Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Catherine Spears, 70, of Memphis, cook for Britland Cafeteria, died March 15 at Graceland Nursing Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Unity Christian Church, where she was a member of the auxiliary and Women of Unity, with burial in New Park cemetery. Mrs. Spears, the widow of Cecil Spears, leaves a stepdaughter, Lisa Spears-McPherson of Memphis; a sister, Zeothia Peacock of Ohio; two brothers, Roosevelt Pippin of Milwaukee and Lee Owens of Little Rock, and two grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Mario Montell Stewart, 38, of Memphis, died Tuesday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mount Zion Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in Memorial Park South Woods. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Stewart, the husband of Martina J. Stewart, also leaves a daughter, Brianna Stewart; two sons, Mario M. Stewart Jr. and Maurion M. Stewart; his mother, Linda Stewart; his father, Jerome Mosby; three sisters, Charmyne Stewart, Shanita Leverson and Andria Leverson, and six brothers, Markell Stewart, Cortez Stewart, Christopher Stewart, Michael Stewart, Jermaine Leverson and Quinton Mosby, all of Memphis.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Darrell Swank, 22, of Collierville, student, private pilot and employee of Global Granite Co., died Monday in Southaven. Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Grace Evangelical Church on Wolfe River Boulevard in Germantown. Twin Oaks Funeral Home in Southaven has charge. He leaves his parents, Lynn and Allan Swank; a sister, Carrie Campbell, and a brother, Scott Swank, all of Collierville, and his grandparents, Patricia Tuttle Paulus and Frances and Elliott Swank, all of California. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Grace Evangelical Church Grace Venture.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Bobby Taylor, 48, of Memphis, deputy jailer for Shelby County Sheriff's Department, died Monday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at New Olivet Fellowship Baptist Church with burial in Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. N.H. Owens & Son Funeral Home has charge. He leaves two daughters, Tameka Muhammad and Brittney Taylor; his parents, Regina and John Taylor; two sisters, Veronica Hilliard and Kenya McKenny; three brothers, James R. Taylor, Jerry F. Taylor and Dennis W. Taylor; his grandfather, James Puckett, and three grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Rev. Charles E. Thomas, 94, of Memphis, retired pastor of Greater Hyde Park Missionary Baptist Church, died Tuesday at Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center. Services will be at noon Saturday at Morningview Missionary Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in New Park cemetery. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Rev. Thomas, the widower of Lillie Mae Catchings Thomas, leaves three daughters, Rutha Thomas and Frances Cade, both of Memphis, and Evelyn Johnson of Buffalo, N.Y.; a son, Harold Thomas of Springfield, Va.; five sisters, Nannie Oliver, Eloise Varnado, Mae Julia Lowery and Thelma King, all of Memphis, and Louise Ortiz of Houston; a brother, Lee Thomas Jr. of Memphis, 19 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Irma Lee Todd-Brown, 63, of Memphis, died Sunday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Cayce, Miss., with burial in the church cemetery. Superior Funeral Home Hollywood Chapel has charge. She leaves a daughter, Alicia Brown; three sons, Victor Brown, Maurice Brown and Terrance Brown, and five sisters, Armida Butler, Hattie Mae Denton, Judy Hicks, Bonnie Boxley and Mary Helen Todd, all of Memphis; two brothers, Fred Todd of Memphis and L.H. Martin of Cayce, nine grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Isaiah Wade, 8-day-old son of Jameka S. Wade and Sidney Smith of Memphis, died Tuesday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Forest Hill Funeral Home Midtown with burial in Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. He also leaves two sisters, Jakaya Wade and Shatoria Lasha Smith, and his grandparents, Carolyn and Steven Hulbert, Charles Clark and Gwendollyn Smith, all of Memphis.
