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Submitted: 1/29/23 • Approved: 1/31/23 • Last Updated: 2/8/23 • R1468255-G1468253-S3
Eleanor Ruth Atwood-Tarbell
May 25, 1934 - Apr 15, 2015
The Rr Rev Eleanor Atwood-Tarbell was a champion of human rights. Honors Eleanor received during her life include Air
Force Wife of the Year for Little Rock Air Force Base in 1970. She volunteered as a Cub Scout
Leader, served as a volunteer for Jacksonville Boy Scout Post 216 for many years and joyfully
administered communion to shutins and those in nursing homes until her health would no
longer allow.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Harold W. & Edna Atwood of Rochester, N.Y., James
Newell Tarbell, former spouse, and sons, Allen James Tarbell and David Harold Tarbell. She is
survived by one son, Robert N. Tarbell of Antioch, Tenn. and daughter, Barbara L. Schmid of
Little Rock, Ark., and two grandchildren, Ruby Jane Nichole Dowdle and Sarah Elizabeth
McClaerty of Little Rock, Ark., and longtime friend, Robert Merek and former partner Jeannine Scott-Lamb.
Contributed on 1/29/23 by eagle12953
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