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DOLORES 'DEE' BIZZELL, 66, of Bartlett, retired credit chief, quality assurance employee and telephone assistant for deaf from Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division, died of heart failure Friday at her home. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Steele, Mo., with burial in Mt. Zion cemetery there. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. She was the first female credit chief at LG&W.; She leaves a sister, Louise Taylor of Bartlett, and a brother, Jesse Bizzell of St. Peters, Mo.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
SHIRLEY ANN BROWN, 49, of 2312 E. Jackson, loan officer, died of heart failure Thursday at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. Services will be at noon Wednesday at Fourteenth Street Church of Christ with burial in Paradise Garden. Wolfe Brothers Funeral Home in West Memphis has charge. She was a member of the John Gammon Foundation, and the Tres Ladies Auxiliary, a diplomat for the Chamber of Commerce, a team founder of the West Memphis Black Business Directory, a runnerup for the Ms. Black Arkansas pageant and tour guide for the Martin Luther King Civil Rights Museum. She leaves a son, Anthony Levar Pleasant, her father, Johnny Brown, and two sisters, Erma Conley and Brenda Burns, all of West Memphis; six brothers, Richard Brown, John Cummings and Jeffery Brown, all of West Memphis, Larry Brown of Germany, Herbert Cummings of Memphis, and Willie Lewis of Las Vegas, and a grandchild.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
HELEN MASON DEVOTO, 91, of Memphis, retired from Gerber department store, died of respiratory failure Saturday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Calvary. She was a communicant of Immaculate Conception Church. Mrs. Devoto, the widow of Lawrence Devoto, leaves a sister, Rita Adelman of Bartlett; three brothers, Paul Mason of Irvington, N.J., Eugene Mason of Southaven and Thomas Mason of Memphis, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Catholic Charities.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
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. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. He was a member of New Hickory Hill Baptist Church and the Melrose High School Alumni Association, Class of 1966. Mr. Echols, the husband of Odessa McKinney Echols, also leaves three daughters, Denyne Chantell Echols Williams, Marsha L. McKinney and Shalanda 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.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
ROBERT LEE GILLESPIE, 64, employee of Q Sports Club, died of heart failure Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Gillespie, the husband of Beverly J. Gillespie, also leaves two daughters, Cheryl King and Robynn Gillespie, and a son, Robert Gillespie Jr., all of Memphis; three sisters, Mozelle Anthony of Memphis and Annie Sykes and Pearline Taliferd, both of Nesbit; three brothers, John H. Gillespie, Charles Gillespie and Harry Gillespie, and a grandchild.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
LEONARD OLLNEY HARBER, 97, of Selma, Ala., formerly of Memphis, retired from Ford Motor Co., died of heart failure Saturday at Vaughn Regional Medical Center in Selma. Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. Forest Hill Funeral Home Midtown has charge. He was a former member of Brownsville Road Church of Christ. Mr. Harber, the husband of Mattie Pleas Henley Harber, also leaves a daughter, Wanda H. Loughridge of Selma; two sisters, Pearl Gupton of Nashville and Freda Cochran of Albany, Ga.; a brother, Guy Harber of Memphis, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Houston Park Church of Christ in Selma.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
EMMIE DEEM DAVIS HENTZ, 83, of Southaven, formerly of Memphis, died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto after a stroke. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Family Funeral Care Summer Avenue Chapel with burial in Edmondson Chapel cemetery in Southaven. She was a member of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf. She leaves two daughters, Ethel Claire Childress of Southaven and Carol Ann Yound of Lakeland; a son, James Douglas Hentz Jr. of Tallahassee, Fla.; two sisters, Billie Lynch of Charleston, Miss., and Frances Wilkinson of Meridian, Miss., nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Interpreting Service for the Deaf.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
PERCY LEE 'PEETE' HOLLINS Jr., 38, of Memphis, died of cardiac arrest Saturday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of Peace Baptist Church. He leaves a son, Brandon Hollins, and his mother, Dorothy J. Hollins, both of Memphis; his father and stepmother, Percy Lee and Edna S. Hollins, of St. Louis, and two sisters, Ptosha Y. Hollins and Linda R. Lewis, both of Memphis.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
