Lula Bird

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Graveside service for Lula Bird of Wayne City, Ill., will be held at 2 p.m. today at McGinnis Cemetery. The Rev. Richard McCormick will officiate.

Crain Funeral Home in Anna, Ill., is in charge of local arrangements.

Bird, 88, died Sunday, Dec. 8, 2002, at Wayfair Restorium in Fairfield, Ill.

She was born July 12, 1914, in Arkansas, daughter of Byron and Kezzy Myers. She and Roy Luther Bird were married Dec. 5, 1944. He died June 10, 1996.

Bird was a member of Ellis Mound Church near Aden, Ill.

Survivors include a son, Raymond Bird of Fairfield; two stepdaughters, Patsy Saylor of Richmond, Ind., Peggy McRaven of Jonesboro; two sisters, Lucy Swan and Lorene Davis of Arkansas; a brother, Romy Myers of Arkansas; six grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers.