Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
5:50 pm Sunday, May 1, 2011

Donnie L. Gentry

Donnie L. Gentry

April 27, 2011

Donnie L. Gentry, 63, died Wednesday, April 27, 2011, at his residence in Phil Campbell.

He was born in Carrollton, Ga., but had lived in this area for the past 22 years. He was a member of Heritage Fellowship Church in Russellville. He was a pastor, a retired truck driver with Heilig Meyers and a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army.
The funeral service will be Monday, May 2, 2011, at 1 p.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home in Russellville with burial in Shady Grove Cemetery, Phil Campbell.  Officiating will be Brian Scott.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
He is survived by his children, Tammie D. Gaudu and husband, Matthew, Melinda A. Bonner, Timothy D. Gentry and fiancée, Misty Riddle, Heather M. Black–Taylor and husband, Daniel; sisters, Tommie Anderson, Gerry Pipe and husband, Bob, Robbie Shaw and husband, Bill, Bobbie Bohn and husband, Rod; seven grandchildren; several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
He was preceded in death by wife, Patricia Gentry; daughter, Julie Black; parents, William James and Eula May Gentry; brother, James Truman Gentry.

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