FIRST Tuesday, June 5, 2001 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL www.gomemphis.com DEATHS ARKANSAS Through Monday, June 4 ELAINE Leland Mack Faulkner 53, self-empoyed with Elaine and Ferguson Grocery, died of heart failure Saturday at Helena Regional Medical Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Roller-Citizens Funeral Home in West Helena with burial in Sunset Memorial Park. was a Baptist and an Army veteran. Mr.
Faulkner, the husband of Karen Faulkner, also leaves three sons, Michael Faulkner, Marshall Faulkner and Robert Faulkner, all of Elaine; a sister, Virginia Ann Nelson of California, and four brothers, Ernie Faulkner of Utah, Pete Faulkner of Elaine, Jimmy Faulkner of Wynne and Jerry Faulkner of California. GOSNELL Sharon Lee Young, 59, homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital- Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Elmwood Cemetery. Cobb Funeral Home in Blytheville has charge. She was a Baptist.
Mrs. Young, the wife of Bill Young, also leaves a son, Michael Clark. MARKED TREE Lois Jane Cagle Brooks, 69, factory worker, died of heart failure Sunday at Saint Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Black Oak Baptist Church with burial in Tyronza Cemetery.
Murphy Funeral Home has charge. She was Sunday school teacher and church treasurer at West Ridge Baptist Church. Mrs. Brooks, the wife of Rev. H.
Presley Brooks of Jonesboro, also leaves a daughter, Sharon Cagle Carter of Jonesboro; three stepdaughters, Patricia McGlothlin Tree, Brenda Craig of Pleasant, and Linda Clark of Harrisburg; two stepsons, Larry Brooks of Benbrook, Texas, and Terry Brooks of Wichita Falls, Texas; three sisters, Emma Jean Tillman of Beaumont, Texas, Frances Pafford and Rebecca Warren, both of Hoxie, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, 12 stepgrandchildren and five stepgreat-grandchildren. MISSISSIPPI Through Monday, June 4 CLARKSDALE Jane Covington Allen, 93, artist, died of heart failure Friday in Roswell, Ga. Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church with burial in Oakridge Cemetery.
Nowell Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a sister, Anne Wynne Allen Barringer of Tazwell, three brothers, Henry T. Allen, William Horace Allen and Smart Allen, all of Clarksdale. The family requests that memorials be sent to St. Elizabeth Catholic Church.
CLEVELAND Edna A. Thompson Hall, 88, sitter, died of pneumonia Monday at Bolivar County Medical Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Fletcher-Nowell Funeral Home with burial in North Cleveland Cemetery. Mrs.
Hall, the wife of Herman A. Hall, also leaves a sister, Lela Bruce of Cleveland. COLUMBUS Alberta M. Bridges, 91, homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at The Care Center of Vernon, Ala. Services will be at 10 a.m.
today at Gunter and Peel Funeral Home with burial in Mt. Vernon Cemetery. She was a member of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. Mrs.
Bridges, the widow of John Beatty, Curtis Mouchett and Groves Bridges, leaves a daughter, Christine B. Dukes, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. CORINTH J.
B. Crum, 76, of Odessa, Texas, formerly of Corinth, died of heart failure Saturday in Atkins, Ark. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Memorial Funeral Home in Corinth with burial in Tippah Shiloh Church Cemetery. Mr.
Crum, the widower of Marie Crum, leaves three brothers, Troy Crum of Ripley, S. L. Crum of Atkins and Orville Crum of Burnsville. GREENVILLE William E. McLellan 85, retired salesman for Henderson and Baird, died of heart failure Sunday at his home.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Greenville First Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in Greenville Memorial Gardens. Mortimer Funeral Home in Greenville has charge. He was a World War Army veteran, a member of the Presidents Club Award, the Bulldog Club, the Babe McCarthy Tip Off Club and the Mississippi State Alumni Association. Mr.
