Jesse Culbertson

CHANDLER, Ind. - Jesse Paul Culbertson Sr., 73, formerly of Scott City, Mo., died at 6:30 a.m. June 28, 2004, at Columbia Health Care in Evansville.

Born June 18, 1931, in Commerce, Mo., son of the late Jesse Pillar and Bendia Melinda Graham Culbertson, he retired in 1993 as plant foreman for Jefferson-Smurfit in Evansville, after 33 years of service. He was a member of the Cypress Baptist Church in Booneville.

On Dec. 1, 1951, at Piggott, Ark., he married Mary Ellen Finley who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: three sons and daughter-in-law, Jesse P. and Beth Culbertson Jr. of Brown Deere, Wis., Gary L. and Becky Culbertson of Booneville and Keith and Maria Culbertson of Rogers, Ark.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Paula and Bob Dolanski of Barling, Ark., and Sharron and Wayne Phillips of Tamms, Ill.; one brother, Eugene Culbertson of Fruitland, Mo.; one sister, Thelma Marshall of Zion, Ill.; and 10 grandchildren, five stepgrandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Visitation is from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City, where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday. The Rev. Daryl Jessie, pastor of Cypress Baptist Church, will officiate.

Burial will follow in Lightner Memorial Cemetery in Scott City.