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J.B. Madewell, 72

Spencer resident and Van Buren County native J.B. Madewell, 72, died March 15 at White County Hospital after an extended illness.

A timber and saw mill worker and a member of Clark Chapel Church of God, he was the son of the late Clarence and Minnie Louise McCormick Madewell; and was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Madewell; sisters, Samantha McKeehan and Yuvonna Moore; and brother, Clarence Smith Madewell.

He is survived by children and their spouses, Vivian and Ronnie Measles, Dwayne and Lema Madewell, Marilyn and Tim Burger, J.B. and Melinda Dodson Madewell Jr., Elizabeth Fisher, Darlene Bennett, Lorenda Bennett and Alan Bennett, all of Spencer, Katherine and Jerry Wright of Quebeck, Patricia and Jacque Dubose of Chicago, Ill.; 22 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, sisters and brothers and their spouses, Marie and Floyd Sapp, Junior and Rene Madewell, Bobby and Gerlene Madewell, Jimmy and Lela Green, Billy and Janie Green, all of Spencer, Edith and Wayne Martin of McMinnville.

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home Spencer Chapel with Danny Rogers officiating. Burial will follow at Molloy Cemetery. Visitation began Tuesday at the Spencer Chapel.

Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home Spencer Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) March 17, 2004

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