SIKESTON -- Funeral for Jay W. Ward of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Kelley Grubbs will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Ward, 75, died Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1999, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.
He was born May 20, 1924, in Clarkton, son of Joseph and Lula May Pope Ward. He and Vergie W. Lacy were married March 7, 1951, in Piggott, Ark. She died Feb. 11, 1996.
Ward was a custodian 23 years at Missouri Delta Medical Center and Sikeston Regional Center. He was a member of Murray Lane Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Ellen Ward and Joan Simmons of Sikeston; a sister, Della Parks of Poplar Bluff; and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, two brothers, and eight sisters.
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