Robert Lee Walker Jr.
Robert Lee Walker Jr. died Nov. 4, 2021, at Northwest Regional Hospital in Fayetteville.
He was born July 7, 1953, at Hunter Air Force Base in Savannah, Ga.
He was a veteran of the Viet Nam War, serving in the capacity of ordinance handler at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska. Bob was the only child of Pearl Benice Neal Walker and Robert Lee Walker Sr. He grew up on a farm near Pea Ridge. He was preceded in death by his wife Barbara Ellen Walker.
Bob was a man of many talents. He completed aircraft mechanics school and worked on airplanes based in Tulsa, Okla., and Northwest Arkansas. He loved over the road longhaul truck driving and after driving for a number of semi companies, started his own corporation, RLW Trucking, Inc. He loved computers and computer gaming so he became a partner in NWA Net, a website development company, writing websites for local businesses. He worked for a time for Ar-Tech Computer and later established Bob’s Home Computer Repair. He enjoyed conversing with people so took short jobs as a shuttle and taxi driver among others.
Motorcycling was one of his passions beginning with a Motoguzzi ride from Alaska to Arkansas. He was a member of GWRRA Goldwing Motorcycle Club. Bob was a very generous. He took time to care for Barbara and later his mother during their illnesses. He opened his home to help out two of his friends when they needed homes. Intensely interested in politics, he expressed his views often. He was a true American Patriot.
Robert Walker’s graveside service with full military honors will be held
Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m., at the Benton County Memorial Park on West Walnut St. in Rogers AR. Online condolences may be made at siscofuneralhome. net.
Charlotte Ruth White
Charlotte Ruth White, 71, of Mt. Vernon, Mo., formerly of Garfield, died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, at her home. She was born Aug. 15, 1950, in Fort Smith, to Donald and Leta Mae (Hardin) Taylor.
Charlotte was a 1968 graduate of Van Buren High School in Van Buren. She worked with Ron White Sr. and Ron White Jr. until 2010 as a senior client associate for Wells Fargo Advisors in Rogers. She loved and cared for our clients as family. She was a great wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, aunt and friend and one of the most selfless persons to ever know.
She was a member of the Rogers First Church of the Nazarene.
On Nov. 1, 1969, she married Ron White Sr. in Van Buren.
She was preceded in death by her father, Donald Taylor.
Survivors are her husband of 52 years, Ron; her mother, Leta Mae Taylor of Equality, Ala.; son, Ron White, Jr. and his wife, Denise, of Garfield; three grandchildren, Ashleigh Harris and her husband, Justin, of Washburn, Mo., Hunter White and Cheyenne White of Bentonville; great-granddaughter, Ember Harris, of Washburn, Mo.; two sisters, Cheryl Selby of Equality, Ala., and Donna Helms and her husband, Billy, of Rogers; three nephews, Mike Selby and his wife, Tomi, and Patrick Selby of Equality, Ala., and Brett Helms of Fayetteville; great-niece, Arrie Rogers and her husband, Daniel, of Equality, Ala.; and greatgreat nephew, Caul Rogers of Equality, Ala.
Visitation will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, in the FossettMosher Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon.
A funeral service followed at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel.
Burial followed in the Mt. Vernon IOOF Cemetery.
Online condolences may be shared at fossettmosherfuneralhome.com.