Mary Ellen Jennings

BERNIE -- Mary Ellen Jennings, 74, died Dec. 16, 2008, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.

Born Sept. 15, 1934, at Bernie, daughter of the late Joe and Betty Byrd Wilmath, she was a homemaker and a member of the White Oak Grove General Baptist Church of rural Bernie.

On Sept. 30, 1950, she married James Dale Jennings who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: one son, Larry Dale Jennings of St. Charles, Ill.; two daughters, Patricia Marchbanks of Barlett, Tenn., and Betty Jo Hux of Essex; two brothers, James Wilmath of Elburn, Ill., and Jerry Wilmath of the state of Michigan; two sisters, Linda Burger of Flint, Mich., and Peggy Estep of Holland, Mich.; and six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one brother, Leo Wilmath, and one grandson, Matthew James Jennings.

Visitation is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. until time of services at noon Friday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie with the Rev. M.C. Moore officiating.

Burial will follow in the Chalk Bluff Cemetery in Dexter.