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3:38 am Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Obituaries for Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2003

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Homemaker
WAYNESBORO Services for Doris Juanita Daniels will be held today at 2 p.m. at Freeman Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Jessie Griffith and Dennis Kennedy officiating. Burial will be in Daniels Cemetery.
Mrs. Daniels, 75, of Quitman, died Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, at Golden Meadow Specialty Care in Quitman.
Survivors include her son, Danny Eugene Daniels of Waynesboro; daughters, Sharon Rolison. of Quitman and Peggy Mayo of Thomasville, Ala.; brothers, Cecil Covington of Shubuta and Jimmy Covington of Mobile, Ala; sisters, Dorothy Chapman of Waynesboro and Etta Mae Chapman of Pascagoula.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Daniels; and a son, Joey Daniels.
Retired from General Motors
DEKALB Graveside services for Willard Kline Wilson will be held today at 2:30 p.m. at Union United Methodist Church Cemetery with the Revs. Lannis May and George Skelton officiating. Stephens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Wilson, 83, of DeKalb, died Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. He was a member of Union United Methodist Church and a veteran of World War II serving in the U.S. Army. Mr. Wilson was a retired order interpreter for General Motors.
Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Doris Little Wilson of DeKalb; sons, Charles Edward Wilson of Gadsden, Ala., and Robert Kline Wilson of Atlanta; a grandson, Kenneth E. Wilson of Austin, Texas; a brother, E.J. Wilson of Griffith, Ind.; nieces, Betty Wilson, Jo Cash, Joyce Aust, June Aust, Jean Wash and Mildred Weaver; nephews, Jimmy Craig and Jimmy Fike; and dear friends, Leona Baylor, Pearl Baylor and Jean Baylor.
PEARL Services for Cecil "Shorty" Ledlow will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Baldwin-Lee Chapel. Burial will be in Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Newton County.
Mr. Ledlow, 76, died Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, at River Oaks Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Annie L. Ledlow; daughters, Rebecca Ledlow King, Diane Ledlow Steele and Sandy Ledlow Ward, all of Pearl; a brother, Travis Ledlow of Decatur; sisters, Myrtle Nelson of Florence, Lucille Garrett of Mobile, Ala., and Shirley Hammond of Dalewood; and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be today 5 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home of Newton for Edwin R. Crenshaw, 68, of Newton, who died Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003, at Mississippi Baptist Hospital in Jackson.
Arrangements were incomplete at Stephens Funeral Home of DeKalb for Mildred McRae, 89, of DeKalb, who died Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003, at Mississippi Care Center in DeKalb.

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