SIKESTON -- Funeral for Ozell "Ode" Dye of Fredericktown will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. the Rev. Kelly Grubbs will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery.
Dye, 87, died Sunday, July 19, 1998, at his home.
He was born Nov. 27, 1910, at Holcomb, son of William and Lula Easary Dye. He and Zola Boone were married May 10, 1932. She died Feb. 20, 1973. He later married Eva Davis May 7, 1974. She died Feb. 19, 1998.
Dye was a member of Little Vine Baptist Church in Fredericktown.
Survivors include a son, Windle Dye of Sikeston; a stepson, Robert Davis of Fredericktown; a sister, Loucille Burris of Cape Girardeau; a grandson; two stepgrandchildren; and two great-stepgrandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a brother, a sister, two half brothers, two half sisters, and a granddaughter.
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