Pulaski County

TREVA MARIE ALLEN, 59, of Little Rock, passed away May 20, 2019. Survivors include her children, Brian Allen (Jennifer) and Michelle Lynch (Chris), mother, Maureen Baldwin, brother, Travis Baldwin (Ann), and three grandchildren. Services are private. Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home, (501) 224-2200. Sign Treva’s online guestbook at www.littlerockfuneralhome.com.

–––––❖––––– BETTY W. BAIRD passed away May 18, 2019, at the age of 93. She was a beloved member of the community and a respected businesswoman.

Betty was born

March 14, 1926,s in North Little

Rock, Arkansas.

She was a graduate of North

Little Rock High

School. She married John Harvey Baird in 1950 and had three children: Roberta, Beverly, and Pete. She was a lifelong member of Christ Episcopal Church.

When John died in 1969, she became President and CEO of the Arkansas Sign & Neon Company, the largest on-premise sign company in Arkansas. She also took over as President of Baird Inc., the largest outdoor advertising company in the state. The operating assets of Baird Inc. were sold to Donrey Media Group in 1976 and Betty then became Chairman of the Board when it transitioned into a family-owned real estate holding company.

Betty had many civic achievements during her lifetime. She became the first female President in the Boy Scouts of America when she was elected President of the Quapaw Area Council. She was also honored in the book “Horizons” as one of 100 outstanding businesswomen in Arkansas. She was a member of the Chancellors Club of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 20th Century Club, “Fifty for the Future” organization, National Outdoor Advertising Association, and the Energy Conservation Committee for the State of Arkansas.

Betty sat on numerous boards for many businesses and organizations including Commercial National Bank, First Commercial Bank, UA-Little Rock, Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, Goodwill Industries, United Way of Pulaski County, St. Vincent Hospital Foundation, Little Rock Boys Club, Florence Crittenton Home, and Ada Thompson Memorial Home.

Betty also had many personal interests, especially golf. She was a member of the Country Club of Little Rock, and for decades she played golf every Tuesday and bridge once a month with her friends. She was also known for her graciousness and sharp wit.

Betty is preceded in death by her husband, John Harvey Baird, parents, Hazel and L.N. White, and son-in-law, Bob C. Coleman Sr. She is survived by her three children, Roberta Ward (Phil), Beverly Coleman, and Peter Baird (Becky). She is also survived by four grandchildren, Bob Coleman (Sarah), Steven Ward (Chelsea), John Baird (Ann), and Michael Baird (Lauren), and two great-grandchildren (Addison and Brady Ward). She is also survived by her long-time friend and business partner, John Schlereth.

The family wishes to express special thanks to the staff of the Ginny and Bob Shell Alzheimer’s Unit. Graveside service will be at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at Roselawn Cemetery for close friends and family, with a memorial at Christ Episcopal Church to follow at 10:30 a.m., with a reception afterwards. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to one of the following: Boy Scouts of America Quapaw Council, 3220 Cantrell Rd., Little Rock, Ark. 72202 and Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott Street, Little Rock, Ark. 72201. Online guestbook at www.SmithFamilyCares.com.

–––––❖––––– MARY ANN BAKER, age 83, of Jacksonville passed away Saturday, May 18,

2019, at her home. She was born February 28, 1936, in

Sardis, West Virginia to the late

Clacie Goodwin and Mabel Robinson Goodwin.

Mrs. Baker was a member of Bible

Baptist Church in Jacksonville. She accepted the Lord as her Savior on September 11, 1975. Mrs. Baker served as a church and ministry secretary since 1980.

She was preceded in death by her parents. Left to cherish her memory, her husband of 63 years, Billy J. Baker; children, Angela (Richard) Frazier and Dianna (Steven) Green; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Funeral services are 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at Bible Baptist Church in Jacksonville with Dr. Mike Files officiating. Interment will be private. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at the church. Arrangements by Moore’s Jacksonville Funeral Home. (501) 982-2136. www. mooresjacksonvillefuneralhome. com.

–––––❖––––– RUTHIE HELMS BIGGS, 86, Little Rock, formerly Arkadelphia, passed May 17, 2019. Survivors: children: Patsy Biggs, Charolett (Randolph) Martin, Rebecca Green, George Biggs, Flossie Mitchell, Betty Buckley, LaGail Biggs (daughter-in-law), six grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul AME Church, Arkadelphia. Services by Williams Funeral Home-Arkadelphia. Sign guestbook: www.funeralsatwilliams.com.

–––––❖––––– COLUMBUS “TOO-BABY” BUNTING, 69 of Little Rock passed May 16, 2019. He was preceded in death by his parents: William and

Clara Mae Bunting, daughter: Martinza, son:

Corey, 6 brothers and one sister.

Loving memories left to wife of 46 years, Wanda

Bunting, sons: Dexter (Kemberlee) Bunting, Timothy (Rhonda) Bunting, two daughters: Devona Bunting and Yolanda (Moses) Gore, five grandchildren, siblings: Emanual Mack, Richard Bunting, Rosie (Cornelius) Foley, Carolyn (Vernon Sr.) Jordan, Peggy (Joseph) Sartin, and Alberta (Eric Sr.) Lewis, niece/ daughter: Jasmine and her daughter: Jakayla, uncle: John Adam. Mr. Bunting will lie in state Thursday May 23, 2019 1-5pm at Superior. Homegoing celebration May 24, 2019, 1 p.m. at First Baptist Higgins, 9700 Hwy. 365 S., Little Rock. Superior Funeral Services, 5017 E. Broadway, North Little Rock (501) 945-9922. Online guestbook www. superiorfuneralservices.com. Trudean Long Brown “Providing Services Your Family Deserves.

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The Reverend WILLIAM PAYNE “DUB” FISER, 94, departed this earthly life on Saturday, May 18, 2019 in Little Rock under the care of Hospice.

Dub was born July 31, 1924, in Sweet Home, Pulaski County, Arkansas to Robert

Payne Fiser and

Mable Esther Dixon Fiser. During his senior year at Fuller High

School, Japan bombed Pearl

Harbor and the

United States declared war.

Dub enlisted in the Army Air Corp in the summer of 1942 after his 18th birthday and was trained first as an aircraft mechanic and then as a Cadet for pilot training. He completed training as a B-24 pilot and was then moved to B-29’s. He was stationed in El Paso, Texas and was standing outside on the flight line early one morning in July 1945 when he saw a huge flash in the Northern sky, the first test of an atomic bomb.

After the war he returned to Sweet Home and tried farming with his father but the boll weevils destroyed their crops two years in a row so he sought other work. He married Golma Irene Daniel on Dec 18, 1948, and they eloped to Benton. He went to work for his uncle Paul Dixon and Harold Balios at Dixon Dairy where he started with delivering milk and then graduated to working in the business office. He had a religious conversion and was called to become a Methodist Minister, attending college at what is now UALR while continuing to work at Dixon Dairy including loading milk trucks at 4 a.m. Golma and Dub’s only child, William Payne Fiser Jr., was born February 18, 1953. Dub attended seminary at SMU Perkins School of Theology in a nontraditional pathway going to summer school for 6 years which meant moving to Dallas every summer. Dub officially became Reverend Fiser in 1958 and was fully ordained in 1964.

During his ministry Dub served many churches, including Brasfield on Cache River; Pride Valley, now Highland Valley; the Hickory Plains Circuit which included Hickory Plains, Johnson Chapel, Cross Roads, Hebron, Old Austin, Bethlehem, and Providence; Tigert in Hot Springs, including Fountain Lake and Morning Star; Elaine, including Mellwood and Wabash Federated Church; Wesley in Springdale, including Mt. Hebron; Rosewood in West Memphis; St. Paul in Jonesboro, including Mount Carmel; and Trinity in North Little Rock. After retiring he served as visitation minister at St. Paul in Little Rock.

Dub was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Golma Irene Daniel Fiser, who passed away in 2010, Georgia Mae Russenberger, his wife who passed away in 2015, his parents, and his younger brother, Thomas Edwin Fiser. Dub’s legacy will be cherished by his son, William Payne Fiser Jr. MD and wife Gina; his three grandchildren, Rachel Fiser Klotzman and husband Spencer in Victoria, Texas, Christian Cole Fiser and wife Amber in Little Rock, and Elizabeth Payne Fiser in Rogers; his three great-grandchildren, Eliza Claire Klotzman, Christian Cole Fiser Jr. and Hollis Claire Fiser; his two younger sisters, Margaret Elizabeth Langston and Esther May Poulin; and many nieces and nephews.

