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Submitted: 1/31/23 • Approved: 4/28/23 • Last Updated: 5/1/23 • R1468891-G1468891-S3
Robert
SERGEANT US Army
World War II
Korea
March 9, 1927 - January 21, 2002
*Obituary
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
KANSAS, Okla. -- Robert Keller Reaves Jr., 74, of Kansas died Jan. 21, 2002, at Siloam Springs Hospital. He was born March 9, 1927, in Minco, Okla., to Robert Keller and Iva Willoughby Reaves. He was in weatherization for the Office of Human Concerns in Rogers. He was a member of the VFW, was a Protestant and was an Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War.
Survivors include his wife, Ella Gunter Reaves of the home; one son, Justin Lynn Reaves of Hankamer, Texas; one daughter, Brenda Gail Marian of Houston, Texas; one stepson, Wayne Gunter of Kansas, Okla.; two stepdaughters, Eileen Wilkerson of Rogers and Linda Blankenship of Jackson, Tenn.; two sisters, Mae Ennis of Siloam Springs and Ruth Reaves of California; one brother, Jack Reaves of Siloam Springs.
Cremation arrangements are by Benton County Funeral Home in Rogers.
Ella
PRIVATE US Army
March 13, 1938 - November 2, 2019
*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Ella L. Reaves, 81, of Bella Vista, Ark passed away November 2, 2019. She was born March 13, 1938 in Alapaha, Georgia the daughter of John Leonard and Ellifare Francis Harper Gunter. Ella was a former utility employee for Gordo's and a homemaker for many years. She served her community, God and many others that she met in life along her way, as that was who she was. She loved her family deeply and adored all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She served her county in the United States Army and is preceded in death by her husband Robert Reaves and one son Rodney Reaves.
She is survived by her children Wayne Gunter and Shirley Frymire of Oklahoma, Eileen Wilkerson of Rogers, Ark, and Linda Blankenship of Jackson, Tennessee; brother James Gunter of Oklahoma, 19 grandchildren, and 35 great-grandchildren.
Celebration of Life date to be determined later. Cremation arrangements by Benton County Funeral Home, 306 N. 4th, Rogers. Online condolences to www.bentoncountyfuneralhome.com.
Contributed on 1/31/23 by judyfrog
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