HENNING - Larry Ronnie Adams, 63, farmer, died of cardiac arrest Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Henning Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Halls with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery there. Currie's Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of Praise and Deliverance Church. Mr. Adams, the husband of Delois Jean Bonds Adams, also leaves four daughters, Lindell Blakey and Doria Ann Adams, both of Saginaw, Mich., and Stacey Michelle Adams and Tracey Nicole Adams, both of Henning; four sons, Larry Ronnie Adams Jr. and Steve Ronnie Adams, both of Saginaw, and Nicholas Lamont Adams and Patrick Denzel Adams, both of Henning; six sisters, Sadie Whitley, Gladye Baldon and Annie Adams, all of Ripley, Bertha Whitley and Inez Donald, both of Saginaw, and Pauline Beard of Nashville; two brothers, Walter Adams Jr. of Dyersburg and Clarence Adams of Covington, and eight grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: November 4, 1999

GATES - M. C. Bernard, 60, farmer, died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Henning Grove MB Church in Halls, where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home has charge. Bernard, the husband of Mary Bernard, also leaves four daughters, Ms. Betty Bernard and Ms. Linda Bernard, both of Halls, Ms. Carolyn Lewis of Flippin and Ms. Kim Bernard of Gates; five sons, Lloyd Bernard and Zane Bernard, both of Gates, Alexander Bernard of Halls, Dennis Bernard of Henning and Mark Bernard of Charleston, S.C.; a sister, Ms. Mami Mae Ingram of Oklahoma, Neb.; two brothers, A. D. Bernard of Dyersburg and John Ernest Bernard of Covington, and 12 grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: July 6, 1991

HALLS - Lilie Mae Adams Carr, 97, retired laborer, died of cardiac arrest Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Henning Grove Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Mother Board, Usher Board and Missionary Board, with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery. Currie's Funeral Home of Henning has charge. Mrs. Carr, the widow of James C. Carr, leaves a daughter, Pearline Harbor of Halls; two sons, John Adams and Earnest Lee Adams, both of Detroit; three sisters, Mary Reard of Ripley, Bertie Eisom of Elyria, Ohio, and Carrie Noel of Lorain, Ohio; a brother, Henry Noel of Elyria, 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: May 31, 2000

HALLS - Katherine Ann Cherry, 46, teacher's assistant at Halls High School, died of cancer Friday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at noon Saturday at Halls High School with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary of Ripley has charge. She leaves two sons, Brandon Adams of Nashville and Vincent Adams of Halls; her mother, Lillie Mae Adams of Halls; two sisters, Lucille Adams of Wisconsin and Linda Mae Halls of Gates; four brothers, Charles Halliburton, Randy Adams and Larry Adams, all of Halls, and Ray Adams of Murray, Ky., and three grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: February 25, 1998

Halls – Brendan Raine Duffie, infant son of Jennifer Terry and Milton Duffie, of Halls, died Tues., July 27th.
Graveside services were held Monday in Henning Grove Cemetery, in Halls, Cosmopolitan Funeral Services had charge. Other survivors include six brothers, Justice Terry, of Martin, Keon Rogers, Mariel Rogers, Taron Duffie, and Davonte Duffie, all of Chicago, ILL., and Dashune Duffie, of Halls; two sisters, Marilyn Duffie, of Chicago, and Alexas Terry, of Halls, and his grandparents, Milton Duffie and Brenda Duffie, of Chicago, Terry Baker, of Martin, and Jerry Terry, of Halls.
Death date July 27, 2004

HALLS - Pearline Eggleston, 89, homemaker, died Monday at Sunbridge Healthcare & Rehab in Ripley. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Henning Grove Baptist Church in Gates with burial in the church cemetery there. Thompson's Mortuary in Ripley has charge. She leaves a son, Saul Eggleston of Halls.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: March 14, 2002

HALLS - Brenda Kay Eison Ferguson, 39, died Friday at her home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Dyersburg, where she was a member, with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery in Lauderdale County. H. H. Hudson Funeral Home has charge. She served in the Army National Guard for six years and was a volunteer at Northwest Counselling Center for Battered Wives. Mrs. Ferguson, the wife of James Ferguson of Newbern, also leaves two sons, Travis Ferguson and Antonio Ferguson, both of Dyersburg; a stepson, Pvt. James Michael Ferguson of Fort Jackson, S.C.; her mother, Geraldine Eison of Halls; five brothers, Freddie Allen of Waldorf, Md., Earnest Eison of Jackson, Mich., Nathaniel Eison of Houston, Texas, Lee Vell Ei son of Decatur, Ill., and Ray D. Eison of Dyersburg; four sisters, Earline Davis and Frankie Adams, both of Halls, Shirley Irons of Decatur, Ill., and Cora Brown of St. Paul, Minn.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: June 2, 1993

