Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
LEROY WALTER STILES JR., 62, of Memphis, retired truck driver, died of heart failure Monday at Methodist Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Forest Hill Funeral Home Midtown with burial in Forest Hill cemetery Midtown. He was a member of Memphis Blue Lodge Masonry and the Army Airborne. He leaves a daughter, Ruth Ann Meador of Memphis; five sons, Jerry Don Stiles and Charles Stiles, both of Lepanto, Ark., Walter Stiles of Charleston, Miss., and Tony Stiles and Clint Stiles, both of Memphis; a sister, Betty Ashmore of Charleston, 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
CATRINA Y. THOMAS, 27, of 756 E. Dempster, customer service representative for Sequel, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East after a seizure. R. S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a choir member and Sunday school teacher at Moody Chapel CME Church. She leaves her mother, Lillian Thomas, and two sisters, Marain Thomas and Patrice Thomas, all of Memphis; a brother, James Thomas Jr. of Indianapolis, and her grandmother, Ruvenia Wade of Memphis.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
LUCIOUS CLARENCE WALDON JR., 40, of Memphis, died of heart failure Sept. 26 in Fontana, Calif. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Waldon, the widower of Vera Waldon, leaves a daughter, Tiffany Waldon of Minneapolis; six sisters, Marilyn Shinault, Melody Walls, Carolyn Grayson and Sheryl Clark, all of Memphis, and Sherri Scales and Eden Scales, both of North Carolina, and two brothers, Ricki Moore of San Bernardino, Calif., and Jesse Grayson of Memphis.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
GENE ELLIS WEBB, 55, of Oakland, Tenn., formerly of Memphis, retired self-employed refrigeration service technician, died Monday at Methodist Hospital of Fayette in Somerville, Tenn., after a heart attack. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Shackelford Funeral Home in Bolivar, Tenn., with burial in New Bethel cemetery near Middleton, Tenn. He was a member of a Baptist church in Whiteville and a member of the Moose Lodge in Memphis. He leaves a daughter, Susan C. Hughes of Memphis; two sons, Billy Webb of Bartlett and Randy Webb of Memphis; his stepfather, J. L. Davis of Somerville, Tenn.; a sister, Lucille Cox of Whiteville, and seven grandchildren.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
WANDA L. WHITEHEAD, 68, of Memphis, homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at Baptist Rehabilitation Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Bartlett Funeral Home-Family Heritage Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. Mrs. Whitehead, the widow of John Whitehead, leaves four daughters, Melissa Busby, Felicia Whitehead, Joanna Whitehead and Ethel Whitehead, all of Memphis, and two grandchildren.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
JAMES WARD ROBINSON, 78, of Bolivar, Tenn., retired psychiatric technician with Western Mental Health Institute in Bolivar, died Monday at Bolivar General Hospital after a heart attack. Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home in Bolivar with burial in Woodville cemetery in Chester County, Tenn. He was a member of Bolivar First Baptist Church. Mr. Robinson, the widower of Dorothy Robinson, leaves local survivors including a daughter, Patricia Ann Qualls of Memphis.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
JOHN SHELTON, 71, of Long Beach, Calif., formerly of Holly Springs, Miss., retired mechanic with True Auto in Long Beach, died of heart failure Monday at Pacific Hospital in Long Beach. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Hernando Road Church of Christ in Holly Springs, where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. J. F. Brittenum & Son Funeral Home of Holly Springs has charge. Mr. Shelton, the widower of Murlina Shelton, leaves local survivors including a daughter, Gail Shelton Bush; three sons, Carey Shelton, Terry Shelton and Felix Shelton, and a sister, Maggie Dean, all of Memphis.
[Dated October 7, 1997]
JAMES LEE BROWN, 43, of West Memphis, dishwasher, died of heart failure Saturday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Riverside Missionary Baptist Church of Memphis with burial in Paradise Gardens. Wolfe Brothers Funeral Home in West Memphis has charge. Mr. Brown, the husband of Artie Brown, also leaves two daughters, Phyllis Brown of West Memphis and Jinnetter L. Dixon of Murphy, Texas; his parents, Oddie B. Brown of Webb, Miss., and Lula Mae Brown of Glendora, Miss.; three sisters, Minnie Lewis of West Memphis, Mary W. Whitehead of Mississippi and Joyce A. Calvin of Indianapolis, and eight brothers, James M. Brown of West Memphis, Oddie Brown Jr. of Chicago, Roosevelt McCorkin and Eddie L. Brown, both of Detroit, and Freddie Brown, Jack Brown, Lewis Brown and Marion Brown, all of Glendora.
[Dated March 2, 2000]
PEARL CLEGGETT, 92, of 1250 Farrow, retired domestic worker, died of heart failure Monday at Methodist Hospital South. Services will be at noon Saturday at Central Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Minister's Wife Guild, Golden Link Ward and Sunday school, with burial in New Park cemetery. Southern Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Cleggett, the widow of Sam Cleggett, leaves 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
[Dated March 2, 2000]
GEORGE O. DANIELS, 72, of Memphis, retired chemical operator for Conoco, died Wednesday at Methodist Hospital after a heart attack. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Family Funeral Care with burial in Memphis Memory Gardens. He was a Korean War Army veteran. Mr. Daniels, the husband of Louise W. Daniels for 50 years, also leaves two daughters, Julie Daniels Ray of Memphis and Teresa J. Daniels of Southaven; six sisters, Alice J. Robertson, Jean M. Autry and Jewel P. Gueresko, all of Memphis, Ann Peeler of Covington, Margaret Donahoo of Winona, Miss., and Ruth Dunn of Raleigh, N.C., and seven brothers, Lewis Daniels of Bartlett, Arthur Daniels, Doy Daniels, Walter Daniels and Luther Daniels, all of Memphis, Billy Daniels of Victoria, Miss., and James Daniels of West Memphis. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Jackson Avenue United Methodist Church.
[Dated March 2, 2000]
