GENEVA SWAIN COLLECTION
This is the unedited research and genealogical collection of Geneva
Suggs Swain donated by Carroll Ray Ellis.
THE POWERS FAMILY NOTEBOOK
Leslie
Powers
December
12,
1983
Leslie Jennings
Powers, 75, of Madison died Monday at Madison Hospital after a brief
illness.
The funeral will be
at 10 a.m.
Thursday at Evangel Temple, 3838
Dickerson Road, in Madison with the
Rev. Jimmy Snow officiating. Burial will be
in Greenwood
Cemetery.
Visitation will be
from noon to 3 p.m. today at Sykes Chapel. And, visitation will also be
from 5
to 10 p.m. today at Evangel Temple, Madison.
Powers was born
Sept. 4, 1908, in
Montgomery County, son of Rev.
M.C. Powers and Althea Green
Powers.
He was a retired
groceryman and sporting goods clerk. He was a member of Evangel Temple,
Madison,
the Masons and was a Shriner.
Survivors include
his wife, Louise Hickman Powers, Madison; five sons, Lew Mastin “Mike”
Powers,
St Cloud, Fla., Samuel L. Powers, Henderson, David Lynn Powers,
Tuscaloosa,
Ala., Joe Jennings Powers and Gene M. Powers, both of Camden; two
stepdaughters, Janice Peircey and Rene Spencer, both of Nashville;
five
brothers, Carl L Powers, Dover, Dr. W.M. Powers and Walter L. Powers,
both of
Clarksville Allen M. Powers, Dickson, and Dr. James M. Powers, Waverly;
four
sisters, Louise McDonald, Bertha Tomlinson and Frances Grannis, all of
Waverly,
and Dorothy Hiett, Clarksville; 11 grandchildren; two
stepgrandchildren; and
six great-grandchildren.
Sykes Funeral Home
is in charge of arrangements.
.
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