SIKESTON -- Graveside service for William Matthew Oakes will be held at 11 a.m. today at Blodgett Cemetery, with the Rev. David Maze officiating.
Nunnelee Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
The infant, son of William J. Oakes Jr. and Sharai Corder of Sikeston, was stillborn Wednesday, March 19, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.
Survivors include his parents; maternal grandparents, Gary Corder and Linda Patrick of Sikeston; paternal grandparents, William Jerry and Theresa Oakes Sr. of Morehouse; and maternal great-grandparents, Mary Merritt of Sikeston and Ernest and Nellie Corder of St. Louis.
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