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Submitted: 2/1/22 • Approved: 2/5/22 • Last Updated: 2/8/22 • R1417406-G1417406-S3
Frank
February 8, 1891* - November 18, 1968
*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Times
Tuesday, November 19, 1968
Lincoln — Frank James Bannon, 75, retired Lincoln businessman, died at his home here Monday. Born Feb. 8, 1893 in Dallas, Tex., he was a Baptist and a veteran of World War I.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Persis Bannon of the home; one son, Frank Richard of Folsom, N.M.; one daughter, Mrs. Delphia Murry of Cincinnati; one sister, Mrs. Mamie F. Cash of Ventura, Calif. and seven grandchildren.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Lincoln Baptist Church with burial in Old Union Cemetery under direction of Luginbuel Funeral Home.
Persis
November 9, 1907 - March 29, 1998
*Obituary
Unknown Newspaper
Persis Mae Bannon, 90, of Cincinnati, Arkansas, died March 29, 1998, after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday, April 1, at 1:30 p.m. at the Cincinnati Methodist Church and she was laid to rest beside her husband in the Old Union Cemetery at Cincinnati.
Persis Mae Palmer Bannon was born November 9, 1907 in Longton, Kansas to Alvin D. Palmer and Delphia S. Boen Palmer. When she was 6 weeks old, her family moved to the Territory of New Mexico to prove up on the homestead her father had applied for earlier in the year. She and five siblings, two brothers and three sisters, grew to adulthood near the Hayden community. She was the first in her family to graduate from high school, and she had a position as a school marm the fall of 1928. However, her beau, Frank J. Bannon, who took her to the small, remote Mexican village where she was to begin her teaching career, talked her out of staying and a few weeks later, on October 6, they were married in Clayton, New Mexico, and Persis did attain her dream of teaching school.
On June 5, 1953, the Bannons moved to Arkansas. They opened and operated a variety store in Lincoln from 1956 until 1960. Her beloved husband passed away in 1968. The following spring, Persis moved to the village of Cincinnati, where she ran the General Store. By 1976, when she sold the store, she was lovingly known by the youth of the community as "the Little Ole Grannie from Cincinnati." At 80 years of age, Persis, always civic-minded, was chosen as Citizen of the Year in the Lincoln area. A plaque commemorating her many activities was presented by The Honorable Tim Hutchinson (the Congressman, now a US Senator).
Persis, a devout Christian lady, leaves two children, Frank R. (Dick) Bannon and wife, June of Folsom, New Mexico and Delphia M. and husband, James R. (Dick) Murray of Cincinnati, Arkansas; seven grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her passing. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two grandsons.
Contributed on 2/1/22 by wfields55
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