OBITS: PERKINS, Bessie Mae - 14 Sep 2000 - Whitley Co, KY
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:50:01 -0400
Submitted by: Bobbie Ivey-Lewallen (TNGirl@icx.net)

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FROM THE NEWS-JOURNAL, CORBIN, KY, 9/21/00

Bessie Mae Perkins, 79, Williamsburg, passed away Thursday afternoon,
September 14, 2000 at the Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin. She 
attended the Church of God. Survivors include three daughters, Betty Lawson 
of Emlyn, Joann Siler of Cincinnati, Ohio and Lana Perkins of Williamsburg; 
a granddaughter she raised, Ashley Perkins of Williamsburg; two sons-in-law, 
George Russell Lawson of Emlyn and Arnold Siler of Cincinnati, Ohio; four 
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Edd Perkins and a son,
Edward Perkins. Funeral services were held Sunday, September 17 at the 
Croley Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jimmy Childers officiating. Burial 
followed in the Siler Cemetery at Verne. Croley Funeral Home in charge of 
arrangements.