A visitation will be held on Thursday, May 23, 2019 from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at Roller-Chenal Funeral home on Chenal Parkway. The funeral service and burial will be held on Friday, May 24, 2019 at 10 a.m. at Primrose United Methodist Church on Dixon Road. Pallbearers will be Cole Fiser, Spencer Klotzman, David Fiser, Lance Schmidt, Brad Daniel, Austin Calhoun, John Wayne Daniel (honorary), John Scott Daniel (honorary), Harold Balios (honorary), and Drew Illing (honorary). In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Primrose United Methodist Church or the Primrose Cemetery Association.❖ ––––– –––––

DAVID FRANCIS HALL, 76, of Jacksonville, Arkansas passed from this life on May 17, 2019. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. at A Natural State Funeral Service in Jacksonville, Arkansas. Funeral Services will be Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Online guestbook, www. anaturalstatefuneralservice.com.

–––––❖––––– CLARENCE LEONARD HORN JR., 73, of Little Rock passed away on May 18, 2019. He was born September 9, 1945, to the late Clarence

L. Horn Sr and

Zolia Babbs Horn.

He was preceded in death by his sister Dana Horn Wilkerson Duncan.

He was a graduate of Little Rock Central High School and Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He was longtime employee of Aetna Insurance Company and also worked for the US Social Security Administration.

He is survived by his niece, Tanya Wilkerson of Tampa, Fla., and cousins Junious and Floretta Babbs of Little Rock, Vic and Jade Bolton of Atlanta, Ga., Annice Russell of Dallas, Texas, and Carolyn Kirksey of Omaha, Nebraska.

Visitation will be Wednesday May 22, 2019 from 1 til 6pm at the funeral home. Funeral services will be Thursday May 23, 2019, 11 a.m. at Christway Missionary Baptist Church, 4424 P0tter St., Little Rock, Ark. Services entrusted to Premier Funeral Home 1518 S. Battery St. Little Rock, Ark.

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JOHN DAVID MARK, 81, of Jacksonville, passed away on May 14th, 2019. He was born to parents Ruth and John Charles Mark on February 27th, 2018. Those left to cherish his memory are his loving wife: Nancy; daughter: Kym Phillips; two grandchildren: Hunter and Chase (Rea Cole) Roberts; and one great-granddaughter: Journey Cole. A graveside service will be held on Friday, May 24th, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. at Pinecrest Memorial Park (7401 Hwy. 5 North, Alexander, Ark. 72002). In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in John’s memory to the Wounded Warrior Project.

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NINA KATHRYN JONES MILLER, 64, of Little Rock, passed away on May 19, 2019. Services will be held Thursday, May 23rd at 10 a.m. at The Church at Wellington. Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home, 8801 Knoedl Court, Little Rock, Ark. (501) 224-2200. Mrs. Miller’s online guestbook may be signed at www. littlerockfuneralhome.com.

–––––❖––––– JAMES A. PENCE JR. of Little Rock, passed away on May 19, 2019 at the age of 95. Jim was predeceased by his mother,

Mattie “Skeet”

Pence and his father, J.A. Pence

Sr., his dog, Link and many aunts and uncles. Jim is survived by cousins, B. Jeffery Pence, George “Sandy” Pence of Memphis, and Mary Alice Irby of Macon, Georgia.

He graduated from Little Rock Senior High School where he was President of his fraternity and attended the University of Arkansas where he was pledge master of Pi Kappa Alpha until he and several fraternity brothers left school for World War II. He was a bombardier on aB 24 and flew 34 bombing missions over Europe, taking flak on each mission. During those bombing missions in the Army Air Corps, he was never injured. Jim retired as a Major in the Air Force Reserve.

After returning home to Little Rock, Jim never flew on a commercial flight, thinking he had used up all his luck. He then returned to college at Washington University in St. Louis to study architecture and was President of his fraternity there.

