General Information

Birth
28 DEC 1942
Cincinnati, Washngton County, Weddington, Arkansas
Death
13 NOV 2003
Watts, Adair County, Oklahoma
Burial
17 NOV 2003
Norwood Cemetery, Washington County, Weddington, Arkansas

Notes

Billy Jack Thurman

Billy Jack Thurman, 60, of Watts, Okla., died Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, at his home. He was born Dec. 28, 1942, in Cincinnati, Ark., to John B. Thurman and Ova Kerby Thurman.

He lived most of his life in northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma. He was a carpenter and a bus driver for the Watts Public Schools.

Survivors include two sons, Johnny Thurman and Clay Thurman, both of Watts; a daughter, Rosemary Sumner of Gentry, Ark.; three grandchildren, Danielle Thurman, Garrette Sumner and Kathelyn Sumner, all of Gentry; four brothers and two sisters-inlaw, Clifford Thurman and Clint Thurman, both of Prairie Grove, Ark., Raymond Thurman and Elaine Thurman of Nashville, Tenn., and Richard Thurman and Shelley Thurman of Houston, Texas; a sister, Anna Belle Walker of Gentry; and a special friend, Karolyn Wesley of Watts.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, at the Wasson Memorial Chapel in Siloam Springs, Ark., with the Rev. Lonnie Nelson and the Rev. Jim Beavers.

Burial will be at the Norwood Cemetery, near Wedington, Ark.

Arrangements are by Wasson Funeral Home of Siloam Springs.

Parents

John Doc Thurman
- Father
1886 - 1957
Birth
11 FEB 1886
Death
1 MAR 1957
Weddington, Arkansas
Burial
Weddington Cemetery, Washington County, Weddington, Arkansas
Ova Elvada Kirby
- Mother
1904 - 1993
Birth
20 NOV 1904
Death
10 OCT 1993
Burial
Norwood Cemetery, Washington County, Weddington, Arkansas

Spouse

Children