SIKESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Olga "Zennie" Bailey, 88, of St. Louis, formerly of Sikeston, will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. Mary McCord will officiate. Burial will be in Sikeston City Cemetery.
Bailey died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2000, at Integrated Health Services in St. Louis.
She was born on April 18, 1912, in Crowder, Mo., daughter of Jesse and Cora Schurenberg Boyette.
She married Ralph E. Bailey Jr., on Feb. 15, 1936, in Cape Girardeau. He died in September 1968.
She was a homemaker and a lifetime member of the Order of Eastern Star. She was a member of First Christian Church and a founding member of the Keystone Sunday School class.
Survivors include a son, Ralph E. Bailey III of Sikeston; two daughters, Sue Isaacs and Brenda Springs, both of St. Louis; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son.
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