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OBITUARIES LRHS Classes of '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53 & Wilson Tiger's

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We shall remember all those LRHS grads of '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52 classes & Wilson Tigers who have passed on, leaving loved ones and friends behind. This information was taken from the REUNION BOOKS and updates, plus e-mail reports from classmates. Please advise of any corrections and additions.

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Class of 1946 (As of 1/24/03)


*Frances Adams*	*Justus Ball*	*Jimmy Becker*
*Wade Walker Bell*	*John A. Berg, Jr.*	*Max T. Brown*
	*Paul Thomas Cook*	*Betty Lou Branch (Deuering)*
*Maurine Brown Carroll*	*Charles Connelly*	*Guy Corley*
*R. Conrad Courtney*	*Sally Lou Cummins*	*Bill Diffee*
*Dalphne Dillaha (Thompson)*	*Dick Dillman*	*William Edward Dixon*
*Sue Edwards (Neely)*	*James E. Farquhar*	*Bill French*
*Martha Gauldin (Matthews)*	*Mary Graves*	*Kelly Green*
*Lloyd F. Gregory*	*J. E. Griffith*	*Doris Nell Gruner (Cleaver)*
*Hugh Thomas Harrison*	*Pat Heizman*	*Sue Holland (Linde)*
*Doris Hudson (Edgar)*	*Mack Joiner*	*Corrine Jones*
*Doris Nell Julian*	*Fred Kimzey*	*Doris Kryer (Higginbottom)*
*Betty Laseter (Seago)*	*Vernon Markham*	*Betty McColey (Williamson)*
*Norman McCreary*	*Janis McDaniel (Hegi)*	*Roy Mitchell*
*Charles D. Mosier*	*Peggy Jean Murray (Cavin)*	*William B. Neely*
*Gene Newman*	*David Panich*	*Betty Parnell (Atwood)*
*Robert T. Payne*	*Barbara Perryman (Richardson)*	*Mildred Pettus (Gee)*
*Sue Plummer (Parks)*	*Gerald Ponder*	*Tom J. Pounders*
*Jim Powell*	*Robert D. Rector*	*Marguerite Rice*
*Jim Ross*	*Ben D. Rowland, Jr.*	*Jack Sawyer*
*Barbara Smith (Glushenko)*	*Winton Smith*	*Bernice Tarver*
*Betty Thorson*	*Floyd Trantham*	*Betty Turner (Scott)*
*Billie Jean Weatherall (Esmeil)*	*Edith Wheeler*	*Harry Wheeler*
*Tom Wilbourn*	*George Wood*	*Betty Jane Mashburn (Cheney)*
	*Lloyd Faust*	*V. Waner Marks*
*Roy Gough 7/30/99*	*James F. Eberts 9/26/99*	*John McClanahan 8/?/02*
*Alice Ann Conway Papan 11/18/02*	*Margie Christian Curtis 1/17/03*	*Margaret Wilbern 1/3/2003*
*Thomas Doolin 4/?/02*	*Roy Finne 11/?/01*	*Lynn Haggard 4/20/00*
*Clifton Wells 3/6/98*	*Russell Wycoff 2/1/98*	*Harold Rhoads 9/30/03*
*Donald Miller 1/24/04*	*James Dilworth 10/1/03*	*Robert Lanier Jones 2/26/04*
*Bill Ramsey ?/?/00*	*Crofton Vaughan (Jeff)Jefferies 7/9/04*	*Harold Eugene McDonald 8/?/04*
*William S. Rule 10/11/04*	*Thad Wells 9/21/04*	*Polly Cobb (Rogers) 12/27/04*
*Jerry Hutton*	*William Finley Williams*	*Mary Jo Scott 3/24/05*
*J. T. Jaynes 11/08/06*	*Patsy Ruth Warntjes Eisenberg 11/16/06*	*Julie Blizzard Thompson 12/21/07*
*Lorene Ligon George 12/29/07*	*Betty Infield Lincoln 2/4/08*

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Class of 1947 (Updated to 6/21/06)


