BILLIE EDWARDS SR.

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Billie Francis Edwards Sr. of Jackson will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Jeff Sippy will officiate, with entombment in Memorial Park Mausoleum in Cape Girardeau.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today. An Elks service will be held at 8, followed by an American Legion service.

Edwards, 72, died Monday, Oct. 20, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born April 12, 1925, in Cape Girardeau, son of James and Pearl Brown Edwards. He and Lois Lea Hobeck were married July 30, 1949, in Piggott, Ark.

Edwards was a meat cutter 40 years, and for the past several years worked with his sons at Mid-America Sod Farms of Cape Girardeau.

He was a member of Shawnee Hills Baptist Church, VFW Post, American Legion Post, and Elks Lodge, all in Jackson. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, John Edwards of Cape Girardeau, Billie Edwards Jr. of Chester, Ill.; two daughters, Cheryl Davis of Marble Hill, Carol Borgfield of Jackson; two brothers, Arnold Edwards of Cape Girardeau, George Edwards of Sullivan, Ind.; a sister, Lucille Berry of Cape Girardeau; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, and two brothers.