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3:34 am Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Obituaries for Wednesday, April 7, 2004

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Services for Wilburt Blaylack will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Peter AME Church with the Rev. Troy Roscoe officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Cemetery. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Blaylack, 68, of Meridian, died Saturday, April 3, 2004, at Riley Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Henrietta Blaylack; daughters, LaToyia Blaylack and Natasha Blaylack, all of Meridian.
Visitation will be Thursday 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Services for Katherine Warren will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Zachary Cole officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Cemetery.
Mrs. Warren, 68, of Meridian, died Thursday, April 1, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include her daughters, Glenda Talbert, Gloria Cole and her husband, Leroy, and Angela Naylor, all of Meridian; a son, Frederick Warren and his wife, Saundra; a sister, Peggy Croft and her husband, Nathaniel; three grandsons, four granddaughters, several other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be Thursday 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Rush Foundation Hospital security guard
DEKALB Services for David Chism will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at E.E. McDonald Community Chapel in Meridian with the Rev. Carey McDonald officiating. Burial will be in Salem Cemetery in Toomsuba.
Mr. Chism, 49, of Meridian, died Friday, April 2, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include his children, Annie Chism, Kimbly Chism, Aundra Chism, Michael Chism, and Brittney Twilley, all of Meridian, and Ashley Prince and husband, Timothy, of Sierra Vista, Ariz.; three sisters, Mary L. Minor and her husband, Theodis, of Birmingham, Ala., Helen C. Duke of Brim, Ala., and Gracie Wright of Middletown, Conn.; seven grandchildren, several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents and seven siblings.
Visitation will be Thursday 7 p.m.-8 p.m. at E.E. McDonald Community Chapel in Meridian.
Berry and Gardner Funeral Home employee
Services for Edward E. Gibson will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Mt. Olive Baptist Church on 49th Avenue with the Rev. Johnny Baskin Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Meridian Memorial Park Cemetery. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Gibson, 77, of Meridian, died Friday, April 2, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital. He was a veteran.
Visitation will be Friday 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Riley Hospital dietary clerk
Services for Barbara J. Landrum will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Tabernacle United Methodist Church on Highway 19 South, with the Rev. Johnny Rankins officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Clark's Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Ms. Landrum, 55, of Meridian, died Saturday, April 3, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include her mother, Willie Mae Clark of Meridian; a son, James Landrum of Colorado Springs, Colo.; daughters, Deborah Lewis and Lora Ann Clark, both of Meridian; sisters, Daisy Landrum and Mary Sue Clark, both of Atlantic City, N.J., Mattie May and Laura Baskin of Meridian; brothers, Howard Little Jr. of Chicago, Tommy Hill and Clifton Clark, both of Meridian; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her father, O.C. Landrum.
Visitation will be Friday 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at the funeral home.
Casino cage manager
PHILADELPHIA Diane Rasmussen, 63, of Philadelphia, died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include her daughter, Valerie Valles of Las Vegas; sons, James Luke of Philadelphia and Wesley Allan of Greensboro, N.C.; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; brothers, Donovan Craig of Long Beach, Calif., and Gordon Luce of Fresno, Calif.
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Carrie E. Hudson, 89, of Meridian, who died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, in her home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Eloise Granger, 73, of Meridian, who died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.

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