Lila Jean Storey

Lila Jean Cole Storey, a resident of Auburn for the past 31 years, died after a short illness Saturday at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Lakeview Baptist Church in Auburn. Internment will follow at Lakeview Memory Gardens inPhenix City. The family will receive friends at a visitation service Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home inOpelika. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Lakeview Baptist Church of Auburn or the American Cancer Society. Mrs. Storey was preceded in death by her husband, Cleveland U.Storey; her parents, John R. Cole and Reba Smith Cole; and two brothers, Max Cole and Jack Cole. She is surved by three sons and daughters-in-law; Ron and Paula Storey of Dothan, David andMelinda Storey of Birmingham and Gary and Donna Storeyof Dothan; and a daughter, Susan Storey of Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Storey is also survived by a granddaughter, Melissa Gowan and her husband, Matt, of Auburn; five grandsons,Matt Storey of Auburn, Davis Storey of Auburn, Will Storey of Dothan, Chris Sheheane and his wife, Dana, of Birmingham, and Kyle Sheheane of Auburn; two great-grandchildren, Lila Reese Gowan and Truitt Gowan; and her two sisters, Laurene Hales of Eutaw andJoyce Mathis of Huntsville. Mrs. Storey was born on Aug. 26, 1923, in Rosemark, Tenn., but spent most of her youth growing up in Hazel Green. After finishing high school in Hazel Green, she attended Andrew Jackson Business School in Nashville, Tenn., before enlisting in the U.S. Navy WAVES. While in the WAVES, she served as a Specialist (I) Second Class in Washington, D.C., during World War II. During her husband's employment with the University of Florida and the Alabama Cooperative Extension Services, the couple resided in Wedowee; Bonifay, Fla.; Ozark; and then Auburn. A member of the Hospital Auxiliary of East Alabama Medical Center for 21 years, Mrs. Storey retired from the State of Alabama Unemployment Office. Jeffcoat-Trant FuneralHome is directing.