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1:20 pm Monday, February 23, 2004

Obituaries for Monday, Feb. 23, 2004

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QUITMAN Graveside services for Mildred Davis Dear will be held today at 10 a.m. at Enterprise Cemetery with the Rev. Richard Cauthern officiating. Wright's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Dear, 80, of Enterprise, died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004, in Marion.
Survivors include her son, Charles Dear of Enterprise.
Owner Fail Telecommunications/Red Metro Phone Book
Services for Harry N. Lackey will be held today at 2 p.m. at Barham Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Carless Evans, Jason Bird, and Gary Smith officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Mr. Lackey, 74, of Meridian, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004, in his home. He was a member of Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Sylvia Lackey, of Meridian; daughters, Harriet Harper and her husband, Ron, of Meridian and Cindy Ott of Florence, Ala.; a son, Doug Lackey and his wife, Sherri, of Brentwood, Tenn.; three brothers, George Lackey and his wife, Helen and Will Smith Lackey Jr. and his wife, Betty, all of Bailey and Willie Lackey and his wife, Jaquelyn, of DeKalb; grandchildren, Justin Thomas, Chase Harper and Dylan Harper, all of Meridian; Ashley Ott and Ethan Ott, both of Florence, Ala. and Hannah Catherine Lackey and Harrison Lackey of Brentwood, Tenn.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Will S. Lackey and Lottie Lackey and a son-in-law, Thomas "Tommy" Ott.
Pallbearers will be Rick Bennett, Frank Farley, Robert Frazier, Mack Hodges, Billy McWilliams, Neal Russell, Jerry Snowden and Odie Turbville. Honorary pallbearers will be Charles Fail, Jerry Kinard, Leo Rawson, and all of his Briarwood Golf buddies.
Retired HUD Housing Manager
Services for Bessie McLendon Dukes will be held at a later date. Stephens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Dukes, 82, of Meridian, died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004, at Queen City Nursing Center.
Survivors include her daughter, Betty Johnson and her husband, Windell, of Meridian; a son, Madison Dukes Jr. and his wife, Sherry, of Ocala, Fla.; sisters, Margaret LeGrand, Kat Le Grand, Nellie Nannah and Elizabeth Wilkerson, all of South Carolina and Anita Powell, of Michigan; one granddaughter and one great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Madison L. Dukes Sr.
Services were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Nellie Osby, 64, of Meridian, who died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Oliver Trotter, 57, of Meridian, who died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.

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