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Submitted: 11/28/14 • Approved: 9/15/23 • Last Updated: 9/18/23 • R1053818-G1053818-S3
November 29, 1926 - May 12, 1981
*Obituary
The Joplin Globe
Wednesday, May 13, 1981
GENTRY, Ark. — Mrs. Cora Oletta Presnell, 54, Gentry, died at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville from injuries suffered Friday in a car train accident here.
Mrs. Presnell was born Nov. 29, 1926, in Little Rock and had lived in Gentry three years, moving here from the state of Michigan. She was an employee of Peterson Industries in Decatur.
Survivors include two sons, Charles Ray Graves, Wall Lake, Mich., and Dean Lee Graves, Pontiac, Mich.; two daughters, Mrs. Doris E. Gibbs and Miss Joyce A. Graves, both of Gentry; two brothers, Eugene McFarland and Robert McFarland, both of the state of Alabama; two sisters, Mrs. Riva Mae Harwell and Mrs. Elva V Shahan, both of the state of Alabama; and nine grandchildren.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at Wasson Funeral Home memorial chapel, with the Rev. A.E. Maines officiating. Burial will be in Falling Springs Cemetery near Decatur.
Contributed on 11/28/14 by wfields55
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