Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Howard C. Carr, 90, of Bartlett, retired from Buckeye Cellulose Corp., died Sunday at his home. Graveside services were Wednesday at Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. Forest Hill Funeral Home Midtown had charge. He was a member of Eads Baptist Church and Raleigh Masonic Lodge 770. Mr. Carr, the widower of Lavonda Carr, leaves two daughters, Patricia A. Ocasio of Bartlett and Virginia E. Hendrix of Memphis; a son, Jimmie D. Carr of Eads, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to a charity of the donor's choice.
[Death notice dated May 19, 2005]
Roscoe W. Cook Jr., 53, of Memphis, retired from Ideal Baking Co., died Saturday at Delta Medical Center. Services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at Mount Gilliam Baptist Church with burial in Union cemetery. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Cook, the widower of Beverly Gudledge Cook, leaves three daughters, Celeste Cook, Cierra Cook and Bianca Cook, all of Memphis; four sons, Roscoe W. Cook III and Lorenzo Cook, both of Memphis, and William Dan Cook and Quincy Cook, both of Batesville, Ark.; his mother, Willie Mae Cook; three sisters, Esther Wooten, Valerie Cook and Maria Cook, and two brothers, George Henry Cook and Steven Christopher Cook, all of Memphis, and 14 grandchildren.
[Death notice dated May 19, 2005]
Jessie Bell Cunningham, 80, of Memphis, retired cook for Memphis City Schools, died Tuesday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church Chelsea with burial in New Park cemetery. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Cunningham, the widow of John Cunningham, leaves a daughter, Helen Watson; a son, Johnnie Cunningham; a sister, Mattie Henderson, and a brother, Webbie McDonald, all of Memphis, and six grandchildren.
[Death notice dated May 19, 2005]
Tracy Lamont Dodson, 32, of Memphis, died Tuesday in Knoxville. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Galilee Memorial Gardens. He was a member of Hebrew Church of God in Christ. He leaves a daughter, Tracey Lyons; three sons, Tracy Lamont Sea, Joshua Mosley and Jernario Austin; his mother, Mary Jackson; four sisters, Sabrina McGalty, Shaneka Hughes, Marsheena Hughes and Carmelita Jackson, and three brothers, Theo Jackson, Bobby Davis and Victor Bobs, all of Memphis, and his grandparents, Jessie T. and Mary Frances Dodson of Cordova.
[Death notice dated May 19, 2005]
David 'Dago' Elliott, 53, of Memphis, laborer, died May 11 in Memphis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mount Sinai Baptist Church. J.E. Herndon Funeral Home Golden Cross Chapel has charge. He leaves two daughters, Veronica M. Reeves and Daphne Pryor; a son, Carlos Williams, and his mother, Erma Lee Elliott, all of Memphis; four sisters, Shirley Gordon, Leatha Elliott and Matosha Elliott, all of Memphis, and Delois Woods of Chicago; five brothers, James Elliott Jr. of St. Louis, and David Elliott, Micheal Elliott, Vincent Elliott and Marcus Elliott, all of Memphis, and three grandchildren.
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Harvey L. Ferguson, 87, retired automobile mechanic, died Monday at Methodist North Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Brownsville (Tenn.) Funeral Home with burial in Brownsville Memorial Gardens. He was a World War II Army veteran and a member of Graham Heights Baptist Church. Mr. Ferguson, the husband of Mildred Ferguson, also leaves two daughters, Lucretia Mae Sennett of Memphis and Brenda Joy Hajek of Oak Forest, Ill.; a son, Harvey Lee Ferguson Jr. of Memphis, 13 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Graham Heights Baptist Church Bus Fund.
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Henry L. Fletcher Jr., 74, of Cordova, formerly of San Dimas, Calif., retired postmaster for the Postal Service and retired from the Army, died Tuesday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Magnolia First Baptist Church with burial at 1 p.m. Monday in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. He was a Protestant, a Mason, a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School and a former member of New Era Baptist Church. Mr. Fletcher, the husband of Sandra Brown Fletcher of Oakland, Calif., also leaves two daughters, Kisha Fletcher and Shaunte Fletcher, both of Alameda, Calif.; two sisters, Hattie Crumbley of Memphis and Georgia Rhodes of Detroit; a brother, Willie J. Fletcher of Columbia, Md., and a grandchild.
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Marguerite Adelia Blanchard Foddrell, 96, of Cordova, former co-owner of General Store in Berryville, Ark., died Saturday in Memphis. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Berryville Memorial Park cemetery. Nelson Funeral Service in Berryville has charge. She was a member of Berryville First Baptist Church. Mrs. Foddrell, the widow of Clyde Dallas Foddrell, leaves a daughter, Juanita Foddrell Roberts Thompson of Cordova; a sister, Eva Houghton of Laguna Woods, Calif., six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Hospice Barnabas in Memphis.
