April 4, 2002

Dorothy Chadd

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Dorothy Chadd, 88, died Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Aug. 1, 1913, in Sikeston, daughter of Sam and Anna Lands Gross. She and William Melvin Chadd were married in April 1927. He died March 19, 1967...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Dorothy Chadd, 88, died Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born Aug. 1, 1913, in Sikeston, daughter of Sam and Anna Lands Gross. She and William Melvin Chadd were married in April 1927. He died March 19, 1967.

Chadd retired as a nurse aide at Sikeston Health Care.

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Survivors include three sons, Sam and Louis Chadd of Sikeston, Russell Chadd of Clarksville, Tenn.; two daughters, Mabel Ritchie of New Madrid, Mo., Shirley Ward of Sikeston; two sisters, Martha Wyatt and Virginia Houchins of Sikeston; 18 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sisters.

Friends may call at Ponder Funeral Home from 5-8 p.m. today.

Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Larry Ward officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

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