Funeral services were held at three o'clock today for Mrs. Edna Dunivant, long time resident of Newbern, who died at her home at one o'clock Sunday afternoon. She was 79.

Final rites were said at the Ivy Chapel of Johnson Funeral Home by the Reverend Cecil Page, pastor of the Newbern First Methodist Church. Burial was in Church Grove Cemetery with Billy Balthrup, Ralph Dunivant, Floyd Robinson, J. N. Johnson, C. W. Daughtry and Onis Dowland serving as pallbearers. Johnson Funeral Home had charge of the arrangements.

Born in Gallatin, Tennessee, Mrs Dunivant was the daughter of the late J. W. and Sally Roberson Corum. She moved to Newbern with her parents when she was 12 years old and had made her home there since. She was the widow of William Erwin Dunivant, who died in 1915. She was a Methodist. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Nancy Pope, Memphis, two haf brothers, Elmer Corum and Connie Corum, both of Memphis and a step-son, Vernon Dunivant, Dyersburg.

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