Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:51 pm Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Flora Mae Wells

Flora Mae Wells

February 4, 2013

Graveside memorial services for Flora Mae Wells, 100, will be Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, at 1 p.m. at Franklin Memory Gardens with Bro. Joe Lenox and Bro. Jack Redfearn officiating. Interment will be in Franklin Memory Gardens.

Mrs. Wells died Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at Summerford Nursing Home. She was born Oct. 18, 1912, in Winston County to Huey Dothard Prestridge and Ella Melissa (Gabriel) Prestridge. Mrs. Wells was a lifelong Southern Baptist and a current member of West Hartselle Baptist Church. She was a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John Allen Wells and a granddaughter, Mary Suzann King Vestal.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering Fund at West Hartselle Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Joan Wells Duncan  and Mary Alice Wells White; one brother, Billie B. Prestridge; five grandchildren, Donald  A. Duncan, David Michael King, Kathleen M. (King) Senner, Garnet Duncan Williams, and Pamela J. (King) Luyten; 11 great grandchildren; seven great-great-grandchildren.

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