Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Alexander Ray, 56, of Memphis, died Friday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at noon Monday at Ford Chapel AME Zion Church with burial in New Park Memorial Gardens. E.H. Ford Mortuary Services has charge. He leaves three sisters, Helen Ray of Detroit, Pamela Peterson of Memphis and Gladys McGee of Long Beach, Miss.; two brothers, Tommy Lee Ray of Hollywood, Calif., and James Ray of San Francisco, and an aunt who helped care for him, Alberthia McKenzie.
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Terry L. Ray, 45, of Memphis, died Tuesday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at N.H. Owens & Son Funeral Home with burial in Union cemetery. He leaves a daughter, Erica Gordon; his mother, Barbara J. Ray, and his father, Willie J. Britten, all of Memphis.
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Virginia 'Scottie' Rice, 84, of Memphis, homemaker, died Saturday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home with burial at 10 a.m. Monday in National cemetery. She was a Baptist. Mrs. Rice, the widow of Johnny Rice, leaves three daughters, Emma Jean Dodson of Collierville, and Pauline Perkins and Sherrie Ann Betts, both of Memphis; two sons, Ernest Rice and Johnny Lewis Rice, and two sisters, Mamie Mosby and Linnie Ruth Parrish, all of Memphis; two brothers, Willie Frank Wiseman of Collierville and Herbert Cash of Memphis, 14 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren.
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Jack Alexander Sledge, 34, of Memphis, died Tuesday in Memphis. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Monday at N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home with burial in New Park South cemetery. He leaves a daughter, Quarnesha Bonds; his mother, Mary Gable, and his father, Louis Lee Sledge, all of Memphis; a sister, Phyllis Russell of Savannah, Ga., and a brother, Louis Gregory Walton of Jackson, Miss.
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Versie Lee Thompson, 92, of Memphis, homemaker, died Sunday in Bogue Chitto, Miss. Services will be at noon Saturday at Dubbs (Miss.) First Community Church with burial in Walker cemetery in Dubbs. Calvary Memorial Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Thompson, the widow of James Wesley Thompson, leaves three daughters, Marvae Franklin of Chicago, Gussie Winston of Calumet Park, Ill., and Florida Butler of Bogue Chitto; four sons, James W. Thompson, Agusta Thompson, Edward Thompson and Alfred Thompson, all of Memphis, 27 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.
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Warren McDonald Thrasher, 66, of Tampa, Fla., formerly of Memphis, former employee of the old Memphis Press-Scimitar and Percy Galbreath & Son, died Sunday at Tampa Veterans Administration Hospital. Cays-Ponger Funeral Home in Punta Gorda, Fla. has charge. He was a graduate of East High School and the University of Memphis. He leaves two daughters, Elizabeth Thrasher Kantor of Arlington, Va., and Anne Thrasher Lloyd of New Orleans; his father, Warren Gordon Thrasher of Punta Gorda, and two grandsons.
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Arthur Mae Wallace, 85, of Memphis, homemaker, died Monday in Memphis. Services will be at noon Saturday at St. John Baptist Church on Chelsea with burial Monday in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. V.H. Bins & Son Mid-South Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Wallace, the widow of Walter Wallace, leaves two caregivers, Yul Jones and Elizabeth Jones, five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.
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Richard Warden Wallace, 58, of Memphis, machine operator for International Harvester, died March 3 in Indianapolis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Calvary Church of God in Christ with burial at 1 p.m. Monday in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. E.H. Ford Mortuary Services has charge. He leaves two daughters, Catonyce Wallace and Constance Hilliard, and two sons, Kevin Wallace and Quinton Wallace, all of Memphis; four sisters, Dorothy Murrell and Juanita Aldridge, both of Memphis, Georgia Sims of Nashville and Verna Alexander of Huntsville, Ala.; seven brothers, Orlando Wallace, Paul Wallace, Melvin Wallace Jr., Emmit Wallace, Mathena Wallace and Henry Wallace, all of Memphis, and Lee Wallace of St. Paul, Minn., and 12 grandchildren.
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George Ester Warren, 67, of Memphis, day care driver, died Monday at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home with burial at 9 a.m. Tuesday in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. He was an Army veteran and a Baptist. He leaves a daughter, Janice Grandberry of Memphis; a son, Fernando Warren of St. Louis; three sisters, Ethel Thressa Warren of Memphis, Helen Reed of St. Louis and Olivia Harvell of Chattanooga; seven brothers, Charles Warren and Myron Warren, both of Memphis, Aubrey Warren of St. Louis, Jerome Warren of Maryland, Stanley Warren and Robert Warren, both of Atlanta, and Edward Warren of Denver, and three grandchildren.
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Mary Lee Wheeler, 83, of Memphis, retired dietitian for Chicago City School System, died March 3 at Methodist South Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mount Gilliam Missionary Baptist Church in Byhalia, Miss., with burial in the church cemetery there. Gillespie Funeral Home in Olive Branch has charge. Mrs. Wheeler, the widow of Curtis Wheeler, leaves a son, Eddie Wheeler of Memphis, seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
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Carl Edward 'Slack' Williams, 57, of Memphis, died Monday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church with burial at 10 a.m. Tuesday in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel has charge. Mr. Williams, the widower of Merle Ruth Williams, leaves a son, Carl Williams Jr.; his mother, Ethel Williams; six sisters, Joyce Williams, Patricia Williams, Jacqueline Davis, Jearldine Brown, Barbara Williams and Carolyn Williams, and four brothers, Larry Williams, Robert Williams, Michael Williams and James Williams, all of Memphis.