LELLON REECE LeMAY, 83, of Memphis, retired locomotive engineer from the Missouri Pacific Railroad after 42 years, died of heart failure Saturday at Saint Francis Hospital. Mass will be said at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Anne's Catholic Church on Highland, where he was an usher and communicant, with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Local Firemen and Engineers Lodge 888 and the Knights of Columbus Council 616. Mr. LeMay, the husband of Elizabeth Salla LeMay for 54 years, also leaves a daughter, Leslie R. LeMay of Memphis, and two brothers, Geral LeMay and T. V. LeMay, both of Rogersville, Ala.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
DEVIN MICHAEL LOREN, 33, of Memphis, formerly of Los Angeles, entrepreneur, died Sunday at Centre City Hospital in Los Angeles. The cause of death is unknown pending an autopsy. Harrison's Funeral Home Orange Mound Chapel has charge. Mr. Loren, the husband of Katrina Walker Loren, also leaves two daughters, Amanda Loren and Brooke Loren, both of Los Angeles; three stepdaughters, Dawn Nicole Riley, Starr Akoi Riley and Amber Lee Ann Riley, and a stepson, Bobby Lee Riley, all of Memphis, and five grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
THERESA MARSHALL, 92, of 4505 Tammy, homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at her home. R. S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of the mother board at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. Mrs. Marshall, the widow of Ernest Marshall, leaves a daughter, Ruthie L. Davis of Memphis, five grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
OMAGENE BANTON MOORE, 77, of Adamsville, Tenn., formerly of Memphis, homemaker, died of kidney failure Saturday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Vanndale (Ark.) cemetery. Family Funeral Care Summer Avenue Chapel has charge. She was a member of Leaclair Baptist Church. Mrs. Moore, the widow of Leonard Franklin Moore, leaves five daughters, Gayle McNinch and Shawn Moore, both of Memphis, Terry McFarland of Middleton, Tenn., Penny King of Ramer, Tenn., and Pam Wood of Houston; three sons, Ernie Moore, Randy Moore and Tim Moore, all of Memphis; four sisters, Maude Feltner of Rochelle, Ill., Margaret Phillips of Wynne, Ark., Agnes Davone of Augusta, Maine, and Bobbie Moore of Memphis; a brother, Richard Banton of Memphis, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to the American Kidney Association.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
ROBERT LEE SCOGGINS, 76, of Memphis, retired switchman from the Missouri Pacific Railroad, died of heart failure Sunday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park. He was a member of Colonial Baptist Church. He leaves two sons, Ron Scoggins of Jackson, Tenn., and Robert Michael 'Mike' Scoggins of Lenexa, Kan., seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Colonial Baptist Church.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
HAROLD DeMANGO SOLOMON, 22, of Richmond, Va., formerly of Memphis, cashier at 7-Eleven, died Wednesday in Richmond after an apparent homicide. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He leaves two daughters, Makiyah Cooper and Katabie Solomon, and his mother, Dianne Carter, all of Richmond; his father, Harold Dickey of Memphis; a sister, Ebony Hurd, and a brother, Marcus Laney, both of Richmond, and his grandparents, Clara Dickey of Memphis and Levi Solomon of St. Louis.
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BILLIE J. TATE, 76, of 4161 Happy Trail Court, housekeeper, died of cancer Sunday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at M. J. Edwards and Sons Funeral Home. Mrs. Tate, the wife of Jerry Tate, also leaves four nieces who cared for her, Chenell Clayborn, Marilyn Williams, Gwenda Bearden and Mary Kirkendoll, all of Memphis.
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MARTHA JANE HIGDON TATE, 75, of Memphis, died of heart failure Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Mass will be said at noon Tuesday at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, where she was a communicant, with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge. She was recently recognized for her work with the parish's jail ministry. Mrs. Tate, the widow of Fred H. Tate Jr., leaves two daughters, Terry Bacon and Martha Leigh Riley, two sons, Fred H. Tate III and Thomas 'Greg' Tate, and a sister, Ruth Prestipino, all of Memphis; a brother, Hillary Higdon of San Francisco, and 11 grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 12, 2001]
