Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
11:16 pm Sunday, December 18, 2016

Pearlene Barrett Oliver

Pearlene Barrett Oliver, 84, passed away Dec. 14 at the Red Bay Hospital. She was born in Alabama and was a homemaker. She attended Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church.

Services were Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Brian Bridges and Bro. Clint Holcombe officiating. Burial was in Shottsville Cemetery, Vina.

Survivors are one brother, Charles Barrett and wife Sue, Tuscumbia; one sister, Mattie Baucam; a host of nieces and nephews; and special family members, V.H. Emerson, Doug Emerson, Barbara Emerson and Jim Emerson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Angelo Oliver, and her parents, Cleo Barrett and Myrtle Garrison Barrett.

Pallbearers were Mark Emerson, Dewayne Emerson, Joseph Emerson, Glenn Griffith, Chance Griffith and Steven Watson.

Visitation was Dec. 17, noon to 2 p.m. at Deaton Funeral Home, Red Bay.

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