Extracted from The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
Saturday, September 9, 1989

Carl Byrd SPEER Sr.

Carl Byrd Speer Sr., 88, of Tinsman, a retired Rock Island Lines depot agent and telegrapher, died Thursday. He was a Baptist and a Mason.

Survivors are his wife, Ocie Oliver Speer; two daughters, Martha Rogers of Sherwood and Joan Bryant of Benton; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Campground Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Campground Cemetery in Hampton. Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce. Memorials may be made to Campground Cumberland Presbyterian Church or Old Union Baptist Church.