This is my brother and the son of William Adam (Bill) Arnold and Audrey May DUTY Arnold and the grandson of Charles David Arnold and Amanda HUDLOW Arnold and his maternal grandparents, Ernest Samuel Duty and Hattie SIMMONS Duty.
He was married on March 19, 1949 in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Boyd C. Hancock. He became the very proud father of three daughters.
Bill proudly served his country in the United States Navy in the early 1950s during the Korean War years.
For most of the years of his adult life, before becoming ill, he served as a fireman in his hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
He died at age 47 after having suffered pneumonia and a stroke.
Bill Arnold was preceded in death by his father and three of his grandparents.
Survivors included his mother, Audrey Arnold-Rhodes, two sisters, Rita and Maxine, and two brothers, Charles and Rickey, grandmother, Hattie Duty, and his wife and daughters. He was the very best of brothers and very much loved and missed by his family and a host of friends.
(The above headstone is incorrect. My brother served in the Navy during the Korean War years, not World War II. I don't know why Billy Joe Emerson of Emerson's Funeral Home did not return this incorrect headstone and exchange for the correct one. But, he never did.)
He was married on March 19, 1949 in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Boyd C. Hancock. He became the very proud father of three daughters.
Bill proudly served his country in the United States Navy in the early 1950s during the Korean War years.
For most of the years of his adult life, before becoming ill, he served as a fireman in his hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
He died at age 47 after having suffered pneumonia and a stroke.
Bill Arnold was preceded in death by his father and three of his grandparents.
Survivors included his mother, Audrey Arnold-Rhodes, two sisters, Rita and Maxine, and two brothers, Charles and Rickey, grandmother, Hattie Duty, and his wife and daughters. He was the very best of brothers and very much loved and missed by his family and a host of friends.
(The above headstone is incorrect. My brother served in the Navy during the Korean War years, not World War II. I don't know why Billy Joe Emerson of Emerson's Funeral Home did not return this incorrect headstone and exchange for the correct one. But, he never did.)
This is my brother and the son of William Adam (Bill) Arnold and Audrey May DUTY Arnold and the grandson of Charles David Arnold and Amanda HUDLOW Arnold and his maternal grandparents, Ernest Samuel Duty and Hattie SIMMONS Duty.
He was married on March 19, 1949 in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Boyd C. Hancock. He became the very proud father of three daughters.
Bill proudly served his country in the United States Navy in the early 1950s during the Korean War years.
For most of the years of his adult life, before becoming ill, he served as a fireman in his hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
He died at age 47 after having suffered pneumonia and a stroke.
Bill Arnold was preceded in death by his father and three of his grandparents.
Survivors included his mother, Audrey Arnold-Rhodes, two sisters, Rita and Maxine, and two brothers, Charles and Rickey, grandmother, Hattie Duty, and his wife and daughters. He was the very best of brothers and very much loved and missed by his family and a host of friends.
(The above headstone is incorrect. My brother served in the Navy during the Korean War years, not World War II. I don't know why Billy Joe Emerson of Emerson's Funeral Home did not return this incorrect headstone and exchange for the correct one. But, he never did.)
He was married on March 19, 1949 in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Boyd C. Hancock. He became the very proud father of three daughters.
Bill proudly served his country in the United States Navy in the early 1950s during the Korean War years.
For most of the years of his adult life, before becoming ill, he served as a fireman in his hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
He died at age 47 after having suffered pneumonia and a stroke.
Bill Arnold was preceded in death by his father and three of his grandparents.
Survivors included his mother, Audrey Arnold-Rhodes, two sisters, Rita and Maxine, and two brothers, Charles and Rickey, grandmother, Hattie Duty, and his wife and daughters. He was the very best of brothers and very much loved and missed by his family and a host of friends.
(The above headstone is incorrect. My brother served in the Navy during the Korean War years, not World War II. I don't know why Billy Joe Emerson of Emerson's Funeral Home did not return this incorrect headstone and exchange for the correct one. But, he never did.)
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