Mrs. Lena Mae Bickerstaff, age 90, of Hughes, died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001, at Beverly Health Care in Jonesboro.
Mrs. Bickerstaff was a homemaker and a member of Central Baptist Church in Hughes.
She was preceded in death by her husband, R.H. Bickerstaff. Mrs. Bickerstaff is survived by three daughters, Kathleen Turman, of Meridan, Miss., Anna Gracey, of Forrest City, and Rose Wilkerson, of Mt. View, Mo.; four sons, Roger Bickerstaff, of Arlington, Texas, Wallace Bickerstaff, of Chicago, Ill., Russell Bickerstaff, of Jonesboro, and Marion Bickerstaff, of Tyronza; 32 grandchildren and a host of great and great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs. Bickerstaff will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, at 10 a.m., in the Chapel of Roller-Citizens Funeral Home in West Memphis. Burial will follow at Forrest Park Cemetery in Forrest City. Roller-Citizens Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. The family requests that all memorials be made to the Central Baptist Church in Hughes.
Mrs. Viola "Pete" Grantham, age 76, of Wynne, died Friday, Jan. 26, 2001.
Mrs. Grantham was born on Feb. 7, 1924, in Waterloo, Ala. She was the daughter of Clarence H. Eppes and Pearl Craven Eppes. Mrs. Grantham was a retired bus driver for the Wynne School District and was a housewife. She was a member of Good Sam's Crowley's Ridge Runners, and a member of Wynne Church of Christ.
Mrs. Grantham was preceded in death by a daughter, Connie Brown; three brothers, C.H. Eppes, Jr., Kenneth Eppes, and Jerry Eppes.
She is survived by her husband, Raymond H. Grantham, of Wynne; a son, Danny Grantham, of Wynne; two sisters, Pauline Cowan, of Wynne, and Odessa Holt, of Rochell, Ill.; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held today at 2 p.m. in Kernodle Funeral Home in Wynne, Burial followed in Harris Chapel Cemetery. The family requests all memorials be made to the American Cancer Society.