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A behemothic in civil-rights law, a capital scientist, a architectonics magnate, a fisherman extraordinaire and the man who played the state's longtime Bozo the antic are amid Arkansans who died in 2019 afterwards authoritative larger-than-average splashes in the apple in which they lived.

More than 30,000 bodies die in Arkansas every year. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is highlighting a tiny atom of them. The annual of Arkansans featured actuality is abstract and does not in any way accommodate anybody who fabricated activity bigger or absorbing for their families, their communities, and their accompaniment and nation in the year now ended.

Rep. John Walker D-Little Rock, the state's arch civil-rights attorney, and Mary Lowe Good, a beat chemist on the civic level, were amid the now departed. The life's assignment of both drew acclaim from above Admiral Bill Clinton and above U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton.

Walker, 82, died Oct. 28 at his Little Rock home. He spent added than 50 years alive for ancestral desegregation of schools and adjoin bigotry in the workplace, apartment and elections.

"John Walker was a ablaze advocate and adherent accessible abettor who spent his activity angry to accord all Arkansans the befalling to succeed," above Admiral Clinton said of his adolescent Hope native. "From the attorneys to the Capitol, he never wavered in his following of amends or his acceptance that a capitalism alone works back anybody can participate fully."

Good, 88, who died Nov. 20, was an adviser to three presidents. Her annual included as undersecretary for technology in the U.S. Administration of Commerce to then-President Clinton. Her assignment helped beforehand the amalgam car technology and the appliance of all-around accession systems. From 1999 to 2011, she served as administrator of the anew created Donaghey College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

"Mary Good was a ablaze scientist, a adherent accessible servant, and a world-class animal being," the Clintons said in a collective statement. "Throughout her connected and absorbing career, she bigger our compassionate of the apple about us and avant-garde the STEM fields in Arkansas and above America." (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Following are added Arkansans who died in 2019, listed in archival adjustment by date of death. Information about anniversary was pulled from their bi-weekly and/or burial home obituaries and accessories accounting about them.

• Jim Bailey, 86, died Jan. 2. Accepted for his categorical anamnesis and dry wit, Bailey was voted Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year 18 times by his peers. He formed for the Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas Times and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from 1956-98. He freelanced above that, accoutrement the Arkansas Travelers baseball, boxing, the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference, the Arkansas Razorbacks and the St. Louis Cardinals. Bailey was such an basic allotment of the Travelers' history that the columnist box at Dickey Stephens Park is called the "Jim Box" to annual him and anchorperson Jim Elder.

• Richard "Dick" Barclay, 81 , Jan. 4, died in Rogers. The abettor of a certified accessible accounting firm, Barclay served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1976-92, abrogation to run abominably adjoin Tim Hutchinson for Congress. He afterwards served on Gov. Mike Huckabee's aboriginal controlling aggregation in 1996, and was appointed as the state's arch budgetary administrator and administrator of the Administration of Accounts and Administration in 1999.

• Wayne Harris, 93, died Jan. 11 in North Little Rock. An drop from age 7, Harris accelerating from Little Rock Aerial School, abutting the U.S. Navy and fought at Iwo Jima in Apple War II afore abiding home to become a founding affiliate of Aboriginal American Bank in North Little Rock, one of alone two banks in the burghal at that time. In 2015, the Civic WWII Museum in New Orleans opened the Wayne Harris exhibit, which appearance his claimed accouterments from his time in the Navy.

• Keagan Robert Provost, 8, of Maumelle died Jan. 17, afterwards a 7 years, 10 months action with ependymoma academician and back cancer. Keagan was the complete analogue of a warrior, his obituary said. He affected the lives of so abounding bodies with his catching smile and never-give-up attitude.

• George Scott Puryear, 98, died Jan. 16, in Jonesboro. Afterwards three years in the U.S. Navy during Apple War II, Puryear purchased a gin accumulation business in Jonesboro, and began affairs affection tags and press forms. His career in the affection industry spanned seven decades, catastrophe with his bookish retirement in 2018 at age 97. A constant abecedarian aggressive golfer and the longest active affiliate of the Jonesboro Country Club, Puryear and wife, Babe, additionally endemic the Casual Bar, a accouterment abundance in Jonesboro, for 17 years.

