SIKESTON -- Leona Litha Curtner, 83, of Sikeston, died Monday, July 8, 1991, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
She was born Nov. 10, 1907, in Lamar, Ark., to Andrew and Annis Linkenfelter Davis.
She was a restaurant cashier and a member of the Lamar Baptist Church. She had attended the Calvary Temple Assembly of God Church in Sikeston.
On Sept. 1972, she married Byron E. Curtner. He survives. She has been previously married to Walter Reese, who preceded her in death.
Other survivors are two sisters, Nancy Wright, Alvarado, Texas, and Lizzie Eaton, Fort Worth, Texas; and several nieces and nephews.
One son, three brothers and one sister preceded her in death.
There will be no visitation. Service will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Moore Memorial Gardens in Arlington, Texas.
Nunnelee Funeral Home in Sikeston is in charge of arrangements.
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