Catherine Lenore Biles, 90

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Catherine Lenore Biles, 90, died Jan. 7 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness.

A housekeeper and sitter, and member of East End Drive Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Bob and Sallie Scramble Spurlock, and was preceded in death by husband Harrison Eugene Biles; sons Robert and Joe Biles; and daughter Josephine Crabtree.

She is survived by six children and their spouses, Harrison and Jean Biles, Frankie Dalton, Sally and Frank Smith, Barbara Ann Biles and Marjorie Martin, all of McMinnville, and George Biles of Nashville; devoted granddaughter and husband, Mary and Jimmy Sanders of Woodbury; 17 other grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren; devoted niece Maggie Locke of Smartt; nephews Clarence and James Locke of Detroit, Mich.; special friends Margie James of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and Kenneth Smith of McMinnville.; daughter-in-law Fannie Biles of McMinnville.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at High’s Chapel with Phillip Smith and George King Jr. officiating. Burial will follow at Gardens of Memory. Visitation will be held after 5 p.m. Monday, with a wake from 1 p.m. until time of service Tuesday.

Southern Standard

(McMinnville, Tenn.) Jan. 9, 2005