Rose Napier

Rose Lee Napier, 91, of Sikeston, Mo., formerly of Union City, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, at Sikeston Convalescent Center.
Funeral services were to be 1 p.m. today at Woodland Mills First Baptist Church. The Rev. Rick Burton was to officiate. Interment was to follow in East View Cemetery.
Visitation was to be held from noon until the hour of services today at the church.
Pallbearers were to be David Hough, Ross Lemmons, Greg Dunn, Murphy Fair, Phillip McDaniel and Danny Isbell.
Honorary pallbearers were to be Charles Dunn, Glenn Lemmons, Kenny Allen and the deacons of Woodland Mills Baptist Church.
Memorial donations may be sent to Woodland Mills First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 8, Woodland Mills, TN 38271.
Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.
She was born Jan. 4, 1928, in Crutchfield, Ky., to the late Flois Melvin and Ethel Mae Arant Murphy.
She was a member of Woodland Mills First Baptist Church and had been an active member of the Woman’s Bridge Club, Community Choir as well as the Coalesce Club.
On Oct. 27, 1946, in Corinth, Miss., she married Howard Thomas Napier, who preceded her in death on Jan. 3, 2014.
She is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Lee Ann and David Hough of Sikeston; one sister and brother-in-law, Betty and Charles Dunn of Union City; one granddaughter, Stephanie (Ross) Lemmons of Sikeston; and two great-grandchildren, Jacob Thomas Lemmons and Archer Rose Lemmons of Sikeston.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Cleo Murphy, Flois Murphy and Bob Murphy; one sister, Glenda Polston; one grandson, Jacob Thomas Beck; and one son-in-law, Joe E. Beck Jr.
Online condolences may be sent to www.nunneleefuneralchapel.com.

Published 1.25.19