Recent Obituaries in St. Louis

Lula Mae Scott Ellis

Lula Mae Scott Ellis

Nov 26, 2009

Life Reflections Lula Mae Scott-Ellis was born on December 21st, 1924 in Raymond, Mississippi to James and Sophronia Scott. She was one . of ten children. Raised in a hard working family of share croppers, Lula Mae was the designated caretaker for the family and spent the majority of her time cooking and housekeeping for this large family. Skills...

Robert Lee Johnson Sr.

Robert Lee Johnson Sr.

Nov 11, 2009

Life Reflections Robert L. Johnson was born March 10, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri to Roy and Bernice Small. He was the second born of sixteen children. His parents, one grandson and four siblings preceded him in death. He accepted Christ as his Savior at an early age and was baptized at the First Missionary Baptist Church of Kinloch...

Priscilla Manuel Cole

Priscilla Manuel Cole

Nov 6, 2009

Obituary Mrs. Priscilla Cole was born November 13, 1926 in Muskogee, Oklahoma to the union of Samuel and Mary Davis Manuel, both of whom were part African American and Greek Native American. She was the eighth of ten children. At the age of two, due to her mother's death, she and some of her siblings were placed in the...

Lola Mae Benson

Lola Mae Benson

Oct 24, 2009

Life Reflections Lola Mae Pegues-Benson was born April 20, 1921 to Donnie and Dale Pegues in Oxford, Mississippi. Lola was the third eldest of five children. Her husband Wayman, Sr., mother, father, two sisters Cora Pegues and Min. Virginia Tyus preceded her in death. Lola received her early education through the Mississippi Public School System. Lola started her journey...

Dorothy Robinson

Dorothy Robinson

Oct 23, 2009

Obituary Dorothy June Robinson was born on January 21, 1949 in the state of Missouri to Lillie Mae Gales and Jacob Samuel Gales Sr. Her mother, father and brother Jacob Gales Jr.) preceded her in death. She was baptized at an early age at First Baptist Church of Elmwood. She graduated from Normandy High School and later received a...

John Ree Baylis

John Ree Baylis

Oct 19, 2009

Obituary John Ree Baylis was born December 25, 1932 in Columbia, Mississippi to Neonia Brown and Floyd Baylis who preceded him in death. He was also preceded in death by five sisters, four brothers, a son and one grandson. He was reared by his cousins whom they called, Uncle Henry and Aunt Mary Clark of Columbia, Mississippi. John joined...

James Quitman Caston

James Quitman Caston

Oct 14, 2009

Life Reflections James Quitman Caston, born on February 8, 1988. James was the second child born to Jacqueline Barnes. James was also raised by a loving father, James Nelson. James attended the Webster Groves Public School District. He received Christ at an early age and was a member of Glendale Memorial Baptist Church. James enjoyed his hobbies. He was...

Mable Savage

Mable Savage

Oct 9, 2009

Life Reflections A time to be born... Mable Savage was born on April 6,1949 to Eddie and Bertha Savage in Dundee, Mississippi. Mable was the 4th child of 5 children to this union. A time to plant... Mable accepted Christ and was baptised at an early age while she attended The Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church in Dundee, Mississippi....

Bertha Lee Williams

Bertha Lee Williams

Oct 7, 2009

Life Reflections Bertha Lee WiIIiams was born August 11,1929 Bertha accepted Christ at an early age and was baptized at the Antioch Baptist Church in Tchula, MS. She came to Robertson, Missouri in 1948, where she united with the First Missionary Baptist Church of Robertson under the pastorate of Reverend James E. Butler. Bertha sang in the choir, was...

Willie Claudie Hurst

Willie Claudie Hurst

Sep 17, 2009

Life Reflections Willie Claudie Hurst was the third child born to Claudie and Corine Hurst on November 23, 1930, in Wrightsville, Georgia. He attended school in Wrightsville, Georgia. He met and married Lottie Cason in 1946 and the family moved to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1957. To this union twelve children were born. He united with Kinloch Church of...

