Rites Held Here for Wyatt Mims  4-18-1942

Clarendon, Arkansas, Farm Agent is Buried Here on Wednesday

Burial services were held here Wednesday afternoon for Wyatt Mims,
49, Monroe County, Arkansas farm agent, who died Monday night
in the Veterans Hospital in Memphis.

Dr. J. D. Ray, pastor of the local Baptist Church, conducted the services
assisted by Dr. J. R. Countiess, Methodist pastor.   Interment was in
Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Funeral services were held in Clarendon, Arkansas, where Mr. Mims made
his home, Tuesday night with the Rev. L. R. Joyner officiating.

Mr. Mims, who had been farm agent at Clarendon for 15 years, had been ill
a year of heart trouble.  A native of Starkville, he was graduated from Mississippi
State College and was farm agent for Prentiss County, Mississippi, before
coming to Clarendon.  He was a veteran of World War I, servicing as lieutenant
in the tank corps. 

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edith Clock Mims, his mother, Mrs. Archie Page
of Starkville; two brothers, W. C. Mims, and L. D. Mims, both of Starkville,
and two step brothers, John and Frank Page, also of Starkville.


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