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Submitted: 3/15/12 • Approved: 3/15/12 • Last Updated: 7/31/12 • R663243-G663241-S3
Albert
Mar 4 1915 - Apr 22 1996
*Obituary
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Tuesday, April 23, 1996
Albert J. Wight
PEA RIDGE — Albert J. Wight, 81, of Pea Ridge died April 22, 1996, at his home. He was born March 4, 1915, at Pittone, Ill., to William Simeon and Dollie Mitchell Wight. He moved to the Garfield area as child and owned and operated a farm until moving to Pea Ridge in 1982. He was a member of Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church and was preceded in death by one brother, Cecil Wight, and by one grandson, Christopher Schumacher.
Survivors include his wife, Jerolene Wight of the home, to whom he was married in 1936; four daughters, Betty Schumacher of Farmington, N.M, Kathryn Powell of Rogers, and Doris Hanner and Peggy Tillman, both of Pea Ridge; one sister, Mary Katherin Vandeveer of Stuart, Okla.; 13 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church with Don Farris officiating. Burial will be in Little Flock Cemetery under the direction of Sisco Funeral Home of Pea Ridge.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church, c/o Don Farris, 1304 Janda Drive, Rogers, 72756.
Jerolene
June 1 1915 - Dec 24 2002
*Obituary
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Thursday, December 26, 2002
Jerolene 'Jerry' Wight
PEA RIDGE — Jerolene "Jerry" Wight, 87, of Pea Ridge died Dec. 24, 2002, at St. Mary's Hospital in Rogers.
She was born June 1, 1915, at Dill City, Okla., to James Hartwell Chism and Cora Lee Browers Chism. She was a homemaker and a resident of Pea Ridge for the past 20 years. She was a member of the Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church in Little Flock. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Jasper Wight, to whom she was married April 12, 1936, in Garfield.
Survivors include four daughters, Betty Schumacher and husband Jim of Bloomfield, N.M., Kathryn Powell and husband Larry of Rogers, Doris Hanner and husband Larry and Peggy Tillman and husband Ben, all of Pea Ridge; 13 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church with Carl Staten officiating. Burial will be in the Little Flock Cemetery under the direction of
Sisco Funeral Home of Pea Ridge.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Little Flock Cemetery Association, c/o Paul Lindsey, 911 Rachel Ave., Bentonville,
72712.
Contributed on 3/15/12 by wfields55
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