Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Jesse Maurice Gardner, 70, of Memphis, mail handler for the Postal Service, died Wednesday at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bountiful Blessing Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ, where he was a member, with burial in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. He was an Army veteran, a graduate of Melrose High School and a former member of Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ. Mr. Gardner, the husband of Lillian Inez Brown Gardner, also leaves five daughters, Beryl Gardner Fifer, Shelia Gardner, Tempest Gardner Fultz, Gina Gardner Jackson and Lillian Gardner Hodges; four sons, Jesse M. Gardner II, Percy D. Gardner, Courtney M. Gardner and Benard W. Gardner, and a sister, Donna Lynn Banks, all of Memphis, 25 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Luster Morgan Hill, 71, of Memphis, laborer, died Thursday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel. Mr. Hill, the husband of Dorothy Hill of Manchester, Tenn., also leaves a daughter, Kimberly Hill of Memphis; two sons, Timothy Hill of Northville, Mich., and Terry Hill of Detroit; three sisters, Bobbie Howard of Detroit, and Hazel Patrick and Devonia Hill, both of Winchester, Tenn.; two brothers, Chaney Hill and Charles Ed Hill, both of Winchester, and three grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Mary Bell Hill, 75, of Memphis, died Wednesday at her home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Christian United Missionary Baptist Church on Frayser Boulevard, where she was a member, with burial in Galilee Memorial Gardens. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Hill, the wife of Falmon Hill, also leaves four daughters, Emma Jackson Kelly, Annie Bell Green and Earnestine Hill, all of Memphis, and Barbara Ann Gillespie of Clarksville, Tenn.; three sons, Falmon Hill Jr. of Dallas, and Larry K. Hill and Roy C. Hill, both of Memphis, 16 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Mary Lizer Hodges, 85, of Memphis, homemaker, died Wednesday at Methodist South Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lake Grove Missionary Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel has charge. Mrs. Hodges, the widow of James Hodges, leaves a daughter, Irma Veasley, and two sons, Ethan Millbrook and James Hodges Jr., all of Memphis, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Germinia Jermyia Johnson, 6-year-old son of Belinda Franklin, student at Treadwell Elementary School, died Thursday at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center. Services will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday at N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Milwaukee. He also leaves a sister, Choizie Jacobs, and two brothers, Thomas Maloney and Jenari Howlett, all of Memphis.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Lula Pearl McCorkle, 83, of Memphis, caregiver, died Friday at Methodist University Hospital. Southern Funeral Home has charge. She was a mother board member of Gethsemane Baptist Church. Mrs. McCorkle, the widow of Russell McCorkle, leaves two daughters, Elsie Perry and Edna Hatcher, both of Chicago; her mother, Enda Little of Memphis; six sisters, Lou Ann Scott, Dorothy Little and Verline Avery, all of Chicago, Elizabeth Wheeler of Memphis, Vera Thompson of Sycamore, Ill., and Ida Hayes Council of Newport News, Va.; five brothers, Joe Little, Sylvester Little, Roosevelt Little and Henry Little, all of Memphis, and Joe Ben Little of Chicago, eight grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Frank John Mensi, 83, of Cordova, retired business owner, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, where he was a communicant, with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge. He was a World War II Army veteran. Mr. Mensi, the husband of Mary Frances Mensi for 54 years, also leaves two daughters, Ann Marie Paccasassi and Jeanie M. Smith, both of Charlotte; three brothers, Silvio Mensi of Lakeland, and George Mensi and Joseph Mensi, both of Memphis, and two grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Monastery of St. Clare.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Ruth Louise Morris, 78, of Memphis, homemaker, died Friday at her home. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today in Memphis Memory Gardens. Mid-South Mortuary has charge. Mrs. Morris, the widow of Jason C. Morris, leaves four sons, Bo Morris and Rocky Morris, both of Oakland, and Bobby Morris and Pete Morris, both of Memphis; a stepdaughter, Becky Hardin of Arkansas; a stepson, Jason C. Morris Jr. of Memphis; a sister, Rose Marie Davis of Cleveland, Tenn.; a brother, Pete Billings of Memphis, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
James Edward 'Pappy' Ryland, 87, of Memphis, salesman for Tayloe Paper Co., died Saturday at his home. Memorial services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at Evergreen Presbyterian Church, where he was a deacon, an elder and a Sunday school teacher. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge. He was a World War II Army Air Corps veteran and a Pee-Wee baseball coach. Mr. Ryland, the widower of Mary Chew Brummett Ryland and husband of Ann E. Ryland, also leaves three daughters, Katherine Amy Gnauck of Hotchkiss, Colo., Shirley Ann Butt of California and Patricia Lee Wheeler of Collierville; a son, James Edward Ryland Jr. of Valley Springs, Calif., eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Church Health Center, Evergreen Presbyterian Church or a charity of the donor's choice.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Georgia Kearney Smith, 89, of Waverly, Tenn., formerly of Memphis, died Thursday at Magnolia Assisted Living in Waverly. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Family Funeral Care with burial in Memphis Memory Gardens. She was a member of Chalk Level Baptist Church. Mrs. Smith, the widow of William J. Smith, leaves three daughters, Betty J. Green of Camden, Tenn., Bonnie S. Ediston of Memphis and Glenda J. Scott of Parsons, Tenn.; a son, Glen E. Smith of Germantown, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Christeen Horne Tatum, 90, of Collierville, retired from Southern Central Paper Co., died Friday at Collierville Health & Rehabilitation Center. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Hartland Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Browning cemetery in Oxford, Miss. Family Funeral Care has charge. Mrs. Tatum, the widow of James Arthur Tatum, leaves a daughter, Frances T. Collard of Golden, Colo.; a son, Arthur Cooper Tatum of Olive Branch, four grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Hartland Baptist Church.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Barbara L. 'Bob' Taylor, 57, of Memphis, retired respiratory therapist for the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, died there Thursday. Services will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Greater Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church with burial at 2 p.m. Wednesday in New Park cemetery. Southern Funeral Home has charge. She leaves two daughters, Stephanie L. Jackson and Scheroi D. Taylor, and her parents, Elsie and Stampson Bonner, all of Memphis; three sisters, Dale McCarey of Pasadena, California, and Linda Bonner-Latigue and Ida Susan Bonner, both of Memphis, and three brothers, Ronald Kelly, Stampson Bonner Jr. and Edwin K. Bonner, all of Memphis.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Chewalla -- Margie Fulton, 89, of Jackson, Tenn., formerly of Chewalla, homemaker, died Friday at Northbrooke Nursing Home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Chewalla Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Indian Creek cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home in Selmer has charge. Mrs. Fulton, the widow of Hugh Fulton, leaves a daughter, Margie Gallaher of Jackson, a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Chewalla Baptist Church
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Covington -- Samuel Larkey Shelton, 56, self-employed iron worker, died Friday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home with burial in Cedar Hill cemetery in Mason. He was a Vietnam War Army veteran. Mr. Shelton, the husband of Patricia Jones Shelton, also leaves a daughter, Angela Shelton Clauson of Jupiter, Fla.; a son, Samuel Dewayne Shelton of Covington; five sisters, Shirley Hightower of Memphis, Mary Jane Rogers and Terri Gray, both of Mason, Cathy Gordon of Finger and Janice Loveall of Buena Vista, and a granddaughter. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Gideons International or Saint Francis Hospital.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Dyersburg -- Thomas Hall Lipford, 51, vice president of First Citizens National Bank, died Friday at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Fairview cemetery. Dyersburg Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, American Cancer Society Dyer County Chapter board of directors and American Cancer Society Relay for Life steering committee, a graduate of Dyersburg Dyer County Leadership, a volunteer for Tennessee Leukemia Society and a former member of the Kiwanis Club and Red Cross Dyer County Chapter board of directors. He leaves his parents, Stallings and Jane Hall Lipford, and a brother, Phil Lipford, all of Dyersburg. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Betty Parker Humane Society.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Halls -- Woodrow Wilson Taylor, 86, retired highway department worker, store clerk, farmer and security guard for Ripley Hospital, died Friday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Halls Funeral Home with burial in Ripley Memorial Gardens. He was a member of Elon Baptist Church. Mr. Taylor, the widower of Lucille Ester Ferrell Taylor, leaves a niece, Tonye Jacobs, and a nephew, Todd Taylor, both of Halls, and both of whom helped care for him, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Ripley -- Mollie Sue Connell, 86, homemaker, died Friday at Ripley Healthcare & Rehab. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Whitefield Assembly of God, where she was a member, with burial in Whitefield cemetery. Garner Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Connell, the widow of Leonard Connell, leaves a daughter, Joy Trisler of Florissant, Mo.; two sons, Don Connell of Ripley and Darrell Connell of Memphis, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Savannah -- Cora Sue Hulen Hendrix, 71, homemaker, died Saturday at Hardin County Nursing Home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Campground Methodist Church in Hardin County, where she was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Campground Methodist Church Womens Club. Mrs. Hendrix, the widow of Clinton Carroll Hendrix, leaves two daughters, Sherry Malone and Debbie Clayton, both of Savannah; three sons, Kerry Hendrix and Chris Hendrix, both of Savannah, and Terry Hendrix of Ecru, Miss., 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 27, 2005]
Ollie Wages Bevill, 80, of Millington, homemaker, died Saturday at Methodist North Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Northridge Woodhaven Funeral Home with burial in Northridge Woodhaven cemetery. She was a member of Faith Heritage Baptist Church. Mrs. Bevill, the widow of Hugh F. Bevill, leaves two daughters, Cindy Diaz and Lisa Bevill, both of Millington; a brother, Dan Wages of Pontotoc, Miss., two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated February 28, 2005]
Dr. James Roland Carter, 62, of Memphis, physician for 35 years, and former Department of Pharmacology instructor, assistant professor of anesthesiology and director of cardiovascular anesthesiology at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, died Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Calvary Episcopal Church, where he was a member, with burial in the church columbarium. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. He was a graduate of Memphis State University and UT-Memphis, fellow of American College of Anesthesiologists, American College of Clinical Pharmacology and American Academy of Ambulatory Care, diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and American Board of Ambulatory Medicine. Dr. Carter, the husband of Anne Sheffield Carter, also leaves two sons, James Roland Carter Jr. and John Stafford Carter, both of Memphis, and four grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Calvary Episcopal Church or the American Diabetes Association.
[Death notice dated February 28, 2005]
