Myrtle Duncan

Posted: Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:00 pm

The Messenger, June 13, 2013
Completed arrangements are being announced for Myrtle Virgie (Eason) Duncan, 94, of Union City, who died at Golden Living Center at 6:50 p.m. June 11, 2013.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Jerry Grimsley officiating. Burial will follow in Antioch Cemetery near Hornbeak.
The family will receive friends 5-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be Jamie Cochran, Heath Duncan, Jason Duncan, Trent Duncan, Robert McClain, Coleman Dunn and Dennis Eason.
The family requests that memorials be made to American Lung Association, 1835 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104; or to Union City Second Baptist Church building fund.
She was born July 27, 1918, in Obion County, daughter of the late Earnest “Blue” and Mary (Long) Eason. She married Floyd Duncan May 20, 1938. He died July 16, 1994. She was a member of First Apostolic Church in Union City.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Preston Knight Jr. of Hornbeak; three sons and daughters-in-law, Floyd Gathern and Fay Duncan of Jackson and Jerry and Vicky Duncan and Farris and Rita Duncan, all of Union City; eight grandchildren and their spouses, Tommy and Kim Duncan and Dwayne Duncan, all of Jackson, Heath and Cindy Duncan of Woodland Mills and Angela “Angie” Seiber, Tony and Dasha Dunn, Scott and Amy Duncan, Jason and Courtney Duncan and Trent and Hannah Duncan, all of Union City; 12 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchilden; and two brothers, Berlon Eason of Hornbeak and Floyd Eason of Troy, Ill.
She was also preceded in death by two sisters and four brothers.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.