Edna Earl Ratliff, 85, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, May 30, 2009 at Baptist Hospital in Union City.
She was retired as a prepper for Colonial Rubber Works and a member of the Church of Christ.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Nathe Ozment officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
The family will receive visitors from 5:30-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Survivors include five daughters, Jean Elder of Troy, Betty Zedlitz, Cathy Bell and Loretta Lawson, all of Dyersburg, and Susan Waller of Ripley; two sons, Robert Dale Ratliff of Maderia, Calif., and Johnny Lynn Ratliff of Dyersburg; a brother, Larry Spradley of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; 14 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her former husband, Neal Ratliff; a son, "Pete" Ratliff; a sister, Joyce Allen; a brother, Doyle Spradley; and a grandson, Marty Ratliff.
Pallbearers will be grandsons.