Category: Unused

Thomas Winfield Gunnell, 79, of Roe passed away Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at St. Vincent’s in Little Rock. Tommy was born June 28, 1937, in Crocketts Bluff to Wilbur and Thelma Shook Gunnell. He was a graduate of DeWitt High School and was a former vice president of First National Bank in Stuttgart. After that…

Luzelle Bledsoe Hasty, born in 1916, went to be with her Heavenly Father, Sept. 11, 2009.  She was a member of Shiloh Methodist Church for 70 years. She will be reunited in heaven with her parents, Ada and Ruben Bledsoe;  11 brothers and sisters; her husband, Tom Hasty, Sr.; daughter, Mary Kate Hasty; daughter, Susan…

Mildred I. Mann, 68, headed to heaven on May 3, 2007, from Kansas City.  She was born in Crockett’s Bluff, Arkansas, on May 16, 1938.  She was the daughter of the late Andrew Jackson Gunnell and Ellen Grace Gunnell, Arkansas County, Arkansas.  She graduated from DeWitt High School, DeWitt, Arkansas and attended Missouri Southern State…

During the week of June 18th, work was begun to remove the church structure.  Dale Shook removed the building, but was able to leave the concrete slab in excellent condition,  This is fortunate, as using the existing concrete slab for the chapel will eliminate the cost to remove the slab and the cost to pour…

On May 18, 2024 former members of the Shiloh Methodist Church gathered for a last ceremony in the church.  The building could no longer be maintained at a reasonable cost and plans were being implemented to raze the building and replace it with an open-air chapel. The church was decommissioned in 2002 and had been…

Dorothy Lou G. Inman , nee Gunnell, 89, of Belleville, IL, born Thursday, Jan. 18, 1934, in Casscoe, AR, passed away Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023 at her residence in Belleville, IL. Dorothy was a retired payroll clerk with IL American Water Company. She was a member of Union United Methodist Church in Belleville, IL. She was…

When Momma called to tell me that this service was being held as the last service in this church, I knew that my family would want to attend.  When she said that if I wanted to say a few words that I could, I was moved to say yes.  As I thought about this church,…

Reverence, thankfulness, and exceeding joy were qualities abundantly manifested during the August 16 dedication service of Shiloh UMC, a recently constructed rural church located on Highway 153, 20 miles east of Stuttgart.  The services was conducted by Rev. Wesley Landrum, pastor.  Rev. John Lindsay, Pine Bluff District superintendent, delivered the morning message entitled “Beauty From…