November 15, 1995

ELVIS L. NEWTON

MOREHOUSE -- Funeral service for Elvis L. "Opie" Newton of Morehouse will be held at 1 p.m. today at Morehouse General Baptist Church. The Rev. Randy Thomas will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery at Sikeston. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Morehouse is in charge of arrangements...

MOREHOUSE -- Funeral service for Elvis L. "Opie" Newton of Morehouse will be held at 1 p.m. today at Morehouse General Baptist Church. The Rev. Randy Thomas will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery at Sikeston.

Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Morehouse is in charge of arrangements.

Newton, 60, died Monday, Nov. 13, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

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He was born Oct. 20, 1935, in Matthews, son of Murrel and Cora Victoria Smithpeters Newton.

A lifelong resident of Matthews, he was employed at Triangle Wire and Cable in Sikeston.

Survivors include a son, Timothy Newton of East Prairie; his father of Morehouse; a sister, Murlene Fulkerson of Olive Branch, Miss., and three grandchildren.

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