Birth date: Jul 3, 1949 Death date: Feb 8, 2026
Henry “Hank” Broyles, 76 of Fayetteville, AR passed February 8,2026 in Springdale, AR. He was born July 3,1949 to John Franklin Broyles and Barbara (Day) Broyles. Hank was a devout Christian and attended the Methodist Church. He Read Obituary
On behalf of your KNWA, KFTA, and KXNW family, we send our heartfelt condolences to Lex and his loved ones.
We are keeping you in our thoughts and lifting you up as you remember and celebrate your Dad’s life and the legacy he leaves behind. In lieu of flowers, a donation has been made to the Broyles Foundation in his honor.
With love and sympathy,
Your KNWA/KFTA/KXNW family
To the memory of my long-ago friend, Hank Broyles:
I knew Hank and his wife, Gina, only briefly, around 1997, during those first uncertain months when I was new to Arkansas. Yet some people, by a particular generosity of spirit, manage to make a short acquaintance feel like a small anchorage—steadying, warm, and unmistakably real. Hank was such a man.
He was a great friend in the quiet, practical way that matters most: present when it counted, quick to make a newcomer feel less alone, and gifted with that rare ease that turns unfamiliar places into something almost like home. He was also a devoted husband, his regard for Gina always visible in the natural, unforced manner and a colleague of competence, and good humor. I always remember Hanks laugh: open and infectious. I can still hear it, and I find myself grateful for that.
It is a strange thing to mourn someone known for only a short time; but grief does not measure relationships by duration alone. It measures them by the help they gave without ceremony, by the kindness that remains, years later, as a clear and undiminished fact.
My thoughts are especially with Gina, with love and deep sympathy. May she be held up by the same steadiness and care that she and Hank once offered so freely to me. Hank’s goodness has not vanished; it continues, as all true goodness does, in the lives it touched and in the gratitude that endures.
All my love and prayers,
Paul Isherwood
Santa Monica, CA
Hank and I shared many wonderful times together. He will be missed and loved in my heart forever. My condolences to his family.
One of the greatest men to ever exist. Kyler Beckham Bassett would not be the person he is without Hank (Henry). - Meredith Bassett
