Date of birth: 15 May 1880
Date of death: 20 Feb 1971

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Burial Information

Section 05 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0246-09
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

Services for Mrs. Powers
February 21

Funeral services for Mrs. Sadie Moore Powers were held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, February 21, from the First United Methodist Church with the Reverend J.S. Hathorn, pastor, officiating. Interment was in the Odd Fellows Cemetery with Southern Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs Powers died at 10:30 at her home in Franklin following a long illness.

She was the wife of the late Jed Melvin Powers, a widely known planter and landowner.

Mrs. Powers was the daughter of the late Josephus and Betty Herbert Moore. She was a native of Holmes County and had lived in Lexington and Franklin all her life. She was a member of the Methodist Church.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Juanita Watson of Lexington; a grandson, Julian B. Watson, Jr., of Jackson and one sister, Mrs. Effie Swittenberg of Lubbock, Texas.

Pallbearers were Walter Moore, John J. Parrish, Buddy Parrish, Lynn Jordan, Billy Ellis and Al Povall.

Holmes County Herald - Lexington, MS
February 25, 1971, vol. 13, no. 8, pg. 5

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Family Members

Parents
Josephus Moore
1845–1925

Bettie Moore
1849–1895

Half Siblings
Mattie Mabell Moore Bland
1880–1973

Spouse
Jed Melvin Powers
1870–1951

Children
Juanita Powers Watson
1912–2015

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Burial

21 Feb 1971

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