• Maxine Brown Russell, 87, of North Little Rock died Jan. 21. As one-third of the accepted country music trio, The Browns, the "cutup" and "life of the party" Maxine Brown had a career that began in the 1950s. The group's releases included "The Three Bells," "The Old Lamplighter," "Scarlet Ribbons," and "Send Me The Pillow You Dream On." The world-performing Browns abutting the Grand Ole Opry in 1963 and appeared on hit television shows, including: The Ed Sullivan Show, The Perry Como Show, and American Bandstand with Dick Clark. In 2015, The Browns were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

• Howard Ashley "Ted" Bailey Jr., 94, of Little Rock died Jan. 21. A physician for added than 40 years in otolaryngology and otology, Bailey pioneered anaplasty techniques and instruments in Arkansas -- including circling implants. Additionally, Bailey and backward wife, Virginia, founded Bailey Corp., which developed the Foxcroft, Foxcroft Square, St. Charles, Andover Square and River Bend residential properties. He was administrator of Bailey Timberlands and admiral of the Bailey Foundation, which provides accommodating abutment for medicine, education, the arts and Christian ministry. He was the accounts administrator for the Billy Graham Crusade in Little Rock in 1989.

• Candice Earley Nolan, 68, died Jan. 31 in El Dorado. A casting affiliate for 18 years on the ABC daytime television ball All My Children, Nolan additionally performed onstage in New York, including in key roles in productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease and South Pacific.

• Peter Thomas Sherrill Sr., 83, of Little Rock died Jan. 31. He was a history abettor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for added than 30 years, and was a affiliate of the Little Rock Academy Lath from 1979-82.

• Lemuel "Lem" Tull, 85, died Jan. 31 in Rogers. He was an Arkansas artery architect in the aboriginal 1960s back he and accessory Bob Crafton began the Crafton Tull close -- based in Rogers -- that does civilian engineering, surveying, architecture, agriculture and planning.

• Julie Adams, 92, died Feb. 3 in Los Angeles. Best accepted for her starring role in the 1954 blur Creature from the Atramentous Lagoon, the above Betty May Adams, who grew up in Blytheville and Little Rock, appeared in some 50 films and hundreds of television episodes.

• • Joyce Ann Wroten, 78, of Little Rock died Feb. 16. A above carnality admiral and arch aldermanic lobbyist for the University of Arkansas System, the Perry County built-in was committed to accretion college apprenticeship admission to rural and underserved communities. She was a baton in the state's planning for the use of a multibillion-dollar tobacco adjustment that resulted in allotment with the state's College of Accessible Health. She additionally played roles in the development of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute at Petit Jean Mountain and Garvan Woodland Gardens.

• Matt DeCample, 44, of Little Rock died March 3. Moving to Arkansas in 1999 from Washington to be a anchorman for KATV Channel 7, DeCample in 2003 became a agent for Mike Beebe back Beebe was advocate accepted and again governor. Afterwards Beebe larboard office, DeCample, an ad-lib performer, started his own media relations company. Afore his death, DeCample declared his affliction on a amusing media blog titled: Mattie D vs. The Evil C -- Angry blight with autograph and bad jokes."

• A. Dan Phillips, 90, died March 8 in Little Rock. His 40-year career -- 20 years as arch controlling -- with M.M. Cohn administration food and his charge to affection gave the abundance alternation its acceptability as the "Neiman Marcus of Arkansas." The abundance was founded in 1874 by his Polish immigrant great-grandfather Mark Mathias Cohn. In the 1970s, back computers were new, Phillips and his advisers developed abstracts processing software for managing inventory, a arrangement again acclimated by added retailers. The 12-store alternation and the computer business were awash in 1989.

• David M. "Mac" Glover, 74, died March 23 in Malvern. A affiliate of the Arkansas Court of Appeals back 2004, Glover was a above Hot Spring County commune judge, abettor accompaniment advocate general, Malvern burghal advocate and agent prosecuting attorney.

• William D. Downs Jr., 87, aforetime of Arkadelphia, died April 20. Retired from Ouachita Baptist University as abettor emeritus in communications in 2007, Downs formed for 41 years at the university. He was adviser to the newspaper, annual and the apprentice announcement antagonism team. For 25 years he was administrator of the Arkansas Aerial Academy Columnist Association and active in the development of a framework for abandon of announcement for Arkansas aerial academy newspapers.

• Tommy Ray Polk, 79, of Little Rock died April 28. A above University of Arkansas Razorback football amateur and architect of what is now the Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects in Little Rock, Polk was a artisan of the Aboriginal Civic Bank and Bell Engineering Center in Fayetteville, and the Adolphine Fletcher Terry Library, Historic Arkansas Museum and U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse Accession in Little Rock.

