Dr. John Colmore Beane Jr., 74, of Forrest City, died Saturday, March 31, 2001, in the hospital at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Center in Little Rock.
He was born July 31, 1926, in Dierks, the son of John Colmore Beane Sr., and Stella Thompson Beane. He graduated from Paragould High School and was a World War II veteran. He attended Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia and the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he was a letterman on the Razorback football team and graduated with a bachelor's degree. He graduated in 1953 from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis.
He established a private practice of optometry in Forrest City in 1953, and later was founder of Lifetime Vision, Inc. He retired in 1997.
Dr. Beane was a member of the board of the Forrest City Savings and Loan and a charter member of the board of Forrest City Bank, was past-president of the Arkansas Optometric Association and a longtime member of the Rotary Club. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Forrest City.
An Eagle Scout, he served as a Scoutmaster in Forrest City. He was an officer in the Jaycees and a charter commissioner of the Forrest City Little League Baseball Association. He was a member of the Mississippi River Parkway Commission.
In 1946 he married Jacqueline Johnson, who survives him. He is also survived by a daughter, Ann Beane Hudson of Forrest City; his son, John C. Beane III, of Naples, Fla.; and a host of grandchildren, relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 4, 2001, at the First Baptist Church in Forrest City at 11 a.m. with Rev. Johnny Jackson, interim pastor of the First Baptist Church in Forrest City, and Dr. Randy L. Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock officiating. Stevens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family asks that any memorials be sent to the First Baptist Church on North Rosser Street, Forrest City, or to ACRC-UAMS.
Mrs. Callie Louise Jones, age 58, of Forrest City, died Saturday, March 31, 2001 at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis.
Mrs. Jones is survived by two daughters, Patricia Ann Poindexter of Fayettevele, Tenn. and Tina Poindexter of Forrest City; her mother, Violet Bradford of Forrest City; one brother, Jim Allen Bradford of Forrest City; two sisters, Rosemary Brown and Juanita Barkley of Forrest City.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jones will be Tuesday, April 3, 2001, at 11 a.m., at Second Baptist Church in Forrest City.
The family request memorials be made to Second Baptist Church in lieu of flowers.
Morgan Funeral Home is in charge.