OBITUARIES
Arkadelphia and Camden Obituaries
Local obituaries for Arkadelphia and Camden, AR area
Roy Lee Reed
Jan 13, 2019
Roy Lee Reed was born on July 22, 1943 in Okolona, Arkansas to Elroy Reed and Minnie Ola Brooks. He accepted Christ at a young age and was a life long member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.
Roy was a 1962 graduate of Simmons High School. He married Catherine Whitfield on January 23, 1965 at to this union two children...
Eddie Ray Goldsby
Jan 11, 2019
Eddie Ray Goldsby was born on March 3, 1947 at the home of his parents on Route 1 Box 10 in Gurdon, Arkansas. He attended Bell Elementary and Bell High School where he graduated in the top 10 of the Class of 1965.
He was very intelligent and made friend easily. He was very athletic and was the greatest boxer...
Evelyn Craig
Jan 5, 2019
Evelyn Davis Craig was the second child of ten children born to the union of Johnnie and Zettie B. Elliott Davis. Family played a key role in the development and shaping of her life. She accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior as a little girl uniting with St. James AME Church where she was a member of the choir....
Mae B. Lenox
Jan 3, 2019
Mae B. Lenox left this earth for her heavenly home on January 3, 2019.
On July 27, 1935, Sidney and Maner Simpson welcomed the birth of their daughter they named Mae B. Simpson. Mae accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at an early age. This relationship with her "Three Best Friends" (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) directed...
Mary Louise Brim
Dec 26, 2018
Mary Louise was born in Arkadelphia Arkansas on December 6, 1947. She was the seventh child of Roy and Susie Lee Brim. Her parents and brother Roy Brim preceded her in death.
Mary was a people person who never met a stranger. Always fun loving; if you met her once you never forgot her. She loved to sing, was an...
Roy "Boocat" Brim, Jr.
Dec 15, 2018
On October 3, 1938 Roy and Susie Lee Hogan Brim welcomed the birth of as a son they named Roy Brim, Jr. Roy accepted Christ at a young age and was a member of Piney Grove AME Church. He grew up in the Manchester Community surrounded by large families on both the Brim and Hogan sides.
Roy worked several...
Betty Ann Carter-Nelson
Dec 11, 2018
Betty Ann Carter Nelson was born in Arkadelphia, Arkansas on April 19, 1956 to Elmer and Lucille Jones Carter. She was raised in Sparkman, Arkansas, where she accepted Christ at an early age when she became a lifelong member of Macedonia Baptist Church.
Betty was a graduate of Sparkman High School. She was united in holy matrimony to Carl...
James Alexander
Dec 8, 2018
James Alexander was born September 18, 1951 in Louann, Arkansas to the union of Clyde and Carrie Anderson Alexander.
He was a graduate of Lafayette High School in Ouachita County and worked as an independent logger.
He passed from this life on Saturday, December 8, 2018 at Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden, Arkansas. James leaves one brother and...
Gussie Annette Mitchell
Nov 20, 2018
Those Who Loved Me When I am gone, release me and let me go. I have so many things to see and do, You must not tie yourself to me with tears, be thankful for our beautiful years. I gave my love to you and know it was from the heart. You can only guess how much you gave to...
Ida Mae Brown-Owens
Nov 19, 2018
Ida Mae Brown Owens was the oldest child born to Akie’B Brown and Gertrude Moore Brown on April 6, 1934 in Hampton, Arkansas. She accepted Christ at a young age and was a member of the Church of Christ in Harrell, Arkansas where she loved congregational singing. She married Hershal Harris and to this union eight children were born. She...
Lee Alice Brunson
Nov 12, 2018
If life is a song worth singing, then every breath taken should exude the melody, the harmony and the rhapsody of Lee Alice Bryant Brunson. She transitioned peacefully on Monday, November 12, 2018 at her home in North Little Rock at the tender age of 90. Within a span of nine amazing decades, this incredible woman found a way to...
Brandon DeWayne Sims
Nov 2, 2018
Brandon DeWayne Sims was born into this life on January 16, 1984 in Camden, Arkansas to Janice Sims Bell and William Fricks, Sr. He attended Camden Elementary School and was a 2002 graduate of Prescot High School. Brandon was a member of St. John Baptist Church in Bluff City, Arkansas where Rev. Jerry Bishop is the pastor.Brandon’s nickname was “Spec”...
John L. Hogan
Nov 1, 2018
John L. Hogan was born May 10, 1945 to the late Elena Hogan and Mossie Hogan in Arkadelphia, Arkansas where he lived and grew up with three sisters and three brothers.He graduated in 1963 from Peake High School and moved to Dallas, Texas to work the State Fair. Shortly afterwards John and Juanita Hogan were married in 1967. They joined...
Andy Hatley
Oct 25, 2018
Andy Hatley was born in the small city of Okolona, Arkansas near Gurdon on Saturday, February 10, 1928. He was one among the 10 children born to Jim Hatley and Lucinda McNear. His parents taught him that a good name is more desirable than great riches and is better than silver and gold. He attended school in Okolona and enjoyed...
Annie Bess Hill
Oct 18, 2018
Annie Bess Brown Hill was born into this life on December 12, 1926, to Dona and Maude Eva McNeal Brown in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Annie accepted Christ at a tender age and was a life-long member of St. Paul AME Church. Over the years she was a member of the sanctuary choir, served as a stewardess, as an usher and worked...
Jeannette Blakely Fort
Oct 5, 2018
H E R STORY A long time ago, a man named Lee Vester “Putsy” Blakely met a woman named Levester Warren. They fell in love, got married and God blessed them with a bundle of joy named Jeannette on July 13, 1960. She was a bundle and you could tell she was full of joy because she just smiled from...
Emmanuel "Hawk" Taylor
Oct 5, 2018
“You said you would take me to Glory To sit at the welcome table Rejoice with my mother in heaven And I’m stepping out on your Word” On September 23, 1949 a bouncy baby boy made his entrance into GOD’s world, by way of the marriage union of James Thomas Taylor (February 4, 2005) and Inez Taylor of Sparkman, AR...
Brian Tyrone Helms
Oct 4, 2018
Brian Tyrone Helms was born to the union of Henry A. Helms, Sr., and Annie Williams Helms on October 7, 1956 in Compton, California. Brian was an active and lively child who was raised in a Christian home. He was baptized at True Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Compton under the leadership of Rev. Wade. His mother was the pianist...
Patsy Lavern Butler
Sep 27, 2018
Patsy Lavern Cooks was born on Friday, April 29, 1938 in Hope, Arkansas to the union of Jake and Berta Carter Cooks. By every account, Patsy was a loving, joyful and obedient child, gifted with a gentle nature that would serve her all of her life. As a young girl, she accepted Christ and was a member of Haynes Chapel...
Lekeish Levette Giles
Sep 26, 2018
Memorial services to celebrate the life of Lekeish Levette Giles will be shared at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at Kingdom Authority Christian Ministries with Presiding Elder James H. Giles, Sr., eulogist. Family and friends are asked to share in the celebration by wearing her favorite color purple. Lekeish affectionately called “Baby Gurl” was born on May 9,...
