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Bennie Burdin
Bennie R. Burdin, 93, of Piggott, Ark., formerly of Rector, Ark., died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at the Piggott Hospital.
Born Sept. 21, 1909, in Butler County, Ky., he was the son of the late John T. and Artilla Aldridge Burdin.
On Sept. 9, 1928, he married
Lena Lee Bery, who preceded him in death on Aug. 23, 1989. He was also preceded in death by one son, James Edward Burdin; three daughters, Delores and Bessie Jane Burdin and Beatrice Stevenson; four brothers, Wes, Garrett, Zennie and Estel Burdin; two sisters, Lou Dunlap and Janie Burden and three grandchildren, Bobby James and Dallas George Burdin and Bennie Cleveland Schmitt.
Survivors include four sons, Hughey Burdin, of DeSoto, Mo., Alvie and Rollen Burdin, both of Piggott and Vic Burdin, of Festus, Mo.; one daughter, Ruby Schmitt; one sister-in-law, Evelyn Burdin, of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; 14 grandchildren and several great and great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today, Thursday, Aug. 28, at the McDaniel Funeral Home Chapel in Kennett with Rev. Futrell Butler officiating.
Burial was in the Woodland Heights cemetery at Rector.
Pallbearers were Terry and G.L. Palmer, Mike Masters, Alvie Schicutt, Danny Harmon and Frank Thrasher.
R.D. Burgess
R.D. "Bunt" Burgess, 64, of Holcomb, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at the University Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.
Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, Thursday, Aug. 28, at the McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at the McDaniel Funeral Home Chapel.
Burial will follow at the Oak Ridge cemetery in Kennett.
Melinda Webber
Melinda Louise Webber, 29, of Clarkton, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at Three Rivers Healthcare North in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at the Bradshaw Funeral Home Chapel with Revs. Roger Fowler and Wayne Gilmore officiating.
Burial will follow at the Stanfield cemetery in Clarkton.
Sammy Brown
Sammy Lee Brown, 62, of Kennett, died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro, Ark.
Born March 10, 1941, in Amirillo, Ark., he was the son of the late Sam Brown and Ethel Walker Brown Rose.
On Feb. 17, 1981, he married
Rosie May Brown, who survives of the home.
Survivors also include two sons, Billy Brown and David Brown and wife, Cynthia, all of Kennett; two daughters, Brenda and Betty Brown, both of Kennett; five brothers, Tommy Brown and wife, Loretta, of Louisville, Ky., Frank Rose and wife, Dorothy, of Gobler, Mo., T.J. Rose and wife, Laura, of Mango Grove, Mo., Daniel Rose and wife, Darlean, of Caruthersville, Mo. and Alexander Rose and wife, Janice, of Boston, Mass.; two sisters, Lillie Rose, of Kennett and Ida Childress, of Mango Grove; 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at the McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 31, at the Community Temple Church of God in Christ in Kennett with Bishop Luke Robinson officiating
Burail will follow at the Oak Ridge cemetery in Kennett.
Pallbearers were Billy, David and Joey Brown.
R.D. Burgess
R.D. "Bunt" Burgess, 64, of Holcomb, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at the University Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.
Born May 21, 1939, in Arbyrd, Mo., he was the son of the late Gene and Mary Hamlett Burgess.
On Nov. 9, 1960, he married
Barbara Danels, who survives of the home.
Survivors also include one son, Jackie Burgess and wife, Pam, of Holcomb; one daughter, Tina Bazzell and husband, Jeff, of Kennett; one brother, Eddie Burgess and wife, Carolyn, of Kennett; two sisters, Vickie Sams and husband, Wally, of Kennett and Joy Folkes, of Chesnang, Mich.; four grandchildren, Jake and Tiffani Burgess, Trey Bazzell and Casey Volz and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today, Aug. 29, at the McDaniel Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Dale Rickman and Allen Massey officiating.
Burial was in the Oak Ridge cemetery at Kennett.
Pallbearers were Gerald Lance, Billy Paul Hogan, Tom Taylor, Kerry Ragins, Jerry Laster, Terry and Keith Scott and Sonny Wimberly.
Honorary pallbearers were Terry Collins, Joe and Charles Martin and John, Larry and Buddy Robbins.
Dolah Lemonds
Dolah Lemonds, 91, of Campbell, Mo., formerly of Kennett, died Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2003, at Campbell General Baptist Nursing Center in Campbell, Mo.
Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at the McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 31, at the Friendship Baptist Church.
Burial will follow at the Sumach cemetery in Holcomb, Mo.
Damous Marlow
Damous Naomi Marlow, 95, of Winnemucca, Nev., formerly of Kennett, died Sunday Aug. 24, 2003, at the Humboldt General Hospital in Winnemucca.
Born July 5, 1908, in Kennett, daughter of the late Frank and Maudie Mae Dobkins Wilburn, she was employed at Women's Hospital in Flint, Mich, before retiring in 1973.
She married
James Henry Marlow, who preceded her in death in 1978.
Survivors include one daughter, Betty Aboud, of Winnemucca; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at the McDaniel Funeral Home Chapel in Kennett with the Rev. Don Sherrin officiating.
Burial was in the Oak Ridge cemetery at Kennett.