HALLS - Louis 'Muffin' Foster, 93, laborer, died of heart failure Wednesday in Peoria, Ill.. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Henning Grove Baptist Church in Ripley with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home in Covington has charge. Mr. Foster leaves eight daughters, Curtis Woodson of Dyersburg, Nonia Eggleston, Rosie Jones and Della Moore, all of Peoria, Doris Bellous of Toledo, Ohio, Brenda F. Duffy and Carolyn Rogers, both of Chicago, and Patricia Bostic of Halls; two sons, Louis Foster Jr. of Toledo and Larry Foster of Chicago; a brother, U. B. Foster of Decatur, Ill., 41 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and 20 great-great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: May 23, 1998

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XAVIER HAYES McBRIDE, 30, of Memphis, former employee of Continental Airlines, died Wednesday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Salem Gilfield Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery in Halls, Tenn. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He leaves his parents, Betty and Rev. Angelo McBride, and two brothers, Anthony McBride and Tacuma McBride, all of Memphis, and his grandmother, Jessie Robinson of Halls.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: February 6, 2004

HALLS - William Helm, 82, of Alamo, formerly of Chicago and Halls, former employee with Textile Worker Union of America, died of heart failure Saturday at Crockett County Nursing Home in Alamo. Services will be at noon Friday at Henning Grove Baptist Church with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery. Currie's Funeral Home of Henning has charge. Mr. Helm, the husband of Pauline Helm of Chicago, also leaves a daughter, Phyllis Helm, and a son, William Helm Jr., both of Chicago; and a sister, Earline Helm, and a brother, Leon Helm, both of Toledo, Ohio.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: October 24, 1996

HALLS - Earlene Parker Jones, 68, formerly of Louisville, Ky., retired nursing assistant for Parkway Medical Center in Louisville, died Friday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 4 p.m. today at Henning Grove Baptist Church in Ripley with burial in the church cemetery there. Currie's Funeral Home in Henning has charge. She was a member of Canaan Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville and Sunshine Senior Club. Mrs. Jones, the widow of John Jones, leaves two brothers, Lenn Helm of Toledo, Ohio, and Joe T. Parker of Ripley.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: September 4, 2002

RIPLEY - James Lawrence, 76, retired laborer, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale after a heart attack. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Thomas Funeral Home with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery in Halls. He was a World War II Army veteran. Mr. Lawrence, the husband of Ethel Lawrence, also leaves seven stepdaughters, Annie Sue William of Chicago, and Dorothy Mackerway, Hattie Halliburton, Floria Brown, Frances Brown, Judy Brown and Mary Brown, all of Ripley; two stepsons, Louis Brown and Oscar Brown, both of Ripley; two brothers, Frank Lawrence of Ripley and Richard Yanders of Mason, and several stepgrandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: January 5, 1996

HALLS - Mrs. Estella Lewis, 91, of Fresno, Calif., formerly of Halls, died May 26 in Fresno. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Henning Grove Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home of Ripley has charge. Mrs. Lewis leaves a son, Richard Cox of Fresno; a stepdaughter, Ms. Mary Spark of Humboldt; a stepson, James Lewis of Jackson; four sisters, Ms. Mary Beard and Ms. Lillie Carr, both of Halls, Ms. Birtie Ison of Elyria, Ohio, and Ms. Carrie Noell of Lorraine, Ohio, and two brothers, Henry Noell and John Noell, both of Elyria.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: June 4, 1991

HALLS - JoAnn Parker Lewis, 61, of San Francisco, formerly of Halls, loan officer for Bank America, died of heart failure Saturday in San Francisco. Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Saturday at Henning Grove Missionary Baptist Church with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery. Currie's Funeral Home has charge. She was a communicant at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in San Francisco. Mrs. Lewis, the wife of Leon Lewis, also leaves two daughters, Jacqueline Frazier of Athens, Ga., and Dannielle Johnson of Oakland, Calif.; two sons, Gregory Johnson of Atlanta and Leon Parker Lewis of San Francisco; her parents, Joe and Florence Elizabeth Parker of Halls; five sisters, Frances Morton of Saginaw, Mich., Helen Anderson of Hermitage and Joyce Lang, Charlene Parr and Sandra Whiteside, all of Louisville, Ky.; five brothers, B. J. Parker of Oxon Hill, Md., Charles Parker of Halls, Barry Parker of Brownsville, Gregory Parker of Louisville, Ky., and Randy Parker of Fort Thomas, Ky., four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: October 21, 1999

