Mrs. Drue Garner Bottorff, Phillips County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Barbara Jane Stainback - Date: 20 Feb 2005 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Not sure which paper but think it was from the DAILY WORLD, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas or Phillips County Progress, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. March 1964 BARTON RESIDENT DIES AT HELENA HOSPITAL FRIDAY MRS. DRUE GARNER BOTTORFF Mrs. Drue Garner Bottorff, 78, & a long-time Barton resident, died at 3:10 p.m Friday, March 6, 1964, at the Helena Hospital after an illness of several months. Mrs. Bottorff, a member of the Barton Baptist Church, had lived in Phillips County since 1924. Survivors include two sons, James M. Bottorff and Preston S. Bottorff of Marvell; three daughters, Mrs. Wayland Hollowell of Helena, Mrs. S.J. McClendon of West Helena and Mrs. James Miller of Hot Springs, Arkansas; 18grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. Honorary pallbearers are Dr. H. B. Oldham, Dr. Jim Wise, Tom McClendon, Horace Brickell, Tom Shackelford, Noble Norwood, D. A. Cagle, Verlon Heathcock, J. L. Phipps, Clayton Smith, and Kelse Broom. Active pallbearers will be Jerry Hollowell, Bobby Hollowell, Dean Hollowell, Jimmy Miller, Charles Miller, Tommy McClendon, Eugene Shackelford, and Jimmy Shackelford. Funeral services will be held at the Barton Baptist Church, this afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. Wilson Deese, officiating, assisted by Rev. V. M. Shackelford. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Park with Hodge-Flowers Funeral Home in charge.