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12:07 am Wednesday, November 1, 2000

ADA WARD

By Staff
ADA WARD Services for Ada Ward will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Phillip Wottrich officiating. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery with Berry and Gardner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ward, 60, of Meridian, died Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000, at Guardian Angel Hospice.
Survivors include three sons, Willie L. Ward and his wife, Sherry, of Lancing, Mich., Willie J. Ward and La Voice Ward and his wife, Teresa, all of Cincinnati; five sisters, Hattie L. Thompson and Leona Gates, both of Cleveland, Ohio, Minnie L. Edwards of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Mary H. Landrum of Kewanee and Katie Alford and her husband, Jerry, of Meridian; 13 brothers, Richard Larkins and his wife, Emma, Moural Larkins and his wife, Thelma, John Larkins, Lucious Larkins and his wife, Lillie, and Roosevelt Larkins and his wife, Ruby, all of Cleveland, Charles Larkins and Aaron Larkins and his wife, Angela, all of Kewanee, Roy Larkins and his wife, Liz, of Savannah, Ga., Ray Larkins and his wife, Shelia, and Wesley Larkins and his wife, Kathy, all of Meridian, Alfonsa Lard of California, Issac Lard of Biloxi and Eddie Lard of Birmingham, Ala.; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be Friday from 8 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

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