WINDHAM, RONALD L - Desha County, Arkansas | RONALD L WINDHAM - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Ronald L WINDHAM

McGehee Cemetery
Desha County,
Arkansas

April 18, 1950 - September 24, 2007

BACKGATE — Ronald Lester Windham, age 57, of Backgate, Ark., passed from this life on Sept. 24, 2007. Ronald was the son of Charles and Geneva Windham.

He was a 1968 graduate of McGehee High School.

Over the years, Ronald was involved in various aspects of the grocery business. He began as a meat cutter when he was 15 at T & W Groceries. He sold meat for Berry Packing Co. and Heim's Packing Co. in the 70s. He was a partner with his father at Windham's Food Store and eventually owned Rana's Country Foods at Backgate. After a fire and closing of County Foods, Ronald became a car salesman at the McGehee Ford Co. Ronald was currently working with his brother-in-law at Pizza Inn.

Ronald was preceded in death by his father, Charles T. Windham; his brother, Charles Ray Windham; one daughter, Wendy Windham; paternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Carey Windham; and maternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Kitchens.

He is survived by his mother, Mable Geneva Windham; his sisters, Gloria Irby and Patricia Singh, all of McGehee; his daughter and son-in-law, Angela and Gavin Stewart; his son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan and Jennifer Windham, all of Sherwood; and three grandchildren, Brandon, Grace and Ella.

Services will be held Thursday, Sept. 27, 2 p.m. at Griffin's Funeral Home in McGehee. He will be interned at the McGehee Cemetery.

Died in his sleep at the home of his mother, Mabel Geneva Windham

Photograph contributed by:
ronaldconrad@att.net

Contributed on 11/16/12

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Submitted: 11/16/12 • Approved: 3/26/18 • Last Updated: 3/29/18 • R783558-G0-S3

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