Joe Peniston is my great great uncle. Do not have any dates or what paper it was published in. The town of Monticello in the obituary is in Drew County, Arkansas. Carlton OBITUARY OF JOE PENISTON JOE PENISTON DIES IN OKLAHOMA JOE PENISTON, 78, OF RYAN OKLA, DIED EARLY TUESDAY FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS WHICH HAD LASTED FOR FIVE YEARS. HE WAS BORN IN MONTICELLO AND LIVED MANY YEARS IN THE ENON NEIGHBORHOOD. HE HAD MANY FRIENDS IN RYAN AND MOST EVERYONE CALLED HIM "UNCLE JOE." HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE THE FORMER MISS BARRY MATTHEWS, ALSO OF DREW COUNTY, TWO SONS, GERVIS PENISTON OF RYAN AND CECIL PENISTON WHO IS IN THE ARMED FORCES STATIONED IN NEW YORK AND THREE DAUGHTERS MISS JEWEL PENISTON OF RYAN, MRS THELMA LUCKY OF TULSA AND ANOTHER MARRIED DAUGHTER (CLYDE CONWAY). ALSO SURVIVING ARE TWO SISTERS, MRS. VIRGINIA WILSON OF MONTICELLO AND MRS. MARY SCARBOUGH OF RYAN. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD IN RYAN BUT ARRANGEMENTS ARE INCOMPLETE AWAITING WORD FROM A SON IN NEW YORK. DEATH CLAIMS TWO AGED RYAN CITIZENS LAST WEEK SAW THE PASSING OF TWO OF THE OLDEST CITIZENS OF RYAN, BOTH PIONEERS OF THE TOWN AND HIGHLY RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW THEM. W.G. PENISTON, FAMILIARLY KNOWN AS UNCLE BILLY, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS BROTHER, C.S. PENISTON TUESDAY NIGHT, FROM AN ILLNESS EXTENDED OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL YEARS. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE METHODIST CHURCH BY REV. M.F. SULLIVAN, ASSISTED BY REV. J.H. BURNS. INTERMENT WAS IN THE RYAN CEMETERY. MRS. PAUL WILLIAMS DIED AT 3 O'CLOCK THURSDAY MORNING AND FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH CONDUCTED BY REV. J.H. BURNS ASSISTED BY REV. M.F. SULLIVAN.