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Hazel WHISTLE

Galatia Cemetery
Baxter County,
Arkansas

Born November 22, 1927, Caraway, Craighead County, Arkansas.
Died August 26, 2007, Arkansas.
Daughter of Robert & Hazel Kuhn.
Married Joy Whistle, October 25, 1946.

White River Current
August 30, 2007
Hazel Kuhn Whistle, 79, of Calico Rock, passed like a whisper from this life into the next on August 26, 2007.
She was born to Robert and Hazel Kuhn in Caraway, Arkansas, on November 22, 1927. She attended grade and middle school in Caraway and graduated high school from Humphrey, Arkansas. She attended State Teacher's College in Conway before being united in marrige to Joy Whistle on October 25, 1946. A few years later they moved to upstate New York finally settling in the town of Maine. Here she worked in their family business, raised her children and was an active member of the Endwell Church of Christ. In 1990, Hazel moved ot Star City, Arkansas, where she made many dear friends and enjoyed her golden years. She could be found faithfully singing twice a week for the Gardener Nursing Home and was named the 1992 Volunteer of the Year. She especially enjoyed singing alto in a quartet that sang for special occasions. She is free now to sing forevermore. She was a member of the Hickory Grove Baptist Church.
She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Gary and Rosemary Whistle of Binghamton, New York and Rob and Margie Whistle of Rosenberg, Texas; one daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Chris Jackson of Norfork, Arkansas; fourteen grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and one sister Eunice Ashabranner of Searcy, Arkansas. She was preceded in death by her mother, Hazel Kuhn; by her father, Robert Kuhn; by a brother, J.W. Kuhn; by two sisters, Martha Clark and Opal Wallace and by her daughter Lana Bakk.
Visitation will be Tursday, August 30, 2007, at 10:00AM at Historic Galatia Church, Hwy 5, Norfork, Arkansas. Funeral services will be held at 11:00AM and interment will be held immediately following at the Galatia Cemetery.
(From the files of Max Parnell.)

(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)

Contributed on 12/8/09 by maxparnell
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Submitted: 12/8/09 • Approved: 11/29/12 • Last Updated: 12/2/12 • R266721-G266721-S3

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