ZALMA -- Funeral service for Mrs. Bitha Lacy of Jackson Manor will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Union Hill General Baptist Church near here. The Rev. Luther Rhodes will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery.
Friends may call at Liley Funeral Home in Lutesville after 5 p.m. today.
Mrs. Lacy, 92 years old, died Wednesday, April 17, 1991, at Jackson Manor.
She was born March 11, 1899, at Zalma, daughter of Hiram and Jane Mouser Gaines. She married Noah Lacy Sept. 25, 1918. He died Feb. 14, 1963.
Mrs. Lacy was a member of Union Hill Church.
Survivors include a son, Nelson Lacy of St. Louis; three daughters, Lorene Runnels of Wappapello, Mary Henderschott and Glenora Birk of Jackson; two sisters, Rozina Sturgeon of Zalma, Delphia Baker of Lutesville; 13 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son, Cletus; three brothers and two sisters.
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