McLellan, the husband of Ruby M. Starns McLellan, also leaves a son, William McLellan Ill of Jackson; a stepdaughter, Donna Sue Chisolm of Lexington; two stepsons, Billy Starns of Clinton and Ronnie Starns of Gulfport; a sister, Miriam Perry of Rolling Fork; a brother, Woods McLellan of Fulton, 11 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. GREENVILLE lola C. Smith, 83, of Des Arc, retired WalMart sales clerk, died of heart failure Sunday at White County Medical Center in Des Arc. Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m.
today at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery in Vicksburg. Mortimer Funeral Home in Greenville has charge. She was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. Mrs. Smith, the widow of Leon Smith, leaves three daughters, Carolyn Stewart of Greenville, Louise Driggers of Griffithville, and Helen Willingham of Mountainview, a son, Edward Randy Smith of Mandeville, two sisters, Myrtle Wallace of Meadeville and Mae Gomez of Baton Rouge, three bro- thers, Walter Coley of Edwards, Ray Coley of Ferriday, and Junior Coley of Monroe, nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
HOLLY SPRINGS Clara M. Cox Jones, 89, of Memphis, formerly of Holly Springs, homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at Heartland Health Care Center. Services will be at noon Thursday at Middle Baptist Church in Memphis, where she served on the Mothers Board, with burial in Street Hill Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. J. F.
Brittenum Son Funeral Home in Holly Springs has charge. She was a former member of Chulahoma Missionary Baptist Church, where she was Mothers Board president. Mrs. Jones, the widow of Earnest Jones, leaves six daughters, Doris Howell of Memphis, Sadie M. Ross of Oakland, Musette Dugger of Batesville, Vera Hunter of Baldwyn, Susie Bell of Holly Springs and Julia C.
Harris of San Antonio, Texas; three sons, Ernest Jones James Jones and M. H. Jones, and a sister, Leola Woods, all of Memphis, 21 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. HOUSTON Robert Paul Chase, 65, retired band director who worked with the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, Houston School System for 28 years and in Adamsville, for two years, died of heart failure Sunday at North Mississippi Medical Center in Oxfod. Services will be at 2 p.m.
today at Southern Funeral Chapel in Houston with burial in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. He was a member of Mississippi Bandmasters and the North East Mississippi Band Directors Association, received the Goerge Henry Schultz award for Most Outstanding Band Director and helped establish ICC Band Camp. Mr. Chase, the husband of Sara Langley Chase, also leaves a daughter, Emily Chase of Ecru; a son, Rob Chase of Hernando, and three brothers, James Chase and Thomas Chase, both of Thrasher and Travis Ray Chase of Pontotoc. OXFORD Mable Mullins Cohran, 94, homemaker, of Dallas, Texas, died of heart failure Friday at Presbyterian Village North in Dallas.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Oxford Second Missionary Baptist Church with burial in Springhill Cemetery. Hodges Funeral Home in Oxford has charge. She was a member of Springhill Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs.
Cohran, the widow of Ebby Cohran, leaves four daughters, Hortense Ransom and Rozene Pride, both of Dallas, and Pauletta Saxon and Erma Cohran, both Chicago; a sister, Lydia Thomas of Vandalia, 10 grandchildren and 11 grandchildren. congestive heart failure Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Waller Funeral Home with burial in Yellow Leaf Cemetery. She was a member of New Prospect Baptist Church.
Mrs. Stripling, the widow of James Smith Stripling, leaves two daughters, Jimmie Louise Bridges and Janice Parks, both of Oxford; two sisters, Martha Norwood of Oxford and Mattie Jo Thornburg of Bogalusa, a brother, Billy Gene Johnson of Oxford, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to New Prospect Baptist Church Building Fund or the Yellow Leaf Cemetery Fund. POPE Bobby Jamison, 76, building materials salesman, died of heart failure Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. Services will be at 11 a.m.
today at Baldwin Funeral Home in Pontotoc with burial in Troy Cemetery. He was a World War Army veteran and a member of the Carthage Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Jamison, the husband of Frances T. Jamison, also leaves a daughter, Pamela Frances Whitson of Tulsa; a son, Randy Jamison of Hattiesburg; two sisters, Ruth Rye of Shannon and Eloise Rollins Mongeon of Sumner; a brother, George W.
