Mrs. Mabry, Lake City woman, dies<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mrs. Emma Bessie Rider Mabry, 80, wife of Jesse E. Mabry of Lake City Rt. 2, died of heart failure early Sunday morning.\u00a0 She was dead on arrival at Lake City Hospital.<\/p>\n She had been in ill health\u00a0for a number of years.\u00a0 Mrs. Mabry and her husband had lived in the Lake City area in 1970 and returned in 1972.\u00a0 She was a native of Fort Scott, Kan.<\/p>\n She worked years ago in a canning factory in Toledo, O.\u00a0 Her husband, now retired, worked for 37 years with Railway Express in Ohio.\u00a0 The Mabrys were married 50 years.<\/p>\n Mrs. Mabry\u2019s first husband was John Parsons, who died many years ago.\u00a0 She was a member of the Methodist Church.<\/p>\n Besides her husband, she leaves one son,\u00a0 Earl Parsons of Flint, Mich.; three grandchildren, Mrs. Jo Ann Biddle of Toledo, Kenneth Parsons of Briceville and James Parsons of Detroit.<\/p>\n Services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Laurel Branch Baptist Church with the Rev. W. H. Beets and the Rev. Albert Seiber officiating.\u00a0 Burial was in Norris Memorial gardens.<\/p>\n Clinton Courier-News<\/em>, May 3, 1974<\/p>\n [Transcribed by Stephanie A. Hill from a photocopy of the microfilm in the genealogy vertical files at Lake City Library.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"