To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please
contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer —
please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Additional SOUTHERLAND Surnames in SIPES CEMETERY Cemetery
Additional SOUTHERLAND Surnames in CLEBURNE County
SOUTHERLAND, Thomas LSOUTHERLAND, Dora FrancisSOUTHERLAND, MoletaSOUTHERLAND, James W.SOUTHERLAND, JosieSOUTHERLAND, Dora LeeSOUTHERLAND, EdnaSOUTHERLAND, James CSOUTHERLAND, EdnaSOUTHERLAND, Thomas LSOUTHERLAND, Dora LeeSOUTHERLAND, Hugh ESOUTHERLAND, Nancy IsabellSOUTHERLAND, James ESOUTHERLAND, Lowell SevilleSOUTHERLAND, Doris WandaleaSOUTHERLAND, CloysSOUTHERLAND, Ina InezSOUTHERLAND, Dora F (Single Stone)SOUTHERLAND, Glenn BuelSOUTHERLAND, Sandra SueSOUTHERLAND, FredSOUTHERLAND, EmmaSOUTHERLAND, EsteleSOUTHERLAND, Lucion LSOUTHERLAND, Chester LewisSOUTHERLAND, Veston LSOUTHERLAND, HershelSOUTHERLAND, ErmadeanSOUTHERLAND, Family StoneSOUTHERLAND, VictorSOUTHERLAND, Arlena
Thank you for visiting the Arkansas Gravestone Photo Project.
On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and
perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arkansas,
we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a
Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and
genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 3/7/13 • Approved: 3/7/13 • Last Updated: 3/10/13 • R843778-G629269-S3
Eva - Oct 14, 1913 - Nov 24, 2006
Albert - 1916 - 1992
US Army WWII Veteran
*Obituary (Eva)
My life has been a very ordinary one with few peaks and many valleys, but life is mostly what you make it. So, I can't complain for I created most of my valleys." With characteristic modesty, Eva May Southerland of Drasco thus summed up her life in a piece written for publication in 1998.
One of the Sun-Times' longest-serving community correspondents, Mrs. Southerland died Friday, November 24, in Heber Springs at the age of 93. Family members were not sure how many years she had written her "Drasco News" column for the Sun-Times and it's predecessor, the Cleburne County Times, but her daughter said she remembered her mother working on the column at least forty years ago.
A lifetime resident of Cleburne County, Eva was born in the Dug Hill community October 14, 1913. "We were considered to be poor, but so was most everyone else that I knew, so it didn't bother me. I had what really counted: loving parents, John and Alice Hickman and two older brothers, Homer and Johnnie that I thought were just about perfect."
Eva first attended school in the building that Noah Cannon later moved across the road and operated for many years as a general store until the construction of the rock building that most identify as the Old Drasco School House. "Many of us felt a touch of sadness when we saw this building recently torn down to make room for a new branch bank," she wrote eight years ago. "It was only a building, but it held years of precious memories. At one time it was the center of our social activities. The building was like many of us—getting old—but it had served us well. It is gone, but the memories will live on with us always." She also attended school in Concord.
Eva was a member of the Drasco General Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School for more than fifty years, was active in the church's women's group and mission society, and in recent years, was instrumental in compiling and publishing a history of the church. She and her late husband, Albert E. Southerland, operated a monument firm for many years, and she was known to hundreds of county residents for her work preparing tax returns.
Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Bonita and Bob Maddox of Tulsa, OK and Brenda and Paul Logan of Hot Springs; six grandchildren, Suzanne Norwood of Johnson City, TN and her husband, Dr. Donald Norwood, Amy Maddox of McAlester, OK, Robert Maddox of Tulsa, OK and his wife, Toni, Nik Logan of Hot Springs, Clint Logan of Virginia Beach, VA, and Daniel Logan of Antioch, TN; two sisters-in-law, Lena Hickman and Arlena Southerland, both of Drasco; three great-grandchildren, many nieces and nephews, other relatives, and many friends.
Contributed on 3/7/13 by hawkinsdonna48
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 843778