Mrs. Eunice Marie Martin, age 77, of Wynne, died Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001, at Cross Ridge Community Hospital in Wynne.
Mrs. Martin was born Aug. 27, 1923 in Saline County. She was the daughter of George Cothern and Agnes Harris Cothern. Mrs. Martin was employed for eight years at General Industries as an Armiture Reader of Gauges. She was a member of the East Baptist Church in Wynne.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Edmond Martin in 1987 and by a grandson, Glenn Kennedy Jr.; two grandaughters, Bonnie Carol Kennedy and Audrey Deann Kennedy; and several brothers and sisters.
Mrs. Martin is survived by two sons, Tommy Martin and Allen Martin, both of Wynne; three daughters, Linda Kennedy of Simms, Carol Kennedy of Wynne and Peggy Huckaha of Heber Springs; a brother, Henry Cothern of Memphis; a sister, Polly Downey of Wynne; 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation services will be held on Thursday, March 1, 2002, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Kernodle Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 2, 2001, at 2 p.m., at Kernodle Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ray D. Davis and Rev. Donnie Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in Cogbill Cemetery in Wynne under the direction of Kernodle Funeral Home.
The family request memorials be made to Union Avenue Baptist Church of Wynne.
Laura Smothers, aged 75, of Forrest City died Satuday, Feb. 24, 2001 at her home.
Mrs. Smothers was born Dec. 23, 1925 in Round Pond, the daughter of Dennis Smothers and Lillie Jonson Smothers.
Mrs. Smothers is survived by two daughters, Lillie B. Morgan of Chicago and Hazel Ross of Forrest City; three sons, Eugene Morgan of Chicago, Earnest Morgan of Tampa, Fla. and Melvin Key of West Memphis; four sistes, Litlllie Buford and Annie Bell Gregory of Los Angeles, Calif. Ester Serace of Cleveland, Ohio and Torressia Lynch of Forrest City; three brothers, Clarence Smothers of St. Louis, Mo., Dennis Smothers of Pine, Bluff and L.E. Smothers of Los Angeles; 17 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held Friday, March 2, 2001 from 10:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the chapel of Woodhouse Mortuary. Funeral services will be held Satuday,March 3, 2001 at 1 p.m. at Christ Temple Pentecostal Church, with elder Thomas Holloway officiating. Burial will follow in Casteel Cemetery, under the direction of Woodhouse Mortuary.