Almeta Sides

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Graveside service for Almeta Sides of Bloomfield will be held at 11 a.m. today at Essex Cemetery in Essex, Mo. The Rev. Walter Spencer will officiate.

Friends may call at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter, Mo., from 9-10:30 a.m.

Sides, 63, died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born May 12, 1938, in Clarksville, Ark., daughter of Jack and Marie Dempsy Dowdy. She and Leon Sides were married in 1971.

Sides had lived in Bloomfield five years.

Survivors include her husband; a son, Billy Mitchell of Dexter; four daughters, Norma Lawhorn of Illinois, Marilyn Maronies of California, LaVeta Byrd and Rita Clawson of Dexter; and her mother of Dexter.

Also surviving are two brothers, Richard Dowdy of Dexter, Larry Dowdy of Tennessee; four sisters, Ivy Horn and Lovena Dowdy of Bloomfield, Nancy Pullum of Dexter, Louise Oliver of Michigan; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, four brothers, and a sister.