EAST PRAIRIE -- Sye Edwin Atkinson, 69, of East Prairie, died Monday, Feb. 3, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
He was born Dec. 30, 1922, in East Prairie, son of John and Jessie May Gage Atkinson. He and Ollie I. Myers were married Oct. 26, 1949. She died Nov. 15, 1991.
Atkinson was retired from the City of East Prairie, where he worked in the water and sewer department 27 years. He was a member of Victory Baptist Church here. Atkinson served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Survivors include a son, Bruce Atkinson of East Prairie; three daughters, Sue Duke of Rosiclare, Ill., Janice Turner of Sikeston, Tammy Lynn of Bertrand; a sister, Frankie Grissom of East Prairie; nine grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
He was preceded in death by a brother, four sisters and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Amos Johnson will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery.
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