Arkansas Obituaries

Obituaries from Craighead County in the state of Arkansas have now been carefully indexed online so that they are easily searchable and findable on the website. Starting at 1885, you simply need to find the right decade and select the first letter of the last name of the individual. Record the registration number and the document can be ordered.

In Arkansas, Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library provides a directly searchable resource for finding obituaries online. A query box allows people to enter the name or year of death of the deceased person to view results from among 265,500 indexed documents dating back as far as 1866 and up to the present.

Searches for obituaries in Scott County can be done very directly through the website. The process is quite simple. The Arkansas death notices are indexed by year, so you just have to look through the records from that time and then scroll down alphabetically. If what you want is there, an order for a copy costs only one dollar.

NWAnews hosts the digital version of the Arkansas Democart-Gazette. Select “Obituaries” from the toolbar at the top of the NWAnews homepage and choose the Gazette. To view the obituaries, one needs to register. This is free and will provide access to the notices as well as other articles in the Gazette.

The Baxter Bulletin has been covering news for Mountain Home, Arkansas since 1901. Once the largest weekly in Arkansas, the Bulletin now provides a full range of coverage for its readership. Obituaries are updated throughout the day, with the most recent deaths first. Online readers may access previous editions’ obituaries.

For death notices of current and former residents of Helena, Arkansas, consult the Daily World, which covers local and community news. On the Daily World’s homepage, select “Obituaries” on the top toolbar. Obituaries are organized by date, with the most recent first. Notices from several weeks past are also listed.

The Hope Star, covering local and national news for Hope, Arkansas, provides brief biographical information and service details in each obituary. Readers access them through the Hope Star’s homepage by choosing the “Obituaries” tab at the top of the page. Listed chronologically, readers view the full notice by double-clicking on the appropriate name.

Readers of the Northwest Arkansas Times can access material online by registering for free with NWAnews, digital host for this paper. Then obituaries may be viewed by selecting the Northwest Arkansas Times tab and “Obituaries”. Obituaries are chronological and contain biographical details and funeral or memorial information on the decedent.

Residents of Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma are served by the Southwest Times Record, featuring local and statewide news. Obituaries contain details on the life of the decedent and service information. Death notices, providing more detailed information, are also listed. These are available chronologically, and several days’ worth of obituaries are given.