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BETTY L. DUCREST 74, of Memphis, registered nurse, died of heart failure Monday at Saint Francis Hospital. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Central Christian Church. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. She was a member of American Association of University Women, George Mason University Alumni Association and McWherter Senior Center. Mrs. Ducrest, the wife of John A. Ducrest, also leaves two daughters, Elizabeth Horton and Laurie Anthony; a son, David Ducrest; her mother, Nurselia Magee; a sister, Billie Lopez and a brother, Otto Magee Jr., both of New Orleans, and four grandchildren.
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ALEXANDRA CAPADALIS DUPRE, 49, of Long Beach, N.Y., formerly of Memphis, died of cancer Oct. 9 in Long Beach. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. Denis S. O'Connor Funeral Home in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., has charge. She was a member of American Quilter's Society. She leaves a daughter, Christine Elaine Dupre; her mother, Peggy N. Capadalis; a sister, Emily Capadalis Kennedy and a brother, Timothy E. Capadalis. The family requests that memorials be sent to Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church.
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MODIS ECHOLS Jr., 55, of Memphis, retired forklift operator for the Defense Supply Agency and bus driver for the Early Childhood Development Center, died of heart failure Saturday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at New Hickory Hill Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in Easthaven cemetery. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. He was a member of the Melrose High School Alumni Association, Class of 1966. Mr. Echols, the husband of Odessa McKinnie Echols, also leaves three daughters, Chantell Echols Wilson, Marsha L. McKinnie and Shalonda M. Echols, three sons, Darrell Dewayne Echols, Ashley Echols and Derrick D. Echols, and his mother, Alma Bledsoe Echols, all of Memphis; five sisters, Ruth Echols of Milwaukee, Erma Echols Boyce, Shirley Echols Simpson, Verne Echols and Catherine Echols Thompson, all of Memphis; two brothers, Robert 'Blue' Echols and Curtis Echols, both of Memphis, and 13 grandchildren.
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LAWRENCE W. FERRELL, 87, of Memphis, retired produce supervisor for Kroger, died of heart failure Wednesday at Methodist Healthcare-North. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Forest Hill Funeral Home Midtown with burial in Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. He was a deacon of Georgian Hills Baptist Church. Mr. Ferrell, the husband of Deana Ferrell for 62 years, also leaves a daughter, Betty J. Ferrell and a son, William F. Ferrell, both of Memphis; a sister, Juanita Fitzgibbon of Bartlett and a brother, James B. Ferrell of Memphis.
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JULIUS W. FORBESS, 69, of Millington, retired superintendent for Roadways Construction, died of heart failure Wednesday at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Munford (Tenn.) Funeral Home with burial in Helen Crigger cemetery. He was a member of the Rose of Sharon Church, was a Mason and an Army veteran. He leaves a daughter, Joe Ann Brumley of Millington; a caretaker, Hattie Guy Forbes, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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EUGENE ROGERS GOODWYN JR., 92, of Seneca, S.C., formerly of Memphis and Greenwood, S.C., former warden and associate warden for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, died of a stroke Wednesday at Oconee Memorial Hospital. Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Magnolia cemetery in Greenwood, S.C. McDougald Funeral Home in Anderson, S.C. has charge. He was a graduate of North Carolina State University and the New School for Social Research in New York City. He leaves a son, Eugene R. Goodwyn III of Seneca, and two sisters, Susan Hill Rayburn of Charlotte, N.C., and Julie Owen of Greenwood. The family requests that memorials be sent to American Alzheimer Association of Anderson.
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LEON GRAY 49, of Boston, formerly of Olive Branch, Miss., former football player for the New England Patriots, died of heart failure Monday at his home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church with burial in St. Paul cemetery. Gillespie Funeral Home in Olive Branch has charge. Mr. Gray, the husband of Jackie Gray, also leaves a son, Leon Gray Jr. of Boston; seven sisters, Virginia Watson, Agnes Ross, Lynn Barron, Addie Mary Benton, Nadine Benton and Jackie Benton, all of Memphis and Lorraine Ross of Jackson, and two brothers, Nathaniel Benton and Andrew Benton, both of Memphis.
