PAUL ERVIN

Funeral service for Paul L. Ervin, 635 Whitelaw, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Revs. David Stewart, S.S. Borum and Donnie Henson will officiate. Burial will be in Hobbs Chapel Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.

Ervin, 64, died Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Feb. 26, 1932, in Cape Girardeau, son of Herbert R. and Minnie Mae Speers Ervin. He and Mary Jane Bryant were married May 16, 1982, in Cape Girardeau.

Ervin joined the Southeast Missourian Newspaper staff in 1962 as teletype monitor. He attended schools in New York, Wisconsin and Chicago and became a machinist for the composing room. He also did page and advertisement make-up.

He became manager of the classified department, and later moved to dispay advertising where he currently was an account executive. He also owned Premiere Clothing Co. on Main Street.

Ervin was a member and lay leader at Hobbs Chapel United Methodist Church, member of its Men's Club, Noon Optimist Club, and Downtown Merchants Association. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Debie Kembel of Cape Girardeau, Paula Sharum of Duncan, Okla., Laurie Riehn of Farmington; a brother, Roscoe Ervin of Cape Girardeau; two sisters, Delores Henson of Cape Girardeau, Hilda Bush of Warsaw; and three grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother.