Troup Co. GA - OBIT: Bessie Eley Shelnutt

Submitted by Regina Barnes <rbarnes@wavegate.com> 
                              

   BESSIE ELEY SHELNUTT
   
   Mrs. Bessie Eley Shelnutt, 80, of Hogansville, died June 6, 1988 in
   the Randolph County Hospital in Roanoke, Alabama.
   
   Mrs. Shelnutt was born June 27, 1907 in Heard County, daughter of the
   late James and Doshie Bledsoe Eley. She had lived in Hogansville since
   1939 and was a retired employee of Uniroyal Corporation with 35 years
   of service. Mrs. Shelnutt was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church
   in Hogansville where she was a member of the choir, the WMU and served
   as the assistant pianist. She was a member of the first graduating
   class of Centralhatchee High School.
   
   Services were held June 17 in the chapel of McKibben funeral Home with
   the Rev. R. C. Prescott and the Rev. Monroe Driver officiating.
   Interment was in Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Hogansville.
   
   Pallbearers were Blake Shelnutt, Elmon Birdsong, Roy Wright, Deward
   Jackson, Ed McFarland and Joe Spinks.
   
   Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Tucker of Hogansville; son,
   Freeman Shelnutt of Rome; sisters, Mrs.
   Junior Dorough of Newnan, Miss Connie Eley of Marietta; brother, J. B.
   Eley of Douglasville; four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren.
   
   Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home, Hogansville.

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