Extracted from The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Sunday, September 1, 1996

Dave J. Downs

GREENVILLE - Dave J. Downs, 69, retired fixer at Greenville Mills after 26 years, died of heart failure Saturday at King's Daughters Hospital.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Boone-Wells Funeral Home with burial in Lakeview Gardens.

He attended the Sunflower County Schools. He was a World War II Army veteran and had also been a farmer.

Mr. Downs leaves three daughters, Peggy Johnson of Portland, Ark., Cindy Redwine of Batesville and Marilyn Roncali of Hornbeak, Tenn.; two sons, Gerald Downs of Vicksburg and Gary Downs of Greenville; three sisters, Marie Berry and Ruby Renfrow, both of Brandon, and Charlene Bowland of Braxton, 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.