HALLS - Robert 'KilRoy' Davis Jr., 68, factory worker, died of diabetes Friday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Ripley. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Matthew Zion Baptist Church with burial in Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary has charge. Mr. Davis, the husband of Earline Davis, also leaves two sons, Otis Lee Davis of Halls and Ray Van Davis of New Orleans, and a brother, Otis B. Davis of Union City.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: March 16, 2000

Halls - Minnie Lue Eisom, 82, homemaker, died Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Mount Zion Baptist Church with burial in Mount Zion Cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary in Ripley has charge. Mrs. Eisom, the widow of Talton Eisom, leaves five daughters, Linda Lane of Ripley, Joann Eisom and Katherine Eisom, both of Halls, Sadie Bolds of Milwaukee and Mary Eisom of Dyersburg; two sons, John Eisom of Chicago and James Eisom of Milwaukee; three sisters, Ora Lee Bostic, Willie Maclin and Alice Campbell, and a brother, L.T. Halliburton, all of Halls; two grandchildren whom she raised, Gertrude Eisom Jones of Henning and Barry Eisom of Dyersburg, 18 other grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: October 16, 2004

HALLS - Talton Eisom, 84, retired farmer, died Saturday at Saint Francis Hospital in Memphis after a stroke. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary in Ripley has charge. Mr. Eisom, the husband of Minnie Lou Eisom, also leaves five daughters, Joe Ann Eisom, Katherine Eisom, and Linda K. Eisom, all of Halls, Mary Lou Jordan of Dyersburg and Sadie B. Bolds of Milwaukee; two sons, John Lewis Eisom of Chicago and James Lewis Eisom of Milwaukee; three sisters, Bertha Pierce and Elizabeth Ingram, both of Halls, and Dora Helm of Decatur, Ill., 18 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: July 5, 2000

HALLS - Geraldine Allen Eison, 71, factory worker, died of cardiac arrest Tuesday in Halls. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, where she was a member of the usher board, Missionary Society and Ladies Adult Sunday School Class, with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Currie's Funeral Home of Henning has charge. Mrs. Eison, the widow of George Eison, leaves three daughters, Frankie Adams of Murray, Ky., Earlene Davis of Halls and Shirley J. Irons of Decatur, Ill.; five sons, Freddie Allen of Waldolf, Mass., Earnest Eison of Jackson, Mich., Nathaniel Eison of Houston, Texas, Leevell Eison of Decatur, and Ray Dennis Eison of Dyersburg; a sister, Annie Florence Ingram of Decatur, 23 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: September 3, 1999

RIPLEY - Ida Mae Hicks, 66, waitress, died Monday of heart failure at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Antioch Curve Baptist Church in Gates with burial in Mt. Zion Church Cemetery in Halls. Thompson's Mortuary has charge. She leaves a daughter, Ella Mae King; a sister, Ruby Barnes of Halls; a brother, Roosevelt Mannis of Ridgely, and several grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: October 4, 1996

RIPLEY - Robert C. Hicks, 91, died Feb. 24 of heart failure at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Nelson Chapel Baptist Church with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Halls. Thompson's Mortuary has charge. Mr. Hicks leaves three daughters, Ruthie Lee Barnes of Gates, Ida Mae Hicks of Ripley and Betty Hicks of St. Louis; two sons, Roosevelt Maness of Ridgely and Leroy Hicks of St. Louis, nine grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: March 2, 1996

HALLS - L. B. Hudson, 67, factory employee of Colonial Rubber, died of cancer Tuesday at his home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of the Look to the East Lodge 112. Mr. Hudson, the husband of M. L. Hudson, also leaves a son, L. B. Hudson Jr. of Halls; seven sisters, Ora M. Darke of Chicago, Evelyn Hall of Dyersburg, Marie Eisom of Milwaukee, Dorothy Love of Decatur, Ill., and Clara Jones, Louella Carter and Gertrude Jones, all of Halls; two brothers, Louis Hudson Jr. of Halls and L. C. Hudson of Brownsville, and a grandchild.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: January 12, 1996

Halls - Ruth Lee Johnson, 81, retired from Tupperware, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Matthew Zion Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary in Ripley has charge. She leaves four daughters, Dorothy Cannon of Las Vegas, Aline McCuther of Gates, Ann A. Bradford of Memphis and Tina Lucians of Halls; four sons, Willie Johnson of Sacramento, Calif., Jimmie Johnson and Terry Johnson, both of Halls, and James Johnson of Memphis; two sisters, Leather Mason and Cleather Johnson, both of Memphis, and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: March 28, 2005

HALLS - Roosevelt Jones, 78, retired farmer, died of heart failure Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas/Bledsoe Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Jones, the husband of Clara Jones, also leaves two sons, Richard C. Jones and Willie L. Jones; a sister, Willa Howard, and a brother, H. C. Jones, all of Chicago, 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 17, 1999

HALLS - Clara Mae Hudson Jones, 79, retired custodian, died of heart failure Monday at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Dyersburg. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Thomas/Bledsoe Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Jones, the widow of Roosevelt Jones, leaves a daughter, Michi Jones of Halls; two sons, Richard Jones and Willie Louis Jones, both of Chicago; five sisters, Evelyn Hall of Dyersburg, Marie Eison of Milwaukee, Loella Carter and Gertrud Jones, both of Halls, and Dorothy Love of Decatur, Ill., nine grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: February 11, 2000

