Nellie Marie Singley Tucker

Nellie Marie Singley Tucker, a resident of Little Rock, Arkansas, and formerly of Wynne and Blytheville, Arkansas, went to be with her heavenly Father on March 7, 2012 at the age of 87. She was born on July 17, 1924, in Gilbertown, Alabama, the daughter of James Malcolm and Rosa Mae Moseley Singley. She married Robert Fulton Tucker on September 12, 1942. She graduated from Gilbertown High School and attended classes at Mississippi Delta Community College in Morehead, Mississippi. Nell was known as the "nurse on the bike" in Gilbertown where she rode a bike 2.5 miles each way, rain or shine, to work as Dr. Shaw's office assistant. Later during WWII, she worked with Dr. John Armsted in Prichard, Alabama and was a secretary with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She saved all the money Robert sent her while he served in Europe and was able to buy their first house in Mobile, Alabama. After moving from Mobile to Jackson, Mississippi, she served as the office manager with Remington Rand. While living in Murfreesboro, Arkansas she worked as a legal secretary for attorney Alfred Featherston. Nell became a superb saleswoman with a variety of companies including Stanley, BeautiControl, Forever Living, Shaklee and Seal-o-Matic Waterless Cookware. She won several awards as a salesperson and sales supervisor with BeautiControl, including two trips to Acapulco, Mexico. She and Robert also enjoyed traveling and were able to visit most of the states in the continental US, Costa Rica, Argentina and Europe. While Robert served as pastor of churches in Mississippi (Holly Grove, Jackson, and Indianola) and in Arkansas (Murfreesboro, West Helena and Wynne area), Nell taught Sunday School, led the choir, and helped start several church libraries. She and Robert attended training programs at both the Baptist Assemblies at Glorieta, New Mexico and Ridgecrest, North Carolina, and then returned to train their Sunday School and Training Union teachers. Nell was known as a good soloist, an avid reader, and great story teller often using a flannel board to tell her stories. Nell was preceded in death by her husband Robert, her parents James Malcolm and Rosa Mae Singley, a brother Rex and a sister Irene Willoughby. She and Robert were married sixty-seven years at the time of his death. She is survived by two sons, Dr. Dale (Gail Atchison) Tucker of Louisville, Kentucky and COL. (ret) Harold A. (Debbie Moran) Tucker of Little Rock, Arkansas; one sister: Bernice Warren of Orlando, Florida; five grandchildren: Todd (Heather Boushey), Lydia (Glen) Farell, Paul (Lauren), Daniel (Lauren Cumbia), Rachel and four great- grandchildren: Drew, Aubrey, Jonathan and Nolan. Visitation will be held on March 16, 2012, from 6-8 p.m. at Thomson Wilson Funeral Home, Wynne Arkansas. Funeral Services will be conducted at 10 a.m. on March 17, 2012, at Thompson Wilson Funeral Home. Burial will be at the Arkansas Veterans Cemetery, North Little Rock on March 19, 2012 at 10 a.m. Family requests in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the Bethany Baptist Church, 532 Bethany Road, Gosnell, Arkansas 72315.