Clela Mae Cruise Bebow, 98

McMinnville resident and White County native Clela Mae Cruise Bebow, 98, died Jan. 19 at River Park Hospital after a 10-day illness.

A homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Asa and Ivy Jenkins Cruise; and was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Bebow in 1978; daughter, Dorothy Dodson Lee; sister, Delma Cruise Holliday and brother, Plummer Cruise.

She is survived by son-in-law, Robert Lee of McMinnville; special friend, Dema Sue Lee of McMinnville; granddaughter, Carol Lee Hamblen of McMinnville; grandson, Robert S. Lee of McMinnville; great-granddaughters, April Lee Dove, Tera Mooneyham, Tricia Richardson, Leann Hamblen Long, and Megan Hamblen, all of McMinnville; niece, Louise Phillips of Cookeville; nephew, Harold Holliday of Cookeville; great-nieces, Marsha Holliday of Cookeville, Sherry Newsom of Carthage and Pat Radcliffe of Loveland, Ohio.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at High’s Chapel with Mark Carrigan officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery in White County. Visitation will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. until time of service Saturday at High’s.

High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Jan. 21, 2005