Obituaries The Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs, Garland County, Ark.
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Date: 21 Feb 2005

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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.