These people we acknowledged their passing at our 2nd annual Case Reunion (Oct. 13, 2001)

Jasper Case Jr., 63, died Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at St. Francis Hospital 
in Wichita, Kan.
A native of Johnson County, he was a son of the late J. N. and Ethel Case, 
attended Oark School and Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, a retired 
realtor, and was preceded in death by one brother, Arlie Case; and four sisters, 
Marie McKinney, Anna Dewberry, Lois Johnson, and Verna Warren.
Survivors include one sister, Josephine Baker of Wichita, Kan.; three nephews, 
Carl Dewberry of Tulsa, Okla., Jim Baker of Wichita, Kan., and Rick Johnson of 
California; and six nieces, Wilma Boyer, Barbara Ackerman and Delores Johnson, 
all of California, Anna Baskin of Clarksville, Wanda Tolbert of Nashville, Tenn., 
and Karen Knipp of Wichita, Kan.
Graveside services and burial were April 24 at Kechi Cemetery in Wichita, Kan. 

Jasper Jr. was the grandson of Jackson Case

 
Lucille Ann Alverson, 63, of Lowell, died Sept. 8, 2001, at her home. She was born 
Jan. 2, 1938, in Caney, Okla., to Elza L. and Velma Carolyn Wright Bensley. She was
a homemaker, a Pentecostal, and loved crocheting, reading, traveling, and her 
grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Troy Alverson, on Feb. 12, 1999. 
Survivors include two sons, Rickey Alverson of Rogers and Troy Alverson Jr. of Siloam 
Springs; seven daughters, Debbie Vaughn of Prairie Grove, Mariea Taylor and Terri Smyth, 
both of Rogers, Sharon Owen and Merri Case, both of Springdale, Lisa Nelson of Clinton, Mo., 
and Julie Lindsey of Lowell; five brothers, William Bensley of Mabank, Texas, Henry Bensley
of Whitesboro, Texas, Warren Dale Bensley of Springdale, Paul Bensley of Norman, Okla. and 
Danny Henry of Richmond, Va.; three sisters, Betty Carter of Lankford, Calif., Mary Bauar 
of Jacksonville, Fla., and Patricia Zell of Norman, Okla.; twenty-five grandchildren; two 
great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sisco Funeral Chapel of 
Springdale with the Revs. Cecil Case and James Taylor III officiating. Burial will be in the 
Frisco Springs Cemetery. Visitation will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday with the family present 
from 6 to 8 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Sisco Funeral Chapel of Springdale. 

Lucille was the mother in law to Eugene Case, Jackson's great great grandson
 


Arnold Edgmon, 81, of Fayetteville died Oct. 9, 2001, at Fayetteville. He was born 
Sept. 25, 1920, in Mossville to Phillman and Pennie Lamrr Edgmon. He was a member 
of East Side Christian Union Church in Springdale and was retired from Dold Food Co.
of Wichita, Kan. He was a veteran of World War II. Survivors include his wife, 
Pearly Watson Edgmon of the home, to whom he was married Dec. 22, 1940; one daughter,
Bonnie Westerfield of White Water, Kan.; seven grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren;
one brother, Roy Edgmon of Lowell. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Backstrom-Pyeatte
Funeral Home in Springdale with the Rev. Loren Collins and the Rev. David Schaefer 
officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Memorial Gardens in Fayetteville. Visitation
will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. The family will be present 
from 6 to 8 p.m. 

Arnold was the great grandson of Independence Case Lemarr

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