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Funeral services for Henrietta “Henri” Kuebler, 63, of West Plains, formerly of Ozark County, were held Feb. 12, 2018, at Carter Funeral Home in West Plains. Mrs. Kuebler died Feb. 6 NHC nursing home in West Plain.
Mrs. Kuebler was born Jan. 15, 1955, in Nixon, Texas, the daughter of Elijah and...
Funeral services for Wanda Fox, 95, of Gainesville, were held Feb. 12, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Gainesville with Denny Stormes officiating. Mrs. Fox died Feb. 8 at the Gainesville Health Care Center in Gainesville.
She was born April 4, 1922, in Delaplaine, Arkansas, the daughter of...
Funeral services for Kenneth Ferd Bushong, 77, of Brixey, were held Feb. 13, 2018, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Ava with E. J. Hampton officiating. Mr. Bushong died Feb. 8 at his home.
He was born Oct. 12, 1940, in Ozark County, the son of Floyd and Ola Scott Bushong. He was a graduate of...
A celebration of the life of Patsy Ann Hardgrave Hambelton, 62, of Theodosia, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 3, 2018, at the Lilly Ridge Baptist Church in Gainesville. Mrs. Hambelton died peacefully on Feb. 8 at the family home. She had battled cancer since May 2016 but had kept teaching...
This photo of team ropers – Joe Strong, the “header,” and Jim Henderson, the “heeler” – was taken during a 1982 rodeo at the Gainesville Saddle Club grounds. The team had a time of 7.9 seconds, which earned them second place. The photo was shared with the Times by Shawna Herd.
Ozark County Times
Feb. 22, 1918
A movement was started a short time ago to organize a branch chapter of the Red Cross at this place as the Ozark County Chapter at Bakersfield has been organized for some time. Accordingly, people responded with their usual loyalty, patriotism and generosity so now...
Justin Curtright and Audriana Burton of Tecumseh are the parents of a baby girl, Cambrie Elizabeth Curtright, born Jan. 18, 2018, at Baxter RegionalMedical Center in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She weighed 7 pounds 1 ounce and was 20 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Brian and Joleen Burton of...
We’ve learned some new information about this previously published photo of the Gainesville High School Glee Club, which is mentioned in a 1928 item shared in this week’s Times Past. We now know that the photo was taken to advertise the club’s upcoming performance of “Love Pirates of Hawaii.” The group posed beside Gainesville’s fourth school building, which was built in 1917 on the site near today’s Gainesville post office and was later demolish after being declared unsafe. Only three glee club members’ identities are known: Hattie Clark (Sandford) is on the far right, and her brother, Wolf Clark, is standing near the center of the group in the dark sweater. The student labeled “Virgil” is Virgil Robinson, father of Carla Robinson Lane and her brother, the late Russ Robinson. The photo was recently shared with us by Matt Lyons of Springfield, grandson of Hattie Clark Sandford.
Ozark County Times
Feb. 20, 1914
Mrs. Newt Martin of Locust, who we reported last week as improving, died Thursday night of last week. Interment was made in the Pontiac Cemetery Saturday.
Feb. 22, 1918
Dora – Austin Hightower is putting a roof on the skylight blacksmith shop this week.
E. C....
Sherry Hollingsworth, 81, of Pleasant Hope, formerly of Ozark County, died Jan. 13, 2018, in a hospice facility in Buffalo of conditions related to old age. Funeral services were private.
She was born Aug. 25, 1936, in her grandparents’ home in Rogers, Arkansas, the eldest of the seven children of...
Imogene Belcher, 79
Funeral services for Imogene Belcher, 79, of West Plains, were held Jan. 31, 2018, at Crider Church of Christ in Caulfield. Mrs. Belcher died Jan. 27 at Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains.
She was born July 27, 1938, in Ozark County, the daughter of Tommy J. and Clora Edith May Collins. On Nov....
Junior Ralph Anderson, 91
Junior Ralph Anderson, 91, of the Howards Ridge community near Gainesville, died peacefully on Feb. 4, 2018, at the Gainesville Health Care Center in Gainesville. No local services are planned at this time.
Mr. Anderson was born March 3, 1926, in Mammoth, the son of Myrtle and Elmer Anderson. In...