May 24, 2000

VELMER CANADY

MORLEY -- Velmer "Red" Canady, 70, of Morley died Tuesday, May 23, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 7, 1929, in Arkansas, son of Bunkie Franklin and Iva Farmer Canady. Canady had been a road grader with Missouri State Highway Department...

MORLEY -- Velmer "Red" Canady, 70, of Morley died Tuesday, May 23, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born June 7, 1929, in Arkansas, son of Bunkie Franklin and Iva Farmer Canady.

Canady had been a road grader with Missouri State Highway Department.

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Survivors include four sons, Doyle Canady of Morley, David and Tommy Canady of Cape Girardeau, Jerry Canady of Kansas City; two daughters, Mary Summers of Scott City, Diane Amelunke of Dutchtown; his stepmother, Versie Canady of Oran; two half brothers, Johnny Canady of Benton, Bobby Canady of Oran; two sisters, Josie Cooper of Jasper, Ark., Nola Way of Houston, Texas; three half sisters, Edith Riggins of Dexter, Lisa Graviett of Oran, Tammy Belt of Poplar Bluff; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two sisters and a half sister.

Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran after 5 p.m. today.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the chapel. Burial will be in Friend Cemetery at Oran.

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