HALLS - Roosevelt Manns, 77, retired farmer, died of heart disease Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Henning Grove Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Rawls Funeral Home in Brownsville has charge. Mr. Manns, the widower of Ella Reed Manns, leaves four daughters, Thelma Manns of Indianapolis, Mammie Beatrice Tyus of Brighton, and Anita Thompson and Charlene Hill, both of Halls; six sons, Larry Manns of Toledo, Ohio, Wardell Manns of Detroit, Willie L. Manns of Baltimore, Gill Warren Thompson of Springfield, Lee Roy Tyus of St. Louis and Timothy Daryl Thompson of Halls; a sister, Minnie Bell Cole of Brownsville; a brother, Henry Louis Manns of Dyersburg, and 36 grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: May 9, 1998

ANTHONY ROBINSON McBRIDE, 35 of Memphis, passed April 20, 2006 at St. Francis Hospital. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 at Salem ..
Published in The Commercial Appeal from 4/24/2006 - 4/26/2006.

HALLS - Eddie Irene 'Skit' McNary, 80, housekeeper, died of cancer Wednesday in Halls. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cleaves Temple CME Church with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery. Currie's Funeral Home in Henning has charge. Mrs. McNary, the widow of Jordan McNary, leaves six daughters, Eddie Sue Person and Hattie Mae Tates, both of Halls, Vera L. Nixon and Betty Jean Wilson, both of Chicago, Ollie V. Horton of Lansing, Mich., and Evelyn Brooks of Toledo, Ohio; two sons, Jordan McNary Jr. of Chicago and Alonzo Mans of Lansing; three sisters, Lula Pauley, Annie Bell and Pearley Davis, and a brother, Elsie Conley, all of Kansas City, Mo., 56 grandchildren, 105 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: July 15, 2001

DYERSBURG - Beatrice Newbern, 78, of Dyersburg, formerly of Halls, former employee of SR of Tennessee, died of cardiac arrest Jan. 26 at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Matthew Zion Baptist Church in Halls with burial in Henning Grove Church Cemetery there. Thompson's Mortuary in Ripley has charge. She leaves a son, Larry Jones of Dyersburg; two sisters, Solonia and Zelma Newbern, both of Baldwin, Mich.; three brothers, Peter Newbern of Indianapolis, Theadore Newbern of Dyersburg and Bennie Newbern of Chicago, and two grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: January 31, 1999

HALLS -- Hubert E. Parr Jr., 22, grocery store stocker, died Saturday following an automobile accident in Halls. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Nelson Chapel Baptist Church in Ripley with burial in Henning (Tenn.) Grove Cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary of Ripley has charge. Mr. Parr leaves a daughter, Kuanequa McClellan of Dyersburg; a son, Hubert Parr III of Benton Harbor, Mich.; his father, Hubert Parr of Halls, and two sisters, Veverly Fields of Fairhope, Ala., and Eunice Allison of Benton Harbor.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: April 6, 1994

Halls - Mary Jacqueline 'May Jack' Parr, 62, retired from Tupperware Manufacturing Co., died Saturday at Dyersburg Manor. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Henning Grove Baptist Church in Henning with burial in the church cemetery there. Currie's Funeral Home in Henning has charge. She leaves two sons, Durell McCadney of Ripley and Ricky McCadney of Toledo, Ohio; her mother, Liz Bennett of Halls; a sister, Shelia Bennett Glenn of Trenton; four brothers, James Robert Bennett of Halls, Gene A. Bennett and Elbert Bennett, both of Dyersburg, and Larry Bennett of Ripley, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 1, 2004

