NAOMI HUMPHREYS

EAST PRAIRIE -- Naomi Karr Humphreys, 79, of East Prairie died Saturday, Jan. 24, 1998, at the East Prairie Nursing Center after an extended illness.

She was born Dec. 27, 1918, in Mississippi County, daughter of Thomas Milas and Nettie Johnson Phillips. She married Leon "Bud" Humphreys on Dec. 19, 1949, at Osceola, Ark. He died April 10, 1997.

She lived in Mississippi County most of her life and retired from the East Prairie School District, where she had worked in the cafeteria. She was a member of the Dogwood Methodist Church.

Survivors include a son, Jim Humphreys of St. Louis; three brothers, James "Red" Phillips and Jack Phillips, both of Dogwood, and Joe Phillips of Sonora, Calif.; five sisters, Mary Douglas and Shirley Wagner, both of East Prairie, Christine Hackett of Flint, Mich., and Winnie Stahl and Marty Friedewald, both of St. Louis; and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and two sisters.

Visitation is from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral home in East Prairie. Funeral service will be at 9 a.m. Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Charles Carr officiating. Burial will follow at Dogwood Cemetery.