Betty Payne

MALDEN - Betty Jewel Payne, 70, died Sept. 19, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

Born Dec. 25, 1933, in Morrillton, Ark., daughter of the late Spurley and Della Greenlaw Payne, she was a member of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Malden.

Survivors include: five daughters, Ann Payne and Dorothy Taylor of Champaign, Ill., Odessa Kimbrough of Plano, Texas, Brenda Daniels of Sacramento, Calif., and Ethel Moon of Colorado Springs, Colo.; three sons, Alfred Payne and Vernon Payne of St. Louis and Steve Payne of Sacramento; two sisters, Effie Walker of Malden and Teresa Johnson of Champaign; one brother, Charles C. Payne of Malden; and 14 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by seven brothers, Ike Payne, Willie Payne, Tollie Payne, West Payne, Eddie Payne, Arthur Payne and U.C. Payne; and four sisters, Thedis Chriswell, Arlee Webster, Anna Murl Payne and Christine Payne.

Visitation begins at 7 p.m. Friday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Cleveland Brown officiating.

Burial will follow in Simmons Park Cemetery at Catron.