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Submitted: 2/17/23 • Approved: 2/17/23 • Last Updated: 2/20/23 • R1471972-G0-S3
August 17, 1972 - November 5, 2016
"Beloved Son"
Obituary
Jones-Hartshorn Funeral Home
Hamburg, Arkansas
Russell (Coach) Kelley, 44, of Hamburg, died Saturday, November 5, 2016 at his residence. Coach Kelley was a native of Crossett and a lifelong resident of Fountain Hill and Hamburg. He graduated from Fountain Hill High School in 1990 and the University of Central Arkansas in 1998. He was a teacher, softball and basketball coach with the Hamburg School District and he was a member of the Promise Land Missionary Baptist Church. He loved his friends, sports and working with young people.
He is preceded in death by his grandparents; Lee S. and Lillie Maude Tumlinson Kelley; his grandfather, Curt Graves; two uncles, John (Simp) Kelley and J. T. Kelley and two aunts, Ruth Graves McDougald and Dorothy K. Clark.
He is survived by his father, Jimmy H. Kelley; his mother and step-father, Betty Graves Adams and Dale Adams, all of Hamburg; his grandmother, Sybil Graves of Crossett and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services are 10 a.m., Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at the Promise Land Missionary Baptist Church with Bro. Josh Luellen and Bro. Trey Emory officiating. Burial will be in the Flat Creek Cemetery. Pallbearers are Lane Chapman, Zachary Jackson, John Spaulding, Steven Hall, Danny Spencer, Cody Wells, Eric Thomas and Joe Halvorson. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Davis, Max Dyson, Scott Stephenson and Donald Rosen. Memorials may be made to the Promise Land Missionary Baptist Church Building Fund, 765 Ashley Road 70, Hamburg, AR 71646.
Visitation will be 6-8 p.m., Monday at the funeral home.
Contributed on 2/17/23 by deltabelle55
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