Dorothy Richards

Friday, June 25, 2004

ORAN - Dorothy Catherine Richards, 74, died at 7:19 p.m. June 23, 2004, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

Born July 31, 1929, in Martinville, Ark., daughter of the late Talbert and Addie Herring Lovelady, she was a member of the First Baptist Church in Oran.

On March 12, 1989, she married Jack A. Richards who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: two daughters, Deborah Harris of St. Louis and Janet Kluesner of Oran; three stepdaughters, Linda Richards and Jane Richards of Felton, Calif., and Jean Chandler of Selma, Ore.; and six grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren, two great-grandchildren and three stepgreat-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by five sisters and one stepson.

Visitation begins at 4 p.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran.

Services will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the First Baptist Church. The Rev. Ed Carter will officiate.

Burial will follow in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens near Morley.