GRETNA M. KESTNER

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Gretna Mae Kestner of East Prairie will be held at 3 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. Burl Britt and Mike Johnson will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery.

Kestner, 69, died Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born March 12, 1924, in Blackford, Ky., daughter of William and Lorene Harrell Brantley. She and Eurie "Butch" Kestner were married Jan. 19, 1945.

Survivors include her husband; a son, Bobby Kestner of Sikeston; four daughters, Barbara Ivie and Valerie Miller of East Prairie, Brenda Ray of Columbus, Ky., Beverly Potter of Benton, Ark.; a brother, William Brantley of Charleston; a sister, Maxine Beasley of Cahokia, Ill.; 11 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister.