ARTIE L. HEATH

SIKESTON -- Artie Linda Heath, 69, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, March 3, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born April 6, 1923, in Hector, Ark., daughter of Edward and Tinnie Magilicuty Martin. She and Herbert Carl Ruedrich were married March 28, 1938, at Hayti. He died Nov. 2, 1957. She and Claude Heath were married Jan. 12, 1958. He died Sept. 14, 1967.

Heath was a member of Parker Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Survivors include three sons, Charles, Jerry and Paul Ruedrich of Sikeston; two daughters, Laverne Wright of Flint, Mich., Songa Roby of Sikeston; a brother, John Sanders of Sikeston; seven sisters, Lottie Brookshire of Sikeston, Willie Carr of Warner Robins, Ga., Dorothy Bone, Beatrice Coffman and Dolly Conley of Hector, Ida Coffman of Russellville, Ark., Etna Cramer of El Paso, Ill.; 18 grandchildren, and 19 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Tommy Estill will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.