Extracted from The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
JESSE J. SAVELL
Services Today For Father of Relations Head
Services for Jesse J. Savell of 1582 Whitten Road, father of Las Savell, public relations director for Methodist Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. today at Whitten Memorial Baptist Church. Burial will be in Mount Vernon Gardens with Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel in charge.
Mr. Savell, who was 71, died Friday night at Methodist Hospital. He was a retired farmer.
He also leaves his wife, Mrs. Eunice Elvie Savell; 2 daughters, Mrs. Merle Strickland of 1592 Whitten and Mrs. Bernice Wilson of Houston, Texas; another son, Jesse Savell Jr. of Colton, Calif.; a brother, Charley L. Savell of Oak Grove, La.; 13 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Sunday, January 19, 1969