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Vivian Sowell Obituary
Decatur
Funeral service for Vivian Morris Sowell, 101, of Decatur will be today, February 15, 2012, at 11 a.m. at Roselawn Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Lowery officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery.
Mrs. Sowell, who died Sunday, February 12, 2012, at Decatur General Hospital, was born January 2, 1911, in Morgan County to Andrew and Roxie Herbert. She was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. She was a great mother and grandmother. She was preceded in death by two sons, Billy Charles Morris and Howard Ray Morris; one daughter, Marylene McDonald Paul; and husbands, Mark Anthony Morris and Coy Dee Sowell.
Survivors include one son, James W. Morris; one daughter, Dorothy Morris Ratliff; 10 grandchildren, 14 great-grand- children and two great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be grandsons.
This obituary was originally published in the Decatur Daily.
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You all have suffered a great loss...Praying for your family! remerber its not good *bye,,,,,,but its *I WILL SEE U LATER IN HEAVEN* !
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