Grady COUNTY  GA  Obituaries  - Mrs. Arch (Josie Bullard) Harrell 1955

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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, July 22, 1955
Mrs. Arch (Josie Bullard) Harrell, 79
     Funeral services for Mrs. Arch (Josie) Harrell, 79, of Cairo and Camilla, were held at 10 a.m. 
Thursday in the Chapel of the South Georgia Funeral Home.  Interment followed in the Whigham old cemetery 
beside the body of her husband, who passed away in October, 1938.
     The last rites were conducted by Rev. Stanley R. Hahn, assisted by Rev. L. E. Williams and 
Rev. N. H. Williams of Camilla.  Active pallbearers were Sam Veal, Frank Veal, Marion Fain, Frances Allen, 
Elvin Faircloth and L. D. Eddings.
     Mrs. Harrell died at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Mitchell County Hospital at Camilla, where she was carried 
after falling and breaking a hip, she having fallen Thursday, July 14.  She had been in ill health for the 
past five years, and at the time of death was making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Irene Harrell Wallace.
     The deceased was born February 11, 1876 in Mitchell County, the daughter of the late Mr. and 
Mrs. Allen Bullard.  After her marriage to the late Arch Harrell, she and her husband resided in Whigham 
for a number of years, later moving to Cairo.  She was an active member of the Cairo First Baptist Church 
until ill health forced her retirement five years ago.
     Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Irene H. Wallace, Camilla; two sons, Melvin Harrell, Cairo and
A. B. Harrell, Mobile, Ala; four grandchildren, Johanna E. Wallace, Camilla, Staff Sgt. Hobson H. Harrell 
in the U. S. Army at Madison, New Jersey, Spence Harrell, Mobile, Ala., and Tommy Harrell, Cairo.  Also 
one brother, R. F. Bullard, Camilla.
     South Georgia Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.