*Jimmy Adney*	*Hartsell Atwood 9/11/95*	*Frances Virginia Beam*
*Lois Bailey (Moore) 8/19/99*	*Kenneth Baldridge 9/98*	*Dick Beard*
*Albert Benight*	*Ruth Bradbury (Bone)*	*Billy Brown*
*Levaughn Brown ?/73*	*Raymond Bryant*	*Betty Cameron (Heard)*
*Bobby Clifft*	*Polly A. Cole (Burrow)*	*Johanna Coleman 8/3/98*
*Carol L. Conrad (Bailey)*	*Bobby Cook*	*Fred Covington*
*Charles W. Coyne, Jr*	*Tommy Davis (Chairman 20th Reunion)*	*Nancy J. Dawson (Skipper)*
*Doris Deere*	*Karl Deitz 2/2000*	*Lucille Diehl (Davis)*
*Flynn Dunaway*	*Jerry DuPuy*	*Fred P. Doyle 4/18/99*
*Norma Jean Edwards*	*Dorothy Elliott (Cooksey)*	*Helen R. Ellis (Bridges)*
*Siloa Fuller (Morgan)*	*Ernie Funk 4/?/92*	*Ermon Galloway (Dean)*
*Edna Garbett*	*Juanita Garrett (Clark) 92*	*Zora Garrett (Caple)92*
*Mary L. Gibbs (Allaire)*	*Terry L. Geater (Osment) 6/28/97*	*Joan Glasgow (Irwin)*
*R. B. Gulley*	*Shirley Hackney (Wilkins) 1/22/99*	*Bill Hagan*
*Earl Harvey*	*Jo Ann Haynes (Newell)*	*Ina Claire Herring (Bonner) 7/20/99*
*Scott Hickerson*	*Robert Carl Hickman*
*Lou Ann Hiland (Kelley)*	*Sue Hines (Kierre)*	*William David Hopkins*
*Claude R.'Nick' Howell*	*Betty Lou Hutchins (Humphrey)*	*Charles Jackson*
*James D. Jeffries*	*Elizabeth Ann Jones (Lafferty)*	*Norma Jean Kincheloe*
*Ross Kyler 1/96*	*Jean Manney*	*Margie McArthur*
*Jean McBee (Koen)*	*Eddie McCulloch*
*William C. Mears*	*Dorothy Moreland*	*Billie Murphy*
*Charlotte Neff (Cunningham)*	*W. R. Nease 6/18/98*	*Bettye Niblock*
*Barbara Ann Nichols (Kinser) 10/21/96*	*Mary Louise Oehrlie*	*Max Oliver*
*Hoarce E. Pool*	*Pat Pyle*	*Patricia J. Ramsey (McFarland)*
*Jeanice Reynolds*	*Betty Rhea (Caten)*	*Patricia D. Roebuck (Boyett) 5/98*
*Jack Rushing*	*Ben Searcy*	*Tucker Smith*
*Hugh Snodgrass 11/26/98*	*David Stinnett*	*Jean Stiritz (Wagnon)*
*John Strange*	*Juanita Johnson (Taylor) 8/8/97*	*Francis Marie Taylor '62*
*Jimmie Taylor 7/88*	*Ronald Gene Thompson*	*Louis Waldron*
*Armour R. Wayman, III*	*Jack Wilson*	*Margaret Wright*
*Charles R. Wood 11/99*	*Shirley Jean Wright*	*Suzanne Zeglin 2/97*
*Mary Ellen Hartley (Prichard)*	*Bill Leonard 9/99*	*Rex F. Wehrfritz, Jr. 6/5/00*
*Dick Hubbard '89*	*Betty Lou Brooks*	*William Laney*
*Glenn Elrod 3/?/01*	*E.B.'Bobby' Kline 12/99*	*Carolynn Knoch (Meals) 6/8/98*
*Bob Mosley 6/01*	*Virginia Mosley (Anderson) 3/22/01*	*Joe C. Rowland 4/17/01*
*James B.'J.B.' Watts 7/13/01*	*Kathryn Grayson (Scott) 7/28/01*	*Doris Jean Smith Furrer 8/19/01*
*Pat Clements 7/26/01*	*Eula J. Cooper (Ruck) 6/27/01*	Mary Sue Wright
*Maurice Herndon Mills 7/21/01*	*Martha Ann Riley Jackson 1/9/02*	*Ida Jo Treadway Taylor 2/2/02*
*Sue Richardson Lampkin 2/18/02*	*John S. Sims, Sr. 4/28/02*	*Betty Standard (Wright) 6/29/02*
*Howard E. Henry 6/21/02*	*Fred R. Prioleau 10/21/02*	*Patricia 'Patsy' Louis (Hays/McGehee) 1/15/03*
*Ruth Dowell (Frierson) 2/8/03*	*Hal Cochran 4/27/03*	*Julie Ellen Crossley Hess 4/27/03*
*Herbert Clifford 'Bob' Grable 6/26/03*	*Betty Russell Smith 10/3/04*	*Evelyn Plowman Tarbell 10/11/04*
*Janet Sue White Barger 1/28/05*	*Billy Joe Walsh 1/25/05*	*Opal Lunsford (Walker) 3/11/05*
*Anna Jack Baker 6/14/05*	*Frank Graves 12/3/05*	*Patricia Ann Calhoun (Clark) 4/5/06*
*Polly Ann Wood Crews 4/9/06*	*Jim Atkinson 5/1/06*	*Bob Peck 5/10/06*
*William Randolph Jones 12/6/05*	*Jane Bradbury Piazza 8/11/04*	*Tracy Franklin 8/2/01*
*John G. Matthews ?/?/?*	*Homer M. Hughe7/23/06*	*Mary Catherine Hurt Gewin 8/?/02*
*Pat Ramoly Whitley 8/19/03*	*Hazel Love White Williams 6/21/06*	*Wallace R. Wilbourn 7/26/06*
*Rosemary Page Butler 5/28/06*	*Virgina White Grable 8/30/06*	*Patricia Kirby Galloway 2/?/05*
*Hughgla Garrett White /?/?/?*	*Jamesena Bishop Semands 6/05/06*	*Eugene Ison ?/?/?*
*Robert M. 'Bob' Jordan 2/11/07*	*R.J. Wills 3/12/07*
*James Edward Dowdey 9/26/07*	*Ruey Ault 3/25/07*	*Barbara Hess Taylor 3/3/08*
*Joseph M. Koonce 4/25/08*	*Betty Ray Griffith 5/7/08*	*Esther Ashcraft Rhea 5/1/08*
*Betty Cary Dempsey Ward 11/24/08*

