DEXTER -- Funeral for William E. Sadler of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. Dale Grissom will officiate. Burial will be in Hagy Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home today from 10 a.m. until service time.

Sadler, 99, died Sunday, April 18, 1999, at his home.

He was born Jan. 20, 1900, near Dexter, son of James Franklin and Sarah Ann Blunt Sadler. He and Alma Lee Phillips were married in 1921. She died April 20, 1985.

Sadler lived in St. Louis from 1942-64, in Florida from 1964-84, and then moved back to Dexter. He was a retired farmer, and member of the Church of Christ in Dexter.

Survivors include a daughter, Virginia Wright of Covington, Ga.; two sisters, Ruby Hudgens of Dexter and Ruth Pruett of Thousand Oaks, Calif.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.