MARGUERITE STAFFORD

BLOOMFIELD -- Marguerite Stafford, 82, of Bloomfield died Sunday, May 10, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born April 7, 1916, at Aquilla, daughter of George and Beryl Asbell Cook.

She married the Rev. Don Stafford in July 1933. He died Sept. 17, 1982.

She lived most of her life in Bloomfield. She was a member of the Mount Pisgah General Baptist Church at Aquilla.

She is survived by a brother, Cloyd Cook of Poplar Bluff; two sisters, Willadene Fulkerson of Bloomfield and Mary Hamann of St. Charles; and a niece whom she helped raise, Mary Carter of Dexter.

Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, with the Revs. Bob Bradford and Robert Lafferty officiating. Burial will follow in the North Antioch Cemetery near Bloomfield.