Montgomery County News
Mt Ida, Arkansas
2002 Death Notices
The Montgomery County News is published every Thursday. This list
covers death notices and obituaries that appeared in the Montgomery County News
over the year 2002. For a lookup, for only
those listed, with a reply via email, add a j after the w.
with the name, year of death and your interest in the name. Will scan in the larger obituaries. No
hardcopies will be supplied. Sometimes the death notice appeared in the paper at a
later date with corrections. Online obituaries.
SURNAME First name Maiden name 2002 paper Cemetery if given or town Abernathy Gerald Nov 14 Mount Olive Anderson William Leo Oct 31 Riddle, OR Bailey Ora Belle Gibbons Aug 1 Mt Zion, Athens Ballard William Lynn Feb 14 National Cemetery Little Rock Ballentine Iva Tedford Jan 17 & 24 Pencil Bluff Pencil Bluff Ballew Diana Gene Manning Jan 31 Oakwood Cemetery Bates Willie S. "Bill" Dec 12 Pine Ridge Beggs Birtie Mae Carter Apr 25 Lone Valley Cemetery Berry Emanuel Dec 19 Sweet Home, Amity Bradshaw Ingram Jan 10 Cremated Brakefield Gary Wayne Oct 10 Brakefield Julia Hazel Coffman Jun 6 Hopper Bush Wanda Ellen Aug 8 Indiana Callaway Nancy Fae Greeson Oct 24 Golden Cem. Arkadelphia Carter Jimmy B Sep 12 Lone Valley Casey Eugene D Sep 5 Joplin Clay Addelynne Parkerson Jun 20 Clay Hazel Marie Harris Mar 14 Oden Clements Hazel Irene Riggs Oct 17 Monroe, OK Cobb Pat Kennedy Nov 14 Lowe Cemetery Cornett Robin D Sep 26 Peak Cemetery Cosby Tommy D Dec 26 Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Hot Springs Cox Beverley Davis Nov 21 Mount Tabor Dibble Mary M Young Mar 14 Greenwood Cem. Spokane Dickey Anna M Smoluch Nov 28 Rogers Mt Grve, Liberty Community, Logan Co. Dobbs Virgil Dec 12 Brushy Dycus Fred H Nov 14 Red Lick Cem. Nash, TX Emery Earl May 9 Reed Cemetery Fair Freddy J. Sr. Mar 14 Brushy Farmer Alma Pearl Featherson Aug 29 Mountain Home Cem. Felton Jessie R Morgan Jan 10 Cremated Fryar Marceline Amerson Nov 21 & 14 Gaston Fryar Arlie Dec 5 Oden Garner Alta Black Dec 5 Stanley-Standridge Gaston Mineko Fukuya Dec 26 Gaston Cemetery Gaston Myrtle Mae Singletary May 2 Liberty Cemetery Guthrey Viola B Nov 7 Black Springs Hampton Ida Lorraine Murphy Dec 19 Lodi Cem. Harbour Beatrice Feb 28 Harrison William Fay Mar 14 Shiloh Cem. Harvey John D Mar 7 Lone Valley Cemetery Hatfield Hoyt Edward Dec 19 Pinecrest Memorial Park, Mena Hatton Hewlos Elton May 30 Rocky Cemetery Hayes Agnes Barbara Hunter Oct 31 Black Springs Hern Howard A Jan 10 Warrenville, IL Hernandez Ana Rosa Resendiz Nov 21 Glenwood Hollander Florence Alice Bushdiecker Apr 18 Mount Tabor Cemetery near Glenwood Hovell Leroy E. Jr Jul 18 Davis, CA Hudnall Alfred C Aug 8 Black Springs Hughbanks William Edgar Oct 17 Big Fir Irons Henry L Jul 4 Mount Ida Cemetery Kauffman Mary A Petty Nov 7 Stanley Landrum Gerri Feb 28 Landrum Margaret Ann Dec 19 Owley Ledbetter Nora Abernathy Jan 31 Oden Lamb William Taylor Apr 18 Carlisle Cemetery Lambert Alvin Lee Oct 10 Reed Lambert Jonathan Melvin Sep 12 Reed Lawry Benjamin Allen Oct 24 Nunley, TX Lenard Kimberly Diane Powell Oct 24 Pine Ridge Long Lora May 2 Barbar Cemetery Martin Donald Gene Jan 3 Pine Ridge McCarter Ida E Jul 11 Green Hill, Muskogee, OK McCarty Harold David Dec 5 McKenzie Eva Aug 8 Black Springs Miller Owen W Mar 14 Moudy Margaret Murphy May 30 Mount Ida Cemetery Mullenix Ida "Marie" Beck Feb 21 Caddo Cemetery Nau Howard Otto Aug 1 Mt Ida Noles Alvie G May 23 Reed Cemetery, Story O'Grady Ruth M Sellers Jun 20 Cremated Parris Verona Thomas Jan 10 Cremated Payte Clarence Elmer Oct 31 Mt Tabor Peters Ina Cogburn Jun 13 Mt Gilead Powell Thomas Henry Dec 19 Cremated Qualls Hazel Feb 14 Fallbrook Masonic Cemetery, CA Ratliff Ann Standerfer Dec 5 Reed Rickards George Cummings Jan 17 Cremated Roeder Willa "Tooter" Dalton Feb 7 Black Springs Rucker Roy Raymond Aug 1 Owley Ryan Patsy Smith Nov 21 Joplin Saffell Joshua Duane Jan 10 Pike City Scott Oma Alexander Oct 17 Owley Seals Aletha Summitt May 9 Lone Valley Sevier Betty Wilhite Mar 14 Glenwood Shambley O.D. Apr 18 Sparkman Cemetery Sheffield Anthony "Tony" Oct 24 Rocky Cem. Sheffield Darrell Wayne Aug 22 Sherman Rev. Emmett Dean May 30 Pinecrest Memorial Park, Mena Singleton Clovie Mae Fair Apr 25 Oden Smedley Jonathan Reynolds Jul 11 Hillside Cem. Sulphur Springs Smith Milbie I Smith Jan 24 Reed Smith Ralph Feb 21 Mt Ida Soto Mary L. Qualls Jun 6 Reed Cemetery Standridge Elvia P Norman Oct 10 Stanley A.D. Jan 10 Capital Parks, TX Storms Pauline Lorraine Conger Dec 19 Story Bertha Mar 7 Black Springs Story Olley Jan 17 Reed Stovall Billy Gene May 2 Lone Valley Swindle Edith Cogburn Apr 18 Mount Gilead Tackett Marzell "Zell" Mar 14 Hopper Tarkington Elvin Dec 5 Mount Olive Thornton Wilma Smith McClendon Jan 10 Reed Vincent Eldon R Jul 25 Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Indiana Walton Ola Mae Jul 4 Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Hot Springs Ward Bessie A Nov 28 Owley Warner Elizabeth Victoria "Vickie" Akins Jun 20 Rock Springs Cemetery Weston Dean Mar 7 Peak Cemetery Whitaker Donna Z Sep 5 Prague Cem., OK White Jewell Jan 10 Marianna White Roy Jan 3 Staley-Standridge Whittington Ena Stanley May 9 Williams Glenda Sue Peacock Jan 17 Big Fir Williams Pamella Jo Smith Nov 7 Joplin Williamson Frank Mahlon Feb 21 Wilson Frank Dec 12 Gaston Woodall John David Sr. Oct 24 Reed Wtorek Eva Lee Anderson Nov 14 Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego
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December 15, 2023.
121 surnames, 6 cremated (5% cremated)
The Appeal, Yuba Democrat. June 3, 2002. Leona
M. Johnson
Leona McBride Johnson, 93, of Live Oak died June 2, 2002, at Rideout Memorial
Hospital. Born in Oden, Ark., she had been a Yuba-Sutter resident since 1942.
She was a cannery worker for more than 20 years and a member of the Live Oak
Assembly of God. Survivors include two sons; two stepsons, Hub Johnson a
stepdaughter, Neva Nicolau of Marysville; two brothers, Glenn Hicks and Clifford
Hicks, both of Arkansas; a sister, Bethel Hicks of Arkansas; 10 grandchildren;
12 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in
death by her husbands, Clarence McBride and George Johnson; a son, James
McBride; and a daughter, Velma Wilson. Services: Visitation will be held from 4
to 7 p.m. Wednesday. A funeral service is scheduled at 1 p.m. Thursday at the
Live Oak Assembly of God. Burial will be held at Live Oak Cemetery.
Clarence Elmer Payte, age 87, of Mount
Ida, died Sunday, October 27, 2002 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was born on
April 20, 1915, at Mazarn, Arkansas, the son of Richard Fredrick Payte and Sina
Isabell Alexander Payte. On February 28, 1937, he was married to Viola Fay
Widener. He was a retired carpenter and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He
was a Faithful Priesthood Holder, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints - Glenwood Branch, and a member of the American Legion Post
#313 of Mount Ida. He was a loving husband and father.
He is survived by his wife, Viola Fay Payte of Mount Ida;
four sons and daughters-in-law, Clarence and Lanita Payte of Hot Springs, Jerry
and Linda Payte of Peonia, Colorado, Ralph and Angie Payte of Grand Junction,
Colorado, and Bruce and Carmelita Payte of Delores, Colorado; two daughters and
son-in-law, Betty Wheeler of Mount Ida, Mildred and Cleon Hess of Garland, Utah;
four brothers, Leonard Payte of Arvada, Colorado, Robert Payte of Grand
Junction, Colorado, Roy Payte of Phoenix, Arizona, and Harold Payte of Golden,
Colorado; two sisters, Virginia Moran of Hyannis, Nebraska and Nelene Kormack of
Surprise, Arizona; thirty-one grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren, and
one great-great-granddaughter.
Services will be held at 10:00 AM, Monday, November 4, 2002,
at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-Glenwood Branch, with
President Bart Brumwell and Bro. Alan Palmer officiating. Interment will be in
the Mount Tabor Cemetery, with arrangements under the direction of Davis-Smith
Funeral Home, Glenwood. Visitation will be Sunday afternoon, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.