Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
SALLIE MAE `SULL' SHANNON CARTER, 83, of Cordova, retired from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., died of heart failure Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Services will be at noon Saturday at Hill Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Cordova with burial in Galilee Memorial Gardens. B. T. Auston & Son Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Firestone Christian Association, North Memphis Singing Union, Order of the Eastern Star C. D. Hayes Chapter 32 and the stewardess board at Zion Hill CME Church. She was a founder of Cordova Christian Community Club. Mrs. Carter, the wife of Rev. J. F. Carter, also leaves a daughter, Nellie M. Anderson of Bartlett; a son, Eddie W. Carter of Cordova; a brother, James Shannon of Memphis, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
CATHERINE HARRIS COLE, 45, of Memphis, domestic worker, died of cancer Monday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at House of Prayer on Knight Arnold with burial at 11 a.m. Monday in New Park cemetery. Gillespie Funeral Home in Olive Branch has charge. She leaves four daughters, Angela Harris Roper, Jacqueline Harris, Latarsha Harris and Latesha Harris; three sons, Antonio Watson, Clarence Harris and Terrance Harris, and her mother, Ida Mae Harris, all of Memphis; six sisters, Flora Harris, Roberta French and Barbara Thomas, all of Memphis, Betty Harris of Cairo, Ill., Shirley Green of Idabel, Okla., and Edith Harris Blackman of Texarkana, Texas; four brothers, Robert Harris III, Michael A. Harris, Timmie Lee Harris and Ronney Harris, all of Memphis, and 14 grandchildren.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
ROSIE MAE COLLINS, 71, of 1750 Wilchester Lane, died of kidney failure Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. She was a member of All Saints Deliverance Temple Church of God in Christ, where she served on the mother board. She leaves five daughters, Lela Collins, Bertha Collins, Flora Collins Billingsley and Esther Devon Collins Mann, all of Memphis, and Georgia Mae Brown of St. Louis; five sons, Willie Collins Jr., John Wesley Collins, Joshua Collins and Tommie Lee Collins, all of Memphis, and Henry Mitchell Collins of St. Louis; four sisters, Mary Lee Minnis of Memphis, Vanilla Minnis and Louise Minnis, both of Chicago, and Luella Minnis of West Memphis; two brothers, Cater Minnis of Chicago and John Wesley Minnis of Memphis, 56 grandchildren, five stepgrandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren three stepgreat-grandchildren and three stepgreat-great-grandchildren.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
MARTHA G. BERRYHILL FORCE, 51, of Memphis, formerly of Tupelo, Miss., home decorator and boutique employee, died of cancer Monday in Little Rock. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Memphis Funeral Home Germantown Parkway Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. Mrs. Force, the wife of William F. Force, also leaves two sons, Michael Craig Curle and Kevin N. Curle, both of Memphis; her mother and stepfather, Martha E. Hammonds and John H. Hammonds; two sisters, Joyce Montgomery and Betty Faye Taylor, and a brother, Wilson Causey, all of Tupelo, and three grandchildren.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
ABRAHAM COOK, 72, of Olive Branch, retired self-employed carpenter, died of heart failure Wednesday at his home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Botts Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Olive Branch with burial in the church cemetery. Gillespie Funeral Home in Olive Branch has charge. Mr. Cook, the husband of Willie Mae Cook, also leaves two daughters, Everlina Greer of Olive Branch and Shirley Cook of California; two sons, Jimmie L. Cook of Olive Branch and Aaron Cook of Chicago; a stepson, Hugh Jeans Jones of Memphis; two sisters, Minnie Hardy of Memphis and Earline Cook of Olive Branch; two brothers, Buford Cook and Willie Cook, both of Olive Branch, and 20 grandchildren.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
CHAD ALLEN DELASHMIT, infant son of Eleanor and Lawrence Delashmit of Brighton, Tenn., died Tuesday of complications from a heart condition at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today in Helen Crigger cemetery in Munford, Tenn. Munford (Tenn.) Funeral Home has charge. Chad leaves a sister, Brittany McDaniel, and his twin brother, William Lawrence Delashmit, both of the home, and his grandparents, Willie Slough of Atoka, Tenn., and Virginia Maxey of Munford.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
GEORGE DUNLAP, 67, of Memphis, formerly of Crenshaw, Miss., former construction worker, died April 25 at St. Joseph Hospital after a stroke. Services wil be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with burial in Tibbs cemetery near Crenshaw. Taylor Funeral Home has charge. He was a Baptist. Mr. Dunlap, the husband of Melvina L. Dunlap, also leaves a daughter, Bernice Hence of Memphis; a son, Brian L. Taylor; two sisters, Ada Dunlap and Cassie B. King, both of Coldwater, Miss., and two brothers, Clemon Dunlap and Erby Simpson.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
WILLIE D. `D. D.' FELIX, 60, of Memphis, retired painter, died of heart disease Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home Whitehaven Chapel has charge. Mr. Felix, the husband of Betty Mae Felix, also leaves three daughters, Pamela Weaver, Pat Humes and Telisha Felix, and six sons, Timothy Felix, Willie Felix Jr., Gary Felix, Michael Felix, Tony Felix and David Felix, all of Memphis; his parents, Earnest Jones and Alberta Jones, both of Nesbit, Miss.; a sister, Cora Moss of Memphis; a brother, Jodean Felix of Florida, and 12 grandchildren.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
VERNON GREEN, 23, of 582 N. Seventh, died Thursday in Memphis of gunshot wounds. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He leaves his mother, Barbara Green, and six sisters, Patricia Wright, Jacqueline Carr, Christine Green, Yvonne Green, Terri Green and Tamika Green, all of Memphis, and seven brothers, Ronnie Green, Melvin Fuller, Christopher Fuller, Cornell Fuller, Bernard Fuller and Tommy Fuller, all of Memphis, and Sidney Fuller of Augusta, Ga.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
ISAIAH HALL, 75, of Memphis, retired teacher of social studies and Bible at Memphis Harding Academy after 22 years, died of heart failure Wednesday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. He was a deacon at Highland Church of Christ and a disabled World War II Army veteran. Mr. Hall, the husband of Frances Hall, also leaves a daughter, Anne Hall Robinson of Houston, Texas; two sisters, Elsie Hall Simmons of Laguna, Calif., and Lorna Hall Morgan of La Rose, Ill., and two grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Agape Child and Family Services, Memphis Harding Academy or Highland Church of Christ.
[Dated May 1, 2007]