NOTE: If you know of a deceased classmate NOT on this list, please send the information to Bob Bailey, 8200 Linda Lane, Little Rock, AR 72227 or email Jim Bell at j22bell@sbcglobal.net.

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Class of 1948

Paul Adams Don Aldridge John Morris Arnhard

Dorothy Blagg Lykes Charles H. Blustein Janet G. Brown

Stephen Bostic Ralph O. Brown Joe E. Brown

Bobbie Jean Bruton John Morris Burnside Walter L. Burroughs

Patricia Bush Pool Jack F. Calcote Henry Callanen

William Homer Clark Lynn Clawson Peggy Clouette Wofford

William A. Coker Velma Sue Creighton Alberteen Cullins

Gary L. Davis Bobbye J. Dilbeck Cortez T. Keith Dixon

ViJean Duff Maxey Edward Eschweiler Griffith Ferrel Jr.

Lee Roy Finch, Jr. Jimmie L. Fletcher Rogers Mildred Frey

Frank Fulk Aljean Fulton Pat Garrett

Joe Gene Gillespie Frances Gono John Gould

Jack Grable Raymond E. Gray Delores Gray

Carroll G. Green Gordon Hastings, Jr. John Butler Hayes

Robert Heiman John D. Hesson Georgia Holland

Charles L. Hudgens Richard J. Hughes John D. Hunt

David Hunter Donald Jones Lon Kerby, Jr.

Patricia R. Kloss Albert R. Koban, Jr. Doris Sue Lee Bryant

Robert V. Light Mike Long Myra May

James F. McClain Robert E. McCrary Lynette McKenzie

Peggy Medlock Gene Mellville Charlotte Miller Cordon

Bernadine Moore Mills William S. Mosley Dewell L. Burks

Freda Moss Robert S. Mount Reva Jean Neal

John W. Neikirk Mary Pierce Virginia Piper

Tom Pounders Thelma Elizabeth Powell Allbright

James Prothro Dona Puska Kay Reinochl

Merrinelle Rice Merthyne Rogers Killion Robert L. Rodgers

James D. Ross Charles Rule Betty Runshang Suddreth

Donald R. Sanders Marion E. Shoemaker Betty D. Shipman

Juanita J. Sivewright Bob Smart Kenneth L. Snow

Dorothy Springfield Martha L. Standard Charles R. Stebbins

Dorothy Stinson Jobe 9/24/01 Nancy A. Stobaugh George A. Venner

Richard S. Vinsant Billy L. Walther Margaret Washburn

Don Waters Karline Watkins Walter Watkins

John Webb Jack E. Wilkins 9/10/98 Joe C. Williams

William E. Winburne James L. Henderson N. Douglas Womack

Anna Lou Mosley Peacock (8/8/2k) John E. Neely, Jr.(7/13/2k) Mary Jane Crow Boerner (8/26/99)

Jack Stafford 3/26/99 Mary Anne Lange ?/?/? Fred Williams 10/9/00

Don Isgrig 10/28/00 Barbara Jean Trimble (Benetz) 12/8/00 Bruce McBrayer ?/90?

