Jo Ellen Ford, 86, dies; UAMS philanthropist and wife of Alltel CEO

Jo Ellen Ford, wife of the former state Sen. and Alltel CEO Joe T. Ford and a generous philanthropist to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, died Monday after suffering a pulmonary embolism. She was 86 and had been ill with dementia.

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