OBITUARIES FROM
THE DECATUR DAILY

All obituaries posted below are copied from the Decatur Daily which is published in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama.

Obituaries February 05th, 1999 edition:

• Flora Matilda Gillis
• Dezzie Lorene Phillips
• Inez Tillery Tomlinson
• Vivian Smith Watkins

• Flora Matilda Gillis 88, homemaker HUNTSVILLE -- Flora Matilda Gillis, 88, of Hartselle, died Thursday, Feb. 4, 1999, at Hartselle Medical Center. Twickenham Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Mrs. Gillis was born Sept. 24, 1910, in Thomasville, Ga. She was a homemaker. She is survived by one daughter, Carolyn Boykin of Hartselle; and three grandchildren.
  
  
• Dezzie Lorene Phillips 86, homemaker ATHENS -- Funeral for Dezzie Lorene Phillips, 86, of Double Springs will be Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at Spry Funeral Home with Robert McCafferty officiating. Burial will be in Mitchell Cemetery at Anderson. The family will receive friends tonight from 6 to 9 at the funeral home. Mrs. Phillips died Friday, Feb. 5, 1999, at Carraway-Burdick West Medical Center at Haleyville. She was born March 10, 1912, in Limestone County. She was a homemaker and a member of Romine Church of Christ in Rogersville. She is survived by one brother, McCoy Warren of Atlanta; and one sister, Eleanor Fleming of Rogersville. Nephews will be pallbearers.
  
  
• Inez Tillery Tomlinson 90, retired Air Force clerk, homemaker VERONA, Miss. -- Funeral for Inez Tillery Tomlinson, 90, of Starkville will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Lee Memorial Funeral Home with the Rev. Prentiss Gordon Sr. officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday one hour before services. Graveside services will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Falkville Cemetery. Mrs. Tomlinson died Thursday, Feb. 4, 1999, at Oktibbeha County Hospital in Starkville. She was born July 5, 1908, in Cullman County. She and her husband, Robert A. Tomlinson, lived in Decatur in the 1930s when he was a pioneer field man for the Tennessee Valley Authority. They moved to Tupelo in 1954, where they resided until Oct. 1997 when they moved to Starkville to be near their son. She worked for the Department of Defense as a clerk in the Air Force Civilian Corps during World War II. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Starkville and formerly a long-time member of St. Luke United Methodist Church in Tupelo. Her husband died Aug. 1, 1998. They were married for 67 years. She is survived by one son, John Tomlinson of Starkville; three sisters, Ethel Howard of Tampa, Allie Stinson of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Eleanor Hicks of Cullman; and three grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Tony Mason, Ed McNeil, Paul Perkins, Sam Patterson, Bobby Dale, Kurt Hayes and Carl Patterson.
  
  
• Vivian Smith Watkins 78, retired nurse Funeral for Vivian Smith Watkins, 78, of Hillsboro will be Monday at noon at David Temple Primitive Baptist Church in Hillsboro with the Rev. Curtis Foster officiating. The body will be at the church one hour before services. Entombment will be in Roselawn Mausoleum with Reynolds Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Watkins died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1999, at Decatur General Hospital. She was born Sept. 28, 1920, in Atlanta to Grant and Bertha Parks Smith. She was a nurse in Cleveland and moved to Hillsboro upon her retirement. She is survived by one son, Dr. Robert Watkins, Bourbonnais, Ill.; one daughter, Elizabeth Watkins of Cleveland Heights, Ohio; one brother, Grant Smith of Beaver Falls, Pa.; two sisters, Eloise Dudley of Harrisburg, Pa., and Lela Greer of Coraopolis, Pa.; and five grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Edward Davis, Danny Davis, Dale Davis Jr., George Davis, Michael Davis, Wayne Moore and Titus Robinson.