Obituaries

Joan Ellen Jiannine, age 81, of Yellville, Arkansas passed away Sunday June 5, 2022, at her home. Born during the Fall of 1941 in Queens, NY with a love for life and an insatiable quest for knowledge, her driving force.

Rexine Elizabeth (Wood) Johnson, 94, of Flippin, Arkansas, passed away peacefully surrounded by her children on June 3, 2022. She was born October 26, 1927, in Flippin Arkansas. She was the daughter of James Rector “Rex” and L. Cecile (Beaver) Wood.

John EdwaRobert “Bob” Zurn of Flippin, Arkansas, passed away May 29, 2022, in Mountain Home, Arkansas at the age of 80. Bob was born January 4, 1942, in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, the son of Merlyn and Mary Schaefbauer Zurn.

Gary Kenton Cranfill, age 75, of Flippin, Arkansas went to be with the Lord June 4, 2022. Gary was born January 29, 1947, in Gassville, Arkansas to Richard Lee and Agnes (Reed) Cranfill.

Karl Edward Kastendieck of Lakeview, Arkansas, passed away June 1, 2022, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, at the age of 80. He was born November 24, 1941, in Valley Stream, New York, the son of Karl and Dorothy Niehoff Kastendieck.

Bradley Burde of Bull Shoals passed away June 1, 2022, in Bull Shoals, Arkansas at the age of 85. He was born March 31, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Bruno and Sophie Burde.

Leona “Pat” Murphy of Bull Shoals, Arkansas, passed away June 3, 2022, in Bull Shoals, Arkansas at the age of 87. She was born August 1, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Leo and Venita Monzel Lemke.

Charles Jennings Heuer, 82, of Lead Hill, was born on December 1, 1939, in Clinton, Iowa, and was raised in Calamus, Iowa, with older brother, Gene, and younger sister, Shirley; passing away at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on May 6th, 2022, from aspiration pneumonia at the end of a 12-day hospitalization stay, after he fell and broke his hip. His children were by his side, his daughter was holding his hand.

John EdwJoseph H. Bilbee Jr., age 72 of Harrison, Arkansas, went to be with his Heavenly Father on May 18, 2022.