Obituaries The Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs, Garland County, Ark. ******************************************************************************** Submitted by: Barbara Stainback Date: 21 Feb 2005 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************************** Monday, March 25, 1963 Page 5 MISS MARY CLIFTON LENGTHY ILLNESS Miss Mary Clifton, High School librarian for 33 years, died Sunday morning, Mar 24, 1963, at a local hospital following an extended illness. She was 60. Miss Clifton had been granted a leave of absence from her position in 1961, because of illness. She was a member of a family long prominent in the dairy industry in Garland County and resided with her two sisters and a brother at 5221 Central Avenue, on what was the original Clifton homestead. She was born here Dec. 10, 1902, the daughter of John H. and Sarah Gilliam Clifton. THOMAS ORR FLETCHER AP&L MANAGER AT P.B. DIES PINE BLUFF, ARK. -- Thomas Orr Fletcher, 56, Pine Bluff manager of the Arkansas Power & light co., died Sunday, March 24, 1963, of a heart attack at a Pine Bluff hospital. Fletcher, a native of Paragould, had been with the utility company 33 years. Funeral and burial will be Tuesday at Pine Bluff. DEATH OF BABY FOLLOWS THAT OF BROTHER BY DAY STEVE EUGENE HAMM FORT SMITH, ARK. -- Six - months - old Steve Eugene Hamm died at his home here Sunday morning, March 24, 1963 just a day after his older brother collapsed and died on a baseball field at Arkoma, Oklahoma. Billy Lee Hamm, 18, died, March 23, 1963, while playing baseball. The younger boy died suddenly Sunday, Coroner J. D. McClary of Sebastian County said he had not determined cause of death in either case, but he said he did not believe the deaths were related. Bill Hamm was an employee of a furniture company here.