JERRY PORTWOOD

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Jerry Don Portwood II, 20, of East Prairie died Saturday, March 10, 2001, near Ellington, Mo., the result of an automobile accident.

He was born Nov. 4, 1980, at Sikeston, Mo., son of Jerry Don and Elizabeth Kay Linley Portwood.

Portwood attended the First Baptist Church in East Prairie. He was a 1999 graduate of East Prairie High School, where he was senior class president.

He attended Southeast Missouri State University and was a member of Phi Eta Sigma, the Freshman Honor Society and Pre-Medical Society.

Survivors include his parents; two sisters, Kristal Moore of East Prairie and Kari Portwood of Salem, Mo.; grandfather, Raymond Linley of East Prairie and great-grandmother Nellie Clark of Bertrand, Mo.

He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother.

Friends may call anytime today at the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in East Prairie. George White and John Archie will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery.