BESSIE SHRADER - Parkersburg

(08/25/2001)
Bessie Shrader, 85, of Fourth Avenue, Parkersburg, died Aug. 23, 2001, at the Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital of Parkersburg.

Mrs. Shrader was born May 10, 1916, in Creston, Wirt County, a daughter of the late Robert and Sally Tanner. She was a homemaker and a Baptist by faith.

She is survived by two sons, Jim Shrader and Orson Shrader both of Creston; two daughters, Bonnie Lewis of Parkersburg, and Alberta Nichols of Aberdeen, N.C.; six grandchildren, Tonya Dickel, Ricky Lewis, Melody Ferrell Sandy, Jimmy Shrader Jr., Danny Shrader and Janimae Browning; and six great-grandchildren, Mandy and Tyler Dickel, Sierra Browning, Ricky Lewis Jr., Ashley Lewis and Cody Lewis.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Hallie Shrader in 1963; one daughter, Nancy Ferrell; one brother; and one sister.

Funeral services will be 3 p.m. Sunday at the Busch Funeral Home of Elizabeth, with the Rev. Lewis Villers officiating. Burial will follow in the Cooper Cemetery of Annamoriah. Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. today and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.