Biography: A.J. Gornatti, of Little Rock, died Friday, September 8, 2006. He was born on December 20, 1937 in Fordyce Arkansas to the late Louis Joseph Gornatti and Minerva Harrison Gornatti. He attended Marion Military Institute after graduating from Fordyce High School. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1957 until 1960 and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a BSBA in accounting. He was also a graduate of SMU School of Banking. Sonny started his banking career in 1962 at Worthen Bank as a correspondent banker. In 1978 he went to work for the First National Bank of Harrison where he served as President and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors. He owned and operated Hallmark Loan and Investment in North Little Rock from 1986 until 1992 when he retired. In his retirement he owned and operated The Toddy Shop which he sold in 2005. He was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Little Rock Country Club, Ducks Unlimited, Blue Rock Gun Club and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Sonny loved to play golf, hunt, garden, shoot skeet, read and Search. He was a devoted husband, father and friend; and an inspiration to many. He is survived by his wife, Ann Marie Rhodes Gornatti; three children Joe Gornatti and his wife Kathy, Maria Gornatti, Lisa Gornatti Snyder and her husband Keith Snyder; six grandchildren: Sarah Marie Gornatti, Hayden, Harrison and Rhodes Houser, and Ann Marie and Elisabeth Estes; his sister Louise Smith and her husband Hugh Edward Smith of Fordyce and their children Rebecca Mays of North Little Rock and Julie Pennell of Arizona; his sister-in-law Mary Owens of Fayetteville and her children Mary Ann Mansfield of Kansas City, David Owens of San Diego and Ellen Smith of Little Rock. A memorial service will be held Monday September 11, 2006 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi with a reception following. Memorials may be made to Arkansas Cancer Research Center at UAMS, 4301 W. Markham, Little Rock, AR 72205 and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi, Little Rock, AR 72207. Cremation arrangements are by Ruebel Funeral Home of Little Rock, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com.