SIKESTON -- Charles J. Stancil, 84, formerly of Dogwood died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1996, at the Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston.

He was born June 21, 1912, in Clinton, Ky., the son of Walter Vernon and Lena Blanche Robinson Stancil. He married Loraine Davenport on Aug. 8, 1931, in Charleston. She died Feb. 22, 1991.

Stancil had moved from Dogwood to Sikeston in 1987. He was a member of the Dogwood Baptist Church and attended the First Baptist Church in Sikeston. He was a landowner and farmer and had farmed in Mississippi, Scott, New Madrid and Stoddard counties. He was a founder and co-owner of the Fruitland Livestock Co. in Fruitland, a former chairman of the board of directors and co-owner of the Bank of Illmo and was one of the original board members and officers at Citizen's Bank in Charleston.

Stancil was a former member of the Charleston Kiwanis Club. For 33 years, he was a district grain inspector and auditor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Southeast Missouri.

Survivors include a daughter, Mary Ellen Keene of Sikeston; two sisters, Ruth Maxwell of Sikeston and Mary Estelle Holt of Chico, Calif.; two grandchildren; a step-grandson; and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother.

Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. today at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral chapel, with the Rev. Ed Pangburn officiating. Burial will follow in the Dogwood Cemetery.