DEXTER -- Funeral service for Amanda Edna Talley will be held at 1 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Dexter. The Rev. Andy May will officiate, with burial in Hagy Cemetery.
Talley, 88, died Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1996, at Dexter Memorial Hospital.
She was born Aug. 29, 1908, at Ava, daughter of Green Wilson and Annie Mae Chambers Tarbutton. She and Charles A. May were married in October 1926. He preceded her in death. She later married Lee A. Talley, who also preceded her in death.
Survivors include a son, Charles May of McLeansboro, Ill.; two daughters, Mary Thurman of Bloomfield, Doris Gamblin of Orange, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a sister.
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