Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

John Herbert Witt

John Herbert Witt, 80, died Friday, April 2, 1999, at Prescott in a nursing home.

Mr. Witt was born December 4, 1918, in Shawmut. He was a graduate of Arkansas A&M College in Magnolia. Mr. Witt was a retired decorated major of the United States Air Force, where he served as a bomber pilot, flying 53 missions in the South Pacific during World War II. He owned and operated a dry goods store in Delight. Mr. Witt was member of the Delight United Methodist Church, where he taught Sunday school and was Sunday school superintendent for many years. He was a lay speaker and was a member of the church choir. Mr. Witt was a charter member and past president of the Delight Lions Club, past secretary of the Delight School board, where he served 19 years, a member of the Pike County Hospital board, where he served 17 years, a past member of the Pike County Board of Education and a rural mail carrier for 18 years with the Delight Post Office.

Survivors include his wife, Rachel Nolen Witt; one son, John Franklin Witt of Stillwater, Okla.; three daughters, Barbara Jean Witt of Surrey, England, Paige Witt Cortes of Pittsburg, Kan., and Amy Witt Browder of Hamburg, Penn.; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday, April 5, at the Delight United Methodist Church with Freeman Henderson officiating. Arrangements were under the direction of Ruggles-Wilcox Funeral Home of Arkadelphia. Memorials may be made to Lions International.