SYLVESTER BANKS

WYATT -- Sylvester "Sonny" Banks, 50, of Wyatt, died Saturday, Oct. 29, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

He was born March 13, 1944, in Wyatt.

Banks was employed by Morton Farms Inc., and was a member of Mt. Hope Missionary Baptist Church at Deventer.

Survivors include four sons, Sylvester, Timothy and Carlos Banks of Wyatt, Michael Banks of Marietta, Ga.; a daughter, Nicole Banks of Wyatt; his father and stepmother, Ozean and Georgia Davis of Charleston; his mother and stepfather, Ivory Riggens and Edward Kent of Wyatt.

Also six brothers, Edward Kent and Anthony Davis of Charleston, William Kent of Chicago, Lorenzo Davis of Fulton, Ky., Favis Wilson of Hickman, Ky., Richard O. Davis Jr. of Bloomington, Ind.; six sisters, Azella Davis of Kalamazoo, Mich., Dolester Jones of Peoria, Ill., Jessie Boyce of Bertrand, Ora Robinson of Joliet, Ill., Byrdella Johnson of Maywood, Ill., LaWanda Davis of Charleston, and 22 grandchildren.

Friends may call at Sparks Funeral Home in Charleston from 6-7 p.m. Thursday.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Shiloh Baptist Church, with the Rev. William Watson officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery in Charleston.