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CHARLES 'BOB' BLANCETT, 91, of Memphis, retired maintenance supervisor for Memphis Housing Authority after 30 years, died Sunday at his home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Family Funeral Care Summer Avenue Chapel with burial in Elmwood. He was a member of Lindenwood Christian Church, a Mason and a World War II Navy veteran. Mr. Blancett, the widower of Clara Mae Blancett, leaves two sons, Bobby Blancett and George Blancett, and a half-sister, Doris Thompson, all of Memphis, six grandchildren and eight stepgrandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to the charity of the donor's choice.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
GRANT BOARDMAN, 22, of Memphis, student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, died Friday in Knoxville. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Park. He was a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the Golden Key National Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi honor society fraternity, the UT-Knoxville Judo Club and Tennessee Students for Free Thought. He leaves his parents, Deb and Gary Boardman, a sister, Devon Boardman, and a brother, Jeff Boardman, all of Memphis.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
JANIS LOUISE BOUDREAU, 56, of Memphis, homemaker, died Friday at Methodist Healthcare-Germantown. Services will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Frayser with burial in South Lawn cemetery in Tucson, Ariz. Mrs. Boudreau, the wife of Albert Boudreau for 34 years, also leaves two daughters, Christina Finnell of Lexington, Tenn., and Jodi Coleman of Victoria, Miss.; a son, Harvey Robertson of Flower Mound, Texas; her mother, Dorothy F. Waldroop of Jacksonville, Fla., two sisters and a brother, 10 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The family requests that memorials be sent to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Frayser.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
REV. GLEN ALLEN BROWN, 75, of Tupelo, Miss., formerly of Memphis, retired minister for Evergreen Baptist Church and Bethel Baptist Church in Water Valley, Miss., and retired employee of Beltone Hearing Aids after 35 years, died Saturday at Windham House in Ecru, Miss. Services will be at 10 a.m. today at W. E. Pegues Funeral Home in Tupelo with burial in Zion cemetery in Pontotoc County, Miss. He was a member of Zion Baptist Church and a World War II Navy veteran. Mr. Brown, the husband of Frances E. Brown, also leaves two sons, Robert Allen Brown of Pleasanton, Calif., and Glen S. Brown of Okolona, Miss.; two sisters, Virginia Arnold of Calhoun City, Miss., and Willie Jean Stafford of West Point, Miss., and a grandchild.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
ROBBIE L. CAIN, 88, of Joiner, Ark., homemaker, died Saturday at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today at Crittenden Memorial Park in Marion. Roller-Citizens Funeral Home in West Memphis has charge. She was a member of Joiner Baptist Church. Mrs. Cain, the widow of Edward W. Cain, leaves two sons, Edward W. Cain Jr. of Marion and Jimmy Don Cain of Paragould, Ark., two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Joiner Baptist Church.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
OVENIA CARTER, 83, of Memphis, homemaker, died Friday at Senior Services Healthcare Center. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Academy Baptist Church in Ripley, Miss., with burial in the church cemetery. Roller Family Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Raleigh Baptist Church. Mrs. Carter, the widow of James Douglas Carter, leaves a daughter, Rena Mangum of Memphis; three sons, Don A. Carter of Memphis, Jerry Kelon Carter of Tulsa, Okla., and James Randy Carter of Snow, Okla., 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
PEARL HARDIMAN EDWARDS, 84, of Memphis, died Wednesday at Delta Medical Center. Services will be at noon Tuesday at Temple Church of God in Christ, where she was a member, with burial in Forest Hill cemetery South. M. J. Edwards and Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Edwards, the wife of Johnnie B. Edwards, also leaves a son, William Hubbard of Chicago, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
ASHLEY EVERETT, 15-year-old daughter of Barbara Everett and Maurice Anderson of Memphis, died Saturday at UT Bowld Hospital. M. J. Edwards and Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a student at Kingsbury High School and was a member of Old Salem Baptist Church. She also leaves her stepfather, Eddie McCann, three sisters, Jessica Everett, Tamara Everett and Ciara Manning, three brothers, Chris Everett, Johnathan Everett and Corry Anderson, and her grandparents, Jocie Williams, Linda Russell, Edward Anderson and Estell Everett Jr., all of Memphis.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
EDITH 'DOLL' FOWLER, 84, of Memphis, retired cosmetologist and tutor at Magnolia Elementary School, died Sunday at UT Bowld Hospital. N. J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of the mother board, the choir and the Sunshine Band at Macedonia Baptist Church. She leaves her caretakers, Rosie M. Fowler, Auggie Buford, Gentrinia Fowler and Roneferiti Fowler, all of Memphis, and four great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
LEWIS HARRIS Jr., 57, of Memphis, insurance adjuster for Diversified Inc., died Sunday at Methodist Healthcare-University Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park. He leaves a daughter, Eryin Vance of Cordova; his parents, Betty Luttrell and Lewis Harris, both of Memphis; a sister, Deborah Allison of Coldwater, Miss.; a brother, James Harris of Southaven, and 10 grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
BURR D. HUGHES Jr., 77, of Memphis, retired insurance agent for Equitable Insurance Companies of Iowa, died Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Mass will be said at 1:30 p.m. today at St. Louis Catholic Church, where he was a communicant, with entombment in Memorial Park Mausoleum. He was a member of the Million Dollar Roundtable and a charter member of their Top of the Table program, the Memphis Estate Planning Council, president of the Memphis CLU chapter, was Equitable Hall of Honor agent in 1972, a World War II Army veteran, a former member of Kiwanis and The Committee of 100 for the FedEx St. Jude Classic golf tournament, and served on the boards of Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and the Chickasaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Hughes, the husband of Sue Cheek Smith Hughes for 52 years, also leaves two daughters, Susan Hoehn of San Diego and Frazer Hendrick of Haymarket, Va.; a son, Burr Hughes III of Memphis; three sisters, Agnes Dixon of Atlanta, Yancey Daniel of Columbia, S.C., and Betty Kaldenbaugh of Tucson, Ariz., and 10 grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to the Madonna Learning Center or the charity of the donor's choice.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
ROBERT NEAL McNEILL, 60, of Cordova, self-employed salesman, died Saturday at Saint Francis Hospital. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Park Funeral Home. Mr. McNeill, the husband of Anna McNeill for 17 years, also leaves a sister, Lydia McNeill Moore of Fayetteville, N.C., and a brother, John Albert McNeill of Norfolk, Va. The family requests that memorials be sent to the Humane Society or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
ROBERT ALTON MILLER, 85, of Memphis, retired tile-setter, died Friday at Methodist Healthcare-University Hospital. R. S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of Progressive Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Miller, the husband of Frances R. Miller, also leaves four daughters, Lewandia Chapman, Beverly Miller, Frances D. Wright and Gail Miller, and three sons, Robert Alton Miller Jr., state representative Larry Miller and Lt. Terry L. Miller, all of Memphis; a sister, Zennie Williams of Webb, Miss.; a brother, Cleveland Miller of St. Louis, 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
WILLIE B. MORRIS, 71, homemaker, died Saturday at Methodist Healthcare-University Hospital. N. J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a Baptist. Mrs. Morris, the widow of Earlis Morris, leaves a daughter, Bobbie Jean Ball of Memphis; three sons, Larry D. Morris of Memphis, and Earlis Morris Jr. and Johnny Mack Morris, both of Detroit; six sisters, Lillie Weathers, Rosie Ella Miller and Bernice Young, all of Memphis, Willie B. Neal of Yazoo City, Miss., and Georgianna Bond and Vera Hubbard, both of Milwaukee; six brothers, Felix Green and Echol Ward, both of Memphis, Willie D. Green of Chicago, Louis Weathers Jr. of Yazoo City, Rev. Joe Nathan Weathers of Milwaukee and Henry Green of Flora, Miss., six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
GREGORY LAWRENCE PEHLMAN, 40, of Memphis, attorney with Waller, Lansden, Dortch and Davis in Nashville, died Saturday at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Magnolia cemetery in Collierville. He was a member of Kingsway Christian Church and the Tennessee Bar Association, was a graduate of Mississippi State University and the University of Tennessee law school, and was an Army veteran. He leaves two sons, Robert Marshall Pehlman and Nicholas Patrick Pehlman; his mother, Wanda Pehlman of Memphis; his father, George L. Pehlman III of Houston, Texas, and two sisters, Jina Pehlman and Gayle Higley, both of Memphis.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
PAUL ALAN PRESLEY, 42, of Olive Branch, mechanic, died Saturday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. Forest Hill Funeral Home South has charge. He leaves his parents, Celeste and H. L. Presley Jr. of Olive Branch; a sister, Kathy Canada of Southaven, and five brothers, Tony Presley of Southaven, Ronnie Presley of Austin, Texas, Terry Presley and Chris Presley, both of Memphis, and Joe Presley of Hernando.
[Obit dated August 26, 2002]
