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Notes for Mamie Lee Rakestraw

Mamie Lee Wise
BLUE SPRINGS - Mamie Lee Wise, 90, died Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, at her home. She was born Nov. 26, 1914, in Union County to the late Berry Wiley Rakestraw and Lula Bryant Rakestraw. She was a homemaker and a member of Bethany Primitive Baptist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at the Browning Funeral Home Chapel in Ecru with Elder Larry Wise and Bro. Rusty Wise officiating. Burial will be in the New Harmony Cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Doris Gaines and Mable Grisham, both of Blue Springs; two sons, Billy Wise of Blue Springs and Lamar Wise of Myrtle; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Virgil Wise; one son, Eldridge Wise; one sister, Coy Clayton; and two brothers, Leslie and Cecil Rakestraw.
Her grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
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