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Submitted: 2/17/23 • Approved: 2/17/23 • Last Updated: 2/21/23 • R1472020-G1472020-S3
Anna Ruth
October 29, 1935 - April 15, 2021
Married July 26, 1952
Hurshel
April 17, 1937 - October 11, 2012
Obituary
Jones-Hartshorn Funeral Home
Hamburg, Arkansas
Anna Ruth Stone Kelley, 85, of Hamburg, died Thursday, April 15, 2021
in San Francisco, California. Mrs. Kelley was a lifelong resident of
Hamburg. She attended Hamburg High School, where she played
basketball and was voted All-Star Player one year. Mrs. Kelley was a
member of many gospel and country bands. She once went to Nashville
with the Ashley County Harmonettes to record a gospel album. She
played many instruments, but her favorite was the Piano. She played
for many years at Shiloh Baptist Church. An active member of the First
Baptist Church, she loved her church family, especially all the little ones
who passed through the nursery in the 25 years she served as nursery
coordinator. Mrs. Kelley was a wonderful cook who took such pride in
serving her chocolate pies and cakes. She looked forward to traveling
around the world with her son and her friends and she was always on
the go doing her favorite things, from playing bunco, shopping, camping,
having her hair fixed, going to Branson and spending time with her
group of lifelong friends. Mrs. Kelley loved her family with every beat of
her heart. She was the best wife, mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother and Nana.
She is preceded in death by the love of her life for 60 years, Hurshel E.
Kelley in 2012; a son, Marion Kelley in 2005; her parents, Robert & Ruth
Douglass Stone; two sisters, Mary Blanche White and Robbie Aryllis
Fleming and a brother, Douglass Van Buren Stone.
She is survived by a son, Scott Allen Kelley of San Francisco, California;
three grandchildren, Angie Rambo and husband, Courtney, of Hamburg;
Marion Kelley and wife, Stephanie, of San Antonio, Texas and Joshua
Barker Kelley of San Francisco, California and five great-grandchildren,
Cooper Rambo, Thayer Rambo, Tallulah Rambo, Charley Kelley and
Augustus Kelley.
Funeral services are 2 p.m., Saturday, April 24, 2021, at the First Baptist
Church with Dr. Bobby Pennington officiating. Burial will be in the Flat
Creek Cemetery. Pallbearers are Cooper Rambo, Courtney Rambo, Al
Ray Taylor, Norman Higginbotham, Austin Fitts, Curtis White, and Robert
Stone.
Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Friday at the funeral home.
Contributed on 2/17/23 by deltabelle55
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