Pauline Metheny

CANALOU, Mo. -- Pauline Metheny, 77, of Canalou died Monday, Oct. 18, 2004, at Missouri Southern Health Care in Dexter, Mo.

She was born Feb. 13, 1927, in Falls City, Ala., daughter of Arthur E. and Evis Savannah Horton Ergle. She first married Curtis Orr. She later married Cecil Metheny in 1956, in Hernando, Miss. He died Dec. 5, 1984.

Metheny was a member of Missionary Baptist Church at Matthews, Mo.

Survivors include two sons, Curtis Orr of Canalou, J.C. Orr of Rockford, Ill.; a daughter, Paulette Cobb of Bernie, Mo.; a brother, James Ergle of Jonesboro, Ark.; five sisters, Gertrude McCoy and Charlotte Tidwell of Matthews, Edith Grainger of Sikeston, Mo., Ruby Lucero of Ottawa, Kan., Juanita Ergle of New Madrid; 16 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, four brothers and two sisters.

Friends may call at Blanchard Funeral Chapel in Sikeston from 5 to 8 p.m. today.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the chapel, with the Rev. Willie McCoy officiating. Burial will be in Matthews Cemetery at Matthews.