Services for Vela Grimes May, 73, of West Monroe, will be held at 2:00
p.m., Sunday, January 12, 1997 at Fair Park Baptist Church, with Rev.
Dick Paige and Rev. Waymond Warren officiating. Burial will be in
Fellowship Cemetery in Columbia, under the direction of Kilpatrick
Funeral Home of West Monroe.
Mrs. May died Friday, January 10,
1997 at her residence, following a brief illness.
Mrs. May was an
active member of Fair Park Baptist Church and was a former president of
the Fair Sunday School Class.
Survivors include sons, Joe William
May, Columbia, Craig Alan May, West Monroe, daughter Betty Tyler May,
West Monroe, granddaughters, Amy Jo May and Lea Ann May, West Monroe;
sisters-in-law, Effie May Hinton, Monroe, Amanda May, Columbia, Odessa
May Alger, Columbia, Myrtis Grimes, Dallas TX; sister-in-law, Arvenia
Blackmon and husband, Mayo, Columbia, brothers-in-law Aaron May and wife
Hazel, Winnsboro, Leo May and wife Betty, Columbia, Gordon May and wife
Faye, Logansport, many nieces, nephews and friends.
Pallbearers
will be Steven May, Darris Waren, Teddy May, C.L. Hinton, Steve Hargis,
Todd Miley, Colby Petch, Donnie Williams and Billy Byrd. Honorary
pallbearers will be Deacons of Fair Park Baptist Church.
Visitation will be 5:00 until 9:00 p.m., Saturday and 9:00 a.m. until
11:30 a.m., Sunday at the funeral home.
The family would like to
extend a special thank you to the Glenwood Hospice nurses and staff.
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