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.