PENTON, JAMES W - Desha County, Arkansas | JAMES W PENTON - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

James W PENTON

McGehee Cemetery
Desha County,
Arkansas

James
June 25, 1918 - Sept 17, 1989
Mason
Shriner
Ann
Oct 31, 1916 - Oct 7, 2012

Our beloved mother, Ann Durham Penton, 95, left this earth to join her heavenly father on October 7, 2012.

She was in the care of the wonderful folks at Ozark Health of Clinton, Arkansas, who kept her safe and added greatly to her last days on this earth.

Ann is preceded in death by her loving husband James W. Penton. Both J. W. and Ann lived all of their married years in McGehee, Arkansas, where he worked as an engineer for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Ann worked as a clerk for Desha County Social Services.

They raised two surviving children in McGehee, William L. Bennett now of Heber Springs, Arkansas, and Lynda Ann Penton of Atlanta, Georgia.
Ann was a dedicated member of the First Baptist Church in McGehee.
Born in Chicot County near Lake Village, Arkansas, to William G. and Myrtle Turpin Durham, Ann attended Lakeside school and graduated with honors.

Her family survived the great flood and during WWII Ann worked at the Arkansas Ordnance Plant in Jacksonville. She moved to McGehee at the urging of her sister Mildred Durham Ferrell and it was here that she met and married J.W. Penton.

Ann was later joined in McGehee by the rest of her siblings; sisters Flora Durham Clarke, and Joan Durham Williams, and a brother William G. Durham, Jr., all preceding her in death.


Ann leaves her two children, William L. Bennett and Lynda Ann Penton; a grandson Brad Bennett of Fayetteville; and daughter-in-law Sandra Firestone Bennett, also of Heber Springs; and a host of friends and neighbors who have all been blessed and touched by the loving kindness of Ann Penton.
She will be greatly missed and fondly remembered.
Visitation will be from 11am to 12:30pm before the 1:00pm graveside service Thursday, October 11, 2012 at McGehee Cemetery with Rev. Ed Balducci officiating.
Arrangements by Griffin-Culpepper Funeral Service of McGehee, AR.

Photograph contributed by
ronaldconrad@att.net

Contributed on 10/12/12

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Submitted: 10/12/12 • Approved: 2/20/18 • Last Updated: 2/23/18 • R766142-G766142-S3

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