Biography of Eura W. Stone, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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The Arkansas Paint & Supply store on Washington across from Stevens Funeral Home
is one of the most attractive store fronts in Forrest City, and is operated and
owned by Eura W. (Dick) Stone and Hunter L. Kimbro. In the fall of 1948 three
businessmen opened the store, Allen Redd of Memphis, President; Dick Stone of
Blytheville, Sect. Treasurer; and Robert Coleman of Blytheville, Vice-
President. On July 1, 1951, Dick and his brother in law, Hunter Kimbro of
Jonesboro, purchased the company. Dick and his wife, the former Oweta Hargett of
Blytheville, with their young son had become active members of the community.
Dick, a native of Oran, Mo. was a member of the Lions Club, the King-Beazley
American Legion Post, and First Baptist Church. He had served two and a half
years in the South Pacific during World War II as a staff sergeant with the 6th
Infantry Division, seeing action in New Guinea and the Phillipines.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas