RALPH GENTRY

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Ralph M. "Bones" Gentry of Jackson will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home. The Rev. John Ferguson will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.

Gentry, 76, died Sunday, March 24, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born May 4, 1919, in Russellville, Ark., son of Edward and Amanda Edwards Gentry. He first married Gaylene Stuart, who preceded him in death. He and Jane Seabaugh were married Sept. 7, 1995, in Cordell, Okla.

Gentry was a maintenance worker with Natural Gas Pipeline, retiring in 1981. He was founder of Bones House Band. Gentry was a member of Altenthal-Joerns American Legion Post 158 in Jackson. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Gary Gentry of Little Rock, Ark., John Gentry of Security, Colo.; three daughters, Mary Malone of Security, Tammy Powell and Prudy Selsor of Jackson; two brothers, Eulon Gentry of Enid, Okla., Ronald Gentry of Cordell; two sisters, Olive Landcaster of Cordell, Londerien Hiser of San Antonio, Texas; seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by an infant child, a brother and sister.