Extracted from The Biloxi Daily Herald (Biloxi, MS)
Sunday, August 22, 1971

Mrs. K. M. Spradley

Mrs. Kanzette Martha Spradley, 96, widow of Asbury [sic Asberry] Spradley, and a resident of Gulf Coast Convalescent Home in Fernwood for three years, died at 5:59 a.m. Saturday at Howard Memorial Hospital in Biloxi where she had been a patient for two weeks.

Born in Jackson County, Miss., on July 30, 1876, she was a housewife and a Baptist.

Survivors include three sons, Curtis E. Spradley, Gulfport, Clinton C. Spradley, Baton Rouge, La., and Harold J. Spradley, Orlando, Fla.; three daughters, Mrs. Aslean Dickerson, Harrisonburg, La., Mrs. Lenora Prather, Gulfport, and Mrs. Etta Page, Pascagoula; 33 grandchildren, 91 great-grandchildren, and 19 great-great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Etta Swain of Gulfport, and Mrs. Henry Bosarge of California.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday from Riemann Funeral Home Chapel in Gulfport with Rev. Harry Burge, pastor of Bethany Baptist Church, officiating. Friends may call at Riemann Funeral Home prior to service time.

Interment will be in Allen Cemetery in Long Beach.