Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
2:58 pm Thursday, January 5, 2017

Dory Paypon Kimbrough

Dory Paypon Kimbrough of Russellville, passed away Jan. 5 at the age of 64.
She was a native of the Phillipines and had lived in this area for the past 3o years. A homemaker, she was a member of Isbell Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Tuscumbia.
Visitation will be Jan. 8 from 1-3 p.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home in Russellville. Services will begin at 3 p.m. in the chapel of the funeral home with Bro. Truman Kimbrough and Bro. Gary Phillips officiating. Burial will follow at Franklin Memory Gardens, Russellville.
Survivors include her son, Jeremy Kimbrough; stepson, Virgil Kimbrough; stepdaughters, Charlotte Turner and Jennifer Kimbrough; and one sister, Delia Paypon.
She also leaves five grandchildren: Hannah and Ramsey Kimbrough, Nathan Ward, Evan Stephenson and T.J. Turner. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
Mrs. Kimbrough was preceded in death by her parents, Irenco Paypon and Candelara Guardiano, and her husband, Jerry O. Kimbrough.

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