PEARL BAGBY

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Funeral for Pearl Oslean Bagby of East Prairie will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Burl Britt will officiate. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Sikeston.

Bagby, 80, died Monday, June 25, 2001, at East Prairie Nursing Center.

She was born Dec. 16, 1920, near Conran, Mo., daughter of Arthur B. and Martha Driskille Hodges. She was reared in Parma and Lilbourn, Mo. She lived in Sikeston, Mo., more than 40 years before moving to East Prairie five years ago.

Bagby was a retired cook and had worked at Dunn Coffee Shop, El Capri Motel and Shuffitt's Nursing Centers. She was a member of Calvary Temple Assembly of God Church in Sikeston.

Survivors include a son, Joseph Bagby of Cape Girardeau; a daughter, Joan Hutson of East Prairie; a brother, Paul Hodges of Dexter, Mo.; three sisters, Pauline Jones of Pevely, Mo., Flora Jones of Clarksville, Ark., Alice Rhodes of Yucaipa, Calif.; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers.