To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Missouri Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Missouri, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 5/4/14 • Approved: 5/10/14 • Last Updated: 4/14/18 • R750432-G750356-S3
Bill: 20 Feb 1900 - 4 Mar 1944
Bertie: 22 Mar 1903 - 17 Jun 1998
Parents of Bertie:
Robert Lee DePriest (1872 - 1952)
Harriet Elizabeth Harder DePriest (1873 - 1930)
Spouses:
Henry Flowers (1900 - 1938)
William Louis Cecil (1900 - 1944)
W.F. Cecil died March 4, 1976, at Orange Memorial Hospital at Orlando, Fla. He was born February 20, 1920, in Steele to Clarence Cecil and the late Alpha Brant Cecil.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, March 9, at 3:30 p.m. at the Dean Funeral Home Chapel in Caruthersville. The Rev. Carl Frame of Morehouse, Mo., officiated.
In addition to his father, Mr. Cecil leaves one son, Charles Cecil of Kissemmie, Fla.; one daughter, Jeanett Gardenhire of Atlanta, Ga.; two brothers: Sammy Joe Cecil of Lutz, Fla., and Jackie Cecil of Sikeston; one half sister, Opal Brown of Gary, Ind.; and three grandchildren.
Interment was in Mt. Zion Cemetery at Steele with the Dean Funeral Home of Caruthersville in charge of arrangements.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - Thursday, March 11, 1976
Contributed on 5/4/14 by ttack
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 750432