Funeral services for F. Elizabeth Kessinger, 97, White Hall, Arkansas, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, September 1, 2013, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.

Mrs. Kessinger died at 5:37 p.m., Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

She was born September 18, 1915, at Siloam Springs, Missouri, to Irving Douglas Caplinger and Mary Isabella Coldwell Caplinger.  On June 7, 1936, she was married at West Plains, Missouri, to Raymond Mack Kessinger, who preceded her in death on December 21, 1979.  In March of 1945, she was inducted into the Order of Eastern Star West Plains Chapter #193 and served as the Worthy Matron in 1957.  Mrs. Kessinger was a life-long member of First Baptist Church of West Plains and a founding member of East Side Baptist Church at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where she served as a Sunday school teacher for many years.

She is survived by six children, Linda Wells, husband, Howard, Monticello, Arkansas, Bonnie Milan, husband, Larry, Bauxite, Arkansas, David Kessinger, White Hall, Arkansas, Deborah Mewby, husband, Pat, White Hall, Arkansas, Anna Lisemby, husband, Larry, White Hall, Arkansas and Ginger Chambliss, White Hall, Arkansas; two sons-in-law, Jerry Marsh, West Plains, Missouri and Bob Bivens, Sherwood, Arkansas; sixteen grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and many nieces and nephews.

Her parents, husband, two sons, Guy Wayne Kessinger and Donald Kessinger, two daughters, Mary Beth Marsh and Hetta Bivens; and two grandchildren, Randy Marsh and Brad Kessinger, precede her in death.