Mrs. Homer Baker Dies In Knoxville Mrs. Inas Lee Baker, 40, wife of Homer Baker, died at Knoxville hospital Thursday. She had been ill for two years. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Mt. Elam Baptist Church. Rev. Clyde McCoy of Knoxville, officiated, and burial was in Long cemetery in Van Buren county. Mrs. Baker, a native of Van Buren county, was born November 4, 1911. Her parents were Albert Miller and Vernie Yates Miller…
Last rites were held Dec. 28 at the Love-Cantrell Funeral Home Chapel for Alice Clarice Banks, 64, of Smithville. Mark Miller officiated. Burial followed in DeKalb Memorial Gardens. Banks died Dec. 22 at Centennial Medical Center following a brief illness. A native of Lee County, she was a member of the Prosperity Baptist Church and a retired caretaker at the Webb House in Smithville. She was the daughter of the late John Thomas and Emma Irene Rains Taylor. Banks is survived…
Mattie M. Austin, 78 McMinnville resident and Van Buren County native Mattie M. Austin, 78, died April 25 at Glen Oakes Nursing Home in Shelbyville. A hair stylist and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Lee and Atlia Sparkman Miller; and was preceded in death by one daughter, Margie Ann Austin in 1976; and her husband, Edward J. Austin in 1962. She is survived by one son, James E. Austin of McMinnville;…
James F. Allison, Retired Farmer, Buried Monday Funeral services for James Finis Allison, 93-year-old pioneer citizen and retired farmer, were conducted Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Mt. Zion Methodist Church. Rev. William H. Moss, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiated and burial was in the Mt. Zion cemetery. Mr. Allison died at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. H. A. King, on Seitz street Sunday morning at 5:50 o’clock. He had been ill some two or three…