BESS ESICAR

Graveside service for Bess R. Esicar of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. today in Memorial Park, with the Rev. Larry Gallamore officiating.

Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Esicar, 92, died Sunday, Nov. 16, 1997, at her home.

She was born in November 1905 in Chicago, daughter of William T. and Nettie Sherman. She married E.A. Esicar Sr. Sept. 1, 1924, at St. Louis. He died July 13, 1977.

She was the president of Esicar Old Hickory Smoke House Inc. She was a member of VFW Auxiliary Post 3838.

Survivors include two sons, E.A. and Richard Esicar of Cape Girardeau, two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.