• Daniel "Dan" O'Byrne, 60, died May 3 in Jacksonville, Fla. O'Byrne was a above arch business administrator and afterwards arch controlling administrator of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau.

• John Forster Jr., 76, died May 7. Forster served 22 years as a U.S. court adjudicator in Little Rock, backward 11 years ago to advise at Washington and Lee University.

• Msgr John F. O'Donnell, 91, died April 20 in Little Rock. A Catholic priest for 65 years, he accomplished at Catholic Aerial Academy for Boys in Little Rock and led churches in Wynne, Pine Bluff, North Little Rock and Fort Smith.

• Maggie Hinson, 72, died April 30 in Little Rock. The buyer of Midtown Billiards, Hinson accustomed the brand of Kid Rock, Toby Keith, Amanda Lambert, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Keith Richards into the iconic dive bar on Little Rock's Capital Street. Hinson started out as a Stuttgart Aerial Academy dropout who landed in San Francisco and was pals with Janis Joplin and Joe Cocker.

• Linda Collins, 57, a above Pocahontas legislator, was begin stabbed to afterlife at her home in aboriginal June. A above attack abettor has been answerable with annihilation in the case and has pleaded innocent. A balloon is set for October. Collins was in the House of Representatives from 2011-13, during which she switched from the Democratic Party to Republican Party. She won an Arkansas Senate bench in 2014 but absent it to a amateur in 2018.

• Marion "Doug" Wood, 76, died June 10. A helicopter gunship pilot in Vietnam and affiliate of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1977-97, apery Sherwood, Copse was bedevilled in 1999 in New Orleans of 10 abomination counts of cabal and mail artifice in the collapse of Southshore Holding Co. and its subsidiaries.

• Ed Stilley, 88, died June 12 in Fayetteville. Built-in in Hogscald Hollow, Stilley was a Carroll County sawmill worker, archaic agriculturalist and advancing abbot who said he was alluringly aggressive to accomplish guitars to accord to accouchement and to use as an opener to allocution about God. For 25 years he acclimated atom copse and $.25 of old metal to body as abounding as one guitar every two weeks. His assignment admiring the absorption of many, including Kelly and Donna Mulhollan who in 2015 appear a book, True Faith True Light, The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley.

• Leroy Brownlee, 71, of Little Rock died June 16 in Little Rock. Appointed and reappointed by four Arkansas governors, Brownlee was a 22-year affiliate of the Arkansas Lath of Acquittal -- annual as administrator for 17 of those years. At the time of his 2011 retirement, he was accepted for advances in the state's acquittal arrangement and his accomplishment in assessing an inmate's address for parole. Others criticized him for his role in paroling Wayne Dumond, a defacer who was afterwards bedevilled of killing a woman in Missouri in 2000.

• Kenneth Hicks, 96, died June 19. Aboriginal adopted to the United Methodist episcopacy in 1976 and confined for the accomplished 30 years as a abbey in abode at Pulaski Heights Methodist Church, Hicks' assignment in Arkansas focused on animal relations, amends issues and a annual for life. Abounding of his writings and thoughts were collected, edited and appear in a book blue-blooded Peace Flowing Like a River in 2010. His wife of 72 years, Lila Elaine Hicks, died June 29.

• Dr. Edith Irby Jones, 91, died July 15. The aboriginal atramentous medical apprentice to accept at the University of Arkansas' medical school, Jones went on to become an eminent physician on the civic stage. She was the aboriginal atramentous being to begin at a ahead all-white medical academy in the South, the aboriginal atramentous woman intern at Baylor College of Anesthetic Affiliated Hospital, the aboriginal changeable admiral of the Civic Medical Association and the alone changeable founding affiliate of the Association of Atramentous Cardiologists.

• Wesley Pruden, 83,died July 17 in Washington, D.C. Pruden formed for the Washington Times from 1982 to 2008 as a political correspondent, columnist and editor-in-chief, and connected in his retirement to accord to editorials and address a twice-weekly column, "Pruden on Politics" in which he had a acceptability for "punchy, aggressive abrasiveness," the Washington Post reported. Beginning as a jailbait in Little Rock, Pruden formed for the Arkansas Gazette, ascent to abettor accompaniment editor until abrogation in 1956 to assignment at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

• Bob Shell, 88, of Little Rock died Aug. 6. Starting in 1950 as a alarm for The Baldwin Co., Shell confused up the ranks. In July 1983 he was answer to admiral of what was ultimately the renamed Baldwin & Shell Architectonics Co., one of the top 400 architectonics companies in the country, as accurate in Engineering News Record. Shell was afire in acknowledging the association and allowance others, including the architecture of the Ginny and Bob Shell Alzheimer's Center at Parkway Village.

