February 5, 1997

IVORY BETTS

Funeral service for Ivory Lee Betts, 1712 Woodlawn, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at New Bethel Baptist Church, Linden and Benton. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to service time at New Bethel Church...

Funeral service for Ivory Lee Betts, 1712 Woodlawn, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at New Bethel Baptist Church, Linden and Benton. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to service time at New Bethel Church.

Betts, 57, died Monday, Feb. 3, 1997, at Heartland Care and Rehab Center.

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He was born Nov. 30, 1939, in Brinkley, Ark., son of John H. Payne and Amanda Elizabeth Betts.

Betts was self-employed, and a member of New Bethel Church.

Survivors include five brothers, Jesse Betts of Niles, Mich., Harold, Terry, Robert and Chris Payne, all of Cape Girardeau; five sisters, Betty Davis and Ermalene "Jackie" Jenkins of Cape Girardeau, Maybelle Whitby of Brinkley, Doris Harris of St. Louis, and Joyce Payne of Atlanta, Ga.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

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