Jonesboro Sun May 15, 2008
OSCEOLA — Dorothy Irene Eldridge Sweet, 92, of Osceola died Tuesday, May 13, at Osceola Health Care Center.
Born at Williford, she was the daughter of the late Ridley and Jessie Hill Eldridge and had lived most of her life in Mississippi County. She was a retired bookkeeper, the widow of Raymond Sweet and a longtime member of Brinkley Chapel Baptist Church near Osceola.
She is survived by three daughters, Joy McKenzie of Texarkana, Texas, Ramona Davis of Douglasville, Ga., and Marilyn Davis of Osceola; one sister, Mazine Markin of Germantown, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; 4 stepgreat-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Friday in the Howard Funeral Service Chapel at Manila with the Rev. William Piercy officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery at Blytheville.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
The family will receive visitors tonight from 6-8 in the funeral home.
www.howardfuneralservice.com
OSCEOLA — Dorothy Irene Eldridge Sweet, 92, of Osceola died Tuesday, May 13, at Osceola Health Care Center.
Born at Williford, she was the daughter of the late Ridley and Jessie Hill Eldridge and had lived most of her life in Mississippi County. She was a retired bookkeeper, the widow of Raymond Sweet and a longtime member of Brinkley Chapel Baptist Church near Osceola.
She is survived by three daughters, Joy McKenzie of Texarkana, Texas, Ramona Davis of Douglasville, Ga., and Marilyn Davis of Osceola; one sister, Mazine Markin of Germantown, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; 4 stepgreat-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Friday in the Howard Funeral Service Chapel at Manila with the Rev. William Piercy officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery at Blytheville.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
The family will receive visitors tonight from 6-8 in the funeral home.
www.howardfuneralservice.com
Jonesboro Sun May 15, 2008
OSCEOLA — Dorothy Irene Eldridge Sweet, 92, of Osceola died Tuesday, May 13, at Osceola Health Care Center.
Born at Williford, she was the daughter of the late Ridley and Jessie Hill Eldridge and had lived most of her life in Mississippi County. She was a retired bookkeeper, the widow of Raymond Sweet and a longtime member of Brinkley Chapel Baptist Church near Osceola.
She is survived by three daughters, Joy McKenzie of Texarkana, Texas, Ramona Davis of Douglasville, Ga., and Marilyn Davis of Osceola; one sister, Mazine Markin of Germantown, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; 4 stepgreat-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Friday in the Howard Funeral Service Chapel at Manila with the Rev. William Piercy officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery at Blytheville.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
The family will receive visitors tonight from 6-8 in the funeral home.
www.howardfuneralservice.com
OSCEOLA — Dorothy Irene Eldridge Sweet, 92, of Osceola died Tuesday, May 13, at Osceola Health Care Center.
Born at Williford, she was the daughter of the late Ridley and Jessie Hill Eldridge and had lived most of her life in Mississippi County. She was a retired bookkeeper, the widow of Raymond Sweet and a longtime member of Brinkley Chapel Baptist Church near Osceola.
She is survived by three daughters, Joy McKenzie of Texarkana, Texas, Ramona Davis of Douglasville, Ga., and Marilyn Davis of Osceola; one sister, Mazine Markin of Germantown, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; 4 stepgreat-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Friday in the Howard Funeral Service Chapel at Manila with the Rev. William Piercy officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery at Blytheville.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
The family will receive visitors tonight from 6-8 in the funeral home.
www.howardfuneralservice.com
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