

  <p>Friend, Bertha Isabel</p>
  <p>Passed: 1989-08-07</p>
  <p>Age: 88</p>


  <p>Source: Jackson Herald</p>

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  <p>Obituary Date: 1989-08-09</p>
  <p>Information: Bertha Isabel Friend, 88, of Cottageville, died Aug. 7, 1989, at Ravenswood Village Care Center after an extended illness.  She was born in Mason County, a daughter of the late Artimus and Ona Knuckles Pickens.  She was a retired cook for Mount Alto Elementary School and a homemaker.  She is survived by one son, Kenneth Friend; one daughter, Ethel May Durst of Cottageville; four brothers, Wilbur Pickens of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sam Pickens of Buffalo, Carroll Pickens of Ohio and Eylus Pickens of Arkansas; four sisters, Mrs. Virginia Mallet of Florida, Mrs. Dora Taylor of Dunbar, Mary Pickens of Tennessee, Florist Pickens of Arkansas; 16 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren.  Services will be today (Wednesday) 2 p. m. at the Hopewell Baptist Church, Mount Alto, with the Rev. James Pinkerton  officiating.  Burial will be in the church cemetery.  Casto Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements,</p>


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