MISSOURI PEARL RICHARDS

(02/26/2001)
Missouri Pearl Richards, 92 of Big springs, died Friday, February 23 at Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center, Grantsville.

Born in Calhoun County, she was the daughter of the late George and Maude Greathouse Norman. She was a homemaker and a member of the Big Springs United Methodist Church.

Surviving Mrs. Richards are two daughters, Eldine Wilson of Parkersburg, WV and Ernastine Lynch of Cleveland, Ohio, two sisters, Dortha Gant of Barran Springs, VA and Bernadine Braham of Parkersburg, 7 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren and 10 great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, J.C. Richards in 1988, a son, Clyde J. Richards, four sisters, Rosa Dell Jones, Sadie Hemmingway, Ola Sims and Maggie Richards, a brother, William Norman, 3 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Stump Funeral Home, Grantsville, WV. Interment will be in the Big Springs Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home 1 hour prior to the service.