Service: 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 13, at New Life Tabernacle Church, Marshall, under the direction of Roller-Coffman Funeral Home, Marshall, with burial at Watts Cemetery in the Baker community, near Leslie.
Reba Pearl Huckabee, age 93, of Marshall, passed from this life on Friday, Jan. 10 (2014) at North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison.
She was born Oct. 17, 1920, at Landis, to parents, Lafayette “Fatie”and Lou Emmer (Wallis) Richardson. She married Raymond Earl Huckabee on May 18, 1935.
Reba attended New Life Tabernacle Church in Marshall. The things she enjoyed most in life were cooking and caring for her family.
Preceding her in death are her parents; husband, Raymond; five sisters, Edna, Alma, Essie, Ada and Dolly; four brothers, Coy, Claiborne, Zedna and Garvis; one grandson, Jimmy Dorsey Horton; one son-in-law, Dorsey Horton.
She is survived by three daughters, Nella Horton, of Marshall, Barbara (Junior) Padilla, of Marshall, and Karen Sue (Rev. James) Mize, of Belton, Mo.; one sister, Shirley Watts, of Pana, Ill.; six grandchildren, Larry (Lisa) Horton and Vickie (Donnie) Watts, of Harrison, Reba (John) Studer, of Beaumont, Calif., Debbie (Tom) Ackerson, of Tulsa, Okla., Christine (John) Robbins, of Blytheville, and Steve (Kala) Padilla, of Snowball; 12 great-grandchildren, Jared, Emily, Tray and John Cole Horton, Jennifer Harness, Phillip Rogers, Leslie Lozano, Ryan Studer, Ashley and Josh Halsted, Caleb Godsey, and Keegan Robbins; and four great-great-grandchildren, Levi Rogers, Will Leimburg, Georgia Harness and Marshall Horton. Also, a host of nieces and nephews will mourn her passing.
Funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 13, at New Life Tabernacle Church in Marshall, with the Rev. Don Campbell and the Rev. James Mize officiating. Visitation was from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at Roller-Coffman Funeral Home Chapel, Marshall. Burial was at Watts Cemetery in the Baker community near Leslie.
Pallbearers were Junior Padilla, Steve Padilla, Donnie Watts, Tom Ackerson, Josh Halsted and Jared Horton. Honorary pallbearers were John Cole Horton, Ashley Halsted, John Studer, Larry Don Horton, Phillip Rogers, Tray Horton, Will Leimburg, John Robbins and Ryan Studer.
