PARMA -- Funeral service for Ermon Luther "Jack" Medlin of Parma will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Parma, with the Rev. Don Cooper officiating. Burial will be in Malden Memorial Park Cemetery.

Medlin, 78, died Thursday, Feb. 16, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

He was born Feb. 26, 1916, in Silva, daughter of John D. and Ethel Montgomery Medlin.

Medlin was a retired mechanic and police officer, and was a member of General Baptist Church in Parma. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

Survivors include a son, Glendle Medlin of New Madrid; two brothers, Almon Medlin of Parma, Melvin Medlin of Bernie; two sisters, Opal Harper of Destrehan, La., Dorothy Davis of O'Fallon, and two grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Lyman Medlin.