CHARLES GRANTHAM JR.

Funeral service for Charles Scott Grantham Jr., 1803 Huntington, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Dr. Larry Gallamore will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.

Grantham, 62, died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1998, at DePaul Health Center in St. Louis.

He was born Feb. 27, 1935, in Clarksdale, Miss., son of Charles and Katie Cooley Grantham. He married Myrnita Buckner Jan. 20, 1957, in Marks, Miss.

Grantham taught anthropology for 25 years at Southeast Missouri State University. He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, Harold O. Grauel Masonic Lodge 672, Wilson Chapter 75, Past Illustrious Master of Cape Council 20, Cape Girardeau Commandry 55, Scottish Rite, Cape Shrine Club, Cape Rock Chapter 60 Order of Eastern Star, Allied Masonic Degree, and the Knights York Court of Honor.

He was a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Cheryl Grantham of Germantown, Md., and Myrnita Smith of Cape Girardeau; three brothers, Jock and James Grantham of Caruthersville, Walter Grantham of Chattanooga, Tenn.; and two grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.