OBITUARY
Published: Waycross Journal-Herald (GA) - Saturday, December 11, 1982, page 12.
Mrs. Ida Arnold Mercer, 88, died this morning in Memorial Hospital after an extended illness.
She was a member of Hargraves Chapel and a lifelong resident of Ware County. She was the daughter of the late Rowe Arnold and Beady Harrell Arnold and the widow of M.C. Mercer.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Lee, Mrs. Louise Deal, Mrs. Blanch King and Mrs. Billie Boyd, all of Waycross, and Mrs. Bonnie Melton, Kingsland, Ga.; four sons, Wilbon Mercer, Mack Huey Mercer, and Dewey Mercer, all of Waycross, and Isbon Mercer of Millwood; five sisters, Mrs. Etta Kight and Mrs. Essie Smith, both of Waycross, Mrs. Evie Crews and Mrs. Eurice Riley, both of Cleveland, Tenn., and two brothers, Hoke Arnold, Argyle, and Jerome Arnold, Callahan, Fla.; twenty-nine grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Miles-Odum Funeral Home chapel. Burial will be in the Hargraves Chapel Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday night from 7 to 9 o'clock.
Georgia Death Index
Name: Ira A Mercer
Death Date: 11 Dec 1982
County of Death: Ware
Gender: F Race: W
Age: 88 years
County of Residence: Ware
Certificate: 041597
OBITUARY
Published: Waycross Journal-Herald (GA) - Saturday, December 11, 1982, page 12.
Mrs. Ida Arnold Mercer, 88, died this morning in Memorial Hospital after an extended illness.
She was a member of Hargraves Chapel and a lifelong resident of Ware County. She was the daughter of the late Rowe Arnold and Beady Harrell Arnold and the widow of M.C. Mercer.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Lee, Mrs. Louise Deal, Mrs. Blanch King and Mrs. Billie Boyd, all of Waycross, and Mrs. Bonnie Melton, Kingsland, Ga.; four sons, Wilbon Mercer, Mack Huey Mercer, and Dewey Mercer, all of Waycross, and Isbon Mercer of Millwood; five sisters, Mrs. Etta Kight and Mrs. Essie Smith, both of Waycross, Mrs. Evie Crews and Mrs. Eurice Riley, both of Cleveland, Tenn., and two brothers, Hoke Arnold, Argyle, and Jerome Arnold, Callahan, Fla.; twenty-nine grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Miles-Odum Funeral Home chapel. Burial will be in the Hargraves Chapel Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday night from 7 to 9 o'clock.
Georgia Death Index
Name: Ira A Mercer
Death Date: 11 Dec 1982
County of Death: Ware
Gender: F Race: W
Age: 88 years
County of Residence: Ware
Certificate: 041597
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Gravesite Details
Surveyed 2002-2004 by Betty Hargraves Miakinkoff; 2011 by Jerry Van Herrin
Family Members
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Henrietta Arnold Ryan-Kight
1896–1983
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Rena Maude Arnold Dukes
1898–1975
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William Benagie "Willie" Arnold
1900–1980
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Rosa Estelle "Essie" Arnold Hurst
1905–1989
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Evie Arnold Crews
1906–1986
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Eunice W. Arnold Bennett Riley
1908–1990
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John Vernon "Hoke" Arnold
1910–1994
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Jerome Arnold
1913–1988
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Hugh Dorsey Arnold
1915–1980
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Beadie Gertrude Arnold Holsenbeck
1918–2002
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