"GRANDMA" NAN SUGGS OBITUARY

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Van Buren County Paper 1936
Volume XXV

"Grandma" Nan Suggs Died Saturday Night

     Nancy L. Suggs, Choctaw township's oldest citizen, 
Peacefully passed away at the home of he daughter, Mrs George 
Arnold, with whom she made her home at 10:35 o'clock Saturday 
night, January 18, 1936, aged 87 years 10 months and 8 days. The 
body was interred in the Huie Cimetery Sunday afternoon beside 
that of her husband, following an inpressive funeral service at 
the home conducted by Elder Ross of Harding College, Searcy.
     "Grandma Nan" as she was known to her many friends, was born 
in Southwest Missouri March 10th, 1848, the daughter of Richard 
and Elizabeth Fisher.  On March 8, 1868 she was married to 
Charles L. Suggs and immediately following the ceremony they 
started to Arkansas to establish a home.  The trip was made in a 
wagon and said to have been the first thimble skein wagon ever 
brought to Van Buren Co.
     They arrived on Holly Mountain, northeast of Clinton, March 
28, where they stopped for a few months, later settling on a 
homestead in Choctaw township just north of the present home of 
C. L. Kidd, one of their grandsons. Eighteen years later they 
moved across the Choctaw at what was later known as the Sam Jennings farm.
     Four children were born to this union, all of whom survive 
As follows: Mrs Lucy Arnold and Mrs Betty Kidd of Choctaw, Mrs. 
Dovie Fisher of Arizona, and Miles Suggs of Choctaw. The husband 
father passed away April 10, 1922. Seventeen grandchildren, 34 
great-grandchildren also survive.
     Fifty-six years ago, 1880, she made profession of her faith 
In Christ uniting with the Christian church at Choctaw with which
organization she continued to hold her membership until the day 
of death.  On June 5, 1934, she suffered a paralytic stroke and 
from then on was bedfast and helpless. During these many months 
she bore her suffering with patience and was fully prepared to 
meet her Savior when the hour came.
     "Grandma" was a good woman, a kind neighbor and a true 
friend, posessing those characteristics which endeared her to her 
family and friends. No doubt in recent months, due to her 
continued illness, she sometimes longed for the hour of sleep. It 
has come - all the tired muscles of her body are at rest. The 
anxious hours of anxiety, fears and troubles have past.
     "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; 
yea saithe the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and 
their works do follow them."