COMO – James H. Abram, 83, died Wednesday, July 27, 2011, at Tri-Lakes Medical Center.

Services will be held Saturday at noon. Burial will be in Liberty Hill C.M.E. Church Cemetery in Como. Felix Cauthen Funeral Home has charge.

Abram was a steel worker and a member of Liberty Hill C.M.E. Church in Como.

Survivors include: his wife, Maude Mae Abram; three daughters, Georgia B. Pierce of Covina, Calif., Jessie M. Banard of Gary, Ind. and Lee E. McKinney of Como; three sons, Fred A. Abram and Michael R. Abram, both of Gary, Ind. and James. A. Abram of Indianapolis, Ind.; one brother, Jessie Abram of Sardis; 19 grandchildren; 48 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.

Elzadia H. Beck

SARDIS – Elzadia H. Beck, 72, died Monday, August 1, 2011, at Greenwood Leflore Hospital.

Services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Mt. Zion M.B. Church in Sardis. Burial will be in Rosehill Cemetery. Felix Cauthen Funeral Home has charge.

Beck was a member of Mt. Zion M.B. Church.

Survivors include: five daughters, Tressie Salter and Anita McIntosh, both of Sardis, Bob Myers, Gloria Hardin Thomas and Evator Hardin, all of Memphis; three sons, Keadrix Hardin of Sardis, Gallaway Beck Jr. of Charlottesville, Va. and Clyde Beck of Albany, NY; one sister, Mary Dora Jones of Greencobe Spring, Fla.; 21 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

Shirley Ruth Buck

COMO – Shirley Ruth Buck died Thursday, July 28, 2011, at the Med in Memphis. She was 58.

    Services were held Wednesday, August 3, at Cistern Hill M.B. Church in Como with interment at church cemetery.  Felix Cauthen Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

    Mrs. Buck was a choir member at Cistern Hill M.B. Church and was a factory worker.

    Survivors include her husband, James O. Buck of Como; one son, Darrell Dewayne Buck of Chester, Va.; four sisters, Annie Brown of Sardis, Callie Lowery and Ivy-an Wilson both of Waco, Texas and Deloris Wilson of Memphis; five brothers, Willie Wilson of Fayetteville, N.C., Melvin Jones of Memphis, Jerome Kearney of Oxford, John Wilson and Howard Birge both of Como and one grandchild.

Luvenia Brown

BATESVILLE – Luvenia Brown, 72, died Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

Services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at South Hopewell Church in Taylor. Burial will be in Browning Cemetery. Terry Wortham Sr. will officiate. Eddie Robison Funeral Home has charge.

Brown, was an usher, choir member and Sunday School teacher. at South Hopewell M.B. Church in Taylor.

Survivors include: one brother, George E. Brown of Sardis; three sisters, Earlie Hariston, Eatha Williams, both of Memphis and Ever Lee McGee of Waterloo, Iowa.

Diane Lee Sanders

SARDIS – Diane Lee Sanders, 49, died Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.

Services were held Saturday, July 30, at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church near Sardis with interment at  Wesley Chapel Cemetery. Rev. Tom Atkins officiated. Ray-Nowell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Sanders was born April 21, 1962, in West Memphis, Ark., to Hardie Lee Sanders and Adelaide Arnold Sanders.  She was a Bank Teller for Renasant Bank in Sardis for over 27 years. She was a member of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church where she served as church treasurer for many years.

Survivors include: one sister, Donna Arnold Sanders of Sardis.

The family requests that memorial contributions be made to Wesley Chapel Memorial Cemetery Fund, The American Lung Association or The Methodist Children’s Homes, P.O. Box 66, Clinton, Miss. 39060.

Opal Russom Parker

BATESVILLE – Opal Russom Parker, 91, died Sunday, July 31, 2011.

Survivors include: one son, Virgil Parker of Batesville; one daughter, Judy Kay Atta of Pheonix, Ariz.; one brother, L.B. Russom of Gladewater, Texas; five grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren.