Funeral services for Margaret Dorothy Dees, 62, Waltonville, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Fry Frick Funeral Home, Waltonville, with the Rev. Carl Williams and the Rev. Eugene Beasley officiating. Burial will be in Knob Prairie Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today.

The family requests in lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Waltonville United Methodist Church building fund.

Mrs. Dees died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at her home following an apparent heart attack.

She was born March 23, 1920, in Waltonville, the daughter of Frank P. and Mayme (Dudley) Hester.

On June 1, 1946, in Piggott, Ark., she married Chester Dees, who survives.

Other survivors include one son, Danny Dees, Waltonville; and two sisters, Mrs. Fay Norris, Waltonville, and Mrs. Hazel Lewis, Toledo, Ohio.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Ralph, Bo, and Howard Hester, and one sister Mrs. Marion Danner.

Mrs. Dees was a member of the Waltonville United Methodist Church.

Source: Mt. Vernon Register News
Date: September 1982
Submitted by: Rosemary Newell Atkins