LOUISE H. BEDELL

Funeral service for Louise Helen Bedell, 1120 S. Ranney, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. to service time.

Bedell, 75, died Friday, Feb. 19, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center.

She was born Sept. 25, 1917, in Wynn, Ark., daughter of George and Roberta Wilson Maxley.

Bedell was a member of New Bethel Baptist Church.

Survivors include four sons, Claude and Herbert Bedell of Chicago, Christopher Bedell of St. Louis, Paul Bedell of Cape Girardeau; three daughters, Ernestine Randall and Delores Dunka of Chicago, Connie Bedell-Brown of Cape Girardeau; a sister, Dorothy Sales of Oakland, Calif.; 26 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons and a brother.