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Submitted: 6/15/20 • Approved: 6/15/20 • Last Updated: 6/18/20 • R1323645-G0-S3
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William Donald Sayre was born March 3, 1989 in Perry Oklahoma to John Charles and Patricia Rau Sayre. The family moved to Nashville, Arkansas in 1992 and he graduated from Nashville High School in 2007.
On June 2, 2007 he and Chelsea Arbuthnott married. Will graduated from U. S. Army Infantry School and served with the 10th Mountain Battalion in Iraq, where he was wounded in 2007, receiving a Purple Heart. After discharge, he worked as a bricklayer and gunsmith in Nashville. Since 2013 he has been a Patrolman with the Arkadelphia Police Department and a part-time deputy in Clark County.
As an accomplished bagpiper, he performed at graduation ceremonies for the officers at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Academy.
Will passed away February 23, 2015.
He is survived by wife, Chelsea Sayre, and daughters Alanna Leanne and Emma Claire; parents Dr. John and Patricia Sayre; sisters and brothers-in-law Laura Solkey and Andrew Hopkins of Aurora, Nebraska, and Dr. Catherine and John Ross of Jonesboro; brother and sister-in-law David and Jessica Sayre of Murphy, Texas; aunt Lois Sayre of Pawnee, Oklahoma; uncle and aunt David and Linda Rau, Belle Plain, New Jersey; aunt and uncle Judy and Dwight Scoggins, Wynnewood, Oklahoma; and nephews Joseph Solkey, George and Ethan Sayre, and James and Paul Ross.
He was preceded in death by grandparents Al and Jeanne Greiner, Richard Rau and Elwood and Nila Sayre; and uncles Donald and Jack Sayre.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Monday, March 2, 2015 at First Christian Church of Nashville with Rev. Jim Pinson officiating. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Sunday at First Christian Church in Nashville. Interment will be in Bingen-Ozan Cemetery.
Pallbearers are Michael Sullivan, Andy Reeder, Kevin Yeagle, Alvin Johnson, Don Cleek and Jimmy Shearin. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Division of Developement, 901 E. Street, NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC 20004-2025. Final arrangements are entrusted to The Welch Funeral Home of Arkadelphia.
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Contributed on 6/15/20 by MryAl8
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