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Visitation will be Friday 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

By Staff
TAMMATHA STARKEY
Homemaker
Services for Tammatha Starkey will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Odell Hopkins officiating. Burial will be in Blanks Cemetery in Daleville.
Mrs. Starkey, 32, of Meridian, died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2002, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include her husband, Milton Starkey Sr.; two sons, Milton Starkey Jr. and Samuel Starkey; and her mother, Bonnie Blanks, all of Meridian; her father, Donnie Dukes of Lafayette, La.; two sisters, Kimberly Dukes and Ashley Dukes, both of Decatur; two brothers, Robert Blanks of Meridian and Kaltino Caples of Philadelphia.
Visitation will be Friday 7 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
ETHEL JANET HENRY
Graveside services for Ethel Janet Henry will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Meridian Memorial Park Cemetery. Barham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Henry, 58, died Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2002, at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla.
JAMES SHIRLEY
Retired
LAKELAND, Fla. Graveside services for James "J.T." Shirley will be held Monday, Sept. 16 at Florida Hills Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Spring Hill, Fla. Trinity Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Shirley, 90, of Lorida, Fla., formerly of Meridian, died Monday, Sept. 2, 2002, in his home. He was retired from Reliable Chevrolet in Meridian as the body shop foreman. He was a member of the Shriner's Club and a 32 degree Mason with the Grand York Rite Bodies of Mississippi, both in Meridian. He was born in Riderwood, Ala., and came to Lorida from Meridian in 1995.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary Ann Shirley and Sandi Deschaine, both of Lorida; and a brother, Paul Shirley of Forest.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Virgie Wommack Shirley.
JAMES R. HARTMAN
Retired
FORD CITY, Pa. Services for James R. Hartman were held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Christian Missionary Alliance Church with the Rev. Peter Sears officiating. Burial was in Ford City Cemetery with Welch Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Hartman, 58, of Kittanning, Pa., died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2002, at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in Vietnam. He was retired from Penelec.
Survivors include his wife, Hannah Elizabeth Smeltzer Hartman; his children, James Michael Hartman of Enterprise, Miss., Jennifer Scholl and her husband, Milton, of Reading, Pa., Margie Meyer and her husband, Robert, of Kittanning and Edward P. McGrady of Vandergrift, Pa.; sisters, Faith McKain of Kittanning, Linda Hartman and Margaret Hartman, both of Ford City; a brother, David Hartman of Ford City; and seven grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
PATSY BUTLER
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Patsy Butler, 60, of Union, who died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002, in Newton County.
ORA L. WILKINS
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Ora L. Wilkins, 68, of Meridian, who died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002, in her home.

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