Reba Lucille Hamling

Reba Lucille Hamling passed away in Rogers, Ark., Tuesday, October 12, 2021. Reba was born August 26, 1936, in Low Gap, Newton County, Ark., to Arthur Floyd and Nancy Ann Villines Wishon, the youngest of six children. The family moved to Rogers when Reba was very young, where she attended school. She worked as office manager and was owner-partners with husband Kenneth Ash in Model Laundry & Dry Cleaners from 1967 to 1981. After leaving Model, she married George Hamling and helped him manage his business, George's RV, on East New Hope, until their retirement. They enjoyed travel, fishing, collecting, and restoring oil and gas pumps and signs and toy stitchers. Reba was a gifted painter, seamstress and quilter. Reba was preceded in death by her parents, siblings, and beloved husband of thirty-eight years, George. Surviving family includes sons, Steven Ash of Eureka Springs, Rick Ash and wife Sarah of Rogers; and grandchildren, Hannah Ash and John Stotts; George's daughters, Linda Soboj and husband Dennis, Carol Creswell and husband Curtis, and Cheryl Gober, and their children and grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews. We would like to thank her caregivers at Village on the Park for their excellent care.