SADIE PITTS

MAKANDA, Ill. -- Graveside service for Sadie Pitts will be held at 10 a.m. today at Casper Cemetery in Anna. The Rev. Bon Reynolds will officiate.

Crain Funeral Home in Anna is in charge of arrangements.

Pitts, 93, died Monday, July 3, 2000, at her home.

She was born Feb. 3, 1907, in Woodbury, Tenn., daughter of William and Willie Mary Thomas Cooper. She and Cecil Pitts were married Nov. 11, 1925. He died June 27, 1983.

Survivors include a daughter, Cathy Keedy of Anna; three sons, Jim and Rodney Pitts of Makanda, John Pitts of Cobden; a sister, Bessie Russell of Anna; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, a sister, and a brother.