People named Marlie Lassiter

Marlie was a farmer in Humnoke ar. He raised cotton & corn & beans. He was very creative & skilled making chandeliers out of wagon wheels & hubs as well as coffee tables etc . Made a grill out of old washer. He tinkered & made anything & everything out of scrap parts of any equipment & tools. He was a great son, brother, husband,daddy papaw & greatpapaw & friend. He had nicknames for everyone & only called them by such. He wore work pants & white work shirts. Smoke fat cigar & chewed a twist of tobacco. Once drove across a frozen lake. Before farming he help build the pipeline and traveled across the country & to Brazil & panama. He operated heavy equipment & one of first caterpillar bulldozers he was in the newspaper for that with a picture of him ,& it.he made sure us granddaughters always had fun in the summers he put us in the back of the truck and ride us thru his fields he told us our names sounded like diseases as they were not popular names back then. He was the best papaw ever! He & vesta had a son Jimmy & daughter Marlene. 4 granddaughters 3 great grandsons 5 great granddaughters. He had several brothers and sisters.

Marlie Lassiter of Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas was born on February 6, 1914, and died at age 69 years old in March 1983.