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Submitted: 5/17/20 • Approved: 5/17/20 • Last Updated: 5/20/20 • R1318055-G0-S3
May 14, 1937 - October 10, 2011
Mr. Eddie Rae "Shorty" Spry, 74, of Fountain Hill, died Monday, October 10, 2011 at the Belle View Estates Rehabilitation and Care Center in Monticello.
Mr. Spry was a native of Tinsman, Arkansas and a resident of Fountain Hill and the Milo Community outside of Hamburg for over 30 years.
He was a veteran of the United States Marines and a retired truck driver having worked for Georgia-Pacific for 36 years.
He was a Mason and a member of the Hamburg Prairie Masonic Lodge #465. He was a cowboy all of his life, a bull rider, an avid horseman and he loved training cutting horses.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Larkin & Lillie Mae Laws Spry and a sister, Della Mae.
He is survived by three daughters, Deanie Walthall and husband, Eugene, Tab Spry and Donete Sinclair all of El Dorado; two sisters, Carolyn Miotti and husband, Joe, of Camdenton, Missouri and Nell Williams and husband, Benny, of Natchitoches, Louisiana and four grandchildren, Courtney & Lakin Walthall, Morgan & Logan Sinclair.
Funeral services are 10 a.m., Friday, October 14, 2011 in the chapel of Jones-Hartshorn Funeral Home.
Burial will be in the Earnest Cemetery in Tinsman, Arkansas. Memorials may be made to Hope Landing, PO Box 10215, El Dorado, AR 71730.
Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Thursday at the funeral home.
Contributed on 5/17/20 by debbraszymanski
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