CHARLOTTE G. BLACK

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A memorial service for Mrs. Charlotte Given Black of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church. Dr. Charles Grant and Dr. E.C. Brasington will officiate. Private entombment will be in the family mausoleum in New Lorimier Cemetery before the service.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday.

Mrs. Black, 87 years old, died Monday, March 25, 1991, at Chateau Girardeau Health Care Center.

She was born Aug. 14, 1903, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Charlotte Peironnet Albert Zimmermann and Harry L. Albert. She attended Mary Institute in St. Louis, and was graduated from Devon Manor in Devon, Pa., and Southeast Missouri State Teachers College. She taught French at College High School.

She married Wendell Walter Black Dec. 25, 1927, at Oakenwold, the Peironnet family home. They resided in Jackson, Miss., during their married life. He died June 6, 1952, and she moved back to the family home here.

Mrs. Black was an active member of First Presbyterian Church and Circle I, member of Southeast Missouri Hospital Auxiliary, Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau, River Heritage Museum, and Chapter GF of PEO, of which she was president 1962-64.

Survivors include a daughter, Charlotte Sargent of Cape; a daughter-in-law, Mabeth Black of Cape; four grandchildren, Wendell Black II of Arlington, Tex., Carl Black of Norfolk, Va., Charlotte Sargent of Memphis, Tenn., Ann Sargent of Birmingham, Ala.; two great-grandchildren, Lauren Black of Arlington, and Clayton Black of Norfolk.

She was preceded in death by a son, Wendell P. Black in 1988, and a twin sister, Julia Cantrell of Little Rock, Ark.