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Submitted: 12/7/12 • Approved: 12/7/12 • Last Updated: 6/27/23 • R792519-G792518-S3
Ernest 18 Aug 1909 - 18 Nov 1970
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*Obituary
Benton Funeral Service
Ernest Griffin, 61, of Warren, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1970.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Addie Towery Griffin; two stepsons, Buddy Reaves of New Edinburg and Jimmy Reaves of Warren; four stepdaughters, Miss Diana Lynn Hamaker and Mrs. Joe McClellan, both of Warren, Mrs. John Cook of Michigan and Mrs. Norman McCoy of Tennessee; his father, Joe Griffin of Warren; four brothers, Preston, John, Walter and Clarence Griffin, all of Monticello, and nine grandchildren.
Funeral was at 2 p.m. Friday at Immanuel Baptist Church at Warren. Burial was at Oakland Cemetery at Warren by Benton Funeral Service of Fordyce.
Addie 3 Jul 1917 - 21 Aug 1983
Daughter of John Theordore and Martha Melissa Bridges Towery
married 1. Lovett Wilton Reaves 2. Alfred Hamaker 3. Second wife of Ernest Griffin
Children: Sue Carolyn Reaves McClellan and Lloyd Wilton Reaves
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