WILMA BENNETT

OAK RIDGE -- Funeral service for Wilma Mae Bennett of Oak Ridge will be held at 11 a.m. today at First Baptist Church. The Rev. Sedgewick will officiate, with burial in Goshen Cemetery.

McCombs Funeral Home at Jackson is in charge of arrangements.

Friends may call at the church from 9 a.m. until service time.

Bennett, 73, died Monday, Dec. 15, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born July 4, 1924, in DuQuoin, Ill., daughter of Hiley and Margaret "Oliver" Hodge.

Bennett was a member of First Baptist Church.

Survivors include a son, George Loucks of Los Angeles, Calif.; two daughters, Linda Lesh of Evansville, Ind., Sherry Welsh of Oak Ridge; two sisters, Mary Collier of Ellsinore, Sheila Spiller of DuQuoin; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.