Mrs. Etta Harrell Wortham
Obituary


The Crockett Times
Alamo, Tennessee
Thursday, January 11, 1951
Vol. 18 No. 46

MRS. ETTA WORTHAM

Hospitalized since Nov. 25, Mrs. Etta Wortham of 1245 Court died at 5:30 last night at Methodist Hospital. She was 86.

The Rev. Cecil Baker will conduct services 11 a.m. tomorrow morning at National Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Temple Methodist Church Cemetery at Lucy.

Born in Mississippi County, Ark., Mrs. Wortham moved to Alamo, Tenn., as a child and from there to Lucy in 1910. She came to Memphis 10 years ago. She was a member of the Lucy Baptist Church.

She leaves five sons, L. P. Wortham, J. D. Wortham, and C. H. Wortham of Memphis and Paul H. Wortham and Mark E. Wortham of Lucy and a sister, Mrs. B. W. Brown of Millington.
----Commercial Appeal

Mrs. Wortham lived in Crockett County years ago and will be remembered by many of the older citizens of the county. She is a great aunt of Mrs. Cortez Pierce, also of the Reams children, Joe Marvin and Mrs. Guy Musgraves.


Etta was the daughter of James & Elizabeth Harrell. She married 16 May 1888 in Crockett Co. to James D. Wortham.


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