Heather Nicole Wilf

Heather Nicole Wilf, 29, formerly of Pleasant Plains, died Thursday. Heather was a 1998 graduate of Midland High School and received her Bachelors Degree in Ag. Business from ASU in 2004. She was a member of the Searcy Church of the Nazarene and had been involved in rodeo, chuckwagon racing and teamroping since she was a child and was employed by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture as an Entomology Associate. She and fiancé, Rob, owned and operated the Bar V Rodeo Company, raising bucking bulls and horses. Survived by her parents, Kim Wilf, Quitman and Jason Wilf, Pleasant Plains; brother, Blake Wilf, Pleasant Plains; half sister, Lacey Wilf, Pleasant Plains; fiancé, Rob Gann, Lonoke; grandparents, Dora Dean Wilf, Searcy and Patricia Comia, Pleasant Plains; great-grandfather, Buster Johnson, Pleasant Plains; uncles, Farrell Comia and Tim Wilf both of Pleasant Plains and Jake Wilf, Searcy. She is also survived by numerous great aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends. Preceded in death by her grandfathers, Charles Comia and Jeff Albert Wilf; great-grandmother, Eunice Johnson; great-grandparents, J.B. and Veta Gordon and Jake and Faye Wilf; great-great-grandmother, Minnie Johnson. Services will be Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 2 p.m. at the White County Fair Grounds Rodeo Arena. Interment will follow in the Pleasant Plains Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday, 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Arrangements are entrusted to Powell Funeral Home of Searcy. www.powellfuneralhome.net.