Jamison of Pontotoc, and six grandchildren. OXFORD Louise Johnson Stripling, 78, homemaker, died of tick disease Saturday at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Williams Lord Funeral Home in Ruleville with burial in Lehrton Cemetery there. Mrs.
Springer, the wife of Jeffery Wade Springer, also leaves two sons, Jeffery Wade Springer Jr. and Joseph Sidney Springer, both of Shaw; a stepdaughter, Sherri Ingram, her parents, Mary Jo and Jack Moody, and a sister, Ginger Pope, all of Cleveland; three brothers, Jackie Moody of Cleveland, Steve Moody of Merigold and George Moody of Webb, and a grandchild. SHAW Nancy Jo Moody Springer, 46, homemaker, died of of cancer Sunday at the Veterans Administration Center in Jackson. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Reeds Chapel Cemetery.
Oliver Funeral Home in Eupora has charge. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, DAV, and was a Vietnam War Army veteran. Mr. Campbell, the widower of Sunday Marie Campbell, leaves two daughters, Crystal Campbell Burrow of Pearl and Martha Nicole Campbell of Valentine, Texas; a son, Maxie Levi Campbell of Valentine, and two brothers, Willie Campbell of Walthal and Chris T. Campbell of Bentonia.
STURGIS Mary Alice Morgan Green, 75, secretary, died of heart failure Sunday at her home. Serv- STEWART Henry Bernard Campbell 50, truck driver, died Bill Ellis's Hot Sounds online: www.goplaymemphis.com Shopping for a new car? www.godrivememphis.com ices will be at 11 a.m. today at Morgan Chapel Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Welch Funeral Home in Starkville has charge. Mrs.
Greene, the wife of James Robert Greene, also leaves a daughter, Marilyn Greene Leonard of Columbus; a son, James Terry Greene of Little Rock; two sisters, Charlie Bixler of Sturgis Genevieve Wilson of Starkville; a brother, Wendell Morgan of Sturgis, and five grandchildren. MISSOURI Through Monday, June 4 CARUTHERSVILLE Virginia Bader, 96, homemaker, died of heart failure Monday in Caruthersville. Services will be at 3 p.m. today at H. S.
Smith Funeral Home with burial in Maple Cemetery. She was a member of Caruthersville First Baptist Church. Mrs. Bader, the widow of John Robert Bader, leaves two daughters, Jane 'Bootsie' Fike and Sue Streete, both of Caruthersville; a brother, Dr. Charles Long of Ripley, eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
The family requests that memorials be sent to Caruthersville First Baptist Church or the charity oft the donor's choice. CARUTHERSVILLE Nancy J. Ford, 77, homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday in Hayti. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at H.
S. Smith Funeral Home with burial in Maple Cemetery. She was a member of Caruthersville First Baptist Church. Mrs. Ford, the widow of Clarence Ford, also leaves a daughter, Shirley Woodall, and a son, James Ford, both Caruthersville; a sister, Marie Collins of Kansas City; two brothers, Joker Taylor of Kentucky and Charles Taylor of Caruthersville, 10 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren.
TENNESSEE Through Monday, June 4 BETHEL SPRINGS Milford S. Shelton, 86, retired mail carrier and farmer, died of heart failure Sunday at Methodist HealthcareMcNairy in 5 Selmer. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Shackelford Funeral Home in Selmer with burial in Lake Hill Memory Garden. He was a former elder at Court Avenue Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was a member the Purdy-Bethel Masonic Lodge and was a Mason.
