Obituaries

Virginia Goetz

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 9:13 AM CST

STUTTGART — Virginia Stephens Goetz, 86, of Stuttgart, widow of Ralph Goetz, died Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, at Baptist Health-Stuttgart.

Mrs. Goetz was born April 14, 1923, in Pine Bluff to Clarence Kelly Stephens and Virginia Francis Huselton Stephens.

She was a homemaker and member of First United Methodist Church of Stuttgart.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Homer, Burnell and Stanley Stephens; and one sister, Naomi Dacus.

Survivors are two daughters, Paula Brasko and husband, William and Lisa Bullock and husband Danny, all of Stuttgart; two grandchildren, Lori Kaye Yelvington and Zachary Daniel Bullock, both of Stuttgart; brother, Albert Stephens and wife, Nina of Roscoe, Texas; sister, Betty Russ and husband, Leland of Dallas, Texas; extended family, Christopher Brasko and wife, Christina and Ashley Parker and husband, Shane, all of Stuttgart; and special caregivers, Jessica Hart and Tiffany Wright.

A private service will be held by Turpin Funeral Home of Stuttgart.

The family requests memorials be made to Alzheimer’s Arkansas, 10411 W. Markham St., Suite 130, Little Rock, Ark., 72205-1409; First United Methodist Church, 307 E. Fourth St., Stuttgart, Ark., 72160; or Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie, 921 E. Fourth St., Stuttgart, Ark., 72160.

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