Funeral service for Marilyn Cecelia Jenkins of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at St. James AME Church. The Rev. David Allen will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery.
Friends may call at the church from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Jenkins, 43, died Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
She was born July 17, 1954, in St. Louis, daughter of Joseph and Julia Cecelia Reed Graham Jr. She and Robert L. Jenkins were married Dec. 17, 1976, in Cape Girardeau.
Jenkins was a 1973 graduate of Beaumont High School in St. Louis. She was a member of St. James Church.
Survivors include her husband; her mother of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Vernon Graham of St. Louis, Curtis Graham of Kansas City; four sisters, Debbie and Judi Graham and Glodean Slaughter of Cape Girardeau, and Earlene Tyson of Kansas City.
She was preceded in death by her father and a sister.
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