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Wilma Strickland

d. October 17, 2013

Mrs. Wilma Strickland, age 85 of Berry, died Thursday, October 17, 2013 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Sunday, October 20th at 2:00 p.m. at the Berry Free Will Baptist Church with Rev. Kenneth Bozeman, Rev. Raymond Fowler and Rev. Matt Weems officiating. The body will lie in state at the church from 1:00-2:00. Burial will follow in the Bethabara Cemetery. The visitation will be Saturday evening from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Norwood Chapel. Mrs. Strickland was born October 12, 1928, the daughter of the late Travis and Maudie Pendley Gray. She was a life-long resident of Fayette County. She was a housewife and a loving mother. Mrs. Strickland was a member of the Berry Free Will Baptist Church. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Roy William Strickland; one son, Jimmie Royce Strickland. Mrs. Strickland is survived by her son, Tommy (Jeanne) Strickland of Berry; her daughters, Shirley Key of Macon, Georgia and Barbara (Dwight) Earnest of Berry; two brothers, James “Tump” (Nelvie) Gray of Berry and David (Sherry) Gray of Cullman; twelve grandchildren twenty-seven great grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren. Active pallbearers are her grandsons: Richard Key, Steven Strickland, Jeffrey Strickland; her eldest great grandsons: Beau Earnest, Jakob Brashier, Dustin Jay “D J” Smith Clay Welch and Chad Brashier. Honorary pallbearers are George Madison and Jimmy Madison.
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