SARDIS– Jessie Hill Monroe, 78, died Wednesday, July 21, 2010, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.

Memorial services will be Saturday, July 31 at Wells Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Waydell will officiate. Wells Funeral Home has charge.

Monroe, born June 13, 1932, in Marks, to James G. and Mary M. Hill, over the course of her career worked at Sardis Luggage Company, Carrom Manufacturing and Harvey’s Candy Company.

She was a member of Union Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harvey Monroe.

Survivors include: four daughters, Pat Monroe Eubanks of Cabot, Ark., Charlotte Monroe Evans and her husband, Monroe of Cabot, Ark., Debbie Monroe Ford of Cabot, Ark. and Carla Monroe Edlin of Sardis; one sister, Sarah Force and her husband, Jim of Slidell, La.; 8 grandchildren.