Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
LONNIE EUGENE FORD, 47, of 2417 Silver, died of heart failure Wednesday in Memphis. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Ford, the husband of Lizzie Latin Ford, also leaves a daughter, Beactrice Ford; a son, Lonnie Eugene Ford Jr.; his mother, Ophelia Bohanan, and his father, Hurley Ford, all of Memphis; four sisters, Patricia Bohanon, Joyce Moore and Louise Coleman, all of Memphis, and Delois Teague of Gahanna, Ohio, and four brothers, Otis Bohanon, Elmer Odell Bohanon, Michael Bohanon and Gregory Bohanon, and his grandmother, Ruth Ford, all of Memphis.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
WILLIAM `SAM' FOSTER, 88, of Memphis, retired from Ford Motor Co., died of heart failure Wednesday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Memphis Memory Gardens. He was a World War II Navy veteran and a member of White Station O. K. Houck Masonic Lodge, Ford Retirees of Memphis and Southland Baptist Church. Mr. Foster, the widower of Loraine Paige Foster, leaves two daughters, Sammie Foster Edmundson of Collierville and Jo Ann Foster Anglin of Olive Branch, Miss.; a sister, Grace Oxner of Collierville, three grandsons and four great-grandsons.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
EUNICE INEZ HILL, 86, of 1378 Orgill, homemaker, died of heart failure Thursday at Methodist Hospital. R. S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Bountiful Blessings Church of God in Christ and Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Hill, the widow of L. C. Hill, leaves two daughters, Johnnie E. McChriston and Shirley A. Canady, both of Memphis; two sons, James E. Hill of Memphis and Charles B. Hill of Harvey, Ill., 19 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
SALLIE BEE HOBSON, 84, of 661 N. Decatur, homemaker, died of heart failure Thursday at Overton Park Health Care Center. Services will be at 5 p.m. Saturday at Mid-South Funeral Home with burial at 10 a.m. Sunday in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church cemetery in Somerville, Tenn. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Mrs. Hobson, the widow of Roosevelt Hobson, leaves a daughter, Lucy Mae Hobson, and a son, Clarence Hobson, both of Memphis; a sister, Betty L. Rufus of Cleveland, Ohio; four brothers, Albert Hall of Memphis, Otis Hall of Cleveland, and James Hall and Herman Hall, both of San Francisco, seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
R. D. JEFFERSON, 68, of Memphis, retired crew chief for City of Memphis Park Commission, died of heart failure Wednesday at Memphis Veterans Medical Center. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He was a Korean War Army veteran. He leaves three daughters, Essie Jefferson, Jessie Jefferson and Caressa Jefferson, all of Memphis; two sons, Charles Jefferson of Memphis and Latroleum Jefferson of Oak Harbor, Wash.; his mother, Alice Jefferson of Memphis; two sisters, Avery Wright of Memphis and Hettie Mae Williams of Seattle, and five grandchildren.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
MARY BENNETT JOHNSON, 73, of 3967 Hillsboro Cove, retired switchboard operator, died of heart failure Thursday at Saint Francis Nursing Home. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today in Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. Family Mortuary has charge. Mrs. Johnson, the widow of Sam Johnson, leaves a daughter, Phyliss Marie Johnson, and two sons, James Johnson and Cary Johnson, all of Memphis, four grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
ROBERT E. JOHNSON II, 101, of 723 N. Hollywood, groundskeeper at Naval Support Activity Memphis, died of heart failure Feb. 13 at Memphis Veterans Medical Center. Services will be at noon Saturday at Gray's Creek Baptist Church in Eads, Tenn., where he had been a member since he was 11 years old, with burial in the church cemetery. J. O. Patterson Mortuary has charge. He was also a deacon at Gray's Creek Baptist Church and superintendent of the Sunday school. He was a Mason, a member of No. 5 Society and a World War I Army veteran. Mr. Johnson, the widower of Roxie Stewart Johnson and Pearlester Jones Johnson, leaves two foster daughters, Linda Fay Harvell of Memphis and Janice K. Harvell of Milwaukee, and two sisters, Kizzie M. Rone and Rosella Crawford, and a niece who cared for him, Dorothy L. Price, all of Memphis.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
DORA LOVE, 104, of West Memphis, homemaker, died of heart failure Sunday in Fort Worth, Texas. Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Bethel AME Church in West Memphis with burial in Paradise Gardens cemetery in Edmondson, Ark. Anthony Funeral Home in West Memphis has charge. Mrs. Love, the widow of Sylvester Love, leaves eight daughters, Gracie Harper, Emma Cheatham, Lorraine Johnson, Nora Ferguson, Dora Smith and Sylvia Wilson, all of Fort Worth, and Beulah Brownlee and Stella Love, both of West Memphis; a sister, Melinda Pittman, and a brother, Robert Alexander, both of Flint, Mich., 35 grandchildren, 76 great-grandchildren and 36 great-great-grandchildren.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
MARION GREENBLATT MANCHIK, 79, of Memphis, retired teacher, died of heart failure Wednesday at Memphis Jewish Home. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. She was a miniaturist. Mrs. Manchik, the widow of Bertram E. Manchik, leaves a daughter, Barbara M. Barton of Dallas; a son, Robert A. Manchik of Memphis; two sisters, Penny G. O'Hare of Weston, Conn., and Dorothy G. Baach of Washington, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Lausanne Collegiate School or the charity of the donor's choice.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
WILLIS R. MAYNARD, 74, of Memphis, formerly of Locke, Tenn., retired Memphis Housing Authority employee, died of lung cancer Monday at his daughter's home. Services were Wednesday at his daughter's home in the Shelby Forest area. Northridge-Woodhaven Chapel in Millington had charge. He was a World War II veteran and had been a first class shipfitter stationed in Brisbane, Australia. He was active in the East Frayser Civic Club. Mr. Maynard, the husband of Mary Lee Maynard for 51 years, also leaves a daughter, Rebecca Lee Adams, and a sister, Iris Maynard, both of Memphis. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Trinity Hospice or to the Memphis Humane Society.
[Dated February 19, 1997]
