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Submitted: 1/29/11 • Approved: 10/15/20 • Last Updated: 10/18/20 • R455546-G455546-S3
Sam L. "Pat" Pettus
November 19, 1901 - January 23, 1991
Ethel Pauline Frost Pettus
March 21, 1920 - October 10, 2018
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Ethel Pauline Pettus died at the age of 98 years, six months and 19 days on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, at the Walnut Grove Nursing Center in Springdale.
Ethel was born to Floyd Ellis Frost and Ethel (Kitty) Hood Frost on March 21, 1920, in Haleyville, Ala. She united in marriage with Samuel Lamar (Pat) Pettus Jr., on Sept. 10, 1938. Ethel spent most of her adult life in St. Francis County in the New Castle Community, moving her residence to Northwest Arkansas after suffering a stroke in March 2008. Ethel was a retired farmer and line supervisor at Lerner Sloan Sewing Factory in Forrest City. She was a devoted 60-plus year member of Forrest Chapel United Methodist Church and the beloved matriarch of her extended family and community of friends.
She is survived by her children, Patricia J. (Patsy) Wise and husband Frank of Horseshoe Bend; Ellis Lamar Pettus and wife Donna of Fayetteville and Rev. Dr. L. Glenn Pettus of Wynne; two sisters, Betty Jo Paigen of Oregon, Ill., and Bobbie Jean Burnetti of Tampa, Fla.; four grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews and lifelong friends.
Ethel was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Samuel L. (Pat) Pettus; four brothers who died as children, Troy, Floyd Ellis Jr., Lonnie and Lewis Frost; four adult brothers, Robert, Roy, Chester and Jimmy Frost; one infant sister, Mary; three adult sisters, Floye George, Lois Miller and Edith Laws and a daughter-in-law, Eva Horton Pettus.
A celebration of life will be held at Stevens Funeral Home in Forrest City at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, with Rev. Dr. L. Glenn Pettus officiating.
In lieu of flowers, donations are requested for the Wynne First United Methodist Church, new roof fund, 800 Falls Blvd, Wynne AR 72396.
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