PAPER TRAILS: Arkansan spotlights gravesites
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Sean Clancy
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Today at 2:47 a.m.
Remember last week, when we spoke with the Little Rock autopsy technician who was gaining a certain level of viral fame answering questions about his job via TikTok videos?
Let s continue with that theme.
Meet Robert Finders of Conway. The 49-year-old recently started Eclectic Arkansas, a YouTube channel in which he visits cemeteries and gravesites of note across the Natural State. He s made 10 so far. Check them out at arkansasonline.com/18papertrails.
Among the places he has filmed are Gass Cemetery near Harrison, where Arkansas Razorbacks football legend Brandon Burlsworth is buried; the grave of actress Lisa Blount ( An Officer and A Gentleman ) at Cedar Grove Cemetery near Floral; Creature From the Black Lagoon actress Julie Adams final resting spot at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Malvern and a memorial to SEAL Team Six member Adam Brown in Hot Springs.
Throughout elementary and high school, he was known for wrestling. He was on many state championship teams and was an individual state champion during his senior year. Although Dale went to multiple colleges, he ultimately earned his Baccalaureate Degree in Accounting from Governor’s State University.
He had a long diverse career including working as a Baker in his family’s bakery. Dale was also in Property Management at the Colonies, Royce Realty and St James Properties. He finally found his calling for Information Technology as a Product Manager for over 20 years working at SS&C Technologies.
Dale enjoyed making music in his spare time and had a passion for the guitar and the keyboard. He also enjoyed researching his family’s genealogy and serving as the family historian. He was an avid sport enthusiast and regularly cheered for his Denver Bronco’s.
Life-long area farmer, Robert Arden Files, known to everyone as Bob, passed away on December 16, 2020, at UC Health Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the age of 89. Bob was born on November 24, 1931, at the family home near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to John Howard and Blanche Alice Torrey Files.
The Files family moved from Oklahoma to Colorado in 1944 when they purchased the McCoy farm south of Holly when Bob was a teen. Bob graduated from Holly High School in 1950, and then helped his family farm due to his father’s poor health. Bob married Rowena Kenrick of Vici, OK on February 14, 1956. To this union four sons were born, John Wayland, Boyd, Bert, and Dana. Bob and Rowena farmed together for 53 years when Rowena passed away in 2009. Bob moved from his farm to his home in Holly in 2009, but he continued to farm until his passing. He enjoyed riding the tractor, going to the men’s coffees, watching the Broncos and old Westerns on TV, and attending holiday dinners.
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