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Fred Jackson, 83, of Memphis, retired from Bozoff Dinettes, died Tuesday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Walker Memorial Christian Church, where he was a member, with burial at 10 a.m. Tuesday in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Jackson, the widower of Mary Lou Jackson, leaves two daughters, Selma Jean Horton and Jacquelyn Hunt, and three sons, Fred Jackson Jr., William Earl Jackson and Roosevelt Jackson, all of Memphis, and five grandchildren.
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Adrian C. Johnson, 83, of Memphis, retired laborer, died Saturday at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Springhill Baptist Church, where he was a trustee and deacon, with burial in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel has charge. He was an Army veteran. Mr. Johnson, the husband of Nether C. Johnson, also leaves a daughter, Sharlean Kirk, and a son, Adrian C. Johnson Jr., both of Memphis, seven grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
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Luther Jones, 99, of Memphis, died Wednesday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Forest Hill Funeral Home Midtown with burial in New Park cemetery. Mr. Jones, the widower of Mary P. Jones, leaves two sons, Willie Curtis and Lawrence Jones, and two caregivers, Tissie Stewart and Glenda Moses, all of Memphis, five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
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Kevin Tyrone McDuffy, 48, of Memphis, former salesman for Winfield & Stewart's Fashion, died Friday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Middle Baptist Church in Whitehaven, where he was a member, with burial in White's Chapel cemetery in Tunica, Miss. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. He leaves a daughter, Jada Taylor of Hernando; a son, Kevin McDuffy Jr. of Chicago, and a half-brother, Walter Turner of Birmingham.
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Rochester 'Check' Milam, 84, of Memphis, retired truck driver for the City of Memphis, died Saturday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at noon Saturday at Abundant Grace Fellowship on West Raines with burial in New Park cemetery. Victory Funeral Home has charge. He leaves four daughters, Roseana Smith, Lillian Screzener and Beatrice Williams, all of Indianapolis, and Angela Milam Moore of Memphis; five sons, Rochester Milam Jr. and Percy Lee Milam, both of Indianapolis, and Udell Milam, Quince Milam and Cedric Milam, all of Memphis; two stepdaughters, Georgia White and Megail Jones, and two stepsons, Eric Jones and Joe McKee, all of Memphis; a sister, Lillian Washington of Kansas City, Kan., 80 grandchildren and 57 great-grandchildren.
[Death notice dated May 19, 2005]
Annie Moore, 89, of Memphis, died Tuesday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at noon Saturday at Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church in Rossville, where she was a mother board member, with burial in the church cemetery. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Moore, the widow of John Lee Moore, leaves three daughters, Gladys Moore, Louise Watson and Emma Jean Moore; a son, Willie E. Moore; a stepson, Willie Howell; a sister, Pearline Williamson, and two brothers, Willie Watson and Rufus Watson, all of Memphis, 14 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
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Bobby E. Moore, 29, of Memphis, died Monday at his home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Family Funeral Care with burial in Memphis Memory Gardens. He leaves his father, Bobby L. Moore of Memphis; his mother, Gwendolyn Leslie of Port Orange, Fla.; six sisters, Amanda Balius of Daytona Beach, Fla., Jennifer Leslie of Port Orange, Linda Diack of Suwanee, Ga., Sharon Rogers of Port St. Joe, Fla., Jennifer Genung of Pensacola, Fla., and Shea Moore of Iuka, Miss; two brothers, Billy Moore of Kenosha, Wis., and Lonnie Moore of Port St. Joe, and his grandmother, Doris Anderson of Memphis. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Ronald McDonald House.
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Inez H. Neal, 83, of Memphis, retired nurse for Memphis Veterans Medical Center, died Tuesday at Cordova Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Family Funeral Care with burial in Memorial Park. Mrs. Neal, the widow of Boyce Moody Neal, leaves three daughters, Helen Neal Folis of Bartlett, Marsha Neal Koczka of Belton, Texas, and Sherri Neal Taylor of Memphis; a half-sister, Opal Lonchar of Center Line, Mich., four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Stroke Association.
[Death notice dated May 19, 2005]
Sophie Novit Padawer, 86, of Tampa, Fla., formerly of Memphis, retired secretary for D. Canale & Co., died Wednesday at Life Pass Hospice in Temple Terrace, Fla. Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Sam Abraham Chapel with burial in Baron Hirsch cemetery. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. Mrs. Padawer, the widow of Harry Padawer, leaves a son, Gary Padawer of Tampa, and two grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Diabetes Association.
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Delores Pentecost, 68, of Memphis, died Tuesday at High Pointe Health & Rehabilitation Center. Services will be at 5 p.m. today at M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Shelby County cemetery. She leaves a caregiver, Monti White.
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Mary Estelle Cain Petty, 84, of Memphis, homemaker, died Wednesday at Methodist South Hospital. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at New Park cemetery. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a brother, Loren Cain, and two caregivers, Eloise and Hugh Strong, all of Memphis.
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