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Francis Gary

Francis Gary

Sep 30, 2019

Francis “Frank” Gary passed away on Monday, September 30, 2019, after a tragic motorcycle accident. Frank was born in Grosse Point Farms, Michigan, on October 2, 1944. After graduating from high school he joined the Navy in 1962 as Seaman Recruit E-3 and served aboard the U.S.S Henry County (LST824) which operated on the brown waters (rivers) in-country Vietnam in...

Anita Carol Nye

Anita Carol Nye

Sep 28, 2019

Anita Carol (Rhoton) Nye was born August 30, 1936 to Ernest and Mattie Rhoton in Temple Hill, KY. She passed peacefully at home on September 28, 2019.             Carol as she liked to be addressed, was the middle child of three daughters born to the Rhoton’s.                         She is preceded in death by both her parents, her older sister Ruth, and her...

William Elmer Catchpole

William Elmer Catchpole

Sep 28, 2019

William (Bill) Catchpole of Cordes Lakes passed away on the afternoon of September 28 in the Long-Term Care Ward of Prescott Samaritan Village in Prescott. He was 98. Mr. Catchpole was born on January 27, 1921 in the small riverside village of Rimer in western Pennsylvania. He graduated from Kittanning High School in 1940 and started work with the Pennsylvania...

Lillian June Cotter

Lillian June Cotter

Sep 28, 2019

Lillian June (June Bug) Cotter was born Nov. 16th, 1928 in Hayden, AZ. She married her first husband, Albert Heck in Prescott, AZ in 1946. She had three sons. Richard Heck, Albert Heck, and Leonard Heck (deceased). She divorced her first husband. Later she married Vern Cotter and had a daughter Diana Cotter. June has ten grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and...

Arthur Douglas Smith Jr.

Arthur Douglas Smith Jr.

Sep 27, 2019

Born April 25, 1946, in Pittsburgh, PA., Art passed away September 27, 2019 in Prescott, AZ. He was 73.      Art graduated from Moniteau High School in West Sunbury, PA in 1965. Later that year he joined the Air Force and stationed at Vandenburg Air Force Base in Lompoc, CA, where he was honorably discharged.      In 1972, Art started working at...

Richard Eric Schmidt

Richard Eric Schmidt

Sep 26, 2019

Richard (Dick) Eric Schmidt passed away on Sept. 26, 2019 at the Marley House Hospice in Prescott. He left the world peacefully, surrounded by friends and family. Dick was born in 1940 in Ossining, New York to immigrant German parents. Along with three brothers, Richard always endeavored to make a better life for himself and his family. He excelled in...

Lenelda Marsh Long

Lenelda Marsh Long

Sep 20, 2019

LeNelda Marsh Long passed peacefully at Marley House, Prescott Arizona, on September 20 at the age of 84. She had been on Hospice Care for over 15 months, dealing with the ravages of leukemia. LeNelda, known to her friends as Lee, enjoyed a 60 year marriage raising two daughters and numerous “grand dogs”.  Lee was an operating room nurse working...

Elneeta K. Timmons

Elneeta K. Timmons

Sep 17, 2019

Elneeta Kellman Timmons October 1931 – September 2019 Elneeta Kellman Timmons, 87, passed away September 2019 in Dewey, Arizona. Elneeta was born on October 1931, in Webster, New York, to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kellman. Elneeta relocated to Arizona in 1963. Her true love was her devoted husband of 50 years, Charles F. Timmons of Greece, New York, who passed...

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