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9:47 pm Monday, February 5, 2001

OBITUARIES FOR SUNDAY, FEB. 4, 2001

By Staff
OLA MAE MILLER
Homemaker
Graveside services for Ola Mae Miller will be held Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. at Meridian Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Jerry Johnson officiating. James F. Webb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Miller, 77, of Meridian, died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2001, in Meridian. She was a member of Wesley Methodist Church.
Survivors include her uncle, Jimmy Whitlock; two special friends, Doris Quinnelly and Edna Strickland; and several cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Nathan and Alice Whitlock.
DAISEY DELL FROST
Homemaker
Graveside services for Daisey Dell Frost will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Monroeville Baptist Church Cemetery in Monroeville,Ala. with the Revs. Richard Cothren and Taylor Wallace officiating. James F. Webb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Frost, 73, of Enterprise, died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2001, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. She was a member of the Enterprise Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Jack G. Frost of Enterprise; a son, David G. Frost of Monroeville; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be made to Baptist Children's Village.
Pallbearers will be Deacons of Enterprise Baptist Church.
Visitation will be held today from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
LYDA VIC SCARBROUGH
Retired employee of Lauderdale County Tax Collectors office
Services for Lyda Vic Scarbrough will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Cokers Chapel Methodist Church with the Rev. Jessie Long officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with James F. Webb Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Scarbrough, 69, of Meridian, died Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001, in Meridian. She was a member of Cokers Chapel Methodist Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Daneie Rogers of Lexington, S.C.; a son, Billy Scarbrough and his wife, Stacie, of Meridian; a daughter-in-law, Terri Holland; brothers and sisters-in-law, Jack and Dean Coker and Rex and Vera Coker; three grandsons, Wyatt Rogers, Griff Rogers and Justin Scarbrough; four granddaughters, Judy Rogers, Brandi Scarbrough, Brooke Scarbrough and Megan Scarbrough; and a great-granddaughter, Anna Grace Rogers.
She was preceded in death by a son, Bubba Scarbrough and her husband, Luke Scarbrough.
Pallbearers will be Bill Temple, Sidney Barnett, Rick Luke, Johnny Clyde Coker, Clyde Coker and Hiram Coker.
Visitation will be today from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
ELIZA F. DOUGLASS
Retired from the civil service
Graveside services for Eliza F. Douglass will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Magnolia Cemetery with the Rev. Elvin Sunds officiating. James F. Webb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Miss Douglass, 97, of Meridian, died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2001, in Meridian.
Survivors include two nieces, Dancy Sykes of Meridian and Charlotte Davis of Davis, Calif.; a nephew, Mark Dabbs of Mobile, Ala.; and several great nieces and nephews.
JO LOUISE GOTTKE
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Jo Louise Gottke, 59, of Meridian, who died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2001, at Rush Foundation Hospital.

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