Mr. Shelton, the husband 1 of Elizabeth Moore Shelton, also leaves a son, Mark Shelton of Lewisville, Texas, and a granddaughter. The family requests that memorials be sent to Court Avenue Cumberland Presbyterian Church. COVINGTON Zola Lee Faught, 92, homemaker, died of heart failure Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton. Services will be at 2 p.m.
today at Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home with burial in Munford Cemetery. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Mrs. Faught, the widow of Ross Faught, leaves a daughter, Joyce Wall of Covington; a son, David Ross Faught of Cordova, two grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren, DYERSBURG Jack Hatch, 78, retired salesman for Dr Pepper Bottling Co. and manager of the Dyer County Union Mission Clothing Store for 25 years and the DAV Store for five years, died of heart failure Monday at Oakwood Manor.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Dyersburg Funeral Home with burial in Fairview Cemetery. He was a member of Dyersburg Second Baptist Church and the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Hatch, the husband of Hazel Hatch, also leaves four sons, Jackie Hatch, Johnny Hatch and Jeffrey Hatch, all of Dyersburg, and Larry Hatch of Roellen; three sisters, Era Wilson, Izola Patton and Crendola Milner, and two brothers, Lawdeen Hatch and Lee Hatch, all of Dyersburg, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The family requests that memorials be sent to the charity of the donor's choice. GIBSON Richard D. Ford, 68, retired machinist, died of heart failure Sunday at Methodist Healthcare-Jackson. Arrington Funeral Directors has charge. Mr.
Ford, the husband of Georgia Ford, also leaves three daughters, Sondra Knight of Gibson, Tammy Reel of Milan and Lisa Ford of Fontana, a son, Harold D. Ford of Gibson; two sisters, Betty Epps of Lima, Ohio, and Charlene Roberts of Orlando, and 13 grandchildren. HALLS Mildred Lavern Ramm, 75, homemaker, died of cardiopulmonary arrest Monday at Methodist Healthcare-Dyersburg. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Halls Funeral Home with burial in Ripley Memorial Gardens.
She was a member of Halls United Methodist Church. Mrs. Ramm, the widow of Howard James Ramm, leaves a daughter, Dreana Sinclair of Dyersburg; two sons, Danny Ramm Halls and James Ramm of Memphis, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. HUNTINGDON Peggy Ann Williams, 41, sewing machine operator for New Generations, died of heart failure Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Huntingdon. Graveside services will be at noon Wednesday at Bible Hill Cemetery in Parkers Crossroads.
Dilday Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Bible Hill Baptist Church. She leaves a daughter, Nicole Williams; two sons, Hunter Williams and Tomorris Williams; her mother, Lardine Strayhorn Kirby; her father, Henry Williams; and four sisters, JoAnn Jordan, Charlene Williams, Evelyn 1 Williams and Mary Williams, all of Hun- Elegant arrangements. Modest prices. Roller Family Funeral Home 371-9500 tingdon; and seven brothers, Charles Williams of Parker Crossroads, Dwight Williams, Eric WilJoe Williams and Tony Williams, all of Huntingdon, and Junior Williams and LoRenzo Williams, both of Lexington.
MIDDLETON James Walter Brown, 91, of Middleton, formerly of Memphis, retired bus operator with Memphis Transit Authority for 40 years, died of heart failure Sunday at Bolivar General Hospital. Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home in Bolivar with burial in Hebron Cemetery. He was a member of First Primitive Baptist Church in Ellendale in Memphis and a member of the Transit Union. Mr.
Brown, the widower of Geneva McKinnie Brown, leaves two daughters, Maxine Cardwell Donna Peeler, both of Middleton, two grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. The family requests that memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society or the Hebron Cemetery Fund. MILAN Ernestine J. McAlexander, 77, homemaker, died of respiratory failure Monday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday at Funeral Home with burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. She was a member and pianist at Double Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a member of the Milan Chapter of the Eastern Star. Mrs. McAlexander is the widow of Deward McAlexander. The family requests that memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
NEWBERN Virginia Lucille Davis, 80, of Trevor, formerly of Newbern, died of heart failure Saturday at Mt. Carmel Medical Rehab Center in Burlington, Wis. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Fairview Cemetery. Johnson Funeral Home has charge.
