Virginia Marie McGoveran, Sebastian Co., AR Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn (Parsons) Smedley <angelears@alltel.net> ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ [The following is the obituary of my mother's death, published in the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Sebastian County. I am the original author of this obituary. This appeared in the obits on April 2, 1999.] VIRGINIA MARIE McGOVERAN, 93 of Fort Smith died Tuesday, March 30, 1999 in Fort Smith. She was a homemaker, member of Victory Temple Assembly of God Church, Ladies Missionary Council, Primetimers, nursing home ministry and member of the church choir. In the 1920's she traveled with Reverend and Mrs. C.L. McClain in Evangelistic Ministry for the Pentecostal movement. She loved to sing and play the piano and guitar. Funeral will be 1 p.m. Friday in Edwards Funeral Home Chapel at Fort Smith with burial at Oak Cemetery in Fort Smith. She is preceded in death by husbands, Earl Goodnight, Ernest Rickard, Ted Owen Parsons and Ornan K. "Mac:" McGoveran; and her parents Mastin and Nora Eslinger. She is survived by two daughters, Carolyn S. Smedley and husband, John and Myrna R. Wells and husband , Bob, all of Fort Smith; one stepdaughter, Florence McGoveran Lindale and husband, Elmer; three sisters, Bea Clegg of Van Buren, Iola Whitmer of Camden and Irene Daniels of Fort Smith; four grandchildren, Terry Settle, Debra Calhoun, Linda Dickson, all of Fort Smith and Richard Smedley of Broken Arrow, Okla; three stepgrandchildren, Donna Fleck, Phillip and Steven Bull; four great--grandchildren, Christopher and Jason Stuart; Daniel Settle and Misty Benson; 11 stepgreat-grandchildren, Kevin and Jeremy Settle, Cassie Elwonger, Abby, Gregory, Rachelle and McKenzie Bull, Armando Calhoun, Dianna, Victoria and Jacqueline Fleck. [Submitted by Carolyn (Parsons) Smedley, daughter, angelears@alltel.net]