Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
Elizabeth 'Bette' Howitt, 87, of Memphis, homemaker, died Saturday at her home. Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. today at Memorial Park with memorial services at 1 p.m. at Balmoral Presbyterian Church. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Howitt, the widow of Andrew Taylor Howitt, leaves two daughters, Deborah Howitt-Rollosson of Memphis and Patricia Howitt of Castro Valley, Calif.; a son, Leslie Andrew Howitt of Fort Collins, Colo., and four grandchildren.
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Jeffery Hunter, 50, of Memphis, laborer, died Friday at his home. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. today at Springdale Baptist Church. J.E. Herndon Funeral Home Golden Cross Chapel has charge. He leaves two daughters, Jenetta Holmes and Jasmine Hunter, and a son, Fredrick Manuel, all of Memphis; two sisters, Thomas Ann Asher and Maria Adams, and five grandchildren.
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Carl Huntsman, 53, of Memphis, employee of Technicolor, died April 27 at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Greater Harvest Church of God in Christ, where he was a member, with burial in Memorial Park South Woods. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He was a graduate of Central High School. Mr. Huntsman, the husband of Rosetta Huntsman, also leaves five daughters, Carletta Huntsman, Candace Huntsman, Charah Huntsman, Cheyenne Huntsman and Caelyn Huntsman, and his parents, Helen and Rev. Cleveland Huntsman, all of Memphis; two sisters, Yvette Yates of Memphis and Jacqueline Reado of Louisiana; two brothers, Gerald Huntsman and Greg Huntsman, both of Houston, and his grandmother, Queen Meriweather of Memphis.
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Mary Louise Love, 55, of Memphis, retired from Frank Line Furniture, died Sunday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at noon Thursday at The Healing Center Full Gospel Baptist Church with burial in Memorial Park South Woods. E.H. Ford Mortuary Services has charge. She leaves a daughter, Patricia Upshaw, and a son, Eric Love, both of Memphis; her parents, Joseph and Lou Viney Love of Coldwater, Miss.; seven sisters, Ella Payne, Maggie Oliver, Betty Wiggins, Josephine Graham, Pearline Love and Joyce Ann Sipp, all of Memphis, and Virginia Webb of Senatobia, Miss.; three brothers, Danny Ray Love, Joseph Love Jr. and Ronald Love, all of Memphis, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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Sue H. Lowry, 73, of Arlington, formerly of Holly Springs, Miss., retired bookkeeper for Metro Foods Inc., died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Memphis Funeral Home Germantown Parkway Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. She leaves three daughters, Laura L. Dale of Arlington, Susan L. Jamerson of Collierville and Lisa L. Marbry of Atoka, and two grandchildren.
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Warren Butler McCall, 61, of Colorado Springs, Colo., formerly of Memphis, retired Navy lieutenant, died Saturday in Colorado Springs. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. He was a Vietnam War veteran. He leaves his stepmother, Mary Wilder McCall, and three sisters, Mabel McCall McNeill, Marcia McCall Wunderlich and Whitney McCall Hoover, all of Memphis, and three brothers, John Ethridge McCall of Lantana, Fla., Walter Pidgeon McCall of Queensland, Australia, and William Finis McCall of Nesbit. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
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Rannie McCaston Jr., 69, of Memphis, self-employed janitorial service worker, died Saturday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on Elvis Presley, where he was a member, with burial in Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church cemetery in Senatobia. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. McCaston, the husband of Florence McCaston, also leaves three daughters, Sylvia McCaston of Chicago, Carolyn Faye McCaston of Quincy, Ill., and Michelle Orange of St. Louis; three sons, Rannie McCaston III of Charleston, Miss., Antonio McCaston of Forrest City, Ark., and Melvin Garrett of Senatobia, Miss., and his mother, Ella McCaston, and a sister, Mable Lawrence, both of Coldwater, Miss.
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LeShun C. Olden, 29, of Memphis, housekeeper for Hampton Inn, died Sunday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hopewell Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Union cemetery. R.S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a sister, Terry R. Goodwyn; two brothers, Alfred Gray Jr. and Larry Olden, and her grandparents, Dorothy and Willie Jackson, all of Memphis.
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Mildred Orr, 88, of Memphis, homemaker, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 6 p.m. today at Memorial Park Funeral Home with entombment in Memorial Park Mausoleum. Mrs. Orr, the widow of Alton G. Orr, leaves a daughter, Sheila Orr Maxley of Millbrook, Ala., and two grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Heart Association.
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Netta Mazique Parson, 88, of Memphis, homemaker, died Sunday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ, where she was a mother board member, with burial in Elmwood. E.H. Ford Mortuary Services has charge. She was district missionary for F.D. Washington Memorial District. Mrs. Parson, the widow of E.L. Parson, leaves three daughters, Joyce Parson of Alexandria, Va., Linda Khumalo of Memphis and Abbie Robinson of Forrest City, Ark.; six sisters, Julia Hervey, Roberta Green and Henrietta Malone, all of Detroit, Phyllis Conner of New Orleans, Mildred Johnson of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Ruby Ware of Natchez, Miss., and seven grandchildren.
