl "Dee" J Deason
Jan 28, 2020
Deverl “Dee” J. Deason, 79, of West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma passed away Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville.
Dee was born at his parents’ home in Stilwell, Oklahoma on September 10, 1940. He was the son of John Franklin Deason and Rena Bell Bennett Deason. He was the widower of the late Saundra Deason,...
Dr. Anne Wilson Schaef
Jan 19, 2020
Elizabeth Anne Wilson Schaef (Unega Uwohali Adanv Ageya), 85, of Rogers, Arkansas passed away peacefully at her home on Sunday, January 19, 2020.
Anne was born on March 22, 1934 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas (in the hospital, which in 1934 was above the firehouse), to Paul Ragsdale and Manilla Maude Longan.
Dr. Anne Wilson Schaef was an internationally known author of 17 books including her New York Times bestseller, When Society Becomes...
James William Marsh
Jan 17, 2020
James William Marsh, 85, of Bentonville, AR passed away Friday, January 17, 2020 at the Legacy Village Circle of Life in Bentonville.
James was born on June 29, 1934 in Joplin, Missouri, a son of Eugene Reading and Mildred Bass Reading. He was the widower of the late Lana Sue Marsh, whom he married on Feb 12, 1964 in...
Frances "Deanie" Claudine Adams
Jan 15, 2020
Frances “Deanie” Claudine Adams, 63, of Colcord, Oklahoma Passed away Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at her home.
Deanie was born on April 8, 1956 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, a daughter of Henry Pike and Emma Van Fleet Pike.
She was the widow of the late Andrew Adams Jr, who preceded her in death. Deanie was a homemaker who loved her...
Shirley "Sissy" Ann Glass
Jan 13, 2020
Shirley “Sissy” Hilderbrand Glass, 67, of Flint Ridge, Oklahoma, passed away Monday night, January 13, 2020 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma surrounded by her loved ones.
Sissy was born November 13, 1952 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Sam and Mary Bird-Hilderbrand. On August 1, 1989, she married Johnny Glass and they shared a loving 25 years together until his passing on January 25,...
Richard Price Moore
Jan 13, 2020
Richard Price Moore, 89, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas passed away peacefully at his home Monday morning, January 13, 2020.
Richard was born May 4, 1930 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Joe and Gladys Elkins-Moore. He served proudly in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Later on, he became a member of American Legion Post 45 in Kansas,...
George Wayne Hillhouse
Jan 7, 2020
George Wayne Hillhouse, 76, longtime resident of Siloam Springs, passed away Tuesday, January 7, 2020 in the Earlene Howard Circle of Life Hospice Home in Springdale.
George was born on February 2, 1943 in Siloam Springs, a son of Robert Lee Hillhouse and Eula Mae Reynolds Hillhouse. He married Betty Ruth Coburn on September 29, 1961 in Siloam Springs. ...
Sallie Riley
Jan 6, 2020
Sallie Marie Riley, 85, of Bentonville, Arkansas passed away Monday January 6th, 2020 at the Bradford House Nursing Home in Bentonville.
Sallie was born September 18th, 1934 in Crawfordville, AR, a daughter of Marcus M. Mitchell and Sallie S. Wardlow Mitchell. She was a widow of the late Jessie Lamar Riley, whom she married on April 11th, 1953 in Hernando,...
Brenda Jo Madewell
Jan 5, 2020
Brenda Jo Madewell, 60, of Benton, Arkansas passed away Sunday, January 5, 2020 at the Arkansas Health Center in Benton.
Brenda Jo was born on June 24, 1959, in Springdale, Arkansas, a daughter of Glen Madewell and Polly Walls Madewell. Brenda Jo was handicapped most of her life but was loved and cherished dearly by her family. She loved and...
