Patsy Ruth Hurd

1928 - 2023

JONESBORO - Patsy Ruth Hurd, 94, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Patsy Ruth was born in Delaplaine on Nov. 20, 1928, to Joe and Gaye Ballenger.

Patsy was a member of the Bono Church of Christ. She graduated from Corning High School where she was a representative to Girls State in Little Rock. She attended Harding College.

Her love of painting was well known through her many pictures in oil, watercolor, pastel and charcoal. She was an accomplished artist who received first-place awards in art shows. Mrs. Patsy was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother.

Surviving Patsy Ruth are two sons, Mark Alan Hurd of Bono and William Joseph Hurd of Flowery Branch, Ga.; a sister, Joan Gaye Cannon of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; seven grandchildren, John Johnson of Jonesboro, Stephen Johnson of Bono, Sunshine Johnson of Rossville, Tenn., Daniel Hurd of Plymouth, N.H., Sara Rye of Flowery Branch and Joshua Hurd and Jonathan Hurd, both of Bono; great-grandchildren as well as great-great-grandchildren blessed her lineage in addition to nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 60 years, John Harlan Hurd, a daughter, Judith Carole Carpenter, and a brother, Jimmy Lee Ballenger.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Friday at Gregg-Langford Bookout Funeral Home. A celebration of her life will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bono Church of Christ with David Gibson and Richard Akins officiating and closing prayer by Dan Ballenger. Interment will follow in Linwood Cemetery in Paragould.

Honored to serve as pallbearers are Joshua Hurd, Jonathan Hurd, Noah Hurd, Stephen Johnson, John Johnson and Terry Browning.

The family requests that memorials be considered for Children's Homes, Inc., 5515 Walcott Road, Paragould 72450.