Rilla Louise Renfroe "Riller Jones"

Saving this picture as I am sending the original to Rilla’s daughter in Missouri.

Esther Marie Powell

Esther was born November 19, 1968 in Russellville, Arkansas.
She passed away unexpectedly on January 1, 2020.

Marie was preceded in death by her Father, Clayton Powell,
paternal grandparents, Willis & Hazel Powell, maternal grand-
parents, Manual & Esther Morales, and uncle Alex Morales.

Marie leaves behind her husband, Jaime Salinas Sr. of Dallas, TX, son, Manual Emiliano (Susie) Salinas of Dallas, TX, daughter, Monica Leeanne Salinas of Dallas, TX, stepsons, Jaime Salinas Jr. and Isaac Abel Salinas, stepdaughter, Celina Rose Salinas, mother, Angie Morales (Lonny Ortega) of Fort McKavett, TX, sister, Amber Morales or Menard, TX, grandchildren, Jewel Sky Castillo, Juan Esequiel Salinas, and Ja’Naya Jayde Salinas.

Visitation will be at Heritage Funeral Home Friday night January 10, 2020 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. and Rosary from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Graveside service will be Saturday, January 11, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. in the Morales Cemetery in Ft. McKavett.

The back says Sunday March 3, 1979 at Betty's playing in school swing.  

She left her
He left her
They left her
I left her
You left her
We left her
She left us!

Marie's Gravemarker, front and back

Mr. Wheeler, sixth grade teacher

Mr. Wheeler was my sixth grade teacher and the grade school principle all the six years I attended.  He was a good teacher that tried to teach beyond the books.  I have wondered what happened to him.  On Ancestry I found his picture in the Green Forest School Yearbook.

I remember him as always wearing black rimed glasses but in his 1959 yearbook photo he is not wearing glasses. He was unmarried when he taught school here and I do not believe he ever married. As I remember it he grew up somewhere close to here but to the east of our town.  He lived in Suggs apartments above the laundry mat right by the school, but as I remember it he had a home or farm where he came to Green Forest from.

Find a grave says he was born July 13, 1915 in Johnson County, Arkansas and died in 2008 in Harrison. His parents were William Henry and Margaret Ann (Self) Wheeler. It looks like he lived in Newton County after he retired from 40 years of teaching.

Here are some pictures from the yearbook.

1959

1966

1967

1968