REV. CHARLEY SITZES

MARBLE HILL -- The Rev. Charley E. Sitzes, 90, of Marble Hill died Thursday, Jan. 23, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Sept. 19, 1906, at Marquand, son of Jacob and Caroline Pulliam Sitzes. He and Lillian I. Rhodes were married Sept. 5, 1926. She died Dec. 5, 1982. He later married Opal Denmann, who also preceded him in death.

Sitzes had been an ordained minister since 1932. He also had farmed, and had been a driver with ABF Trucking Co. He was a member of Plainview Congregational Methodist Church.

Survivors include two sons, Charley Sitzes of Cape Girardeau, Carl Sitzes of Marble Hill; two daughters, Dorothy Hanners of Jackson, Orpha Slinkard of Fredericktown; a sister, Lela Trentham of Marble Hill; 10 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill after 4 p.m. today.

Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at the funeral home, with the Revs. Jimmie Fulbright and Julius Mills officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Church Cemetery.