Ripley - Royce Lee Lane, 50, factory worker, died Saturday at Oakwood Community Living Center in Dyersburg. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Halls with burial in the church cemetery there. Thompson's Mortuary has charge. Mr. Lane, the husband of Linda Kaye Eisom Lane, also leaves a daughter, Dakena Adams, and a stepson, Michael Dewayne Eisom, both of Halls; his mother, Mae Emma Lane of Gary, Ind.; seven sisters, Linda Smith of Gary, Brenda Patrick and Eunice Washington, both of Milwaukee, Shirley Jackson of Ripley, and Latarya Patrick, Leslie Patrick and Tiffany Patrick, all of Halls; five brothers, Fred Patrick Jr., Allen Patrick and Willie Roy, all of Milwaukee, Antonio Patrick of Halls and James Reed of Rockford, Ill., and two grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 16, 2004

HALLS - Mrs. Eddie McClellan, 74, died Feb. 23 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home of Ripley has charge. Mrs. McClellan leaves three sisters, Mrs. Louise McCorkle and Mrs. Maggie Washington, both of Halls, and Mrs. Laura Pierce of Chicago, and four grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: March 1, 1991

HALLS - Louise McCorkle, 84, domestic worker, died Monday in Dyersburg. Services will be at noon today at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. H. H. Hudson Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. McCorkle, the wife of Morris McCorkle, also leaves three sisters, Maggie E. Washington of Halls, Lera Pierce of Chicago and Heneritta Campbell of Toledo, Ohio, six grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: April 26, 2003

HALLS - Clorde Pillow, 86, former employee of Colonial Rubber in Dyersburg, died of diabetes Tuesday at his home. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary of Ripley has charge. He leaves a son, Clorde Pillow Jr. of Ripley; two sisters, Luvenia Dorsey and Beulah Manns, both of Chicago; two brothers, L. J. Mitchell and Issac Ringer, both of Halls, seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: June 9, 2000

HALLS - Fred Lee Patrick, 66, retired from Colonial Rubber in Dyersburg, died Tuesday of cardiac arrest at Methodist Hospital of Dyersburg. Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Halls, where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary of Ripley has charge. Mr. Patrick, the husband of Ida Patrick, also leaves six daughters, Tiffany Patrick, Latoya Patrick and Leslie Patrick, all of Halls, Eunice Patrick and Brenda Patrick, both of Milwaukee, and Shirley Jackson of Ripley; five sons, Antonio Patrick and Royce Patrick, both of Halls, and Fred Patrick Jr., Willie Roy Patrick and Alan Patrick, all of Milwaukee; a sister, Floyd Patrick of Milwaukee; five brothers, Robert Patrick, Olgie Patrick and Theopolus Patrick, all of Halls, David Patrick of Milwaukee and Willie Patrick Jr. of St. Louis; 32 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: January 20, 1995

HALLS - Erma Jean Pitts, 40, homemaker, died of heart failure Thursday at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Dyersburg. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Thompson's Mortuary has charge. She leaves two stepdaughters, Gloria Harrell of Gates and Tasha Pitts of Kentucky; a stepson, Dalton Jackson of Halls; her father, Claude Pillow, six stepgrandchildren and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: July 20, 1999

DYERSBURG - Elvie Z. Rice, 80, homemaker, died of heart failure Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Halls with burial in the church cemetery there. Thompson's Mortuary in Ripley has charge. Mrs. Rice, the widow of Willis Rice, leaves three daughters, Barbara Ferguson and Wilma Wyatt, both of Dyersburg, and Betty Little of Detroit; five sons, Willie C. Rice of Trenton, Hubert Robertson of Columbus, Ohio, Russell Rice of El Paso, Texas, and Gene Rice and Zeb Rice, both of Dyersburg; a sister, Alice Robertson of Columbus, Ohio; a brother, Willard Robertson of Alabama, 33 grandchildren and 50 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: January 15, 2001

HALLS - Verneda Roundtree, 68, died Friday of heart failure at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Halls, where she was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home of Ripley has charge. She was a member of the M-A Club and Beauticians Club. Ms. Roundtree leaves a daughter, Anna Hudson of Nashville; a sister, Mazell Moore of Cleveland, Ohio; a brother, Willie M. Cooper of Nashville; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: April 4, 1995

HALLS - Lula Mae Soward, 87, of Gary, Ind., formerly of Lauderdale County, homemaker, died Friday at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Jackson. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Bells Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of New Macedonia Baptist Church. Mrs. Soward, the widow of Morris Soward, leaves five daughters, M. L. Hudson of Halls and Cora Taylor, Dorothy Wade, Elizabeth Smith and Beatrice Black, all of Gary, Ind., 17 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: June 18, 2002

HALLS - Alberta White, 91, died Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital- Lauderdale in Ripley. Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at Matthew Zion Baptist Church in Halls, where she was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home in Ripley has charge.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: August 13, 1993

HALLS - Mrs. Almetia White, 77, died March 14 at Lawnwood Medical Center in Fort Pierce, Fla. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where she was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home of Ripley has charge. Mrs. White leaves two daughters, Mrs. Lois Campbell of Fort Pierce and Mrs. Zella Sherrod of Beloit, Wis.; three sons, Vernice Eisom of Milwaukee, Fred Eisom of Fort Pierce and Isaiah Coleman of Gary, Ind.; three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford of Chicago, Mrs. Dora Helem of Decatur, Ill., and Mrs. Bertha Pierce of Halls; two brothers, Rev. John Eisom of Ripley and Talton Eisom of Halls, and 30 grandchildren.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: March 23, 1991