Millie Reasons
Millie Reasons, 88, of Kennett, died Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003, at Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett.
Born May 2, 1915, in Lake County, Tenn., she was the daughter of the late Abenathy Davidson and Laura Ann Rowe.
She married
Douglas Reasons, who preceded her in death on July 3, 1983. She was also preceded in death by one brother and five sisters.
Survivors include three sons, Charles Mealer, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., William R. "Buddy" Mealer, of San Antonio, Texas and Gary W. Mealer, of Paragould, Ark.; three daughters, Margaret Griffin, of Dry Prong, La., Emma Jean Tucker, of Clarkton, Mo. and Paula Tucker, of Kennett; two sisters, Mabel Duncan, of Campbell, Mo. and Estelle Thomas, of St. Louis, Mo.; 18 grandchildren and several great and great-great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, Friday, Aug. 29, at the McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at the McDaniel Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Don Emery officiating.
Burial will follow at the Oak Ridge cemetery in Kennett.
Pallbearers are Joe Bobbitt, Bobby Tucker, Michael Ward, Michael Ward, Jr., Larry Phelps and Billy Joe Medley.
Melinda Webber
Melinda Louise Webber, 29, of Clarkton, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at Three Rivers Healthcare North in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Born May 15, 1974, in Lexington, Ky., daughter of David Duty, of Charleston, Mo. and the late Edith Hogan Duty, she was a surrogate mother and of the Baptist faith.
On June 21, 1994, in Piggott, Ark., she married
Michael Webber, who survives of the home.
Survivors also include two daughters, Chelsea and Donna Webber, of Clarkton.
Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today, Friday, Aug. 28, at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden, Mo.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Satruday, Aug. 30, at the Badshaw Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Roger Fowler and Wayne Gilmore officiating.
Burial will follow at the Stanfield cemetery in Clarkton.
Veda Blust
Veda Ellen Blust, 77, of Campbell, Mo., died Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, at her residence.
Born Nov. 24, 1925, at Peach Orchard, Mo., a daughter of the late William Herman Cissell and Lillie Belle Landis, Cissell Wyatt, she was a retired factory worker, a homemaker, and a member of St. Teresa's Catholic Church in Glennonville, Mo.
On Nov. 27, 1944, in Malden, Mo., she married
Vincent Paul Blust, Sr., who survives.
Other survivors include eight children, Mildred Scherr and husband, Bill, of St. Louis, Mary Fredrick and husband, Bob, of Renault, Ill., Pat Blust of Ellisville, Mo., Vincent Blust, Jr., and wife, Lynne, of Arnold, Mo., William Blust of Fenton, Mo., David Blust and wife, Christie, of St. Louis, Doug Blust and wife, Sue, of Union, Mo., and Lillie Blust of Louisville, Ky.; one brother, Raymond Cissell of Campbell, one sister, Carrie Mae Lorenzetti of Arlington, Va., 19 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by an infant sister.
Visitation will be 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, with Rosary at 7 p.m. at the Landess Funeral Home in Campbell.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, in St. Teresa's Catholic Church with Father Glenn Eftink officiating.
Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery in Campbell.
Dolah Gobble Lemonds
Lemonds, Dolah Gobble, March 15, 1912-August 28, 2003, died at age 91. Born near McGee, Mo. to Nelson E. Gobble and Edna McDaniel Gobble, Dolah was the oldest of our children. Her husband, Homer Lemonds, her parents, and her three brothers, Curtis, Alfred and Cletus, and one grandson, Michael Lemonds, all preceded her in death. She leaves behind three sons, C.E. Lemonds (Melba), Gerald (Lisa), and Ronald (Chris), and one daughter Pat Lemonds Sullivan (Jon Rey). She also leaves 13 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
Dolah learned early to work hard as her father had her helping gather eggs from underneath the dark corner of the house when she was only three. When she was ten, her father moved the family by covered wagon to Dunklin County. Later she worked by herself in the fields chopping cotton. During this time, she had to carry a water bucket for 1/2 mile.
At sixteen, she began to work at Kennett Shirt Factory, and she worked there until she married
Homer on July 5, 1929. They moved to St. Louis for a couple of months before returning to Homer's birthplace, a 32 acre farm northeast of Kennett in the Sumach community. She lived there for most of the next sixty-eight years while assisting her pastor husband in various churches in the area.
Dolah loved Jesus and wanted others to know Him, too, so that during most of her life, she helped women's and children's missions organizations in Southern Baptist churches where Homer was the pastor. She also taught Sunday School classes for many years.
During her life, Dolah worked a the Raspberry Store in Friendship, the Dunklin County Memorial Hospital and Mitchell's Drug Store. All of these jobs gave her a chance to interact with people. She made close friends in these jobs.
Her talents ran the gamut: she sewed tailored clothes, built kitchen cabinets, painted and wallpapered, put down carpeting, taught herself to play the piano at 62, and wrote several gospel songs.
She will always be remembered for her laugh and smile and her faithful Christian witness, and her prayers for family, friends and missionaries.
Visitation was from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, August 30, 2003 at McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett. Funeral Service is at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 31, 2003, at Friendship Baptist Church northeast of Kennett.
