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Bess Bacon

PORTALES, N.M. — Bess Bacon, 87, of Portales, N.M., died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, at her residence.

Services will be at 9:30 a.m. today at Emmanuel Baptist Church with the Revs. Lewis Johnson and Cotton Mitchell officiating. Burial will be at Portales Cemetery. Arrangements by Wheeler Mortuary of Portales, Inc.

She was born in Blanket and moved to Portales in 1971. She was Baptist.

SURVIVORS: Son, Scott Davis of Houston; daughters, Nina Merriott of Berthod, Colo., and Katherine Coleman of Capitan, N.M.; stepdaughters, Bonnie Brown of Carlsbad, N.M., Cleo Mitchell of Logan, N.M., and Bobbie Cannady of Albuquerque, N.M.; brothers, Clarence Kirksey of Odessa, Noble Kirksey of Wickenburg, Ariz., Jack Kirksey of Hereford and Edward Kirksey of Clovis, N.M.; sister, Oleta Lane of North Highlands, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; seven stepgrandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; six stepgreat-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.