Mrs. Melllie Yarbrough, 47, passed away Wednesday a short time after being
brought to Benevolent Society Hospital from her home at Town Creek, where she
had been seriously ill for sometime. Funeral services will be conducted Friday
morning at 10 o’clock at the Town Creek Christian church with Bro. N. F.
Harding, of Columbia, Tenn., saying the service. Interment will follow at Town
Creek cemetery, Highsmith directing. Active pallbearers will be: Pink Key,
Charlie Key, F. S. Knouff, R. B. Preuitt, E. E. Ethridge and John Haddock. Mrs.
Yarbrough was a member of the Christian church and beloved by numbers of friends
in Lawrence county. The deceased is survived by her husband, T. D. Yarbrough,
three sons, Ernest, Emmett and Clifton, of Town Creek; two daughters, Mrs.
Malcolmn Streater of Town Creek, and Mrs. Tom Masterson, of Decatur and one
granddaughter. Four sisters are among the survivors, Mrs. Charles Bragg of
Moulton, Mrs. E. R. Alexander of Moulton, Mrs. J. L. Jetton, Louisville, Ky.,
and Mrs. O. R. Harris, of Memphis. One brother, R. W. Alexander, of Moulton,
Mrs. Yarbrough’s death occasioned sorrow in Lawrence county where she was well
known for many years.
