SIKESTON -- Funeral for Estelee Ward of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Robert Medlock will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Ward, 79, died Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 8, 1919, in Leslie, Ark., daughter of John Wesley and Arkansas Watts Branum. She married Clauvus Ward.
Ward attended Fellowship Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Jimmy Ward of Dexter; a brother, Bunyan Branum of Belmont, Calif.; two grandsons; and three great-grandsons.
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