RIPLEY MAY 3, 1968
Roscoe Butler ALLEY, 53, retired welder of Gates, died Saturday en route to Parkview Hospital, Dyersburg, after a heart attack. Services were Tuesday in Gates Methodist Church, burial in Lauderdale County Memorial Gardens. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Gladys JOHNSON ALLEY, of Gates; sons, Alvin ALLEY, of Gates and Jerry Scoot ALLEY, of Joliet, Ill.; his daughters, Mrs. Linnie Mae HEIMAN, of Joliet, Ill., and Mrs. Barbara Ann LANE of Plainsfield, Ill.; his mother, Mrs. Irene Baker ALLEY, of Halls; sisters, Mrs. Nannie Ruth JOHNS, of Ripley, and Mrs. Rose Annie GARRETT, of Oak Park, Ill.; brothers, Malcolm ALLEY, of Halls, Jim ALLEY, of Memphis, John ALLEY and Richard ALLEY, both of Chicago, Ill., and Joe ALLEY, of Clearwater, Fla.

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