Mrs. Davis, the widow of Emerson Davis, leaves a daughter, Yvonne Davis-Gekas of Trevor. POCAHONTAS Hugh Glidewell, 55, farmer, died of can- Duncan and Martha Hall, and two brothers, Claude Akins Jr. and William 'Sonny' Akins, all of Ripley, 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. SELMER Zena Jordan Wright, 89, homemaker, died of heart failure Monday at Methodist Healthcare-McNairy.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Shackelford Funeral Home with burial in Lake Hill Memory Garden in Bethel Springs. She was a member of Selmer First Baptist Church. She leaves a daughter, Pat Jordan Scott of Clayton, N.C.; a son, Jim Jordan of Memphis, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. SHILOH Lois Christine Durbin Bowen, 69, homemaker and cer Sunday at his home.
Services will at 2 p.m. today at Oak Grove Independent Methodist Church with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home in Bolivar has charge. Mr. Glidewell, the husband of Ann Glidewell, also leaves a daughter, Tina McNeil of Walnut, three brothers, Donald Glidewell of Senatobia, Shelby Glidewell of Mt.
Vernon, and Larry Glidewell of Southaven, and a grandchild. The family requests that memorials be sent to Oak Grove Cemetery Fund. RIPLEY David Joseph Hadley, 35, correctional officer, died of a heart attack Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Garner Funeral Home with burial in Ripley Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Hadley, the husband of Shelia Hazen Hadley, also leaves a daughter, Amber Hadley of Ripley; his parents, Camille and Hugh Hadley of Fort Pillow, and a brother, Hugh Stephen Hadley of Chapel Hill. RIPLEY Barbara Sanford Ruemke, 47, of Ocean Springs, formerly of Ripley, math teacher in Jackson, Coffeeville, Washington and Arlington, died of heart failure Friday at her home. Services will be at a.m. today at Ripley First United Methodist Church with burial in Tippah Memorial Gardens.
McBride Funeral Home in Ripley has charge. She was a member of Wesley Methodist United Church in Ocean Springs and was active in the National Hemophilia Society. She leaves two sons, Bryan Ruemke and Ben Ruemke, both of Ocean Springs; her mother, Anne Dorman Sanford of Ripley, and three brothers, Dr. Ben Sanford of Starkville, Mahlon Sanford of New Orleans and Herb Sanford of Houston. The family requests that memorials be sent to the National Hemophilia Foundation or Ripley First United Methodist Church.
ROSEMARK Lorgan Mooney Ervin, 75, homemaker, died of cancer Sunday at her home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Memphis Funeral Home Germantown Parkway Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens there. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church. Mrs.
Ervin, the wife of Odis Ervin, also leaves three daughters, Linda L. Vance of Memphis, Edna Mooney McMahon of Lakeland and Laura Mooney Walker of Atoka; two sons, Luke E. Mooney of Brunswick and Warren Mooney of Atoka; four sisters Mattie Huddleston, Lennie Carroll, Sue Jean garment machine operator 1 for EYE TEST for Cataracts and Glaucoma Senior Citizens (65 or older) FREE TRANSPORTATION Eye-Tech of Memphis 360-8081 River Heights Manufacturing died of Lou Gehrig disease Monday at Tri-County Convalescent Home in Adamsville. Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home in Savannah with burial in Shiloh Cemetery.
She was a member of New Hope Community Church. Mrs. Bowen, the widow of Loyal Lory Bowen, leaves two daughters, Deborah Green and Wanda White, both of Adamsville; three sisters, Evelyn Pearson of Memphis, Marie English and Mary Loporto, both of Adamsville; two brothers, Billy Durbin and Travis Durbin, both of Adamsville, five grandchildren and two great SHILOH Norman L. Phillips, 87, farmer and packer for Bush's Canning in Blytheville, for 15 years, died of heart failure Sunday at Tri-County Convalescent Home in Adamsville. Services will be at 1 p.m.
today at Childer's Hill Pentecostal Church, where he was a member, with burial in McGlamory Cemetery in Collinwood. Shackelford Funeral Home in Savannah has charge. He was a World War 11 Army veteran who was awarded the Purple Heart. He leaves two sons, Charlie Fillmore Phillips of Savannah and James Edward Phillips Adamsville; a stepbrother, Thomas Weatherford of Waynesboro, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. TRENTON Elvis Mitchell, 88, retired from the Tennessee De- partment of Transportation, died of heart failure Sunday at Humboldt General Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Shelton Funeral Home with burial in Follis Chapel Cemetery. Mr. Mitchell, the widower of Ruth Mitchell, leaves a daughter, Linda Adco*ck of Trenton; a sister, Mildred Pecht of Splendora, Texas; two brothers, J.R. Mitchell of Fayetteville and William Mitchell of Trenton, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
MEMPHIS DEATHS The following obituaries were received through Monday, June 4. Frankie Ruth Burnette Allen, 71, of Southaven, homemaker, wife of James T. Allen for 38 years, died of cancer Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. Michele B. Bishop, 46, of Murray, formerly of Memphis, CEO of the Bishop Firm in Nashville, wife of Gary H.
Bishop, died Thursday in Murray. The cause of death has not been determined pending an autopsy. Maude Caldwell, 80, of Marion, retired from Continental Bakery, widow of Gordon Caldwell, died Sunday at Johnson Hobson Health Care after a stroke. Virgil Caldwell, 74, of Memphis, retired from International Harvester, husband of Gen Caldwell for 54 years, died of diabetes Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Paul William Collins, 65, of Walls, retired I electrician, husband of Sadie Collins, died of cancer Sunday at his home.
Earl Dinwiddie, 78, of Memphis, building maintenance supervisor at Memphis Light, Gas Water Division for 52 years, widower of Marie Dinwiddie, died of heart failure Saturday at his home. Felix Louis Ector, 51, of Memphis, died of heart failure Thursday at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center. Linda Freeman, 43, of Memphis, wife of William Freeman, died of cancer Friday at her home. Salvadore Gaytan, 20, of Memphis, died Saturday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis of injuries in a motorcycle accident. Amber Nicole Jones, 7-week-old daughter of Tina and Robert Jones of Horn Lake, died Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven of sudden infant death syndrome.
Roy Edward Lee, 67, of Memphis, retired truck driver, died of cancer! Sunday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. James Franklin Rieves 85, of Marion, retired farmer, husband of Marybeth Kuhn Rieves, died of heart failure Saturday at Saint Francis Hospital. William Donnie Shelton, 81, of Mem, phis, retired chemist from Firestone, husband of Agnes Gwinn Shelton for 59 years, died respiratory failure Sunday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. Louise Gregory Skinner, 70, of Olive Branch, retired registered nurse with the Memphis Veterans Medical Center, wife of Paid In Memoriam HAPPY BIRTHDAY Amanda Faye (Bunny) Buckley 6-5-52 8-5-95 Rufus (Bobby) Buckley 6-1-47 3-12-80 Remembering Both of you Mom, Children, Sis, Bro In Memory of Keithon Casean Newbern June 5, 1998 to June 5, 1998 Happy 3rd Birthday to our Angel in Heaven! Love always, DadKeith, Mom-LaShun, BrotherKeilan, other relatives friends James E. Connoley It's been one year since God called you home.
You are still the light of my life. I'll AlPAPA ways love you. Ann Connoley The Family To place a paid Obituary or Memoriam, call Dr. David Skinner, died Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East after a stroke. Faye H.
