To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Arkansas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arkansas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 7/16/22 • Approved: 8/17/22 • Last Updated: 8/20/22 • R1440139-G0-S3
James Russell Mathews
STAFF SERGEANT US Army
World War II
June 8, 1918 - November 13, 2001
*Obituary
James Russell Mathews, 83, of Van Buren died Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at a local hospital. He was a retired cattleman and worked many years for the Crawford County Highway Department and was also a deputy sheriff for Tommie Willbanks and Bill Vickery. He was a member of the Oliver Springs Free Will Baptist Church, a member of the Fine Springs No. 439 Free and Accepted Masonic Lodge for 50 years, the Van Buren Chapter No. 3 Royal Arch Masons and the Crawford County Farm Bureau. He was an Army veteran of World War II.
Survivors include is wife, two sons; one grandson; three granddaughters; three great-granddaughters; two sisters; one aunt; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Funeral was held at 2 p.m. Friday in Ocker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel in Van Buren with burial at Gracelawn Cemetery in Van Buren.
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 7/16/22 by Bill060
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 1440139