March 8, 1991

BERNICE JANE SANDERS

SIKESTON -- Bernice Jane Sanders, 82, of Sikeston died Wednesday, March 6, 1991 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. She was born Nov. 30, 1908 in New Bloomfield, Mo., daughter of James William and Elizabeth Hardin Dickson Sanders. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Sikeston and a volunteer Grey Lady at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

SIKESTON -- Bernice Jane Sanders, 82, of Sikeston died Wednesday, March 6, 1991 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.

She was born Nov. 30, 1908 in New Bloomfield, Mo., daughter of James William and Elizabeth Hardin Dickson Sanders.

She was a member of the First Christian Church in Sikeston and a volunteer Grey Lady at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

On Feb. 11, 1938, she married Willard Link Sanders. He preceded her in death Feb. 15, 1976.

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She is survived by one son, Jimmy Sanders, Sikeston; two sisters, Myrtle Cover, St. Joseph, Alma Lawson, New Bloomfield; one grandson, Greg Sanders, Cape Girardeau, one granddaughter, Jeanna Murray, Sikeston; and a great-granddaughter, Caroline Murray of Sikeston.

Two brothers, three sisters, and one granddaughter preceded her in death.

Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Home in Sikeston.

Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church of Sikeston with the Rev. Lee Brummel, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

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