Alberta Sawyer

Graveside service for Alberta Sawyer of Manassas, Va., formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Fruitland, Mo. The Rev. Bruce Pittman will officiate.

Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Sawyer, 88, died Monday, Oct. 22, 2001, at her home.

She was born July 26, 1913, at Bonne Terre, Mo., daughter of Daniel and Sarah J. Martin Ringer. She and Tom H. Sawyer were married Nov. 11, 1933, at Fruitland. He died Aug. 3, 1999.

Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Lasky of Manassas; two sisters, Mildred Foster and Lillian Jones of Cape Girardeau; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, a brother, and a sister.