Cave City & Batesville, AR Obituaries
Local obituaries for Sharp & Independence Counties in AR
Melvin V. Patterson
Dec 22, 2015
Melvin V. Patterson age 89 of Batesville died Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at his home. He was born June 23, 1926 at Batesville, Arkansas to Henry and Millie Greenfield Patterson. He was retired from Arkansas Power and Light and was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII. He was a member of West Baptist Church in Batesville where he served as...
Rebecca Louise Duke
Dec 20, 2015
Rebecca Louise Duke age 51 of Batesville died Sunday, December 20, 2015 at a Batesville hospital. She was born January 6, 1964 at Batesville, Arkansas, the daughter of W.O. Duke and Opal Barham Duke Mobley. She had worked several years at ProDentec in Batesville and was of the Assembly of God faith. She loved people and helping anyway she possibly...
Mordecai Jessie Marlin
Dec 18, 2015
Mordecai Jessie Marlin age 83 of Cave City died Friday, December 18, 2015 at the Cave City Nursing Home. He was born April 8, 1932 at Cave City, Arkansas to Jessie Henderson and Ollie Mae (Willis) Marlin. He was a retired Game Warden having retired in 1994 from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission with 26 years of service. He...
Wade Reynolds
Dec 17, 2015
Wade Reynolds age 73 of Cave City died Thursday, December 17, 2015 at a Batesville hospital. He was born February 11, 1942 at Melbourne, Arkansas to Delbert and Ednas Rhoads Reynolds. He was a retired bridge foreman for Union Pacific Railroad and of the Christian faith. He was preceded in death by his parents. Survivors include his wife of 56...
Clay Roger Townsend
Dec 14, 2015
Clay Roger Townsend age 57 of Cave City died Monday, December 14, 2015 at his home. He was born April 18, 1958 in California. He was a painter and construction worker having worked for Provence Construction in Cave City. He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Dave Townsend and one sister, Earline Whitley. Survivors include his wife...
Tommy Newman Pierson
Dec 14, 2015
Tommy Newman Pierson age 69 of Evening Shade died Monday, December 14, 2015 at a Batesville hospital. He was born February 8, 1946 at Evening Shade, Arkansas to C.C. and Edna Ray Thomas Pierson. He was a construction worker and worked for the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department for several years. He was preceded in death by his father and...
Ruby L. Patterson
Dec 13, 2015
Ruby L. Patterson age 86 of Batesville died Sunday, December 13, 2015 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. She was born October 1, 1929 at Mobley, Arkansas, the daughter of Arnold and Thelma Crabtree. She was a nurse for Allen’s Hospital and Gray’s Hospital both in Batesville and co-owned the Southside Dairy Bar for several years. She was...
Judy L. Pate
Dec 12, 2015
Judy Collins Pate age 58 of Cave City died Saturday December 12, 2015 at her home. She was born February 24, 1957 at Oneonta, Alabama to Aubrey and Callie Mae Black Collins. She was a homemaker and a member of the Maple Street Baptist Church in Tarrant City, Alabama. She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Joe...
Billy Lawrence Williams
Dec 8, 2015
Billy Lawrence Williams age 79 passed away on Tuesday December 8, 2015 at a Batesville hospital. He was born on December 13, 1935 to Henry and Suzie Williams. He was a lifetime resident of Evening Shade. He was a member of First Baptist Church at Evening Shade. He served as the Sharp County Tax Assessor for 10 years, was a...
T.N. "Nelson" Greenfield
Dec 7, 2015
T.N. “Nelson” Greenfield age 88 of Batesville died Monday, December 7, 2015 at a Batesville hospital. He was born January 16, 1927 at Spring Mill, Arkansas to Eugene and Ella Thomas Greenfield. He was a retired heavy equipment operator and logger. He was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII and a member of the American Legion. He was of the...
Mildred Jones Taylor
Dec 6, 2015
Mildred Jones Taylor age 66 of Cave City died Sunday, December 6, 2015 at her home. She was born December 24, 1948 at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas to Charlie and Mary Jones. She never met a stranger and enjoyed helping people. She was of the Christian faith. She was preceded in death by her parents. Survivors include two sons, Wayne Taylor...
Remmel Ray
Dec 6, 2015
Remmel Ray age 77 of Mt. Pleasant died Sunday, December 6, 2015 at his home. He was born May 14, 1938 at Mt. Pleasant, Arkansas to Robert Alf and Ada Mae McCracken Ray. He was U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War having retired with 21 years of service. After leaving the service he drove a bus for the civil...
Joline Riley Burrow
Dec 6, 2015
Joline Riley Burrow age 83 of Batesville died Sunday, December 6, 2015 at her home. She was born April 1, 1932 at Batesville, Arkansas to Earl and Julia Payne Riley. She was retired owner of Batesville Moving and Storage and a member of First Free Will Baptist Church in Batesville. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband,...
Brenda Kay Justice
Dec 5, 2015
Brenda Kay Justice age 59 of Sidney died Saturday, December 5, 2015 at her home. She was born February 6, 1956 at Osceola, Arkansas to Junior Edward and Martha ann stone Justice. She loved her family, horse shoes, baseball and fishing, but most of all she loved going to church. Survivors include one brother, Buddy Justice of Cave City; one...
William Clay Ford
Dec 5, 2015
William Clay Ford age 72 of Pleasant Plains passed away Saturday, December 5, 2015. He was born January 29, 1943 at Batesville, Arkansas to Claybourne and Ona Campbell Ford. He was a retired construction contractor; a U.S. Air Force veteran and a member of West Baptist Church in Batesville. He enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was preceded in death by...
James R. Thomas
Dec 4, 2015
James “Jimmy” Richard Thomas age 84 of Batesville passed away Friday, December 4, 2015 at his home. He was born October 15, 1931 at Evening Shade, Arkansas to William and June Graddy Thomas. He was very proud to be a part of the Thomas-Sharp family history that settled Sharp County. He played a lead role in organizing the Thomas-Sharp family...
Billy UL Carter
Dec 4, 2015
Billy UL Carter age 89, of Sandtown died Friday, December 4, 2015 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born on August 30, 1926 in Sandtown, Arkansas to William Washington and Ruth Ann (Smith) Carter. He was an avid farmer until he joined the U.S. Army in 1944. When he returned in 1946 he did timberwork with...
Leo "Randolph" Williams
Dec 2, 2015
Leo “Randolph” Williams age 97 years, 2 months and 14 days died Wednesday December 2, 2015 at the White River Medical Center in Batesville. He was born September 18, 1918 at Oneal, Arkansas to John Allen Williams and Mattie Jane Harmon Williams. He married Irene Rowlett Williams in 1946 in Greenbriar, Arkansas and they were married for 69 years. He...
Sarah R. Lindsey
Nov 30, 2015
Sarah R. Lindsey age 33 of Calamine died Monday, November 30, 2015 at Batesville. She was born November 28, 1982 at Fort Ord, California to James Kerr Sr. and Juanita Elliott Kerr. She was an employee of The Tobacco Warehouse in Batesville and was of the Christian faith. She was preceded in death by one daughter, McKinnley Faye Lindsey; her...
Anthony "Andy" Benton Lee
Nov 28, 2015
Anthony “Andy” Benton Lee age 35 of the Hutchinson Mountain Community died Saturday, November 28, 2015 at his home. He was born April, 15, 1980 at Searcy, Arkansas, the son of Jerry Lee and Jane Strother. He was an air conditioning technician and a tree trimmer. He was a member of the Church of Christ. He was preceded in death...