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CLIFFORD GREY, 70, of Heber Springs, Ark., formerly of West Memphis, homemaker, died of heart failure Wednesday at Baptist Hospital in Little Rock. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Roller-Citizens Funeral Home in West Memphis with burial in Crittenden Memorial Park in Marion, Ark. She was a member of West Memphis Baptist Church. She leaves a daughter, Linda Wilson of Heber Springs; two sons, Douglas Grey of Vicksburg, Miss., and Howard Grey of Heber Springs, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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MARTHA MAE HARDING, 66, of Millington, retired food service employee of Methodist Healthcare-North, died there Wednesday of renal failure. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Harris Chapel Church of God in Christ in Millington, where she was a member, with burial in Union cemetery in Lucy, Tenn. Jefferson Mortuary in Millington has charge. Mrs. Harding, the widow of Paul Harding, leaves two sons, Paul Harding Jr. and Rickie Harding, both of Millington; a stepdaughter, Vernice Theus of Los Angeles; a stepson, Eddie Threldkeld of Memphis; three sisters, Louise Jones, Lena Taylor, and Willetta Goodwin, all of Kansas City; two brothers, Roger Madlock of Kansas City and Jimmy Madlock of Los Angeles, 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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HENRY HARPER, 72, of Memphis, retired truck driver, died of heart failure Wednesday at Memphis Veterans Medical Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Walls, Miss., with burial in the church cemetery there. Henderson Funeral Home in Hernando, Miss., has charge. He was a World War II veteran. Mr. Harper, the husband of Jearlean Harper, also leaves two daughters, Cassandra Moore of Memphis and Barbara Jackson of Rochester, N.Y.; four sons, Jessie Harper of Kuwait City, Kuwait, Rev. Leroy Harper of Hughes, Ark., and Henry Harper Jr. and Ocie Harper, both of Memphis, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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DANIEL LAVELLE HARRIS, 5, son of Gloria Harris and Jan Harris of Memphis, student at Sharpe Elementary School, died Sunday at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center after being hit by a car. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Boston Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in Galilee Memorial Gardens. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He leaves a sister, Conesha L. Harris; five brothers, Krishon Harris, Jantwan Harris, Derrion Harris, Demario Harris and Marcus Harris, and a stepbrother, Antonia Douglas, all of Memphis; his grandparents, Mannie Gray, Roosevelt Gray and Jean and Henry Harris, all of Memphis, and his great-grandmothers, Cora Mays and Fannie Harris, both of Greenville, Miss.
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CARRIE L. HAYNIE, 62, of Memphis, homemaker, died of heart failure Wednesday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Prosperity Missionary Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. Mrs. Haynie, the wife of George W. Haynie, also leaves eight daughters, Irene Hall and Mary Haynie, both of Freeport, Ill., Gloria D. Harris and Alice M. Turner, both of Camden, Ark., Gloria J. Moss and Juanita Hall, both of Memphis, Joyce A. William of North Little Rock and Georgia Box of Rosston, Ark.; a son, George W. Haynie Jr. of Rosston; two sisters, Mary Alice Nolan and Polly Nolan, both of Chicago; a brother, Michael Liddell of Memphis, 43 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
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AGNES MARY HICKS, 92, of Memphis, formerly of Senatobia, Miss., retired from Northwest Mississippi Community College, died of heart failure Nov. 9 at Methodist Healthcare-South. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lakeview Community Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis, where she was a member, with burial in Lewers Chapel Church cemetery in Looxahoma. C. O. Pate Funeral Home in Senatobia has charge. She leaves three daughters, Jennie Mae Hicks and Roberta Rucker, both of Memphis, and Esther Gregory of Bearden, Ark.; four sons, Jessie Lee Hicks of Memphis and Robert Hicks, William Hicks and Lonnie B. Hicks, all of Chicago; a stepson, Cookie Hicks of Senatobia, and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Lakeview Community Temple Church of God in Christ.
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VIOLA JONES, 81, of West Memphis, nurse's aide, died of heart failure Monday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Calvary Church in West Memphis with burial in Paradise Garden in Edmondson, Ark. Anthony Funeral Home in West Memphis has charge. Mrs. Jones leaves two daughters, Pearl Wilson of Memphis and Shelia Jones of West Memphis; a son, James Kelly of Memphis; two sisters, Lovie Burns of West Memphis and Gladys Hunter of Memphis; two brothers, Tommy Gatewood and John H. Gatewood, both of West Memphis, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
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JEWEL FRANKLIN McFARLAND, 65, of Bartlett, retired Air Force chief master sergeant of Military Intelligence Security Service, died of heart failure Thursday at his home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Canale Funeral Directors with burial in Forest Hill cemetery East. Mr. McFarland, the husband of Carolyn Butler McFarland, also leaves a daughter, Dee Anna M. Karcher of Bartlett; two sons, Jewel F. McFarland Jr. of Bartlett and Mitchell Louis McFarland of Scottsdale, Ariz.; three sisters, Vonnelda M. Studder and Carolyn Sue M. Orange, both of Drakesboro, Ky., and Brenda Jane M. Rice of Greenville, Ky.; two brothers, George D. McFarland of Springfield, Tenn., and Freddie McFarland of Greenville, and seven grandchildren.
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WILLIE MOSBY, 92, of Madison, Ill., formerly of Olive Branch, Miss., retired farmer, died of heart failure Monday at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Mt. Austin Baptist Church cemetery in Cockrum, Miss. Gillespie Funeral Home in Olive Branch has charge. Mr. Mosby, the widower of Emma Chew Mosby, leaves four daughters, Earline Kizer and Emma Allen, both of Chicago, Mamie Murphy of Madison and Margaret Larkin of Illinois; three sons, James Mosby and Willie Mosby Jr., both of Madison, and Hubert Mosby of St. Louis; a sister, Vera Newson and a brother, James Mosby, both of Olive Branch, 29 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
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