Theresa M. Eubanks' Obituary
Theresa M. Eubanks, age 93, of Prairie Grove, died Thursday, October 24, 2019 at Willard Walker Hospice Home. She was born January 19, 1926 in Bayonne, New Jersey, third from the bottom of nine children of William F. Murphy and Catherine McKenzie Murphy.
She was a 1943 graduate of Bayonne High School, and following graduation was employed as a secretary in the engineering department of the Keuffel and Esser Engineering Firm in Hoboken, New Jersey.
She was a member of Mount Comfort Church of Christ, and enjoyed Bible study, reading, word search, TV game shows and sports, especially baseball on TV or radio. She was interested in college sports and only professional sport she enjoyed were the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals. She was an avid Razorback fan, and would be in front of her TV watching them or listening to their game with her radio beside her chair.
During World War II while a junior in high school, she attended a baseball game being played by her high school team and a group of soldiers stationed in Bayonne. They were members of the Coastal and Field Artillery in Bayonne and their duty was to guard the harbors and waterways in New Jersey and New York.
Theresa made fun of a good-looking soldier who she thought was showing off because he had hit several home runs. Following he introduced himself to her and her friends although she had to ask how to write his name as she could not understand his accent. He was Paul Eubanks, son of William and Pearl Eubanks of Huntsville, Arkansas. That event started 2 years of dating whenever he was off duty. In October 1944, shortly before Paul was sent overseas to Europe during WWII, they were married, and that union lasted 53 years until his death in 1997. When Paul returned in January 1946, they made their home in Bayonne and in March 1947 a daughter, Diane was born and another daughter Lorraine in October 1951. In 1958, on a vacation in Arkansas, they purchased a house in Springdale and in 1960 they took up residence in Springdale. The girls were enrolled in school, Paul worked for McClinton Brothers at the rock quarry in Johnson and Theresa worked for the Springdale News as a proofreader, ad taker and helped with the walk in customers. In 1989 she retired and joined Paul at the home they had built in 1972 on acreage south of Spring Valley. They enjoyed being in the country, clearing land, had a few head of cattle and 2 big gardens. After Paul’s death, she took two years off and did some traveling. She decided she needed something to do and went to work for Walmart at age 72 and retired at age 89.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul, daughter Diane Eubanks Glaze, a grandson David Edward Kinzer, great-granddaughter Kelsi Paige Elkins, her parents, three brothers, Bill, Justin and Eddie, five sisters Mary, Dorothy, Mildred, Pat and Agnes.
She enjoyed traveling and following Paul’s death, Theresa and her dearest friend and sister-in-law traveled to the lower 48 states, and several times, all across Canada from the east coast to Victoria B.C. and Nova Scotia. Theresa and Zelma were sisters-not in laws, to each other, and when ill health forced them to stop their road trips, the phones between Springdale and Ash Flat were busy day and night, until Zelma passed away in December 2015.
She is survived by her daughters Lorraine and husband Eddie Kinzer of Prairie Grove, a son-in-law Jack E. Glaze of Clarksville, four granddaughters and their husbands, Davina Glaze Brashears and Blake of Aiken, South Carolina, Heather Glaze Thompson and Brent of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Karol Kinzer Elkins and Craig of Bentonville, Jennifer Kinzer Emerson and Ryan of Prairie Grove, eight great-grandchildren David, Alicia, Mary, Elizabeth, Emily, Emma, Maci and Jill, four great-great-grandchildren.
Theresa composed her obit several years ago and was thankful to God for a long life with many years of good health, a good and faithful husband, two loving and beautiful daughters and their husbands, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren who were loved equally by their grandma. One of the joys she had in later years was being able to be in church services with all of her family in the same row of seats in church and her three youngest great-grandchildren Emma, Maci and Jill sitting beside her. She was truly blest.
Visitation will be 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Sunday, October 27, 2019 at Moore’s Chapel. Funeral service will be held at 2:00 pm, Monday at Mount Comfort Church of Christ, followed by burial at Joyce Cemetery in Spring Valley, Arkansas, under the direction of Moore’s Chapel.
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