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Submitted: 5/28/16 • Approved: 5/31/16 • Last Updated: 4/13/18 • R791940-G791938-S3
William
8 Jan 1886 TN
6 Mar 1928 Steele, Pemiscot, MO
Dorothy
6 Apr 1888 - 24 May 1967
The Steele Enterprise, Steele, Missouri
Friday, June 2, 1967
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Dorothy E. Bishop, 79, Thursday, May 25, 1967 at the First Baptist Church in Steele. Rev. Glenn Harwood of Hayti officiated.
Burial was at Mt. Zion Cemetery with John W. German Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Bishop was born April 6, 1888, at Savannah, Tenn., and died May 24, 1967 at Pemiscot Memorial Hospital. She was the widow of William Edward Bishop, who preceded her in death in 1928. She had been a member of the First Baptist Church of Steele since 1924.
Pallbearers were Leyon Earls, Jack Brooks, Homer Alexander, Clarence McCollum, Mike Riddick, and Johnnie Carter.
She leaves three sons: Thelbert Bishop, Steele, Vernon Bishop, Memphis, and John W. Bishop, St. Louis; one sister, Mrs. Ella Turner, Manila, Ark.; a niece, Mrs. Wanda Blurton, Humboldt, Tenn., who was reared by Mrs. Bishop; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Contributed on 5/28/16 by ttack37
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