HARTSIL R. RUSSELL

BENTON -- Funeral service for Hartsil R. Russell of Benton, formerly of East Prairie, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. Hal Greene will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston.

Russell, 59, died Thursday, Dec. 14, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, following an extended illness.

He was born Sept. 26, 1936, in Lamar, Ark., son of Argus Ragon and Ardena M. Noe Russell.

Russell was a dispatcher with Ohio Pacific Express Trucking Co., and had lived in Benton eight years.

Survivors include two brothers, Tony Russell of Greenville, Miss., Danny Russell of East Prairie; four sisters, Dolores Voliva of West Memphis, Ark., Barbara Tinnon of East Prairie, JoAnn McMoy of Cordova, Tenn., and Debra Gibbs of Hornlake, Miss.