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stock shows ever to be held the in Asheville, [onlyaskec suffee I IllrtLj 111 I iiil I If 11 bitteiFINAL RITES FORn I____ *_______ WiduleciREV. SORRELLS_ vembe i.cd toMacon Minister Passes r; In Local Hospital After time Illness Of Five Days for fi—- Is drFuneral services for the Rev. of if Lester James Sorrells, 45, were ously held on Thursday aftern;on at hcito 3 o’clock at the Bethel Metho- Del dust church. The Rev. D. P. progr Grant, pastor, officiated, assist- avails ed by the Rev, George A. Cloer, Baptist minister, and the Rev. Wee Frank Holland, of Macon coun- To ty. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. | ThiThe Rev. Mr. Sorrells, widely- Chris known in the rural area of hn Macon county, where he had serve held various charges and con- and ducted revival meetings in many hn cl of the Baptist churches, died ning, in the Angel Clinic’ here on with Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock Guildof Clthe iThlt;servilt;betwidepaiU, I At PMr;tessfollowing an Illness of five days.He was operated on Saturday afternoon.Born in Macon County on July 17, 1900, Mr. Sorrells had lived in the county all his life. He was the son of Mrs, Carrie Divis Pressley Sorrells and the late Mem I Andy Sorrells. At the time of and his death he w+as pastor of the son. Long View and Cartoogechaye t Baptist churches, having gone t into the ministerial work in \ ! 1934. On December 24. 1920 he . I was married to Miss Annie Guffey -who survives.-The pallbearers were the chap a Rev. Bill Sorrells, the Rev. Fred ters c I Sorrells, Jack and Grover Sor- on C rells, brothers, and Dave Angel eveni “j and Norman Guffey, brothers- for tl 1 in-law. ing,| Surviving are the widow and Mr: 12 children, six sons, Herman presic Sorrells, recently returned from j sence Germany, Pfc. T. J. Sorrells, with the army air corps, stationed in Nebraska, Lloyd,Ralph, Marshall and Jackson f Sorrells, at home, and six e daughters. Nicholetta, Margaret, Dorris Ann, Hazel, Catherine and Ethel Sorrells, all at i home, and two grandchildren.Also the mother M,ra. Andy. Sorrells, of Cullasaja, four brothers, Rev, Fred Sorrells, the Rev.Bill Sorrells and Grover Sor- Slagli rells, of Franklin, and Jack Miss Sorrells, of Canton, and four Miss sisters, Mrs. Minnie Sorrells, oi secre Cullasaja, Mrs. Belle Angel, of treas Franklin, Mrs. Bertha Barrett, Chur Jefferson, Ga.. and Mrs. Myrtle Wooten, of Cullasaja, and a number of nieces and nephews. Bryant Funeral Directors wrereM. P: menfc Allan Conk abser Herb( Thi repor who ed; I dent; vice-iCamiMr;whlclChapin charge of the arrangements, j inste
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Franklin Press and Highlands Maconian
Franklin, North Carolina, US
Thu, Oct 18, 1945
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