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Submitted: 5/6/09 • Approved: 7/11/18 • Last Updated: 7/14/18 • R189489-G189489-S3
Don 08 Jan 1916 - 17 Aug 1994
Wilma 01 Jun 1918 - 28 May 2002
Marriage: 29 Dec 1939
Don the son of Joseph Richard "Joe" Penn and Pearl Ann (Osburn) Penn.
Wilma Jane Penn
IMBODEN - Funeral services for Wilma Jane Penn, 83, of Imboden, who died Tuesday, May 28, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Walnut Ridge, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Imboden Church of Christ, with Art Smith and Steve Norris officiating. Burial will follow in Hope Cemetery under the direction of House-Gregg Funeral Home of Walnut Ridge.
Pallbearers will be Ricky D. Barker, Rodney Dail Barker, Chris Jones, Jeremy Jones, Chris Golden and J.J. Kesterson.
Born in Poplar Bluff, Mo., she had lived in Newport, Portia and Black Rock before moving to Imboden. She was a homemaker, a retired secretary for Black Rock Schools and was a member of the Lawrence County China Painters Club, the Altrusa Club and the Imboden Church of Christ.
Survivors include four daughters, JoAnn Barker of Jonesboro, Patsy Jones of Imboden, Donna Golden of Smyrna, Tenn., and Debbie Kesterson of Little Rock; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Don Penn, a sister and a granddaughter.
Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Paragould Children's Home.
Obituary provided courtesy of The Jonesboro Sun archive Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas posted 30 May 2002
Wilma Jane Penn
IMBODEN - Wilma Jane Penn, 83, of Imboden died Tuesday, May 28, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Walnut Ridge.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by House-Gregg Funeral Home of Walnut Ridge.
Obituary provided courtesy of The Jonesboro Sun archive Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas posted 29 May 2002
Contributed on 5/6/09 by denise.bratcher63
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