June 17, 1997

ERMA GRANT

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Erma E. Grant of Sikeston will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Nathaniel Pyron and Dan Norton will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. Grant, 98, died Sunday, June 15, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Erma E. Grant of Sikeston will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Nathaniel Pyron and Dan Norton will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau.

Grant, 98, died Sunday, June 15, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born Oct. 20, 1898, in Charleston, daughter of George Lee and Amanda Rowe Elmore. She and Elmer E. Grant were married June 29, 1918. He died May 8, 1949.

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Grant had been a proofreader at the Sikeston Daily Standard. She was a member of First United Methodist Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Marilyn Grant of Sikeston; two grandsons; and two great-grandsons.

She was preceded in death by her parents and four sons.

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