Colleen Kennedy Mitchell 3/2001 Jacque N. Wells (Jones) 3/26/01 Dr. David Conrad 4/5/01

Matthew Thomas '65 Roy C. Selby ??? Dick Dean 12/23/01

Mary Scarbrough (Davis) 5/7/02 Joan Gosser (Brooks) 9/13/02 Merrell J. Williams 1/13/03

Dorothy Kelly (Sexton) 9/27/00 Leslie Jennings Jones 5/2/03 Dorothy Jane Spencer 5/25/03

Virginia Taylor 6/5/03 Thurman Terry Burgess 8/19/03 Robert Edwin Chowning 11/3/03

James Ernest Siegler, Sr. 2/21/04 Bill J. Fiddler 7/10/04 Glenn Evans 8/25/04

Jim Henderson 5/19/2000 Dr. Harry Hayes 1/14/05 Robert "Bob" Duncan 2/3/05

Billy Joe Miller 4/27/05 Doris Marie Rodgers (Johnson) 5/3/05 Eula Jean Butler Bearid 5/5/05

Kathryn Fitzhugh Middleton 6/4/05 Charles Dixon 6/13/05 Orville Corbitt 10/17/04

Vance Boyd 11/25/05 Laura Glasscock (Burbin) 12/20/05 Betty Jean Bickers (Wilder) 12/23/05

Charles Martin 1/3/06 Betty Sue Clark (Davis) 7/25/06 Freddie Wingfield 12/31/06

Nancy Anne Hall Bailey 1/9/07 Dorothy Meeks Hogan 8/21/07 Curt A. Sudduth, Jr. 9/8/07

Robert Cox 9/28/07 Phyllis Glass 4/12/07 Bill Hollingshead 6/4/07

John Philemon Hawkins 8/6/04 Dorothy Matthews Long 9/27/00 Robert E. Weaver 1/23/08

Lloyd A. Miller 6/10/06 Anne Josephine Kirby Hinshaw 3/13/08 Coy A. Davis 4/21/08

Edwin Lowe Srygley 4/26/08 Beverly Jane Howe Boone 6/21/08 Byron Wesley Munn 7/2/08

Meredith Miller Lewis 9/25/08 Helen Jane Moody Seaman 3/18/06 Jack A. Tucker 11/6/08

Majorgie L. Maxwell Rushing 11/14/08 John Wesley "Jack" Ross 11/9/08 Alan Dale Harris 11/27/08

George Willard Riddle II 12/4/08

**Since 1948 Reunion, besides the death of Jack E. Wilkins (J/48) listed above, his wife -- Shirley Hackney Wilkins (M/47) -- passed away on January 22, 1999. Both Jack and Shirley were instrumental in the success of 50th Reunion.

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Updated:


*Paul Adams*	*Don Aldridge*	*John Morris Arnhard*
*Dorothy Blagg Lykes*	*Charles H. Blustein*	*Janet G. Brown*
*Stephen Bostic*	*Ralph O. Brown*	*Joe E. Brown*
*Bobbie Jean Bruton*	*John Morris Burnside*	*Walter L. Burroughs*
*Patricia Bush Pool*	*Jack F. Calcote*	*Henry Callanen*
*William Homer Clark*	*Lynn Clawson*	*Peggy Clouette Wofford*
*William A. Coker*	*Velma Sue Creighton*	*Alberteen Cullins*
*Gary L. Davis*	*Bobbye J. Dilbeck Cortez*	*T. Keith Dixon*
*ViJean Duff Maxey*	*Edward Eschweiler*	*Griffith Ferrel Jr.*
*Lee Roy Finch, Jr.*	*Jimmie L. Fletcher Rogers*	*Mildred Frey*
*Frank Fulk*	*Aljean Fulton*	*Pat Garrett*
*Joe Gene Gillespie*	*Frances Gono*	*John Gould*
*Jack Grable*	*Raymond E. Gray*	*Delores Gray*
*Carroll G. Green*	*Gordon Hastings, Jr.*	*John Butler Hayes*
*Robert Heiman*	*John D. Hesson*	*Georgia Holland*
*Charles L. Hudgens*	*Richard J. Hughes*	*John D. Hunt*
*David Hunter*	*Donald Jones*	*Lon Kerby, Jr.*
*Patricia R. Kloss*	*Albert R. Koban, Jr.*	*Doris Sue Lee Bryant*
*Robert V. Light*	*Mike Long*	*Myra May*
*James F. McClain*	*Robert E. McCrary*	*Lynette McKenzie*
*Peggy Medlock*	*Gene Mellville*	*Charlotte Miller Cordon*
*Bernadine Moore Mills*	*William S. Mosley*	*Dewell L. Burks*
*Freda Moss*	*Robert S. Mount*	*Reva Jean Neal*
*John W. Neikirk*	*Mary Pierce*	*Virginia Piper*
*Tom Pounders*	*Thelma Elizabeth*	*Powell Allbright*
*James Prothro*	*Dona Puska*	*Kay Reinochl*
*Merrinelle Rice*	*Merthyne Rogers Killion*	*Robert L. Rodgers*
*James D. Ross*	*Charles Rule*	*Betty Runshang Suddreth*
*Donald R. Sanders*	*Marion E. Shoemaker*	*Betty D. Shipman*
*Juanita J. Sivewright*	*Bob Smart*	*Kenneth L. Snow*
*Dorothy Springfield*	*Martha L. Standard*	*Charles R. Stebbins*
*Dorothy Stinson Jobe 9/24/01*	*Nancy A. Stobaugh*	*George A. Venner*
*Richard S. Vinsant*	*Billy L. Walther*	*Margaret Washburn*
*Don Waters*	*Karline Watkins*	*Walter Watkins*
*John Webb*	*Jack E. Wilkins 9/10/98*	*Joe C. Williams*
*William E. Winburne*	*James L. Henderson*	*N. Douglas Womack*
*Anna Lou Mosley Peacock (8/8/2k)*	*John E. Neely, Jr.(7/13/2k)*	*Mary Jane Crow Boerner (8/26/99)*
*Jack Stafford 3/26/99*	*Mary Anne Lange ?/?/?*	*Fred Williams 10/9/00*
*Don Isgrig 10/28/00*	*Barbara Jean Trimble (Benetz) 12/8/00*	*Bruce McBrayer ?/90?*
*Colleen Kennedy Mitchell 3/2001*	*Jacque N. Wells (Jones) 3/26/01*	*Dr. David Conrad 4/5/01*
*Matthew Thomas '65*	*Roy C. Selby ???*	*Dick Dean 12/23/01*
*Mary Scarbrough (Davis) 5/7/02*	*Joan Gosser (Brooks) 9/13/02*	*Merrell J. Williams 1/13/03*
*Dorothy Kelly (Sexton) 9/27/00*	*Leslie Jennings Jones 5/2/03*	*Dorothy Jane Spencer 5/25/03*
*Virginia Taylor 6/5/03*	*Thurman Terry Burgess 8/19/03*	*Robert Edwin Chowning 11/3/03*
*James Ernest Siegler, Sr. 2/21/04*	*Bill J. Fiddler 7/10/04*	*Glenn Evans 8/25/04*
*Jim Henderson 5/19/2000*	*Dr. Harry Hayes 1/14/05*	*Robert "Bob" Duncan 2/3/05*
*Billy Joe Miller 4/27/05*	*Doris Marie Rodgers (Johnson) 5/3/05*	*Eula Jean Butler Bearid 5/5/05*
*Kathryn Fitzhugh Middleton 6/4/05*	*Charles Dixon 6/13/05*	*Orville Corbitt 10/17/04*
*Vance Boyd 11/25/05*	*Laura Glasscock (Burbin) 12/20/05*	Betty Jean Bickers (Wilder) 12/23/05
*Charles Martin 1/3/06*	*Betty Sue Clark (Davis) 7/25/06*	*Freddie Wingfield 12/31/06*
*Nancy Anne Hall Bailey 1/9/07*	*Dorothy Meeks Hogan 8/21/07*	*Curt A. Sudduth, Jr. 9/8/07*
*Robert Cox 9/28/07*	*Phyllis Glass 4/12/07*	*Bill Hollingshead 6/4/07*
*John Philemon Hawkins 8/6/04*	*Dorothy Matthews Long 9/27/00*	*Robert E. Weaver 1/23/08*
*Lloyd A. Miller 6/10/06*	*Anne Josephine Kirby Hinshaw 3/13/08*	*Coy A. Davis 4/21/08*
*Edwin Lowe Srygley 4/26/08*	*Beverly Jane Howe Boone 6/21/08*	*Byron Wesley Munn 7/2/08*
*Meredith Miller Lewis 9/25/08*	*Helen Jane Moody Seaman 3/18/06*	*Jack A. Tucker 11/6/08*
*Majorgie L. Maxwell Rushing 11/14/08*	*John Wesley "Jack" Ross 11/9/08*	*Alan Dale Harris 11/27/08*
*George Willard Riddle II 12/4/08*