R.I.P.
Deaths on Penn Road
Earnest Thompson (1947-2006), age 59, died of “multiple cancers” according to neighbor David Bouie. Bouie said they had been neighbors since 1983. A lifelong resident of Crossett, he was retired from the Georgia-Pacific (Koch owned) paper mill.
Deaths on West Penn Road
Ollie Mae Goree Hines Parker (1929-2006) died of cancer. She was a homemaker and a member of David Memorial Church of God in Christ. She had three sons: Larry Keith, Ronnie Parker...
“Let me give you a sketch of the neighborhood,” Leroy Patton said as he took his toothpick out of his mouth and used it to point to an empty house, an abandoned doll lying facedown in the weeds in front of the hollow structure.
He pointed to another property. “Down here is Pat. Her parents died from cancer back there, and now her husband sick too.”
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Deaths on Lawson Road
Lillie Almon Lawson (1924-2006) died on April 12, 2006. Her father was Harvey Almon and her mother was Lillie Bethue. She was born on September 7, 1924 in Portland, AR. She married her husband, Odell, on March 31, 1946. They were married for 60 years.
Laetitia Renee Wimberly Dickerson, of Crossett, AR, a non smoker, died in 2011, at age 43 of lung cancer. She left behind her mother DeLores F. Wimberly, her husband of 19 years, LeMoyne "Butch" Dickerson Sr., one son, LeMoyne "Butch" Dickerson Jr....
Would you live here?
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In 2007 he called it the “greatest honor” he had ever received when The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the MIT was established in his name.
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