RAY HART

SIKESTON -- Funeral for Ray Hart of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Msgr. William Stanton will officiate.

Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Hart, 59, died Saturday, May 1, 1999, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

He was born June 18, 1959, at Charleston, son of Herman William and Edna Lou Hart.

Hart had worked at DeWitt Auction Co. He was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Eagles Aerie, Knights of Columbus in Charleston, and was first exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge in Sikeston.

Survivors include two daughters, Susan Eskew of Brandon, Karen Bain of Sikeston; his mother, Edna Nicholson of Sikeston; two brothers, Eugene Hart of Hot Springs, Ark., Wayne Hart of Memphis, Tenn.; and five grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father, a brother, and a sister.