Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Newbern -- Shirley Jean Pugh, 66, homemaker, died Monday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Johnson Funeral Home with burial in Bethlehem cemetery in Henning. Mrs. Pugh, the widow of Aubrey Lee Pugh, leaves two daughters, Jennifer Gilliland of Dyersburg and Peggy Jean Watkins of Blythe, Calif.; a son, Kenneth Pugh of Sardis; eight brothers, Paul King of Blythe, Larry King of Blue Lake, Calif., Herman King of Grant's Pass, Ore., Arthur King of Wilcox, Ariz., Bill King of Crescent City, La., Chris King of Gardnerville, Nev., and James King and Gary King, both of Yakima, Wash., seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 8, 2005]
Pocahontas -- Loyd 'Buck' Green, 44, formerly of Memphis, employee of Yopp's Convenience Store, died Sunday at Bolivar General Hospital. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Shackelford Funeral Home Middleton Chapel with burial in Middleton City cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home in Bolivar has charge. Mr. Green, the husband of Connie Green, also leaves two sons, Loyd Clifton Green III of California and Howard Joseph Horn of Pocahontas; a sister, Martha Edwards of California, and two brothers, Larry Green of Huntingdon and Bobby Green of Selmer. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Heart Association.
[Death notice dated March 8, 2005]
Ripley -- R.D. Shaw, 78, laborer, died Wednesday at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Services will be at noon Thursday at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church with burial in Elam cemetery. Currie's Funeral Home in Henning has charge. He leaves a brother, Jimmie Roberson of Chicago, and a niece, Beverly Patton of Chicago, and a nephew, Michael Hudson of Ripley, both of whom took care of him.
[Death notice dated March 8, 2005]
Savannah -- Oather Paul Doran, 69, postal worker and farmer, died Sunday at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence, Ala. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Olivet Cumberland Presbyterian Church, where he was a member, with burial in Wesley's Chapel cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of the National Guard. He leaves a daughter, Betsy Whitlow of Savannah; a son, Mark Doran of Jackson, and two sisters, Nancy Jo Shutt of Henderson and Clara Ruth Hayman of Savannah. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Olivet Cumberland Presbyterian Church Building Fund.
[Death notice dated March 8, 2005]
Selmer -- Bernice Bodiford, 68, homemaker, died Sunday at Magnolia Regional Healthcare. Services were Monday at Shackelford Funeral Home with burial in Sulphur Springs cemetery. She was a former member of McNairy Regional Hospital Board of Directors, and a member of Fourth Street Church of Christ and executive committee of McNairy County Republican Party. Mrs. Bodiford, the widow of Ray Bodiford, leaves a daughter, Rene Kilzer of Henderson; a son, Richie Bodiford of Michie; a sister, Betty Ann Young of McKenzie; a brother, Danny Nixon of Ramer, and three grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Ray and Bernice Bodiford Memorial Scholarship Fund care of Home Banking Co.
[Death notice dated March 8, 2005]
Ernestine Alexander, 79, of Memphis, food and clothing coordinator for Memphis Catholic Diocese, died Friday at Methodist South Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Shiloh Baptist Church with burial in Memorial Park. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She leaves two daughters, Margaret A. Currie of Memphis and Lillian Alexander of Upper Marlboro, Md.; six sons, Melvin Alexander Jr., Marshall Alexander and Glenn Alexander, all of Memphis, Dexter Alexander and Tommy Alexander, both of Minnesota, and Van Alexander of St. Louis; a sister, Barbara Neely of Memphis; three half-sisters, Hazel Odom, Ermaline Lenoir and Leona Harris, all of Chicago, 23 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Annie L. Andrews, 62, of Memphis, homemaker, died Sunday at Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett. Services will be at noon Saturday at Christian Chapel Baptist Church with burial in Galilee Memorial Gardens. N. H. Owens & Son Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Spirit of Life Church. She leaves three daughters, Denise Andrews Matthews, Rhonda Cummings and Myra Andrews, and a son, Ray Andrews, all of Memphis; two sisters, Mae Bell Prince of Florida and Betty Lambert of Memphis; a brother, John Andrews of Illinois, 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Symone Neal Bell, 40, of Memphis, homemaker, died Friday at Methodist North Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Greater Calvary Baptist Church with burial in Hammond Grove Baptist Church cemetery. N. H. Owens & Son Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Bell, the wife of Tracy Bell, also leaves two daughters, Jamille Neal and Kenayta Neal; three sons, Marvett McDonald, Jeramie Neal and Deadrick Bell; her mother and stepfather, Lurline and Henry Murphy; her father and stepmother, Rochester and Leatha Neal; four stepsisters, Lavangel Murphy Wilson of Vicksburg, Miss., Nicole Murphy Western of Pine Bluff, Ark., Kuretia Murphy of Memphis and Sandra Crawford of South Dakota; two stepbrothers, Floyd Murphy of West Helena, Ark., and Fabian McGhee of Riverside, Calif.; her grandmother, Alberta Jones, and two grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Ann Scott Billings, 82, of Memphis, died Monday at Methodist University Hospital. Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. She leaves a daughter, Sherry Billings Arms of Orlando, Fla.; a son, John E. Billings Jr. of Memphis, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Peter Manor.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Jennie M. Brownlee, 69, of Memphis, retired musician, died Friday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at True Liberty Baptist Church with burial in Miller (Miss.) cemetery. N. H. Owens & Son Funeral Home has charge. She leaves six daughters, Barbara Crutchfield, Lavon Gorman, Glenda Turner, Mary Robinson, Diane Johnson and Jacqueline Johnson; a son, James Johnson Jr., 18 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Margaret B. Cervetti, 88, of Memphis, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital Palliative Care. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park. Mrs. Cervetti, the widow of Joseph L. Cervetti, leaves a daughter, Shirley Bruch of Lockhart, Texas; a son, Joe Cervetti Jr. of Memphis; a sister, Frances Mayo of Irving, Texas, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Heart Association or a charity of the donor's choice.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Della Davis, 70, of Memphis, retired from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, died Monday at Methodist South Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bellmount Missionary Baptist Church, where she was a mother board member and former president of the Pastor's Aide Club, with burial in Elmwood. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Davis, the wife of Henry Davis, also leaves a daughter, Charlesetta Jackson of Florida; six sons, Louis Curry, Bobby Jackson Jr., Rickey Jackson, Henry Davis Jr. and Michael Jackson, all of Memphis, and Carl Jackson of Kentucky; her mother, Emma Malone of Oakland; five sisters, Lillian Ayers, Dorothy Curry, Annette Malone and Kathy J. Malone, all of Memphis, and Linda Malone of Oakland; three brothers, Thomas Curry of Memphis, Elesha Malone of Blue Mountain, Miss., and M. K. Malone of Oakland, 17 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Prince Davis, 78, of Memphis, homemaker, died Friday at Methodist South Hospital. Services will be at noon Saturday at St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church, where she was an usher board member, with burial in the church cemetery. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel has charge. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She leaves seven daughters, Carrie Rayburn of Nesbit, Nattie L. Frazier of Stone Mountain, Ga., Shirley Hobbs, Mary Frazier, Betty Davis and Jessie Cohnes, all of Memphis, and Alice Evans of Southaven; five sons, Freddie Davis of Hernando, Charles Davis, Marshall Davis and Donnie Davis, all of Nesbit, and Thomas Davis of Memphis; five sisters, Callie Martin, Mary Cobbs, Fannie Tuggle, Elizabeth Johnson and Dorothy Moore, all of Memphis; three brothers, Benjamin Moore Jr. and Robert Moore, both of Nesbit, and James Moore of Detroit, 29 grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Annie H. Edwards, 88, of Memphis, homemaker, died Monday at St. Peter Villa. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Magnolia First Baptist Church, where she was a mother board member and former Vacation Bible School teacher, with burial in Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. Forest Hill Funeral Home Midtown has charge. Mrs. Edwards, the widow of William Amos Edwards, leaves a daughter, Theresa Whitmore, and a son, Jerry Edwards, both of Memphis; two sisters, Viola Alexander and Willie S. Jeffries, both of East St. Louis, Ill.; four brothers, Percine Reynolds of Memphis, and Grady Reynolds, Robert Reynolds and Richard Reynolds, all of East St. Louis, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
James L. Fitchpatrick, 84, of Memphis, retired mechanic, died Sunday at Select Specialty Hospital. Services will be at noon Monday at M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel with burial in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. Mr. Fitchpatrick, the husband of Dezzie Fitchpatrick, also leaves three daughters, Sheila Fitchpatrick of Memphis, and Bertha Fisher and Elizabeth Allen, both of Toledo, Ohio; a son, James H. Fitchpatrick of Toledo; three sisters, Bernice Jones of Memphis, Ida Mae Hunter of Rossville and Viola Malone of Collierville; a brother, John Wesley Fitchpatrick of Memphis, 10 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Elise 'Maw' Fly, 73, of Memphis, retired from the FAA and from Burch, Porter and Johnson, died Sunday at Saint Francis Hospital. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bartlett Funeral Home. She was a member of Moody's Chapel Methodist Church. She leaves a daughter, Cheryl Edwards of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; a son, Michael B. Fly of Walls; a sister, Virginia Lankford of Pell City, Ala.; a brother, Jimmie Huie of Springville, Ala., four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Louis J. Foppiano, 82, of Lakeland, retired purchasing agent, died Tuesday at his home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Family Funeral Care with burial in Memorial Park. Mr. Foppiano, the husband of Barbara Foppiano, also leaves two daughters, Lisa Fisher of Collierville and Stacey Buys of Lakeland; a brother, John Foppiano of Lakeland, and five grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Beverly Gulledge-Cook, 45, of Memphis, died Monday at Delta Medical Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel. She leaves a daughter, Angela Lavette Schaeffer; her father, Edd Franklin; two sisters, Doris Bonner and Grenda Poole, and two brothers, Anthony Quinn Franklin and Christopher A. Franklin, all of Memphis.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Miscal Huffman Hathcock, 84, of Memphis, formerly of Burlison, homemaker, died Tuesday at Cordova Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Covington Memorial Gardens. Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home in Covington has charge. She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and the Order of the Eastern Star Millington Chapter. Mrs. Hathcock, the widow of James Wilton Hathcock, leaves a daughter, Betty Hathcock Hardy of Tampa, Fla.; a son, James H. Hathcock, and two sisters, Eris Lavelee and Eloise Gwinn, all of Memphis, two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
Della Johnson, 77, of Memphis, retired domestic worker, died Monday at her home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Bountiful Blessings Church of God in Christ, where she was a member, with burial in Northridge Woodhaven cemetery in Millington. Family Mortuary has charge. Mrs. Johnson, the widow of Thelded Johnson, leaves three daughters, Queen Ola Anderson, Evelyn Davis and Barbara Jean Johnson, and three sons, Willie Lee Johnson, Edward Lee Johnson and Charles E. Johnson, all of Memphis; six sisters, Ollie Mae Sample, Sadie Sheen, Mildred Burnette, Lillie Atkins, Annie V. Curry and Dorothy Curry, and five brothers, Eddie Curry, Virgil Curry, Bith Curry Jr., Willie Curry and Charlie Curry, all of Chicago, 14 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 9, 2005]
