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12:33 pm Friday, September 14, 2001

OBITUARIES FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 2001

By Staff
MARY ANN WARD
Services for Mary Ann Ward will be held today at 11 p.m. at E.E. McDonald Funeral Chapel with the Rev. C.L. Walk officiating. Burial will be in Cajun Cemetery in Cuba, Ala. James L. Osby Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ward, 57, of Meridian, died Friday, Sept. 7, 2001 at Riley Hospital.
Survivors include a daughter, Deborah Johnson of Jackson.
WARRENE M. MOSLEY
Retired school teacher
NEWTON Services for Warrene M. Mosley will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Barham Newton County Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Billy Owen officiating. Burial will be in Decatur Cemetery.
Mrs. Mosley, 78, of Decatur, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, at Jackson Health Care Facility in Jackson, Ala. She was a member of Decatur United Methodist Church. She received her master's degree in education in the field of art from the University of Alabama. She taught for 32 years and was a noted local artist and historian. She was also a 25-year member of DAV.
Survivors include a son, James G. Mosley and his wife, Betty, of Jackson, Ala.; two granddaughters, Karen Mosley Bright of Monroeville, Ala., and Jamie Kate Mosley of Atmore, Ala., and three brothers, Cecil E. McMullan of Jackson, Ala., Dr. Richard K. McMullan of Decatur and Charles E. McMullan of Lucedale.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James O. Mosley.
Pallbearers will be Rick McMullan, Eric Bright, Billy Holder, Mark Buntin, Don Kinard and Mark McDonald.
The family requests memorials be made to the American Cancer Society or the Methodist Children's Home.
Visitation will be today from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
REBA WILKINS
Homemaker
Services for Reba Wilkins will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at James F. Webb Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jimmy Gunn officiating. Burial will be in Prospect Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Wilkins, 78, of Meridian, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. She was a member of Central Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Reba Stephens and Patricia Jones and her husband, Lonnie, a son, Tommy Wilkins, all of Meridian; grandchildren, Bill Pierce, Pamela Barton, Shelly Leslie, Cassandra Cottingham and Tommy Dewayne Wilkins; great-grandchildren, Christin Pierce, Will Pierce, Wes Pierce, Will Covington II, Jonathan Leslie, Megan Barton, Tr Barton and Stacey Kent.
Pallbearers will be Bill Pierce, Bill Barton, Tommy Wilkins, Tr Barton, Terry Tew and Michael Cottingham.
Visitation will be today from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
MARTHA HARVEY
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Martha Harvey, 86, of Meridian, who died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, at Benchmark Health Care.

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