Obituaries for Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004
By Staff
Retired medical assistant
Graveside services for Arrada Reynolds will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Rosehill Cemetery with the Rev. James Ruffin officiated. Barham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Reynolds, of Meridian, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. She was a member of Poplar Springs Drive Baptist Church and was retired from Meridian Convalescent Center as an assistant.
Survivors include her husband, Jesse M. Reynolds Sr., a daughter, Charlene Joiner and her husband, Urban, two sons, James L. Spann and his wife, Martha, and Jesse M. Reynolds Jr., and daughters-in-law, Helen C. Reynolds, and Darlene Spann, all of Meridian; 10 grandchildren, Kristen Reynolds, Lanny Spann, James Spann, Mark Spann, Shea Spann, Lorenda Spann, Christine Spann, Charlene Adams, Charles Spann, Charlotte Spann; and 12 great-grandchildren, Levi Clark, Jennifer Spann, Lane Spann, Amber Spann, Kellen Spann, Michael Scott, Drew Spann, Jeremy Spann, Matthew Spann, Noah Adams, Destiny Adams and Dustin Ezell.
She was preceded in death by two sons, Lanny Russell Spann and Charles Spann, and her parents, Russell and Elizabeth Bennett.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons.
Visitation will be Friday from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Retired housekeeper
YORK, Ala. Services for Annette Kiker Fluker will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Bumpers Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. James Lloyd Kimbrough and Ed Tatum officiating. Burial will be in Shorts Cemetery.
Mrs. Fluker, 89, of York, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, at Sumter Health and Rehab Center in York.
Survivors include her brother, Richard Kiker of Birmingham and a sister, Alice Heathcock of Jackson, Ala.; and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be Friday one hour prior to the services at the funeral home.
Retired landscaper
Services for John W. Clark will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at New Era Baptist Church with the Rev. Roderick Steele officiating. Burial will be in Blackwater Cemetery. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Clark, 73, of Meridian, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004, at Riley Hospital.
Survivors include his daughters, Deloris Clark, Doris Celestine, Elinore Hersey, and Tanya Loundy, all of Meridian, Pamela Clark and Kimberly Clark, both of Eustis,Fla., and Earnestive Bell of Tacoma, Wash.; sons, Eddie Collins of Gulfport, Dennis Clark of Detroit, Wilie Avery and Leroy Russell, both of Meridian, Prentis Lanier and John Wesley Clark Jr., both of Eustis, Fla.; his mother, Alice Clark of Meridian; a sister, Willie Mae Winn of Los Angeles; 16 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be Friday 7 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Supervisor at Entergy Corporation Power Plant
BUTLER, Ala. Military graveside services for George H. Savage Jr. will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Ebenezer Cemetery with Ronnie Gibson officiating. Bumpers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Savage, 60, of Pennington, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and served in Vietnam.
Survivors include Wanda Phillips of Luling, La.; his mother, Pearl Lucille Savage of Beardstown, Ill.; sons, George Savage III of Pennington, Chauncey Mize of Butler, and Phillip Lee Patrick of Luling, La.; daughters, Tara Nanette Naquin of Slidell, La., Chandra Mize Sampey and Pamela Rhachell Gilbert, all of Luling, La.; a sister, Caroline Sue Hall of Hotchkiss, Colo. and five grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Kevin Chandler and his father, George H. Savage Sr.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Roberta Hendel, 43, of Meridian, who died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Arrangements were incomplete at Stephens Funeral Home for William Shumate, 81, of Meridian, who died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
