Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Deaths, Funerals

Anna Bell Grayson Clark of Gurdon died Tues., Jan. 4, 2000.

Mrs. Clark was the widow of W.T. Clark and was a very active member of Beech Street Baptist Church of Gurdon. She was the daughter of the late Frank Taylor Grayson and Adrah McMillion Grayson of Prescott. She was a member of the 1939 graduating class of Prescott High School. Mrs. Grayson was preceded in death by three brothers, Tommy, Jimmy and Mack Grayson, and one sister, Dorothy.

Survivors include two sons, Eddy Clark of Gurdon and Jerry Clark of Benton; two daughters, Judy Neathery of Gurdon and Donna McGee of Perryville; one brother, Otis Paul Grayson of Portland, Ore., and 11 grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Fri., Jan. 7, at Beech Street Baptist Church with burial at Cedar Ridge Cemetery by Horne Funeral Home of Gurdon.

Martha Eloise Manning

Martha Eloise Bullock Manning, 91, of Prescott died Tues., Jan. 11, 2000, in Hope.

Mrs. Manning was born April 17, 1908, in Stamps to Classie and Willie Lambert Bullock. She was a housewife.

Survivors include two daughters and one son-in-law, Bobbie Booker of Emmet and Patricia and Charles Milam of Prescott; six grand-children, Sandra Browning, Jerry Booker, Lynn Cox, Debbie Gunnels, Kim Burton and Sheri Moore; 11 great grandchildren; and five great great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Sat., Jan. 15, at Harmony Methodist Church with Bro. Jerry Westmoreland and Phillip Hull officiating. Burial was in Harmony Cemetery under the direction of Shackelford Funeral Home of Prescott.