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3:17 am Wednesday, August 8, 2001

OBITUARIES FOR TUESDAY, AUG. 7, 2001

By Staff
ILEAN CLARK
Services for Ilean "Teen" Clark will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Shady Grove Primitive Baptist Church in DeKalb, with the Rev. Billy Thornton officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Clark's Memorial Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Clark, 56, of DeKalb, died Thursday, Aug. 2, 2001, at Riley Hospital.
Survivors include three sons, Gregory Clark and James Clark, both of DeKalb, and Jackie Clark of Lauderdale; four sisters, the Rev. Sister Annie Dubose and her husband, Jimmy, the Rev. Sister Freddie Jackson, and Laura Johnson, all of Meridian, and Glenda Hudson and her husband, Charles, of DeKalb; four brothers, Herbert Hopson and his wife, Bertha, of Ralph, Ala., Elma Lavender and his wife, Claudette, of New Orleans, Lorenzia McCallum of DeKalb and Eartha McCallum of Meridian; and four grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Willie and Pearlie Louise McCallum.
Visitation will be today from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home and Wednesday one hour prior to the service at the church.
HENRY A. YOUNG
Retired truck driver
MACON Services for Henry A. Young will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Columbus.
Mr. Young, 74, of Brooksville, died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2001, at University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center. He was a retired truck driver.
Survivors include his wife, Rose Culpepper Young of Brooksville; four daughters, Mary Ann Reed, Nellie Sue Beaman, both of Columbus, Hattie Hughes of Tuscaloosa and Christy Hollier of Birmingham; two sons, Carroll Culpepper and Glynn Culpepper, both of Columbus; a sister, Mary Y. Farrar of West Point; three brothers, Sam Young of Radcliff, Ky., Sid Young of Jackson, and Elton Young of Brookwood, Ala.; 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be today from 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
TI'KIYAH SHACOLE KENNEDY
Graveside services for Ti'Kiyah Shacole Kennedy will be held Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Shady Grove Cemetery in Heidelberg, with the Rev. Herbert Walker officiating. Clark's Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Infant Kennedy, 4 months, of Heidelberg, died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2001, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include her mother, Cassandra Windham of Heidelberg; her father, Willie Otha Kennedy of Rose Hill; three brothers, Kendrick Kennedy and Khehlan Kennedy, both of Heidelberg, and Keyshawn Kennedy of Stringer; her maternal grandparents, Doris Windham and Herman Windham, and her paternal grandfather, Willie B. Kennedy, all of Heidelberg.
She was preceded in death by her paternal grandmother, Pearlie Ann Kennedy.
Visitation will be today from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at the funeral home.
JESSIE R. POLLOCK
Arrangements were incomplete at E.E. McDonald Funeral Home for Jessie R. Pollock, 70, formerly of DeKalb, who died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2001, at his home in Detroit.
WALLACE R. O'FIELD
Arrangements were incomplete at E.E. McDonald Funeral Home for Wallace R. O'Field of Toomsuba, who died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2001, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
BETTY J. SPINKS
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Betty J. Spinks, 46, of Toomsuba, who died Monday, Aug. 6, 2001, at Riley Hospital.
MARY ARLENE MILES
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Mary Arlene Miles, 60, of Meridian, who died Monday, Aug. 6, 2001, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
ROBERT D. HOLLAWAY
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Robert D. Hollaway, 83, of Meridian, who died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001, at Guardian Angel Hospice.

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