Coming back to Little Rock, he worked with IKElectric and Moses Melody Shop, where he sold records, record players and stereos to most of the kids in Little Rock. After Moses closed, Jim finished his career at Mary’s Music Shop in the Heights. He designed his home in the Heights in 1953 where he lived the rest of his life. He never married, but came close a few times.

Jim was very artistically talented. His hobbies included listening to operas and classical music, ceramics, art, painting, china painting, creating many items in his kiln, reading, participating and teaching Tai Chi. He was a 32nd degree Mason, Shriner and a member of the Blue Lodge. Jim was raised a Methodist, and belonged to St. Luke United Methodist Church where he sang in the choir and participated in all church activities. He was a voracious reader, was well read on most subjects, and had a very frank and straight forward opinion on most subjects. Jim was very independent and was conservative in his views. He was loved by friends and family.

Services will be Thursday, May 23 at 10 a.m. at Little Rock Funeral Home, 8801 Knoedl Ct. (NW corner I-630 and Barrow Rd.), officiated by Rev. Andrea Cummings. Visitation will precede the service beginning at 9 a.m. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park.

Memorials may be made to St. Luke United Methodist Church, the Humane Society of Pulaski County, or the Arkansas Heart Association. Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home, (501) 224-2200. Jim’s online guestbook may be signed at www.littlerockfuneralhome.com.

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ROSS A. SCHULTZ, SR., 66, passed away May 17, 2019. Visitation will be May

21, 2019 at The

Church at Burns

Park, 295 W. Military Road, North

Little Rock at 10 a.m., followed by service at 11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The

Church at Burns

Park. Arrangements entrusted to A Natural State Funeral Services, Jacksonville. Online guestbook www.anaturalstatefuneralservice.com.

––––– ––––– HILDA C. KOMP STROBEL, 94, of Little Rock, Arkansas formally of Subiaco passed away on Monday,

May 20, 2019 in

Little Rock. She was born on November 22, 1924 in Paris to her parents, Henry and Theresa (Baumgartner)

Komp Sr. She was a homemaker and devoted mother. She was a member of St. Benedict Catholic Church in Subiaco for over 60 years and after moving to Little Rock became a member of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church for the past 12 years.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Theresa (Baumgartner) Komp, Sr; her husband, Eugene L. Strobel and her brother, Henry “Hank” Komp Jr. She is survived by her three daughters, Hilda Strobel Mayfield of Mabelvale, Jane Strobel Dugan and husband Norbert of Bryant and Linda “Susie” Strobel Schneider and husband Don of Mabelvale; two sons, Dennis Strobel and wife Judi of Little Rock and Tom Strobel and wife Amy of Subiaco; one sister, Marie Komp Schluterman of Paris; four brothers, Ed Komp of Wichita, Kansas, Larry Komp of Fort Smith, George Komp of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Rufus Komp of Wichita, Kansas; 14 grandchildren, Phillip Mayfield and wife Elizabeth, Kimberly Mayfield Climer and husband James, Tim Dugan and wife Chris,

Greg Dugan and wife Melissa, Doug Schneider and wife Brooke, Rhonda Schneider Jansen and husband Brian, Mark Schneider, Haley Strobel Groustra and husband Kevin, Aaron Strobel and wife Amanda, Hayden Strobel, Nicholas Strobel and wife Jarah, Jonas Strobel and wife Lacey, Evan Strobel and Ethan Strobel and 21 great-grandchildren.

A rosary service for all of her family and friends in Little Rock will be held at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Little Rock. A rosary service for her family and friends in Subiaco will be held at 7:45 p.m., on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Subiaco. Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 24, 2019 at St. Benedict Catholic Church officiated by Fr. Mark Stengel, O.S.B.. Burial will follow in St. Benedict Catholic Cemetery under the direction of Roller Funeral Home in Paris. Online guestbook at www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/paris.

Pallbearers will be Phillip Mayfield, Tim Dugan, Greg Dugan, Doug Schneider, Mark Schneider, Aaron Strobel, Nicholas Strobel, Jonas Strobel, Evan Strobel and Ethan Strobel. Honorary pallbearers will be Kimberly Mayfield Climer, Rhonda Schneider Jansen, Haley Strobel Groustra and Hayden Strobel.