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Curry, Alice May

Alice May Curry, age 78, of Jackson passed away Friday, October 9, 2009 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born October 14, 1930, in Providence, KY, daughter of Carl and Katie E. Robison Curry.

Alice attended the former Goose Pond School west of Advance, the former Horrel School east of Oak Ridge, the former Gravel Hill School, and graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1949. After high school, she worked for the former Jackson Shoe Factory until it closed in 1988, and then worked at the former Florsheim Shoe Factory in Cape Girardeau until retiring in 1993.

Alice was a member of the First Baptist Church in Jackson for 30 years, and was previously a member of Oak Ridge Baptist Church and the former Calvary Baptist Church of Jackson.

Loving survivors include a brother, Carl “Gene” Curry of Jackson; a sister, Betty J. (the late Clark) Cowan of Oak Ridge; a nephew, Dr. Mike Cowan of Oak Ridge; an uncle, Albert Robison of Columbia, IL; great nephews and great niece, Jason Cowan of Biehle, Kimberly Cowan of St. Louis, Jeffrey Cowan of St. Louis, and their mother, Kathy (the late Kevin) Cowan of Biehle.

Friends may call Sunday, October 11, 2009 from 4:00 to 8:00 PM at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

Funeral service will be Monday, October 12, 2009, at 10:00 AM at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jon Sedgwick officiating.

Interment will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.

 

Printed in the Saturday, October 10, 2009 edition of the Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO

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