JOHN WESLEY FRANKLIN, 79, of 3762 Skylark, retired farmer, died Wednesday at City of Memphis Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Moscow, Tenn., where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Victory Funeral Home has charge. He leaves seven daughters, Mrs. Willie Mae Bowens, Mrs. Nannie L. Franklin, Mrs. Thelma Mason, Mrs. Cassie Owens, Mrs. John L. Stegall, Mrs. Vera Boyce and Mrs. Almetta Tate, and a son, James W. Franklin, all of Memphis; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Duncan and Mrs. Rosalee Spinks, both of Moscow, Mrs. Rachel Jackson of Memphis, Mrs. Henrietta Crawford of Chicago and Mrs. Tillie Gillett of California; a brother, Limmie Franklin of Cotton Plant, Ark., and 30 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on August 24, 1979)
JOHN WESLEY FRANKLIN, 79, of 3762 Skylark, retired farmer, died Wednesday at City of Memphis Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Moscow, Tenn., where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Victory Funeral Home has charge. He leaves seven daughters, Mrs. Willie Mae Bowens, Mrs. Nannie L. Franklin, Mrs. Thelma Mason, Mrs. Cassie Owens, Mrs. John L. Stegall, Mrs. Vera Boyce and Mrs. Almetta Tate, and a son, James W. Franklin, all of Memphis; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Duncan and Mrs. Rosalee Spinks, both of Moscow, Mrs. Rachel Jackson of Memphis, Mrs. Henrietta Crawford of Chicago and Mrs. Tillie Gillett of California; a brother, Limmie Franklin of Cotton Plant, Ark., and 30 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on August 24, 1979)
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