November 22, 1998

MARION COBB

EAST PRAIRIE -- Marion Elizabeth Crosno Cobb, 78, of East Prairie, died Friday, Nov. 20, 1998, at her home. She was born Nov. 8, 1920, at Poplar Bluff, daughter of Samuel Tilden Crosno and Alva Pearl Hurry Crosno. She married Murray Allen Cobb in 1949. He died in 1961...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Marion Elizabeth Crosno Cobb, 78, of East Prairie, died Friday, Nov. 20, 1998, at her home.

She was born Nov. 8, 1920, at Poplar Bluff, daughter of Samuel Tilden Crosno and Alva Pearl Hurry Crosno.

She married Murray Allen Cobb in 1949. He died in 1961.

She was a landowner in Mississippi County and a former schoolteacher. She was a member of Nelson United Methodist Church in East Prairie.

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Survivors include a sister, Ruth Greenwell of Madisonville, Ky., and a niece, Jennifer Terry-Baker of Wilmington, N.C.

She was preceded in death by an infant sister.

Service will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Shelby Funeral Home Chapel, with Brother Jerry Willer officiating. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery near Charleston.

Friends may call at the funeral home today until service time.

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