DEXTER -- Funeral for Thelma Cross of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. The Rev. Clifford Wray will officiate. Burial will be in Dexter Cemetery.
Cross, 84, died Monday, Oct. 11, 1999, at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Center in Poplar Bluff.
She was born July 25, 1915, in Greenville, daughter of Ed and Anna Montgomery Meador. She and Willard D. Cross were married Nov. 28, 1931, in Bloomfield. He died April 21, 1999.
Cross had lived in Dexter since 1962. She was a member of First General Baptist Church in Bernie.
Survivors include a son, Junior Cross of Dexter; a daughter, Lucille Vaughn of Dexter; a brother, Charles Meador of Arnold; a sister, Margaret Masterson of Cape Girardeau; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.
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