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Obituaries for Friday, April 9, 2004

By Staff
Retired Navy
Graveside services for Nettie Lee Quimby will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Donald Gentry officiating. James F. Webb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Quimby, 87, of Meridian, died Thursday, April 8, 2004, at Silver Leaf Manor.
Survivors include her daughters, Cheri Kuveven and her husband, Brad, of Meridian; and JoNelle "Quimby" Brown and her husband, Dan; her grandchildren, Jojn and Jennifer Kueven; and her sister, Kathleon Shuttlesworth.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John. C. Quimby, her son, Larry Quimby, and her parents, Robert and Maggie Wedgeworth.
The family requests memorials be made to Eighth Avenue Baptist Church.
Pallbearers will be Wayne Holland, Chavus Holland, Chris Busby, Chuck Nicholson, Jeff Merritt and Berry Nicholson.
Visitation will be Saturday at 9 a.m.
Retired
Services for Elouise Granger will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Richard Parker officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Granger, 73, of Meridian, died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include her son, Robert Lee Anderson of San Diego; five grandchildren and eight grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and one brother.
Visitation will be today from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Retired
Memorial services for Carrie Stewart Hudson will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Richard Parker officiating.
Mrs. Hudson, 89, of Meridian, died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at her home.
Survivors include her daughter, Leona Stewart of Meridian; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a son.
Visitation will be today from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Dietary clerk, Riley Hospital
Services for Barbara J. Landrum will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Tabernacle United Methodist Church on Highway 19 South with the Rev. Johnny Rankins officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Clark's Memorial Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Ms. Landrum, 55, of Meridian, died Saturday, April 3, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include her mother, Willie Mae Clark of Meridian; her son, James Landrum of Colorado Springs; two daughters, Deborah Lewis and Lora Ann Clark of Meridian; four sisters, Daisy Landrum and Mary Sue Clark of Atlantic City, N.J.; Mattie May and Laura Baskin of Meridian; three brothers, Howard Little Jr. of Chicago; Tommy Hill, and Clifton Clark of Meridian; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her father, O.C. Landrum.
Visitation will be today from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at the funeral home.
Homemaker
DEKALB Services for Annie Pearl Sims will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Sunflower Baptist Church of Scooba with the Rev. John Balls officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. E.E. McDonald Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Sims, 96, of Cleveland, Ohio, formerly of Scooba, died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at University Hospital of Cleveland.
Survivors include her sons, J.W. Rencher and his wife, Louise, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., James Sims of Chicago, George Sims, Howell Sims and Robert Sims and his wife, Laveria, all of Cleveland; U.V. Sims and his wife, Glenda, of Detroit; four granddaughters, other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be Sunday from 5 p.m.-6 p.m. at the church in Scooba.
BELLAIRE, Texas Graveside services for Doris Marie Wylie Bergman were held Monday at 1 p.m. at Flora Garden Memorial Cemetery in Bay City, Mich. Earthman Bellaire Chapel Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Bergman, 88, of Bellaire, died Wednesday, March 31, 2004, in Houston, Texas. She was born on May 2, 1915 in Auburn, Mich. and was the first child of David and Ida Wylie. In 1937, she married Fred Bergman and they lived in Auburn; Bay City, Mich.; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; Dayton, Ohio and Meridian. In 1988, Doris moved to Houston, Texas to be with her beloved grandson, Allen Groue.
Survivors include her daughter, Janet Groue and her husband, Kenneth; a grandson, Allen Groue, all of Houston; a sister-in-law, Arlene Hill and her husband, Howard, of Stanton, Mich. and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred; sisters, Esther Wackerly and Ruth Knight.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Robert Goodwin, 64, of Stonewall, who died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, in Clarke County.
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Dorothy Jean Butler, 71, of Meridian, who died Thursday, April 8, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.

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