DRAKE – Mrs. Rosa –Died Dec…1961 Age 76 years (Illegible funeral marker near tree stump.)
HUNTSVILLE TIMES
Sunday, December 24,
1961
Mrs. Drake
A funeral for Mrs. Rosie Annie DRAKE will be today at 2 p.m. at Lincoln Memorial Baptist Church with Rev. J. Otis KING officiating. Burial will be in Moon Cemetery at Owens Cross Roads.
Mrs. DRAKE died at the home of a niece last night.
She is survived by two sons, Leamon DRAKE of Huntsville
and Claude DRAKE of Manchester, Tenn.; a daughter, Mrs. Beatrice ADCOCK of
Gardenia, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Beatrice DRAKE of Minden. La.; two brothers,
H. H. SANDERS of Sunset, Calif., and C. F. SANDERS of Stillwater, Okla.; 15
grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren.
The body will be at her son’s home at 3900 Beech Ave.,
SW, until the service. Butler Brothers
Funeral Home of New Hope is in charge of arrangements.