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MERIDIAN, Idaho — Thelma Powell, 84, formerly of Beebe, Ark., passed away on Dec. 23, 2017. Survived by sons, Harold (Linda), Jerry, and Mike (Geneva). Memorial service will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, at WindSong Church of Christ in North Little Rock. Online guestbook: rollerfuneralhomes. com/chenal.

–––––❖––––– RAYMOND, Miss. — April Dawn Pearrow, 41, formerly of Bald Knob, died Thursday. Survivors: two sons, one daughter, parents and step-parents; two brothers, one sister, one grandchild, grandparents. Services: Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, 2 p.m. Powell Funeral Chapel. Visitation: Monday, 5-7 p.m. Interment: Shady Grove Cemetery. Powell Funeral Home, Bald Knob – Judsonia. www.powellfuneralhome.net.

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NEW YORK CITY — Dr. Frank H. Poindexter, age 65, passed away Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Frank was born on June 15, 1952, in Pine Bluff, Ark., to Frank and Cora Belle Poindexter. Frank graduated from Dollarway HS in 1971, and received a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Central Arkansas in 1976, and completed his Master’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Central Arkansas in 1979. Frank taught music at Mt. St. Mary High School in Little Rock, Ark., from 1976-1981. After moving to New York in 1984, Frank completed a Master of Education in 1988, and Master of Arts in 1989, from Columbia University. Frank then studied the art of Organ Registration and Composition and received his Doctor of Education from Columbia University in 1990. During his career as a musician, Frank was the Principal Organist at several churches and cathedrals in NYC.

Frank is survived by his three sisters, Gwen Henry, White Hall, Ark., Cathy Walker, White Hall, Ark., and Carole Grace Kozak, Little Rock, Ark., and three nephews, Seth Henry, Huntsville, Ala., Drew Walker, Fayetteville, Ark., and Caleb Mazzanti, White Hall, Ark., and a niece, Allison Mazzanti, Conway, Ark. A memorial service for Frank was held at the Church of the Mediator, Bronx, N.Y. on Dec. 6, 2017.

–––––❖––––– COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. — Mr. Joe Cephas Smith, 91, of Collierville, Tenn., (formerly of Little Rock,

Ark.) passed away on Dec. 26,

2017.

Mr. Smith graduated from

Dallas County

Training School,

Fordyce, Ark., in

1945. He received a Bachelor of

Science from Arkansas AM&N in 1952. He also received a Master of Education from the University of Arkansas.

Mr. Smith was employed as a teacher for 17 years. He ended his career as a District Director for the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service.

Mr. Smith was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. He loved God, his family, golf, gardening and his fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc., where he was a member for 68 years.

He leaves his wife, Mary Scott Smith. He also leaves his sister, Sara (James W., deceased) Hall, Fordyce, Ark.; three children, Ron (Veronica Harvey) Brown, Cordova, Tenn., Marylyn (Delton) Washington, Collierville, Tenn., and Reginald (Lois) Smith, Leawood, Kan.; seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at 10 a.m., followed by the Kappa Alpha Psi Memorial Service at 10:30 a.m., with the Funeral beginning at 11 a.m., at Emmanuel Baptist Church, 3323 West 12th, Little Rock, Ark.. by Judge Wendell Griffen. Interment will be in Greenville Cemetery in Fordyce, Ark., by Brown Funeral Home of Pine Bluff, Ark.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the UAPB Foundation Fund, Joe C. Smith Scholarship, C/O Margaret Hall, Mail Stop 4982, 1200 N. University Dr., Pine Bluff, Ark., 71601.

www.brownfuneralhomeandmortuary.com.