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Rosetta Young Patterson, 77, of Memphis, homemaker, died Saturday at Methodist South Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Grant's Funeral Home in Tunica, Miss., with burial in Grant's cemetery there. Mrs. Patterson, the wife of Rev. Aaron Brandon, also leaves five daughters, Jettie M. Madden of Kansas City, Reather P. Smith, Bobbie A. Bowdery and Lisa L. Stevenson, all of Memphis, and Ruby McCracken of Leisure City, Fla.; 12 sons, J.B. Patterson of Miami, Clisby Patterson and Leo Patterson, both of Kansas City, and Otis Patterson, Payton Patterson Jr., Letroy Patterson, Louis Patterson, Joe Patterson, Melvin Patterson, Bruce Patterson, Steven Patterson and O.G. Patterson, all of Memphis; three sisters, Flossie Milen and Bobbie Jean Alexander, both of Memphis, and Jessie Jones of Kansas City; two brothers, Earnest M. Patterson of Memphis and Edgar Young of Leisure City, and numerous grandchildren.
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Margie S. Pepper, 70, of Memphis, retired executive secretary for DIPEC, died Monday at her home. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Memphis Memory Gardens. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. She was a member of Bellevue Baptist Church. She leaves a son, Roger Pepper of Memphis, and a grandchild.
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Peter Poulopoulous, 49, of Rosemont, Ill., formerly of Memphis, scheduling analyst for FedEx, died Tuesday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church with burial in Elmwood. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. He was a Marine Corps veteran and a volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters. Mr. Poulopoulous, the husband of Troy Ann Kauffman Poulopoulous, also leaves a daughter, Mari Earle of Memphis; his mother, Helen Poulopoulous of Rosemont, and a brother, Art Poulopoulous of Chicago. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
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Cassieberry Price, 91, of Memphis, retired farmer, died Saturday at Methodist University Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Travelers Rest Baptist Church in Warren, Tenn., where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery there. M.J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He leaves two sons, Robert Price of Memphis and Lonnie Price of Nashville; two sisters, Mattie McDaniel and Arselena Smith, both of Somerville, three grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
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Acquiria Lashae Ralston, 8-year-old daughter of LasonJa McKinnie and Vonnell Ralston of Memphis, student at Bruce Elementary School, died Saturday at her home. Services will be at noon Saturday at Lake Grove Baptist Church on Leath with burial in New Park cemetery. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She also leaves three sisters, Shunmetris McKinnie, Lakesia McKinnie and Acquirius Ralston; her grandparents, Margaret Ralston and Melvin Giles, and her great-grandparents, Odessa McKinnie and Allie Giles, all of Memphis.
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Rev. George E. Richmond, 61, of Memphis, owner of Alexus Construction, died Sunday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Eternal Peace Missionary Baptist Church, where he was pastor, with burial in Memorial Park South Woods. N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He was a Mason and a member of Magnolia First Baptist Church. Mr. Richmond, the husband of Bettye Richmond, also leaves two daughters, Cynthia Richmond and Vernita Jones, and three sons, Donald Jackson, Darrell Richmond and Morgan Richmond, all of Memphis; four sisters, Octavia Murden and Marilyn McCall, both of Memphis, Delores Williams and Alonza Harvell, both of South Bend, Ind.; six brothers, Curtis Lee Richmond and James Riccardo Richmond, both of Memphis, Albert Sylvester Richmond of Attleboro, Mass., Robert Williams Jr., Jackie Williams and Jerry Williams, all of South Bend, Ind., and 12 grandchildren.
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Walter Sanders, 69, of Memphis, retired forklift operator, died Monday at Methodist South Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at E.H. Ford Mortuary Services with burial in New Park cemetery. Mr. Sanders, the husband of Willimenia Sanders, also leaves two daughters, Vanessa Sanders and Gwedalyn Thompson, and three sons, Albertis Sanders, Andrea Sanders and Lauren L. Sanders, all of Chicago; a sister, Maude Hubbard of Memphis, and 11 grandchildren.
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Thomas Michael Schneider, 51, of Germantown, telecommunications manager for International Paper, died Monday at Saint Francis Hospital. Mid-South Mortuary has charge. He was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Schneider, the husband of Delaine Suzanne Garner Schneider, also leaves a daughter, Emily Nicole Schneider of Germantown; a son, Matthew Thomas Schneider of Union, Ky.; a stepson, Michael Andrew Warren of Cincinnati, and his mother, Helen Claire King of Westchester, Ohio. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Diabetes Association.
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Ronald E. Trout, 67, of Memphis, retired business sales and servicing manager for BellSouth, died Monday at his home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Memphis Funeral Home Germantown Parkway Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. He was a former president of Memphis Boxing Association and Northeast Memphis Exchange Club, director of Golden Gloves for 17 years, a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Scenic Hills United Methodist Church and a former Jaycees Outstanding Young Man of the Year. Mr. Trout, the husband of Ann Trout for 51 years, also leaves four daughters, Sherry Lowery of Brighton, and Stacey Lowery, Abigail Lowery and Kiersten Hollingsworth, all of Memphis; two sons, Ronald E. Trout Jr. and Steven Trout, both of Memphis; a sister, Gloria Sawyers of Olive Branch; a brother, Tommy Trout of Arlington, and three grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Scenic Hills United Methodist Church.
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