2025.06.05 THROW BACK THURSDAY - SOME "TODAY" SCENES

THROW BACK THURSDAY - SOME "TODAY" SCENES 

FROM LITTLE ROCK  PLUS CLASS NEWS

Downtown Little Rock

COME TO YOUR 70TH REUNION NEXT 

APRIL, 2026, AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF 

THESE SIGHTS FOR YOURSELF . . . PLUS

ALL THOSE FRIENDS YOU GREW UP WITH!  

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I'm sending out a BIG THANK YOU to all of you that donated and many of you that

purchased tickets and are coming to the LRCH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'S TIGERFEST

next Thursday, June 12, 6:00p to 8:30p, at the First Methodist Church, 7th and

Center Streets downtown.  Entrance will be easy to find and so will parking,  That huge

lot right across the street from the Church is available to everyone.  Come see some

old friends you haven't seen in awhile and make some new ones. 

1955 CLASS NEWS

Barbara Jean Tribble (Stocks), 88, passed away on May 29 th following a lengthy stay in the Hiawatha Care Center in Iowa.
She was born in January 1937 in Vilonia, Arkansas to Charles Wesley and Ilene (Blasingame) Stocks. The family moved to 

Little Rock, where Barbara attended Mitchell Elementary and West Side Junior High before graduating from Little Rock Central

High School in 1955. After graduation she attended Little Rock Junior College and married George Tribble in August 1957.
George and Barbara have one son, Alan Tribble (wife Beth) of Marion Iowa; and two grandsons, Matthew and Daniel Tribble, 

both of Des Moines, Iowa.  Barbara worked at the Arkansas Education Association for many years and was a member of Second 

Baptist Church in Little Rock. After retiring, Barbara and George moved to Iowa to be closer to their grandchildren. Barbara loved 

people, pets, traveling (especially cruises) and shopping. She collected bells and Christmas memorabilia throughout her life, 

which was her way of spreading Christmas cheer throughout the year.  A brief memorial service will be held at 12:00 on Thursday, 

June 5 at Runge Funeral Home, 838 East Kimberly Road, Davenport, IA with interment at Cedar Memorial Cemetery, 4200 1st Ave 

NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 3:00 pm. 

Notes from George:

Yes, we were high school sweethearts.  We dated during our senior year (brought together by her friend June Carolyn Bourne and 

my friend Alfred Earl Brown, both also in LRCHS class of '55) and both went on to LRJC and graduated there shortly before we 

married in August of 1957.  Barbara and I both concluded in 2014 that if something happened to the other we would not want to stay 

in LR alone so we moved to Iowa in January of 2015 (10 below zero that morning) because our son and his two sons lived here.  

Our son still lives here but the two grandsons have both moved to Des Moines for work opportunites, but we still see them frequently.

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I wish there was a law that said grandchildren and great-grandchildren

shouldn't live more than an hour away from their grandparents!

ML