Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
8:26 am Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Lydia Mae Hester

Lydia Mae Hester

August 8, 2015

Lydia Mae Hester, 97, Russellville, Alabama passed away Saturday, August 8, 2015 at Burns Nursing Home.

She lived her entire life in Franklin County and was a member of Spring Valley Church of God.

Funeral service will be Monday, August 10, 2015, 3 p.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville with Jeff Cruse officiating.  Burial will be in Franklin Memory Gardens.

The family will receive friends prior to the service from 1 p.m. until time of service.

Survivors include children, Mary Walker, Tuscumbia, Eddie Brown, Killen, Debra Gipson, Tuscumbia, Bill Brown, Leighton; sister, Henretta Chaney, Russellville; ten grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be grandsons.

She was preceded in death by husband, Raymond Hester.

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