Suggested edit: Anniston Star, The (AL) - Saturday, September 1, 2001
LAFAYETTE - Services for Merle Abner, 88, of LaFayette will be today at 2 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church with Revs. G.K. Abner and Ricky Emery officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Benefield Funeral Home of Wedowee in charge. The body will be at the church an hour prior to services.
Mr. Abner died Thursday at Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley.
Survivors include five sisters, Alma Abner of Roanoke, Novella Bradley, Geneva Emery and Lora A. Childers, all of Wedowee and Willie Webb of Valley; and two brothers, Thomas Braxton Abner of Huguley and Buford Abner of Wedowee.
Pallbearers will be John Abner, Dave Bradley, Ronnie Yates, Mike McCormick, Larry Bradley, Jerry Rice and Buford Abner.
Mr. Abner was a native of Clay County and the son of William David and Viola Ovelta Holloway Abner. He was an Army World War II veteran and a professional singer with The Suwanee River Boys. He was Baptist.
Suggested edit: Anniston Star, The (AL) - Saturday, September 1, 2001
LAFAYETTE - Services for Merle Abner, 88, of LaFayette will be today at 2 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church with Revs. G.K. Abner and Ricky Emery officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Benefield Funeral Home of Wedowee in charge. The body will be at the church an hour prior to services.
Mr. Abner died Thursday at Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley.
Survivors include five sisters, Alma Abner of Roanoke, Novella Bradley, Geneva Emery and Lora A. Childers, all of Wedowee and Willie Webb of Valley; and two brothers, Thomas Braxton Abner of Huguley and Buford Abner of Wedowee.
Pallbearers will be John Abner, Dave Bradley, Ronnie Yates, Mike McCormick, Larry Bradley, Jerry Rice and Buford Abner.
Mr. Abner was a native of Clay County and the son of William David and Viola Ovelta Holloway Abner. He was an Army World War II veteran and a professional singer with The Suwanee River Boys. He was Baptist.
Family Members
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Dulema Abner Johnson
1905–1994
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William Clovis Abner
1907–1989
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Columbus Abner
1909–1909
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Maude Novella Abner Bradley
1910–2006
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Charlie Jasper Abner
1915–1987
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James Buford Abner
1917–2011
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Lora Jenette Abner Childers
1920–2017
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Thomas Braxton Abner
1922–2016
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Alma R Abner
1924–2001
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Geneva Abner Emery
1926–2015
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Willie Jo Abner Webb
1930–2014
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