Rosie Pruitt

Rosie Pruitt

Sep 15, 2009

Life Reflections Rosie Pruitt was born January 2, 1904 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. She had two siblings who preceded her in death, Emma Evans McCoy and Buddy Evans. Rosie had a son Lawrence Curry and worked many years assisting the Pierce Family of Meridian. She net and married Otis Pruitt and became mother to three daughters and three sons....

Raymond Thompson

Raymond Thompson

Sep 12, 2009

Not Applicable. Disposition: Cremation Saint Louis Cremation .

Willie Tompkins Jr.

Willie Tompkins Jr.

Sep 8, 2009

Life Reflections Willie Tompkins, Jr. was born July 23, 1932 in Dundee, Mississippi to Willie Sr. and Mae Willie Tompkins, he was tbe 1st of 9 siblings, 3 brothers and 5 sisters. Preceded in death, his mother, father, sister (Mosette), brother, (W.T.), son (Marvin) daughter-in-law (Eliza) grandson (Douglas) brother-in-law (Billy William), and sister-in-law, Jesse. He attended Rising Sun School...

Ida M Bazile

Ida M Bazile

Sep 7, 2009

Not Applicable. Disposition: Donation Saint Louis University Hospital .

Alice Johnson

Alice Johnson

Aug 22, 2009

Alice Mae Johnson was born February 3, 1947 to Willie G. Wallace and Mary Adalaide Wallace in Saint Louis, Missouri. Two of her brothers, Willie G. Wallace Jr., and Ronald Brown, two children, Darnele and Jamelle Johnson, one grandson, Prince Hammonds, one nephew, Ronald, Jr. and niece, Kendra Brown all preceded her in death. .

Billy Phillip Reid

Billy Phillip Reid

Aug 22, 2009

Obituary BILLY PHILLIP REID was born July 27, 1940 in Griffin, Georgia to Lula Mae Reid and Emmett Reid, Sr. His family moved to Alcoa, Tennessee where Billy attended Charles M. Hall High School. At an early age, Billy accepted Jesus Christ and united with Bethel Baptist Church where he was baptized. Billy moved to Newark, New Jersey in...

Luella Laverne Jackson

Luella Laverne Jackson

Aug 1, 2009

Life Reflections Luella Laverne, the daughter and the oldest of three children born to Ida Clay, the granddaughter of James Lehmon and Martha Posey Boyd Brown, was born on March 13, 1918 in Boonville, Warrick County, Indiana. As a child she grew up in Boonville and later moved to Evansville, Indiana. She attended Lincoln High School and graduated in...

James Darnell Smith Iii

James Darnell Smith Iii

Jul 31, 2009

Life Reflections James Smith III was born to James Smith II and Jeannetta Smith on February 14, 1962 in St. Louis, MO. James was baptized at an early age. He was educated in the Gary, Indiana School system where he became a Michael Jackson Fan. He then returned back to St. Louis, Missouri where he met Sharon Mitchell with...

Mary Louise Fortune

Mary Louise Fortune

Jul 27, 2009

Life Reflections Weezie... Mary Louise (Davis) Fortune was born on October 15, 1931 in Saint Louis, Missouir to WIllie Sr. and Corine Davis ,who both preceded in death along with siblings: Willie, Anthony, Juanita, and Doris. She leaves to mourn siblings: Lee Davis, Joy Kenney, and Carolyn Gaylor. Mary attended Elmwood Middle School and later graduated from Sumner High...

John Patrick Hayes

John Patrick Hayes

Jul 24, 2009

Life ReflectionsJohn Patrick Hayes was born in Shreveport Louisiana on March 10, 1965. He was the second child born to Arthur and Rosie Hayes. John confessed a belief in Christ at an early age, and was baptized in Louisiana. The family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1969, where John grew up. John graduated from Maplewood-Richmond Heights Senior High...