Truitt, 62, of Southaven, retail manager for Hallmark, died of cancer Sun- day at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. Paid Deaths MARX Kathleen McGinty Marx of Houston, Texas died at Memorial Hermann Hospital on Saturday, June 2, 2001. She was born in the Pleasant Hill Community, Yazoo County, Mississippi on June 23, 1925, raised in the Pleasant Hill Methodist Church and graduated from Benton High School. Because of a government-funded program to train nurses for World War I1, Kathleen was able to go to nursing school. She obtained her RN from the Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
She married Walter Arnold Marx on December 27, 1948 in Clinton, Mississippi and lived in Memphis and over 30 states before coming to Houston in 1958. She worked at Spring Branch HospitalHouston, was active in the Republican Party, volunteered for various charities and was a member of Fair Haven United Methodist Church. Kathleen is preceded in death by her parents, Ell Hood McGinty and Emma Jones; sister, Florence Elizabeth McGinty; brothers, Eli Hood (Buddy) McGinty, Jr. and James Henry McGinty; Brother-in-law, Robert Edwin Marx. She is survived by her husband, Walter; daughter, Suzon Kathleen Bridges and husRodney; daughter, Patricia AnJung and husband Ted; son, Walter Arnold Marx, Jr.
and wife, Angela; granddaughter, Gretchen Kathleen Jung; grandson, Walter Arnold Marx, Ill (Trey); sister, Rosa Lee. Thornton; sister, Flora McGinty Perkins; sister, Mavis Loyd Thornton; sister, Myrtle Bryant Isonhood; sister-in-law, Mary Bernice Heritage Simpson; sister-in-law, Virginia M. Carr. Visitation will be held Tuesday, June 5, from to at Woodlawn Funeral Home, 1101 Antoine, Houston. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 6 at Fair Haven Methodist Church, 1330 Gessner, followed by burial at Woodlwan Garden of Memories and a reception at at Fair Haven.
Pallbearers Jack D. Ashabranner, James W. Carr, Ed J. Duliban, Albert Heritage, Leigh M. Holt, and Frank Perkins.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Arthritis Foundation, Inc. Woodlawn Funeral Home, 1101 Antoine Drive, Houston, Texas 77055, 713-682-3663. MIZELL, JR Emerson Etheridge Mizell Jr, born June 8, 1911, Mr. Mizell owned and operated third generation Mizell Plumbing and Heating Company, first run by his grandfather, William Angelo Mizell, then by his father, Emerson Etheridge until he retired in 1982. Mr.
Mizell attended and graduated from Central High School in 1930. He won the Tri-State Wrestling Championship. While attending Normal Teachers College, now University of Memphis, in 1930-1933, he was a member of their football team. He was a Mason and a Shriner with The Al Chymia Shrine Temple. During WWII, he and his wife, Marian, lived in the Panama Canal Zone, where he worked as a plumber on many battleships passing through the lock on their way from the Atlantic to the Pacific side.
His family was charter members of Central Ave. Baptist Church. His grandmother and grandfather, donated the land where the church was built. This site was later sold and the new church is now Ridgeway Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Marian Dougherty Mizell, two daughters, Mariem (Trudy) Mizell of Nunnelly, TN and Janice Dieter of Collierville, TN; two sisters, Julia Turnage and Jeannette Hollis of Memphis; a brother, Rev.
Robert Mizell of Hernando, MS; and two grandchildren. Bartlett Funeral Home Family Heritage Chapel MR. VIRGIL L. CALDWELL Visitation tonight P.M. at Bartlett Funeral Home, 5803 Stage Rd.
Funeral Service, Wednesday at 1:00 P.M. at Bartlett www.legacy.com STEGALL MRS. JANET BLANEY Funeral Home, 387-5555 STEGALL, age 78, died Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at Countryside Manor in Stokesdale, N.C. due to complications of pneumonia. Mrs.
Stegall was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War and co-owner of Low Country Marble in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Surviving are two sons, Mark Stegall of Danville, Va. and Gary Stegall of Conway, S.C.; her daughter, Lynn Stegall of Memphis, two sisters, Marie Quick and Dorothy Strezze, both of Columbus, Ohio; and three grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Linson Lee Stegall and her son, Ken Stegall of Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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