Washington Co., AR - Obituaries - Walter Nathaniel Duncan

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Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
February 2, 1998


TUPELO, Miss. – 

Walter Nathaniel Duncan, 85, of Auburn, Miss., died Jan.
30, 1998, at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born
Oct. 11, 1912, in Fayetteville to William and Cleo Stringfield Duncan. He
became an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God in 1935, pastoring
churches in Arkansas and Texas until the early 1950s. In 1953, he moved to
Tupelo and served as pastor of East Heights Assembly of God for the next 15
years. He was instrumental in the formation of several new churches in
North Mississippi. He was self-employed as a construction contractor and
heavy equipment operator. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth
Meredith Duncan, in 1992, to whom he was married Sept. 24, 1933, and an
infant son.
Survivors include five sons and four daughters-in-law, Paul Duncan and
Doris of Nettleton, Miss., Herschel Duncan and Ruth of Springdale, David
Duncan of Tupelo, Miss., Philip Duncan and Jeanne of Booneville, Miss., and
Ralph Duncan and Diane of Franklin, Tenn.; two daughters and sons-in-law,
Cleora Brown and Larry of Tupelo, Miss., and Sharon Baggett and Larry of
Fayetteville; one half-sister, Cuba Pifer of Fayetteville; 11
grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at the East Heights Assembly of God in
Tupelo, Miss., with the Revs. F.L. Langley, Walter Davis and Kenneth Worley
and the staff of Lee Memorial Funeral Home directing. Burial will be in
Goshen Cemetery with services in the church adjoining at 2 p.m. Monday with
the Rev. Wayne Danner and the Rev. Lee Cate officiating. Arrangements are
by Booneville, Miss., Funeral Home.
Pallbearers are Larry Smith, Bobby White, Thomas Wigginton, Shelton Polk,
Robert Wilburn and Henry Burnett.
Honorary pallbearers are other area ministers of the Assemblies of God.
Memorials may be made to the Walter and Ruth Duncan Memorial Fund c/o First
Assembly of God, P.O. Box 1783, Fayetteville 72702.