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FORREST, Maudie Leotha
Jones
Surnames: Forrest, Jones, Mills Maudie Leotha
Jones Forrest, age 85, of Waldron, Arkansas died Sunday, Dec.
14, 1997, in a Waldron nursing home. She was a homemaker and a
member of the Shiloh Baptist Church and widow of Frank Forrest.
She is survived by a son, Ezra Forrest of Mena, AR; sister,
Audie Mills of Waldron, AR; two brothers, Fred C. Jones and
Marvin Jones, both of Mena, AR; and four grandchildren. Funeral
services were held Wednesday, Dec. 17, 1997, at 2 p.m. at Shiloh
Baptist Church with interment in Shiloh Cemetery immediatel
following the service. Arrangements under the direction of
Martin Funeral Home of Waldron, Arkansas.
From the Mena Star Thursday, December 18, 1997
Contributed by Linnie
FORTNER, Robert
Surnames: Fortner, Swaty, Winton, Hall,
Sawyer, Weatherbee, Swaty
Funeral service for Robert Fortner, pioneer Polk county
resident who died November 26 at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
G.L. Swaty on north Mena street, was held Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the First Baptist church with the Rev. L.D. Summers,
pastor, and the Rev. W.H. Hodges, missionary Baptist minister of
Wewoka, Okla., officiating. Burial took place at Buffalo
cemetery three miles west of Cove, which cemetery is located on
land donated by the deceased for that purpose. Last rites at the
grave were in charge of Dallas Lodge No. 128, F. & A. Masons
with Paul P. Sanders, past master, officiating. Arrangements
were by the Beasley Funeral Home. the pallbearers were all
members of the Masonic fraternity of which the deceased had been
a member for 45 years, and included C.C. Gibson, Willard Mosely,
E.F. Lunsford, Robert Hunter, R.C. Smith and Earnest St. John.
Robert Fortner was born at Linden, Moringo county, Alabama,
December 16, 1857. He moved with his parents, Lewis and Nancy
Hall Fortner, to what is now Webster Parish, La., in December,
1869, and after their death moved to Nevada county where he
lived until December, 1879, when he moved to Polk county, where
he has made his home for 55 years. He was married to Miss Mary
Bell Winton, daughter of R.B. Winton, near Cove March 30, 1882.
He homesteaded 160 acres of land and built a home where they
lived 40 years. He had been a member of the Baptist church for
60 years. He was past master of the Cove Masonic lodge and was a
past chaplain of the lodge in Mena. He had made his home in Mena
with his daughter since leaving Cove a nuimber of years ago. He
served at one time as deputy sheriff of Polk county. Mr. Fortner
is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.B. Sawyer, Wewoka, Okla.;
Mrs. W.J. Weatherbee and Mrs. G.L. Swaty, Mena; four sons, H.C.
Fortner, Laguna Beaach, Calif.; H.H. Fortner, Prescott, Ariz.;
B.H. Fortner, Oatman, Ariz.; W. L. Fortner, Hominy, Okla.; one
sister, Miss Lillie Fortner, Prescott; two brothers, L. H.
Fortner, Jewell, Ark.; Alex Fortner, Prescott; 24 grandchildren
and eleven great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his
wife on December 1, 1920.
The Mena Star Dec. 2, 1937
Wanda
FOWLER, Lindsay Hugh
Surnames: Fowler, Hass,
Curtiss, Cummings, Puryear, Lang, Hughes, Stanchfield
Lindsay Hugh Fowler, age 61, resident of North LaJunta,
Colorado, died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1997 at his home. He was born
July 23, 1936, in Big Fork, Arkansas, to the late Earl Fowler
and the late Elva Hass Fowler. He served in the U.S. Navy from
1954-57. He also worked as a driller in the oil fields and was a
TV repairman. He was united in marriage to Mia L. Curtiss
Fowler, July 12, 1987, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Survivors include
his wife, Mia Fowler, North LaJunta, Colorado; son, Tommy
Fowler, Mena, AR; sisters, Geneve Cummings, Gainsville, Tx;
Wendy Puryear, Amarillo, TX; Bonnie Lang, Alturas, CA.; Earlene
Hughes and Betty Stanchfield, both of Bakersfield, CA;
grandchildren, Matthew and Nathan Fowler, Mena, AR. Mr. Fowler
was preceded in death by 2 brothers; Frank Fowler and Al Fowler.
Graveside services were held Monday, Dec. 15, 1997, at 2 p.m. at
the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Big Fork, with Bro. Dardanelle
Townsley officiating. Burial followed. Beasley-Wood Funeral Home
of Mena in charge of arrangements.
Mena Star Thursday, December 18, 1997
Contributed by Linnie Howell