Stories from Monday, October 21, 2013

Jeannie B. Allhoff, 81, of Leachville, died Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Born Jan. 11, 1932, in Beebe, she was the daughter of the late Lenos and Ava Moore Fields and had lived many years in Des Moines, Iowa, before returning to Arkansas in 1981. ...

Muriel Gwendolyn Harper Harris Dryer, 98, of Fayetteville, formerly of Monette, died peacefully on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. She was born March 29, 1915, to the late Dr. Thomas and Anna Harper in Peach Orchard...

Barbara Frances Grimes, 84, longtime Leachville resident and widow of Monte Grimes, passed from this life Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, at the Monette Manor Nursing Center. Born Nov. 8, 1928, in Monette she was the daughter of the late Thomas Houston and Alma Jessica Abby Barnes and was a 1945 graduate of Childress High School. ...

Thomas "Dickie" Howell, 67 of Jonesboro, died Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 at his home after a three year battle with lung cancer. He was born Sept. 9, 1946, in Leachville, the son of the late Jack and Boyce Braden Howell. He was also preceded in death by his sister, Mary Sue Wilson...