EDWARD FALKOFF

EAST PRAIRIE -- Graveside service for Edward Falkoff of East Prairie will be held at noon today in the Beth-Sholom Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn.

Forest Hill Funeral Home in Memphis is in charge of arrangements.

Announcement courtesy of Shelby Funeral Home.

Falkoff, 75, a civic leader and businessman, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.

He was born May 24, 1920, in Cairo, Ill., son of Israel and Jeannette Solomon Falkoff. He and Ada Bass were married in 1948.

Falkoff owned and operated Falkoff's 5 and 10 Store from 1950 to the mid 1980s. He was currently serving on the board of directors of First Financial Bank of Mississippi County.

He had served on East Prairie R-2 School Board, East Prairie City Council, was a charter member of East Prairie Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanis Club, member of Charleston Masonic Lodge and a 32nd Degree Mason.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Robert Falkoff of Houston, Texas; four brothers, Richard Falkoff of Blytheville, Ark., Herb and Garson Falkoff of Sikeston, Julius Falkoff of Union City, Tenn.; a sister, Shirley Friedman of Sikeston, and two grandchildren.