Sikes/Sykes Family Cards - Person Sheet
Sikes/Sykes Family Cards - Person Sheet
NameRuth Sykes 
Birth20 Sep 1920, Henry County, TN
FatherWilliam Chesley Sykes (1891-1966)
MotherEthel Mae Bradley (1897-1982)
Spouses
Birth28 Oct 1913
Death11 Oct 1988
BurialOlive Branch Cemetery, Henry Co., TN
FatherJames Pound O’Daniel (1877-1941)
MotherAnnie Florence Lamb (1880-1956)
Marriage24 Dec 1936
Notes for Ruth Sykes
Retired Holley carburetor plant employee Ruth Sykes O'Daniel, 87, of Cottage Grove died Saturday night, April 19, 2008, at Henry County Medical Center.
Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cottage Grove Baptist Church, where she was a member and had kept the nursery for several years.
Mike Waddy of Cottage Grove Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Olive Branch Cemetery.
Chosen as pallbearers are Joel and Robin Wallace, Phillip O'Daniel, Howard and Daniel Powell and Edwin Ables.
Honorary pallbearers will be Orvis Sykes, Jim Olive, Bob Henderson and friends at Cottage Grove Baptist Church.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at McEvoy Funeral Home and after 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
Born Sept. 20, 1920, in Henry County, she was a daughter of the late William Chesley Sykes and Ethel Mae Bradley Sykes.
She was married on Dec. 24, 1936, to James E. O'Daniel, who died Oct. 11, 1988. She also was a homemaker.
She leaves one son: Dale (Jeanne) O'Daniel of Puryear; two daughters: Judy (Clovis) Ables of Cottage Grove and Carol (Jim) Wallace of Holladay; two sisters: Willie Mae (Jim) Olive and Frances Coffman, both of Paris; one brother: Orvis (Dorothy) Sykes of Paris;
Six grandchildren: Bryan, Joel and Robin Wallace, Edwin Ables, Kristy Powell and Phillip O'Daniel; 11 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She also was preceded in death by two sisters: Eron Henderson and Edith Brown; and a grandchild: Lyn Wallace.
Memorials may be made to Cottage Grove Baptist Church or Hoof Beats of Hope.
Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cottage Grove Baptist Church, where she was a member and had kept the nursery for several years.
Mike Waddy of Cottage Grove Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Olive Branch Cemetery.
Chosen as pallbearers are Joel and Robin Wallace, Phillip O'Daniel, Howard and Daniel Powell and Edwin Ables.
Honorary pallbearers will be Orvis Sykes, Jim Olive, Bob Henderson and friends at Cottage Grove Baptist Church.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at McEvoy Funeral Home and after 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
Born Sept. 20, 1920, in Henry County, she was a daughter of the late William Chesley Sykes and Ethel Mae Bradley Sykes.
She was married on Dec. 24, 1936, to James E. O'Daniel, who died Oct. 11, 1988. She also was a homemaker.
She leaves one son: Dale (Jeanne) O'Daniel of Puryear; two daughters: Judy (Clovis) Ables of Cottage Grove and Carol (Jim) Wallace of Holladay; two sisters: Willie Mae (Jim) Olive and Frances Coffman, both of Paris; one brother: Orvis (Dorothy) Sykes of Paris;
Six grandchildren: Bryan, Joel and Robin Wallace, Edwin Ables, Kristy Powell and Phillip O'Daniel; 11 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She also was preceded in death by two sisters: Eron Henderson and Edith Brown; and a grandchild: Lyn Wallace.
Memorials may be made to Cottage Grove Baptist Church or Hoof Beats of Hope.