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Submitted: 6/15/21 • Approved: 6/15/21 • Last Updated: 7/8/21 • R1379557-G1379557-S3
27 Oct 1912 - 21 Dec 1970
Marriage: 16 Sept 1946
Rosie Lee (Chezem) Reese wife of John Webster Reese.
**obituary
Rosie Lee Reese, 75
RAVENDEN -- Funeral services for Rosie Lee Reese, 75, of Ravenden, who died Friday, Sept. 19, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Walnut Ridge, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Ravenden.
Burial will follow in Opposition Cemetery at Ravenden under the direction of Tri-County's Cherokee Chapel in Highland.
Active pallbearers will be Raymond Swartzlander, Billy Swartzlander, Wesley Reese, Zeke Wilkerson, Steven Blansett and Jonathan Bayles.
Honorary pallbearers will include Daniel and James Wilkerson, Carlton Gray, Charles Greer, Sam Bayles and Allen Mitchell.
Born in Charleston, Mo., she was an in-home caregiver for many years and was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include two sons, Bobby Chezem of Sikeston, Mo., and Johnny Reese of Imboden; five daughters, Wilma Bayles of Imboden, Edith Swartzlander and Evelyn Blansett, both of Ravenden, and Mabel Newman and Linda Benson, both of Williford; 22 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John W. Reese; one daughter, Mary Wilkerson; her parents, Roy and Goldie Welch Chezem; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Obituary located through genealogy site archives of Jonesboro Sun Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas. Published Saturday, September 20, 2003
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Jonesboro Sun, The (Arkansas) 20 September 2003, obit for Reese, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/1394A7DCE05442A8
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