• Wendy Anderson, 49, died Aug. 19 afterwards she was diagnosed with breast blight in April 2017. The wife of Arkansas Accompaniment University Red Wolves football Coach Blake Anderson, Wendy Anderson was the mother of three accouchement and a affectionate amount to the Red Wolves football players.

• Cheryl Maples, 69, died Aug. 22. A advocate and Heber Springs mother of five, Maples in 2014 helped to auspiciously claiming in Pulaski County Circuit Court the state's ban on same-sex marriage. However, the accompaniment Supreme Court aural a anniversary blocked the arising of alliance licenses to gay couples. A year afterwards the U.S. Supreme Court fabricated the Arkansas case arguable by arresting bottomward all of the nation's same-sex alliance bans.

• Field Kindley Wasson Jr., 61 of Little Rock died Sept. 8. Wasson served as arch acknowledged admonition to Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton until 1992, a position the banker/financier declared as "the best job" he'd anytime had.

• Clifton Loyd Ganus Jr., 97, died Sept. 9 in Searcy. Admiral of Harding University from 1965-87, Ganus became adjudicator in 1987 and was called adjudicator emeritus in 2013. Ganus accustomed the university's President's Council and Women for Harding organizations to strengthen fundraising and apprentice recruiting, and in 1979 the academy accomplished university status. In 1985, Ganus -- who visited 117 countries in his lifetime -- helped admit the university's aboriginal abstraction away program. Under his leadership, Harding resumed intercollegiate contest in 1957, and the university's capital contest ability -- the Ganus Activities Complex -- is called in his honor.

• Walter Lee Turnbow, 95, of Springdale died Sept. 9. Turnbow was an accountant/banker who was adherent to association service. As an agent of Steele Canning Co., Turnbow was amenable for accepting rights to the Popeye animation appearance acclimated on the company's appearance label. In 1992, he retired as administrator of the lath of Aboriginal Accompaniment Bank breadth he had been a baton back 1977. He was a above affiliate of the Springdale Academy Lath and Arkansas Lath of Education, and a administrator of the Arkansas Accompaniment Chamber of Commerce. The Northwest Technical Institute called its library the "Walter Turnbow Library" in acceptance of his contributions to abstruse education. The Springdale Water and Avenue Commission committed its appointment ability as the Walter L. Turnbow Administration Building. In 2006, the Walter Turnbow Elementary Academy in Springdale opened. On his 90th birthday, the burghal of Springdale committed the Walter Turnbow Park in his honor.

• Richard Frothingham, 93, of Little Rock, died Aug. 29. A built-in of New York City, a adept of Apple War II and the Korean War, and the holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Frothingham was a longtime abettor of aesthetics and religious studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He was the adroitness sponsor for the aboriginal Atramentous Students Union on campus. Afterwards his retirement, he connected teaching Existentialism and Greek Philosophy, confined as a acting pastor at breadth Presbyterian churches and autograph casual belletrist to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Voices page.

• Garry Bernard Glasco, 63, of Little Rock died in September. Afterwards admission from McGehee Aerial School, Henderson Accompaniment University and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Glasco becoming a medical amount at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In 1998, he entered clandestine convenance with Nephrology Associates of Central Arkansas. He was co-owner of Arkansas Vascular Center and co-owner of 3G Transportation in Oklahoma City.

• Paul Edwin "Eddie" Powell, 78, of North Little Rock died Sept. 11. North Little Rock agent from 1974-79, Powell is accustomed with developing badge and sanitation programs, alluring federal storm avenue arising activity funds, architecture three blaze stations, establishing the North Little Rock Accessible Architecture Authority, and architecture a U.S. Weather Station. He additionally led efforts to body a Pershing Boulevard railroad underpass, authorize the North Little Rock History Commission, actualize the Announcement & Promotion Commission, and alpha the Senior Citizens Commission. Powell was basic to basic Central Arkansas Water. While administrator of the North Little Rock Senior Citizens Commission, Powell oversaw conception of the Patrick Hays Senior Citizens Center that opened in 2003 and its expansion, which was completed in 2007.

• Linda Dorn, 73, of North Little Rock died Sept. 18. Dorn was a abettor emeritus of annual at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in the College of Apprenticeship and Health Professions. A adroitness affiliate at the university for 29 years, Dorn had a civic acceptability for her beat assignment in teaching accouchement to apprehend and training agents to be able agents of reading.

• George Wells, 81, of Little Rock died Sept. 22. Wells was a career bi-weekly anchorman and editor alive for 12 years at the Arkansas Gazette in accession to time at the Pine Bluff Commercial and The Courier Journal in Louisville, Ky. At the Gazette, he was assigned to awning the federal courthouse, which included accoutrement a acknowledged claiming to a accompaniment law acute schools to antithesis the teaching of change with the biblical annual of creation. He additionally covered the Gazette's antitrust clothing adjoin the aggregation that endemic the Arkansas Democrat.

• Gary Weir, 75, of North Little Rock died Oct. 2. Weatherman, anchorperson and salesman at KATV, Channel 7, Weir was called in 1966 to portray Bozo the Antic on the state's weekday television show, a celebrity role he captivated for 25 years. He additionally created and produced the horse-racing epitomize appearance The Oaklawn Report, which ran 18 years.

Jerry M • cKinnis, 82, of Rea Valley died Nov. 3. The host of television's The Fishin' Hole, McKinnis featured celebrity guests on fishing expeditions. It became ESPN's second-longest-tenured program, and McKinnis went on to advance the ESPN Outdoors programs on Saturdays. In 2010, McKinnis and ally bought Bass Angler Sportsman Association from ESPN, which they awash in 2018.

• Gloria Love, 70, of Little Rock died Nov. 7, 2019. Built-in and aloft in Lake View, Ark., Adulation endemic and operated G Adulation Ladies Boutique for 15 years.

• Jack Moseley,82, of Fort Smith died Nov. 15. A Texas built-in and alum of the University of Texas in Austin, Moseley spent from 1975 to 2001 as the editor of the Fort Smith Southwest Times Record. In a career that included 15 years of assignment in Fort Worth and accoutrement abounding civic events, the civic award-winning Moseley was said to be the aftermost announcer to accept absolute acquaintance with Admiral John F. Kennedy afore Kennedy's 1963 assassination in Dallas.

• John Churchill, 70, of Dickson, Tenn. and aforetime of Arkansas, died Nov. 16. A Rhodes bookish at Oxford -- out of Little Rock Hall Aerial and what is now Rhodes College in Memphis -- Churchill accomplished his Ph.D. at Yale University, again spent 24 years on the adroitness at Hendrix College in Conway, confined alert as acting president. He again was arch controlling administrator of Phi Beta Kappa, the national's oldest bookish annual society.

Linda Jewell,66, of Washington, D.C., died Nov. 18. Built-in in Little Rock and an alumni of Hall High, Yale and Johns Hopkins Academy of Avant-garde International Studies, Jewell was a retired U.S. Foreign Annual administrator who served in locations throughout the apple and was commended for her efforts to action animal trafficking. She was a above agent to Ecuador.

• Sue Hankins Strickland, 84, of Mayflower died Dec. 2. A above teacher, Strickland served from 1996 to 2006 on the Little Rock Academy Board.

• Harold "Bob" Bray, 81, of North Little Rock died Dec. 9. Afterwards stints as a radio disc jockey on stations that included KXLR in Little Rock, Bray was a TV weatherman and anchorman for KTHV 11 in Little Rock for 35 years. He was the co-host of Arkansas AM with Bob Hicks. His adulation of agronomical gave him the befalling to host The Weekend Gardner.

• Gordon Morgan, 88, died Dec. 17 in Fayetteville. The sociologist, coach and columnist was built-in in Mayflower. In 1969, Morgan was the aboriginal atramentous abettor to be assassin as a tenure-track adroitness affiliate by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, breadth he formed for added than 40 years.

• Sleepy LaBeef, 84, died Dec. 26 in Siloam Springs. He was a rockabilly artisan who played with and/or musically afflicted stars like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beatles, and Bruce Springsteen. Accepted in Europe and the U.S., LaBeef was built-in Thomas Paulsley LaBeff in Smackover. He had an all-encompassing repertoire and generally performed for three to four hours with no breaks.

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