Polk County ArArchives Obituaries.....Gentry, Henry Wilkins September 22, 1979
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 The Mena Star, Mena, Arkansas, September 24, 1979
Henry Wilkins Gentry, 77, of 1312 Reeves Street in Mena, died Saturday morning 
in the Polk County Memorial Hospital.  He was born on January 25, 1902 at 
Hatton, Ark., the son of the late Joe Gentry and Mary Reid Gentry.
     Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday morning in the Lakeview 
Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Orval Heath and Rev. Scott Malone 
officiating.  Interment was in the Witherspoon Cemetery at Vandervoort under 
the direction of the Geyer-Quillin Funeral Home.  Graveside masonic rites were 
in charge of Dallas Lodge no. 128.  Pallbearers were Jerry Turix, Joe 
Vanderbilt, Arnold Lunsford, Guy Selvidge, Curtis Callahan and Alfred Thomas.
     Mr. Gentry grew up in the Hatton and Vandervoort areas and was united in 
marriage to Miss Easter Broomfield on May 22, 1922 at Vandervoort.  They moved 
to Louisiana in 1923 where he worked as an engine operator and carpenter for 
the Skelly Oil Company.  He retired at Skelllytown, Texas in 1963 and returned 
to Mena where he spent the remainder of his life.  Mr. Gentry was a member of 
the Lakeview Missionary Baptist Church, Dallas Masonic Lodge and the Mena 
Eastern Star Chapter No. 243.
     Survivors are his wife Easter Gentry of Mena; two sons, Oather Lee 
(Shirley) Gentry of Emmetsburg, Iowa and Louis (Bette) Gentry of Mena; three 
daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Cain of Grand Prairie, Texas, Mrs. Elouise (Bill) 
Hughes and Mrs. Maxine (Graley) Malone both of Pampa, Texas; two brothers, Bill 
Gentry of Kirbyville, Texas and Jack Gentry of Pueblo, Colorado; 20 
grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

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