March 31, 1997

JAMES `NUM' RAMSEY

James Walter "Num" Ramsey, 67, of Scott City died March 29, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Jan. 2, 1930, in Roseland, Ark., to Robert and Irene Lape Ramsey. He married Edna Mae Biggs on May 24, 1952, in New Madrid. He was an assembly worker at Superior Electric for 26 years and a machine operator for eight years at Blair Industries. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War...

James Walter "Num" Ramsey, 67, of Scott City died March 29, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Jan. 2, 1930, in Roseland, Ark., to Robert and Irene Lape Ramsey. He married Edna Mae Biggs on May 24, 1952, in New Madrid.

He was an assembly worker at Superior Electric for 26 years and a machine operator for eight years at Blair Industries. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War.

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Survivors include his wife; two sons, James "Eddie" Ramsey of Jefferson City and Jerry Ramsey of Scott City; three daughters, Betty Henson of Whitewater and Donna Hester and Margie Fowler of Scott City; three brothers, Glen Ramsey of New Madrid, Jasper Ramsey of Portageville and Gary Ramsey of Memphis, Tenn.; one sister, Loveida Eastwood of Quilin; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at 5 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral chapel with the Rev. Randy Morse officiating. Burial will be in Lightner Memorial Cemetery in Scott City.

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