Mrs. Dora Summers Callender, 74, widow of the late Monroe Callender of the Zetus community, died in the early hours of Wednesday at the home near Zetus of a niece, Mrs. Ada Summers Smith, and the latter's husband, where she had lived for some years. She had been ill about two weeks.
The funeral was announced for ten Thursday morning in Hawkins Chapel, interment to be made in the cemetery nearby.
Mrs. Callender was a member of a large and established Lincoln County family and was reared in the Fair River community. The youngest of a family of eleven brothers and sisters, she is survived by two brothers, Messrs. B. E. and Elgin Summers, both of Fair River, and many nephews and nieces and more distant relatives.
Mrs. Callender was a highly esteemed member of her community and was a member of the Methodist church.
The relatives bereaved have the sympathy of friends of their loss.
7/7/1939
Lincoln County MS Public Library Files
Mrs. Dora Summers Callender, 74, widow of the late Monroe Callender of the Zetus community, died in the early hours of Wednesday at the home near Zetus of a niece, Mrs. Ada Summers Smith, and the latter's husband, where she had lived for some years. She had been ill about two weeks.
The funeral was announced for ten Thursday morning in Hawkins Chapel, interment to be made in the cemetery nearby.
Mrs. Callender was a member of a large and established Lincoln County family and was reared in the Fair River community. The youngest of a family of eleven brothers and sisters, she is survived by two brothers, Messrs. B. E. and Elgin Summers, both of Fair River, and many nephews and nieces and more distant relatives.
Mrs. Callender was a highly esteemed member of her community and was a member of the Methodist church.
The relatives bereaved have the sympathy of friends of their loss.
7/7/1939
Lincoln County MS Public Library Files
Family Members
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Emory Zephaniah Summers
1841–1886
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Lucy Mazillah Summers Nations
1843–1883
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Pvt Achilles M. Summers
1845–1931
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Laruah Elizabeth Summers Burns
1846–1891
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William Conway Summers
1848–1927
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Lafayette Lucillious Summers
1850–1924
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Vetura Ann Ruthie Summers O'Steen
1852–1936
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Elgin Bernard Summers
1854–1940
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Buchanan Ezeriah "Buck" Summers
1856–1950
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Hezzikiah Henry Summers
1862–1928
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