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Submitted: 2/4/12 • Approved: 2/5/12 • Last Updated: 7/22/12 • R644728-G0-S3
20 Aug 1929 - 8 Mar 2009
*Obituary ljWorld March 10, 2009
Funeral services for William Kenneth "Kenny" Gifford, 79, Monticello, were held at Stephenson-Dearman Funeral Home in Monticello. Burial followed in Sixteenth Section Cemetery, near Monticello.
Mr Gifford died Sunday, March 8, 2009, at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock.
He was born Aug 20, 1929, in Ashley County, the son of Milton and Ruby White Gifford.
He was a retired barber & graduated from barber college in Kansas City, Kan. He owned his own shops in Lawrence, Kan, Oskaloosa, Kan, and Monticello for 30 years. He was also a pipe liner, a mason and a member of Oak Grove Free Will Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Rachel Waites Gifford, Monticello; two sons, Steven Brett, Fort Smith, & Kenneth Bruce, Eudora, Kan; one daughter, Linda Powell, Branson West, Mo; three stepdaughters, Karen Donaldson, Fort Smith, Lisa Brantley, Bentonville, & Elaine Mitchell, Warren; his first wife & mother of his children, Shirley Ann Thornton; one grandchild; two great-grandchildren; 10 step-grandchildren; & 11 step-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a stepson, Danny Carpenter.
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Contributed on 2/4/12
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