Graveside services for Avis Pilcher, 98, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, are 1 p.m. on Jan. 13, 2026, at the Spiro City Cemetery with Reverend Vernon Stone officiating. Services are under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home in Spiro.
Read more: Graveside services for Avis Pilcher plannedAvis was born on May 13, 1927 in Harmony, Arkansas to Naomi (Askins) King and Arthur King. She passed away on Jan. 3, 2026, in Pocola.
She attended Beauty College in Fort Smith and later worked for ABF before retiring from Red Ball Motor Freight. Avis was a devoted Christian woman who loved attending church and living her faith daily. She was known as “the mother everyone wanted”; so much so that Keith and Pat’s friends often joked they wished she were their own mother.
Those left to cherish her memory include her daughter Patricia Harris and husband Lonnie; her son Keith Pilcher and wife Jo; granddaughters Stephanie Philpot and husband Heath, and Jaimie May; great-grandson, Slate Philpot; along with numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and loved ones.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Pilcher; and her sisters Erma Hardgrave and Mavis Brown.
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