Vernell Mitchell

September 13, 1928 - April 30, 2022

Vernell Mitchell was born to Elmer & Divona Collins Sluder on September 13, 1928. Divona passed from this life when Vernell was 5 years old, due to childbirth complications. Elmer remarried Lorene Obarts who became Vernell’s protector and friend. Vernell married Coy Ray Mitchell on August 5, 1953. They have been married over 68 years, sharing their lives on a farm they purchased together. Vernell was more than a homemaker, she worked on the farm with Coy, helping chop cotton and beans, spraying beans, driving the tractor, picking cotton, taking Coy extra water during the day and many other tasks. Vernell passed peacefully from this life on April 30, 2022, with her daughter at her side, after a traumatic fall on Tuesday. She is survived by her husband, Coy Ray Mitchell, a daughter Anglee Kazzee her husband, Randy, a grandson Mitchell Kazzee, his wife Amanda, a grandson Tyler Kazzee, his wife Jordan. She also has two great grandsons, Elias and Zedekiah Kazzee and two inherited grandsons, Jayson and Jaycob Joplin. She is preceded in death by her parents, her sister Imogene Hodge and two premature infant children, Annette and Michael. A Graveside service will be held Monday May 2, 2022, at 10 A.M. in the Lawrence Memorial Park in Walnut Ridge, officiated by Mitchell Kazzee.