ETTA DOWDY

MALDEN -- Etta Gulledge Dowdy, 92, died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2000, at Doctors Hospital in Poplar Bluff.

She was born Aug. 24, 1907, at Malden, daughter of Eligah and Martha Jane Gulledge. She and Thomas H. "Elbert" Dowdy were married in 1940 in Malden. He died Feb. 7, 1971.

Dowdy had worked as a nurse's aid at the Ridgeview Manor Nursing Home in Malden. She was a member of New Prospect Church, R.F.D., in Malden.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three sons, six brothers and two sisters.

Survivors include a daughter, Vernice Malone of Dexter; a brother, Lon Gulledge of Campbell; a sister, Eva Valtina of Poplar Bluff; 19 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. today at Rainey Funeral Home in Bernie.

Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel, with the Rev. Truman Hufford officiating. Burial will be in Stephens Cemetery in rural Malden.