HALLS - Eddie Sue Person, 63, employee of Strayhorn's Daycare in Gates, died Tuesday at her home. Services will be at 2 p.m. next Tuesday at Matthew Zion Baptist Church with burial in Henning Grove Church Cemetery. Currie's Funeral Home in Henning has charge. She was an usher board member at Henning Grove Baptist Church. Mrs. Person, the widow of George 'Wolf' Person, leaves a daughter, Brenda Faye Person of Halls; four sons, Mark Person and Micheal Person, both of Halls, and Donald Person and Marty King, both of Maury City; five sisters, Hattie Mae Tates of Halls, Vera Nixon and Betty Jean Wilson, both of Chicago, Ollie Horton of Lansing, Mich., and Evelyn Brooks of Toledo, Ohio; a brother, Jordan McNary Jr. of Chicago, 10 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: April 6, 2002

HALLS - Willie D. Person, 93, homemaker, died of heart failure Dec. 4 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Henning Grove Baptist Church in Ripley with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home of Ripley has charge. Mrs. Person, the widow of John C. Person, leaves three daughters, Jennie Person of Halls, Alberta Davis of Milwaukee and Julia Holden of Flint, Mich.; two sons, James L. Person of Muncie, Ind., and John L. Person of Milwaukee; a sister, Odell Dewalt of Toledo, Ohio, 22 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 11, 1997

HALLS - Ruth Helen Roberts, 58, secretary, died of heart failure Sunday at Methodist Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at noon today at Henning Grove Baptist Church with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery here. Thomas Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a daughter, Bianca Ruth Roberts of Dyersburg; her father, D. C. Woodson of Toledo, Ohio; five sisters, Shirley McClellan, Emma McClellan, Dora Williams, Linda Woodson and Phyllis Jackson, all of Toledo; and seven brothers, Willie Woodson and Robert Woodson, both of St. Louis, and James Woodson, Stanley Woodson, Terry Woodson, Thomas Odoms and Anthony Pierson, all of Toledo.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: August 6, 1998

HALLS -- Elisha Robinson, 66, retired farmer, died Jan. 15 at Methodist Hospital of Dyersburg. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Henning Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Halls, where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home of Ripley has charge. Mr. Robinson, the husband of Jessie Robinson, also leaves five daughters, Shirley Robinson of Halls, Betty McBride and Patricia Hamedah, both of Memphis, Martha Robinson of Nashville and Margaret Robinson of Dyersburg; five sons, Elisha Robinson Jr. of Union City, Willie Robinson of Halls, Bobby Robinson and Thomas Robinson, both of Chicago, and Calvin Robinson of Milwaukee; six sisters, Lula Bell Reid of Rockford, Ill., Cora Griggs of Chicago, Imogene Hall of Brownsville, and Othea DeBerry, Flora Treadway and Vergie Thornton, all of Ripley; four brothers, Joseph Barnes, Raymond Barnes and James Barnes, all of Ripley, and Limmie D. Barnes of Milwaukee, and 10 grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: January 21, 1994

DYERSBURG - Nathaniel Spain, 57, farmer, died Jan. 3 at Methodist Healthcare-Central in Memphis. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at New Hope Pentecostal Church with burial in Henning Grove Cemetery. H. H. Hudson Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Spain, the husband of Rose Mary Spain of Caruthersville, Mo., also leaves four daughters, Patricia Booner, Angela Gauldin, Natasha Spain and Ulonda Spain, all of Dyersburg; four sons, Johnny Spain and Rodgrick Spain, both of Caruthersville, Darryl Poster of Chicago and Edward Jones of Hayti, Mo.; four sisters, Cressie Lee Foster of Columbia, Mo., Rosie Hightower of Hayti, Ida Logan of Jackson, Miss., and Florene Brister of Bolton, Miss.; four brothers, Willie Thomas, Ray Spain and Mack Spain, all of Hayti, and Roosevelt Thomas of Memphis, and 13 grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: January 9, 2002

HALLS - Peoria Norman Thorpe, 63, homemaker, died of renal failure last Sunday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Matthew Zion Baptist Church with burial in a cemetery in Henning. Currie's Funeral Home of Henning has charge. Mrs. Thorpe, the widow of Bert Thorpe, leaves five daughters, Mary Rogers, Barbara Cork and Tina Toomes, all of Halls, Bertha Ann Thorpe of Gates and Elsie Thorpe of Atlanta; a son, Michael Thorpe of Milwaukee; four sisters, Lillie Mae Adams of Halls, and Betty J. Lucas, Estella Norman and Shirley Ann Norman, all of Milwaukee; four brothers, James Norman, Albert Earl Thorpe, Earl Norman and Sylvester Norman, all of Milwaukee, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: April 10, 1997