VIRGINIA ANN SPEER

SIKESTON -- Virginia Ann Speer, 72, of Sikeston died Friday, July 11, 1997, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born June 29, 1925, at Cooter, the daughter of Albert R. and Delia Cain Edwards.

She was a registered nurse at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky., since 1972. She lived in Paducah from 1959 to 1980.

She was a member of the Wesley Methodist Church of Sikeston. She was active in the Civil Air Patrol, the VFW, and was an avid supporter of the Humane Society.

On Jan. 10, 1945, she married Eugene F. Speer.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Carolyn Hudson of Cadiz, Ky., and Linda Cherry of Jackson, Miss.; a son, Gary Lynn Speer of Las Vegas, Nev.; a brother, Albert Edwards of New Madrid; a sister, Patricia Wilson of Carthage, Texas; and five grandchildren.

A sister and a brother preceded her in death.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston. The Revs. Jerry Reynolds and Julius Ketsenburg will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston.