One of my dearest cousins, Wynonia Rosamond Mohr, died on August 8, 1997 at 1:30 am in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her parents were Edward Madison Rosamond and Dullie Woodard Rosamond. The Rosamond family was born and raised near Lurton in southeastern Newton County until 1943 when they moved to Oklahoma. Surviving are her sisters Shirley Rosamond and Rose Carnes and brothers Edward Rosamond, Jr, of Oklahoma and Vernon Rosamond of Lurton.

Surviving also are her sons, Norman, Rory and Raymond and her daughters Sharon and Gaylinda, her grandchildren and one little new great grandaughter.

Her funeral was at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma on Monday 11th August, with burial service at 4 pm at Tarlton Cemetery, Lurton, Arkansas. Tarlton Cemetery is located on the edge of the family farm now owned by our Daniels cousins and once owned by our Grandpa Ephraim and Grandma Martha Ketcherside Woodard.

Wynonia was born Oct 14, 1927 in a log homesteaders cabin a few hundred yards down the hill from Tarlton cemetery where she was buried. Her mother was Dullie Woodard Rosamond, sister to my mother, Iva Woodard Haynes, both sisters buried beside our fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins in Tarlton Cemetery.

Wynonia and I were born in the same old log house a year apart. By then, the Rosamond family had moved to Ketcherside Tower and other places around Newton County until the nineteen thirties when Uncle Ed built a new house where the log house stood and they lived again on the place where we were born.

Four Woodard sisters had babies within the same year...Dullie Rosamond, Ethel Sutton, Iva and Dorothy Haynes. James Sutton, Lloyd Ray Haynes and Colleen Haynes were first babies for Ethel, Dorothy and Iva, Wynonia Rosamond was Dullie's fifth child. As babies, the four of us had our first pictures made together before we were a year old, sitting with Grandpa and Grandma Woodard on their porch After that, each year the sisters made pictures of the four of us, to show how much we had grown. James Sutton died in a car accident in 1951, Lloyd Haynes of a heart attack in 1994, and now Wynonia Rosamond on August 8, 1997. I am the only surviving cousin of the group.

By our teenage years, we all moved away from the mountain and lost touch except for occasional letters for over fifty years, but for the past five years we have met again each year to visit at the Woodard family reunion on Decoration Day for Tarlton Cemetery.

Growing up on this farm, Wynonia and I played together in the fields and woods beside Tarlton cemetery where we will both be buried one day. In May this year, when Wynonia and I visited on the mountain on Decoration Day, we laughed about the days we spent as little girls making play dishes from clay we found in a road ditch in front of her house on Highway 123. How we baked our clay dishes and clay baby dolls in the sun, guarding them from the curious hands of our little sisters.

When I heard of her death, I wanted to write a piece about her life to read at her funeral and for the Ketcherside and Woodard newsletters for 1997. This piece was what I wrote. Everyone will miss Wynonia, she was good and sweet and fun. I miss her already. Colleen Haynes Rongey

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