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Debra Ann Wood, 46, of Memphis, waitress, died Sunday at her home. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Brantley Funeral Home in Olive Branch. Mrs. Wood, the widow of Jeffery Wood, leaves four daughters, April Banks of Cooperstown, N.Y., Tammie Koch of Casper, Wyo., and Jennifer Wood and Janelle Wood, both of Olive Branch; two sons, Jeffery G. Wood II of Olive Branch and Kevin Clark of Memphis; her mother, Maudie Bell of Olive Branch; a sister, Teresa Grace of Hickory, N.C., and two brothers, Fred E. Bell Jr. of Hernando and Johnny Bell of Olive Branch. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Cedarview Baptist Church Youth Ministry.
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Atoka -- Cornelius Hargrove Holley Jr., 67, retired employee of Millington Wal-Mart, died Friday at his home. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Jefferson Mortuary in Millington. Mr. Holley, the husband of Trythannia Oliver Holley, also leaves two daughters, Florence Holley of Munford and Adrienne Holley Jones of Atoka; three sons, Christopher Holley and Vereese Holley, both of Atoka, and Edward Holley of Memphis; his father, Hayes Mills of Atoka; four sisters, Kathleen Simon of Atoka, Patricia Douglas of Millington, Barbara Smith of Memphis and Rosemaria Miller of Bronx, N.Y.; two brothers, Charlie Holley of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Michael Mills of Jacksonville, Fla., and five grandchildren.
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Atoka -- Christine Byrd Miller, 70, homemaker, died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton in Covington. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Munford Funeral Home with burial in Poplar Grove cemetery in Drummonds. She was a Baptist. Mrs. Miller, the wife of Robert Miller, also leaves three daughters, Joyce Scott of Millington, Linda Morgan of Munford and Wanda White of Oak Point, Texas; two sons, James Owens of Springfield and John Miller of Atoka; a sister, Charlotte Edwards of Southaven, Miss.; two brothers, Glen Byrd of Memphis and Ralph Byrd of Atoka, 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren
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Bolivar -- Mary Jean Brooks Glasscock, 54, homemaker, died Monday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be at 7 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home with burial Friday in Bolivar Memorial cemetery. She was a Baptist. She leaves a son, Jeremiah Glasscock of Bolivar; her mother, Ruby Byrd Greene of Lebanon; her father, Harold Brooks of Greensfork, Ind.; two sisters, Nancy Brooks of Harriman and Paula Brooks Horstman of Greens Fork, and a brother, Victor Brooks of Germany. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Bolivar First Baptist Church Outreach Ministries.
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Brighton -- Odell Jackson Trotter, 86, postmaster for Brighton Post Office, died Tuesday at Covington Care Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Brighton ARP Church, where she was a member, with burial in Morrison's Memorial cemetery. Munford Funeral Home has charge. She was a graduate of Brighton High School and a member of Alpha Book Club. Mrs. Trotter, the widow of James Earl Trotter, leaves a son, Jimmy Trotter of Covington.
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Covington -- Frances Helen Underwood Ellis, 68, homemaker, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home with burial in Northridge Woodhaven cemetery in Millington. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She leaves two daughters, Mae Evelyn Simond of North Little Rock and Terri Lynn Hansen of Nashville; a son, Robert L. Qualls of Memphis; two sisters, Barbara Brawley of Higden, Ark., and Donna Crabtree of Woodstock, Ga.; a brother, James W. Shelby of Heber Springs, Ark., nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Finley -- Nickey R. Gibson, 59, retired truck driver, died Tuesday at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at J.W. Curry & Son Funeral Home in Dyersburg with burial in Dyer County Memorial Gardens. He attended Chic Free Church of God. Mr. Gibson, the husband of Teresa Gibson, also leaves two daughters, Sherry Butler of Finley and Bonnie Hugueley of Dyersburg; a son, Andy Gibson of Union City; two stepsons, Jeremy Patterson of Moss Point, Miss., and Jeffery Patterson of Finley; a sister, Jean Moody, and a brother, Wayne Gibson, both of Dyersburg, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
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Middleton -- Katherine West, 86, formerly of Memphis, homemaker and former employee of Oliver Finney Candy Co., died Wednesday at Bolivar General Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Shackelford Funeral Home Middleton Chapel with burial in Middleton City cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home in Bolivar has charge. She was a member of Middleton Church of Christ. Mrs. West, the widow of William B. West, leaves three sisters, Earline Henson of Middleton, Frances Rayburn of Sardis, Miss., and Lorraine Minga of Senatobia, Miss., and two brothers, Morris Earnest of Middleton and Edward Earnest of Memphis.
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Somerville -- Horace Ezard Jones, 81, retired machinist for International Harvester after 34 years, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Peebles Fayette County Funeral Home with burial in Memory Hill Gardens in Memphis. He was an Army veteran and a member of Somerville Church of Christ. Mr. Jones, the husband of Frances Dillard Jones, also leaves a daughter, Celia J. Chastain of Stanton; two sons, Horace E. Jones Jr. of Memphis and Steven T. Jones of Somerville; a sister, Virginia Alene Flanagan of Jackson, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Somerville Church of Christ Library or Missionary Fund or Fayette County Library.
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