Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
5:13 pm Monday, October 17, 2016

Dellia I. Yerby

Dellia I. Yerby, age 81 of Russellville, passed away Oct. 14.

Visitation will be Oct. 18 from 3-7 p.m. at Akins Funeral Home, Russellville. Funeral services will be Oct. 19 at 11 a.m. with Bro. Gary Carter in the Chapel of Akins Funeral Home. Burial will be in Franklin Memory Gardens.

She is preceded in death by her husband Joe E. Yerby, parents George and Emma Miller Damron, brothers Vernon and Jerry Damron and sister Donna Spriggs.

She is survived by her sons Randy Yerby and wife Anita and Ricky Yerby and wife Cindy, sisters Charlene Hewitt and Freida Garland, grandsons Zane and Conor Yerby and granddaughter Kaitlyn Yerby.

Special thanks to all her coworkers at Walmart Russellville and her church family at Washington Avenue Church of Christ, Russellville.

Special thanks to all the doctors and nurses at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital and for all the prayers that were sent our way.

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