Eleanor Virginia (Jones) Purtle, 87, El Dorado Springs, passed away Sept. 7, 2011. She was born Aug. 12, 1924, to Clyde O. and Lona M. (Hamilton) Jones near Caplinger Mills, the eldest of three children.She attended nearby rural grade schools and high school at Caplinger and Halfway. In 1946, she married W.H. “Doc” Purtle. Except for a brief time in Bates County, they lived in the Rookins area before moving to El Dorado Springs in 1961. They lost an infant son shortly after his birth and later had a daughter, Janice.
Eleanor was a homemaker, farm wife and a Godly influence in her home. Among her interests were sewing, crafts, gardening and canning and, in later years, genealogy.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, W. H. “Doc” Purtle; her sister, Helen R. Purtle; and a brother, James Lowell Jones.
Survivors include her daughter, Janice (Bill) Amick, and their daughter Kaitlyn; Helen’s children - Darrel (Carleen) Purtle, Glenda (Steve) Mays, and Lora (Milan L.) Bourland; her sister-in-law, Leila Jones, and her children: Brenda Miller, Trisha (Michael) Toth, Linda (Frank) Post, Randy (Julie) Jones, and Kim Jones; and many other relatives and friends.
Services were held on Monday, Sept. 12, at Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home. Rev. Joe Trussell officiated. Burial followed in El Dorado Springs City Cemetery under the direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Bob Cartwright Jr., Mike Cartwright, Phillip Hamilton, Randy E. Bland, C.E. Hackleman and Charles Worthington.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to American Diabetes Association or American Macular Degeneration Foundation and left at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left on our web site at: www.blandhackleman.com
