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Submitted: 11/13/14 • Approved: 11/14/14 • Last Updated: 4/14/18 • R759931-G759931-S3
Jun. 26, 1900 Hamilton Marion Co Alabama
Feb. 15, 1981
The Steele Enterprise, Steele, Missouri
Thursday, February 19, 1981
Funeral service for Mrs. Ethel Jackson Dees was held at the Church of God in Holland February 17, 1981. Rev. Charles Faught officiated.
Mrs. Dees was born June 26, 1900 at Hamilton, Ala., and died February 15, 1981 at the Chickasawba Hospital in Blytheville. She was 80.
She leaves four daughters, Mrs. Vera Box of Waukegan, Ill., Mrs. Ruth Pierce of Steele, Mrs. Gladys Crocker of Steele, and Mrs. Dorothy Thorne of Steele; two sons, Charles Jackson of Quitman, Ark., and Cleat Jackson of Hamilton, Ala.; three sisters, Mrs. Edna Colburn of Hamilton, Ala., Mrs. Vissie Wright of Red Bay, Ala., and Mrs. Lessie Mitchell of Tennessee; 16 grandchildren and 62 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Archie Ray Scott, Woody Howren, William Northern, Clell Waldrop, Austin Biggs, and Elbert Crocker.
Burial was in the Mount Zion Cemetery near Steele, with the German-Aumon Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Contributed on 11/13/14 by ttack
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