Alpha Arlene (McClendon) Admire 1934-1991

Alpha Arlene Admire, 57, Tuscumbia, died Monday at St. Marys Health Center. She was born May 8, 1934, a daughter of Clarence Edward and Mabel Rea King McClendon. She was married Aug. 17, 1959, in Miami, Okla., to John Elknah Admire, who died Dec. 22, 1985.

She was employed in the kitchen at the Miller County Nursing Home until 1987. She attended the Pentecostal Church in Tuscumbia.

Survivors include: two sons, Karl Admire, Tuscumbia, and John Allen Admire, Iberia; two daughters, Thelma Rea Dake, Imperial, and Beryl Wilson, Dixon; three brothers, Bill McClendon and Dennis McClendon, both of Dixon and John McClendon, Crocker; three sisters, Zelma Kennedy, Lebanon, Rose Prewett, Dixon, and Eunice Stauffer, Williamstown, N.J.; 13 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Dixon Cemetery. Visitation will be from 8:30-9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Dixon Chapel of Birmingham-Martin Funeral Home.

8 May, 1934 - 10 June, 1991