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Berna Dean Wells, 65, of Memphis, assembly worker for Shulton, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Newell Chapel CME Church in Victoria, Miss., with burial in the church cemetery there. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. She was a member of Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church and a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School and Mississippi Industrial College. Mrs. Wells, the widow of Roland Wells, leaves two daughters, Taura Sargent and Felicia Wells-Moore, both of Memphis; two stepbrothers, Robert Coleman of Atlanta and J.C. Coleman of Memphis, and four grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Sherman M. White, 80, of Bartlett, mechanic, died Wednesday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Memphis Funeral Home Germantown Parkway Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. He was a member of Rosemark Church of Christ. Mr. White, the husband of Alice White, also leaves two sons, Sherman Buster White of Marion and Ronald Ray White of Memphis; a sister, Elizabeth Turpen of Germantown; a brother, Marlin White of Memphis, and a grandchild. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Heart Association.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Abdul Jabbar Young, 32, of Memphis, former employee of Burlington Coat Factory, died Monday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Elmwood. Mr. Young, the husband of Tamara Young, also leaves a daughter, Kadeja Young; a son, Christopher Young, and his parents, Helen and Henry Young, all of Memphis; six sisters, Glenda F. Pryor, Paulette Guyton Phillips, Paula Guyton, Deborah Britt Douglas and Tamara Britt Coleman, all of Memphis, and Natasha Britt Taylor of Los Angeles; three brothers, Kent Suggs of Las Vegas, and George W. Pryor Jr. and Kenneth Britt, both of Memphis, and his grandmother, Beactrice Suggs of Memphis.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Bethel Springs -- Evelyn Faye Kirk McDaniel, 70, homemaker, died Tuesday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be at 4 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home in Selmer with burial in Lake Hill Memorial Gardens in Bethel Springs. She was a member of Bethel Springs Church of God. Mrs. McDaniel, the wife of Waynon L. McDaniel, also leaves a daughter, Shelia Erwin of Bolivar; three sisters, Sarah Lambert, Bertha Garner and Peggy Edwards, all of Bethel Springs; a brother, W.L. Kirk of Henderson, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
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Brighton -- Janie C. Henry, 62, homemaker, died Tuesday at Methodist North Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Covington Funeral Home with burial in Magnolia Gardens. Mrs. Henry, the widow of Robert E. Henry, leaves two daughters, Kathy Tant of Olive Branch, Miss., and Polly Stafford of Brighton; a son, Bobby Henry of Horn Lake, Miss.; two brothers, Donnie Jay Robison of Chesterton, Ind., and Sammy Nelson Robison of Indiana, and three grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Brownsville -- Curtis B. Tyus, 73, mechanic, died Tuesday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be at noon Saturday at Cane Creek Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Rawls Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Tyus, the widower of Iola Willington Tyus, leaves eight daughters, Vernadine Sales of Detroit, Toreaser Steele of Dallas, and Ola Tyus, Louise Kearney, Mary Crook, Doris Owens, Sylvia McLemore and Nadine Slayton, all of Brownsville; three sons, Lawrence Tyus and Curtis Tyus Jr., both of Brownsville, and Steven Tyus of Nashville, 29 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Counce -- Dorothy Marion Williams, 76, formerly of Memphis, retired from General Electric after 20 years, died Monday at her son's home in Southaven. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Forest Hill Funeral Home South in Memphis with burial in Forest Hill cemetery South. She was a member of Pickwick United Methodist Church and Women's Independent Bowling Conference and a former member of Oakhaven United Methodist Church. Mrs. Williams, the widow of Mark T. Williams, leaves two sons, Mike Williams of Memphis and Mitch Williams of Southaven; two sisters, Janet Cronn of Sierra Vista, Ariz., and Billie Sue Hickok of Cussetta, Ga.; a brother, Thomas Fields of Colt, Ark., and four granddaughters. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Pickwick United Methodist Church of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Covington -- Jessie L. Cooper, 96, grocery store owner, died Monday in Sun City Center, Fla. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Covington Memorial Gardens. Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Covington First United Methodist Church. Mrs. Cooper, the widow of Bryson S. Cooper, leaves two daughters, Bobbie C. Curtis of Plant City, Fla., and Jeri Angevine of Arden, N.C., seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to a charity of the donor's choice.
[Death notice dated March 24, 2005]
Covington -- Margaret Flower, 59, housekeeper, died March 16 at Spring Gate Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Barlow Funeral Home with burial in Garden Everlasting. She leaves three sisters, Janice Brown and Annie Barber, both of Covington, and Lois Flowers of Cleveland, Ohio, and two brothers, Clarence Flowers Jr. and Fentrice Flowers, both of Covington.
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Dyersburg -- Odie Jones Jr., 70, retired truck driver and farmer, died Tuesday at Oakwood Community Living Center. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. today at Zion cemetery. J.W. Curry & Son Funeral Home has charge. He was a Korean War Army veteran. He leaves a son, Joey Jones of Memphis; five sisters, Shirley Thurmond, Robbie Webb and Betty Galella, all of Dyersburg, Carolyn Krzeminski of Fort White, Fla., and Judy Welch of Boca Raton, Fla., and a brother, Billy Jones of Halls. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Dyer County Humane Society.
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Ripley -- Mary Elizabeth Ponder, 81, retired factory worker, died Tuesday at Lauderdale Community Living Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Mary's Chapel Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Ripley Memorial Gardens. Garner Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Ponder, the widow of Voris Dewitt Ponder, leaves three daughters, Faye Harris of Anderson, S.C., Carolyn Bridges of Ripley and Rosa Ashworth of Jackson, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
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Ripley -- Glardes Thomas, 81, beautician, funeral director and alderman for the City of Ripley, died Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Saul Moore Gymnasium with burial in Garden of Everlasting Life in Covington. Thompson's Mortuary has charge. She was a member of Lauderdale County School Board. Mrs. Thomas, the widow of Landon Thomas, leaves a daughter, Lillie Mae Sanders of Ripley; five sons, Will Wright III of Clinton, Md., and Donald Wright, Tyrus Ray Wright, Clyde H. Wright and Myron Wright, all of Ripley; two stepdaughters, Gloria Westbrook of Nashville and Regina Thomas of Orlando, Fla.; a stepson, Landon Thomas of Jackson, Miss.; a sister, Billie McClish of Chicago; a brother, Jimmie McClish of Ripley, 27 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
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Savannah -- Herley Lee Malone, 87, taxi driver, died Wednesday at Hardin Medical Center. Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home with burial in Crump cemetery. He was an Army veteran. He leaves a daughter, Glenda Hickman of Savannah, two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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