SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Pauline Peppers of Sikeston was held Wednesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here, with the Rev. Tommy Estill officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. today in Oak Lawn Cemetery at Elmhurst, Ill.
Peppers, 62, died Monday, July 6, 1992, at her home.
She was born Feb. 1, 1930, in Gadsden, Ala., daughter of Thomas and Leona Decker. She married J.B. Peppers in 1949 in Gadsden. He preceded her in death.
Peppers moved here four years ago from Scott City. She had been a buffer with Driscoll Plating.
Survivors include two sons, Don Peppers of Cicero, Ill., Johnny Peppers of Chicago; a daughter, Iline Peppers of Sikeston; her mother of Sikeston; three sisters, Mary Renfroe of Sikeston, Betty Waycaster and Minnie McCaig of Scott City, and five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son, daughter, sister and grandchild.
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