Obituary- Vardaman, MS
Emma Lee Sturdivant Allen, 80, died Monday, June 22, 1998, at the Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton, Fla. She was born April 16, 1918, in Webster County to William Oscar and Rosa Lee Spikes Sturdivant. She was a graduate of Derma High School. She attended Holmes Junior College and Delta State University, earning a B. A. degree in elementary education. She was a first grade teacher for 33 years, teaching in Calhoun County, New Albany, Jackson, and Clinton County, MS and in Marianna, Fla. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Marianna, Fla., where she was a member of the choir, a Sunday School director, a Vacation Bible School teacher, a discipleship training teacher and assistant choir teacher.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, at Vardaman First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dale Easley officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Vardaman. Parker Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include three daughters, Jarvis Rose Nichols and her husband, Dr. Clint Nichols, and Lynda Ruth Barfield and her husband, Charles O., all of Hattisburg, MS and Ragenia Lee Shelton and her husband, Jackie, of Milton, Fla.; one sister, Syble Gilder of Hattisburg; two brothers, Truman Sturdivant of Powder Springs, GA., and Gerstle Sturdivant of Neddleton, TX; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph M. Allen in 1990; her parents; two sisters, Bernice Ophelia Sturdivant and Floy Sturdivant Henshaw; and four brothers, Granville, Algin, and William Lomax, V.I. and Boyd McKee Sturdivant.
Emma Lee Sturdivant Allen, 80, died Monday, June 22, 1998, at the Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton, Fla. She was born April 16, 1918, in Webster County to William Oscar and Rosa Lee Spikes Sturdivant. She was a graduate of Derma High School. She attended Holmes Junior College and Delta State University, earning a B. A. degree in elementary education. She was a first grade teacher for 33 years, teaching in Calhoun County, New Albany, Jackson, and Clinton County, MS and in Marianna, Fla. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Marianna, Fla., where she was a member of the choir, a Sunday School director, a Vacation Bible School teacher, a discipleship training teacher and assistant choir teacher.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, at Vardaman First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dale Easley officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Vardaman. Parker Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include three daughters, Jarvis Rose Nichols and her husband, Dr. Clint Nichols, and Lynda Ruth Barfield and her husband, Charles O., all of Hattisburg, MS and Ragenia Lee Shelton and her husband, Jackie, of Milton, Fla.; one sister, Syble Gilder of Hattisburg; two brothers, Truman Sturdivant of Powder Springs, GA., and Gerstle Sturdivant of Neddleton, TX; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph M. Allen in 1990; her parents; two sisters, Bernice Ophelia Sturdivant and Floy Sturdivant Henshaw; and four brothers, Granville, Algin, and William Lomax, V.I. and Boyd McKee Sturdivant.
Obituary- Vardaman, MS
Emma Lee Sturdivant Allen, 80, died Monday, June 22, 1998, at the Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton, Fla. She was born April 16, 1918, in Webster County to William Oscar and Rosa Lee Spikes Sturdivant. She was a graduate of Derma High School. She attended Holmes Junior College and Delta State University, earning a B. A. degree in elementary education. She was a first grade teacher for 33 years, teaching in Calhoun County, New Albany, Jackson, and Clinton County, MS and in Marianna, Fla. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Marianna, Fla., where she was a member of the choir, a Sunday School director, a Vacation Bible School teacher, a discipleship training teacher and assistant choir teacher.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, at Vardaman First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dale Easley officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Vardaman. Parker Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include three daughters, Jarvis Rose Nichols and her husband, Dr. Clint Nichols, and Lynda Ruth Barfield and her husband, Charles O., all of Hattisburg, MS and Ragenia Lee Shelton and her husband, Jackie, of Milton, Fla.; one sister, Syble Gilder of Hattisburg; two brothers, Truman Sturdivant of Powder Springs, GA., and Gerstle Sturdivant of Neddleton, TX; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph M. Allen in 1990; her parents; two sisters, Bernice Ophelia Sturdivant and Floy Sturdivant Henshaw; and four brothers, Granville, Algin, and William Lomax, V.I. and Boyd McKee Sturdivant.
Emma Lee Sturdivant Allen, 80, died Monday, June 22, 1998, at the Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton, Fla. She was born April 16, 1918, in Webster County to William Oscar and Rosa Lee Spikes Sturdivant. She was a graduate of Derma High School. She attended Holmes Junior College and Delta State University, earning a B. A. degree in elementary education. She was a first grade teacher for 33 years, teaching in Calhoun County, New Albany, Jackson, and Clinton County, MS and in Marianna, Fla. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Marianna, Fla., where she was a member of the choir, a Sunday School director, a Vacation Bible School teacher, a discipleship training teacher and assistant choir teacher.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, at Vardaman First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dale Easley officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Vardaman. Parker Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include three daughters, Jarvis Rose Nichols and her husband, Dr. Clint Nichols, and Lynda Ruth Barfield and her husband, Charles O., all of Hattisburg, MS and Ragenia Lee Shelton and her husband, Jackie, of Milton, Fla.; one sister, Syble Gilder of Hattisburg; two brothers, Truman Sturdivant of Powder Springs, GA., and Gerstle Sturdivant of Neddleton, TX; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph M. Allen in 1990; her parents; two sisters, Bernice Ophelia Sturdivant and Floy Sturdivant Henshaw; and four brothers, Granville, Algin, and William Lomax, V.I. and Boyd McKee Sturdivant.
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