OBITUARY INDEX

OBITUARY INDEX

Howard County Arkansas Genealogy Trails

GREENVILLE, SC–PATSY R. DAVIDSON, 50, of 724 Edens Road, died Thursday, June 17, 1999, at Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Born in Howard County, Ark., she was a daughter of the late Lake and Mae Harris Stevens. Technician: AT&T in Liberty. Member: First Methodist Church, Murfreesboro, Ark.
Survivors: husband, Don L. Davidson; a son, Brian Davidson of Seneca; a brother, Bobby L. Stevens of Murfreesboro; sisters, Doris Elliott of Murfreesboro and Faye Hilt of Blanchard, La;. grandchildren, Andrew and Emily Davidson. Predeceased: a sister, Ann Fletcher.
Visitation: 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Dillard Memorial Funeral Home. Graveside service: 11 a.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Memorial Park and Gardens. --Greenville News, The (SC) - June 18, 1999

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO--OMA NETHERY, 83, of Colorado Springs died Monday at a local hospital. She was a homemaker.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Swan-Law Funeral Home, 501 N. Cascade Ave. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home with the Rev. Greg Chandler officiating. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery, 1000 S. 26th St.
Mrs. Nethery was born March 9, 1907, in Dierks, Ark., to William E. and Martha A. (Teal) Keeney.
She had lived in Colorado Springs since 1956. Mrs. Nethery attended the Billy Spielman Center and was a member of Second Horizons, a local senior citizens club.
She is survived by three sons, Lester of Palestine, Texas, Raymond of Toms River, N.J., and Loyal of Colorado Springs; three daughters, Verna Gore of Sillsbee, Texas, Christine of Colorado Springs, and Velda Rice of Harrisburg, Pa.; a brother, Robert Keeney of Alleene, Ark.; 15 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
--Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, CO) - January 30, 1991

NASHVILLE, AR--JAY DERIEL ROMINE, 69, of Nashville died Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006 in Nashville. He was born Sept. 22, 1937 in Illmo, Scott County, MO, son of Sylvester and Mary Simpson Romine.
Romine was a veteran of the Army and a member of First Baptist Church in Nashville; he was retired after 35 years in retail business.
Survivors include his wife, Edwina Rowe Romine of Nashville; a son, Deriel Romine of Washington, AR; a daughter, Lisa Romine of Conway, AR; a sister, Fran Baker of Sikeston, MO; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.
Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006 at First Baptist Church with the Rev. David Blase officiating. Burial will follow in Restland Memorial Park Cemetery.

LONGMONT, CO--CLARENCE PORTER ''BILL'' SMITH, 99, of Longmont died March 28 (1999). Services were March 31, with burial at Greenlawn Cemetery in Berthoud. Mr. Smith was born in Howard County, Ark., on May 1, 1899. He married Lulu Schroeter, 1918. He retired from Gates Rubber Co. in 1964. He was a member of East Denver Masonic Lodge 160, Del Norte Chapter Order of Eastern Star, Sargent Methodist Church and Saint Paul's Methodist Church. Survivors include daughter Mary Hottel of Allenspark; half-brother Charlie of Arkansas; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; three great-great- grandchildren.
--Rocky Mountain News (CO) - April 15, 1999.

UNCLE JIM WESTBROOK
CONFEDERATE VETERAN
DIED WEDNESDAY JAN 22

Lifelong Resident of This Section Died at Age of 92; Was County's Last Confederate Veteran--Elder J. A. Westbrook, aged 92, believed to have been the last Confederate Veteran in Howard county, passed away at his home here Wednesday January 22.
Uncle Jim as he was familiarly-known, was born about four miles south of where the town of Dierks now stands, on April 28,1848. He spent his entire life in Sevier and Howard counties with the exception of a year in Texas and the time that he went in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Local historians say that he is the last of the boys from this county to have followed the stars and bars. Following his return from the Confederate Army, he married Miss Dorinda Choate in 1867. To this union were born twelve children, six of whom survive him. His wife died about ten years ago.
Uncle Jim was a Baptist minister for more than sixty years. He possessed a strong physique, never having had measles, mumps, smallpox or any other contagious disease and never was sick a day in his life and never had a doctor with him. Death came to him suddenly.
He is survived by his oldest son, Charley Westbrook, age 72 of Calhoun, Okla., also B. R. of Ivanhoe, Texas, Oscar and Arthur of Idabel, Okla, and Olie of Dierks; and one daughter, Mrs. Lou Walters of Dierks; four brothers, R. W. of Dierks, George V. of Okmulgee, Okla, Joe of Wetumpka, Okla., and Olie of Okena, Okla; and two sisters, Joelia Mitchell of Texas and Mrs. Etta Fuqua of Broken Bow, Okla, besides other relatives.
Funeral services were conducted by Elder T. I. Epton and T F. Westbrook, the latter being a nephew of Uncle Jim. The body was laid to rest in Pleasant Hill cemetery near Provo, January 23. --Contributed by Debra McKeever.

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