Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
LEVA BEHEL ALLEN, 83, of Florence, Ala., formerly of Memphis, retired dietitian, died of cancer Wednesday at her home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Elkins Funeral Home in Florence with burial in Tri-Cities Memorial Gardens in Florence. She was a member of Mars Hill Church of Christ in Florence. Mrs. Allen, the wife of Lindsay A. Allen, also leaves a daughter, Cecilia Johnstone of Eden Prairie, Minn.; three sisters, Elmyra Howell and Cornelia Ragester, both of Florence, and Mattie Ruth Wallace of Decatur, Ala.; two brothers, Emory Behel and Manson Behel, both of Florence, and three grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
LUEBIRDA ASH, 79, of 1778 Keltner Circle, Apt. 13, died of heart failure Sunday at St. Joseph Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church at 491 E. McLemore, where she was a member, with burial in Calvary. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Ash, the widow of Sam Ash, leaves a niece who cared for her, Bertha Gray of Memphis.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
ALEXANDRA BONET, 91, of Memphis, died of pneumonia Tuesday at her home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Peter Manor Chapel with burial in St. Raymond's cemetery in Bronx, N.Y. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. Mrs. Bonet, the widow of Frank Bonet, leaves a daughter, Alexandria B. Anderson of Memphis; a son, Frank Bonet of Plano, Texas, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
BEN H. BOWIE, 76, of 3524 Ashford, mechanic for Illinois Central Railroad, died of heart failure Tuesday at his home. R. S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Bowie, the husband of Margaret Bowie, also leaves three sisters, Rosie Wilson of Oxford, Miss., Mollie Westbrook of Flint, Mich., and Ella Bufford of Jackson, Miss., and two brothers, Elijah Bowie and Willie Frank Bowie, both of Oxford.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
KAREN A. `PUNCHIE' CAGER, 28, of 4524 Water Tree, Apt. 4, customer service worker for MCI Communications, died Saturday in Memphis of an apparent homicide. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Bloomfield Baptist Church with burial in Calvary. Snow Funeral Home has charge. She leaves two daughters, Meagan J. Keeley and Morgan J. Cager, and her parents, Elsie Thompson and Fred Cager, all of Memphis; a sister, Sandra Scrivner of Jackson, Miss.; a brother, Fred Cager of Atlanta, and her grandparents, Willie H. and Ethelene Thompson of Memphis.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
LaVONNE DARLENE CAUGHEY, 59, of Germantown, died of cancer Wednesday at her home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church, where she was a member, with burial in Memphis Memory Gardens. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. She was a former member of Christ the King Lutheran Church. Mrs. Caughey, the wife of Richard James Caughey, also leaves two daughters, Jessica Victoria Caughey of Valencia, Calif., and Sarah Josephine Wurzer of Colorado Springs, Colo.; three sons, Jonathan Lawrence Caughey of Memphis, Peter Richard Caughey of Columbus, Ohio, and Paul James Caughey of Germantown; her father, Alfred William Kaiser of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; two brothers, Mervil Kaiser of Fredericksburg, Texas, and Larry Kaiser of Vancouver, Wash., and four grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Immanuel Lutheran School or Trinity Hospice.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
VIRGINIA CLARK, 78, of Memphis, formerly of South Carolina, retired hotel employee, died of cancer June 18 at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hollywood Street Church of Christ. She leaves five sisters, Helen Jones Harris and Katie Mae Ware, both of Memphis, Catherine Broadway and Mable Broadway, both of Los Angeles, and Bessie Mae Broadway of Oakland, Calif., and a brother, Ernest Broadway of Woodstock, Tenn.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
FODDIE B. COBURN, 80, of Memphis, died of heart failure Wednesday at St. Joseph Hospital. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Golden Jerusalem Baptist Church in Rossville, Tenn. She leaves a sister, Clara Artison of Memphis, and a brother, Julius Neal of Rossville.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
MARQUS DELGARDO COHEN, 22, of Upper Marlboro, Md., formerly of Memphis, Navy veteran, died Saturday of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Upper Marlboro. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at World Overcomers Outreach Ministries with burial in West Tennessee Veterans cemetery. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He was a 1994 graduate of Central High School and was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, with the Navy. He was a member of Ebenezer AME Church in Fort Washington, Md. He leaves his father, Joseph D. Cohen of Centerville, Va.; his mother and stepfather, Betty Cohen Jones and Alan Jones of Memphis; two sisters, Tandra Shipp-Cohen of Memphis and Tiara Cohen of Fayetteville, N.C.; two brothers, Niehaus McKinney and Lazaurus Williams, both of Memphis, and his grandparents, Margie Cohen, Joe Cohen, Johnnie Mae Cohen, Ollie Provall, William M. Provall and Floyd Burns, all of Memphis.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
BILLY DURRELL DAVIS, 26, of Memphis, died Wednesday in Memphis of a gunshot wound. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He leaves a son, Cordarius Williford of Memphis; his mother, Rita Bursey of Dallas; his father, William H. Davis of Memphis; two sisters, Tara Jefferson and Brittany Bursey, and a brother, Blake Bursey, all of Dallas, and a grandmother, Joyce Anderson, and a great-grandmother, Alberta Bates, both of Memphis.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
