Nell Avery

Funeral for Nell Avery of Cape Girardeau will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Funeral Home. The Rev. Howard Anderson will officiate. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from noon until time of service.

Avery, 93, died Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at Fountainbleau Lodge.

She was born Aug. 4, 1908, at Gibson, Mo., daughter of Martin Luther and Emma Summers Avery.

Avery was a stitcher 30 years at Eli Walker Manufacturing in Scott City, Mo., and worked at Cape GMC Pontiac almost 10 years. She was a member of Freewill Baptist Church.

Survivors include a brother, John Avery of Dutchtown, Mo.

She was preceded in death by a brother and four sisters.