WYATT -- James H. Terrell, 74, of Wyatt died Friday, Oct. 17, 1997, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
He was born Feb. 11, 1923, in Mississippi County to William D. and Ella Gertrude Medlin Terrell.
He lived in Mississippi County most of his life where he was retired from farming. He also worked with the Ford Motor Co. in Sandusky, Ohio, retiring in 1982. He attended the New Covenant Pentecostal Holiness Church in Wyatt.
On July 11, 1946, he married Gereline Pierce, who survives.
He is also survived by three sisters, Gertrude Skinner of Kevil, Ky., Martha Forrest of Clearwater, and Ruth Milam of De Soto.
Two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death.
Service will be at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston with the Rev. Kenneth Gibson, pastor of the Living Waters Church of Charleston, and the Rev. Leroy Thornton, pastor of the New Covenant Pentecostal Holiness Church of Wyatt, officiating.
Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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