March 14, 1998

O.C. COLE

SIKESTON -- Memorial service for O.C. Cole Jr. of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Lee Fansler will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home from 1 p.m. until service time. Cole, 81, died Thursday, March 12, 1998, at his home...

SIKESTON -- Memorial service for O.C. Cole Jr. of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Lee Fansler will officiate.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 1 p.m. until service time.

Cole, 81, died Thursday, March 12, 1998, at his home.

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He was born March 3, 1917, at Gray Ridge, son of Ollie and Rowena Cole Sr.

Cole had been a truck driver with Lewis Bakery. He was a member of the Teamsters Union.

Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Watkins of Sikeston, Elaine Cole-Grant of Holden; a brother, Lonnie Cole of Fort Wayne, Ind.; a sister, Beulah Lockhart of Smithville, N.J.; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by four brothers and sisters.

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