Malcolm Gramling

KENNETT - Malcolm Oscar Gramling, 74, died July 7, 2002, at the Heritage Nursing Home in Kennett.

Born Dec. 16, 1927, in Walcott, Ark., son of the late Estes G. and Cordie May Gramling, he had been an auto mechanic instructor at Cape Girardeau Vo-Tech School and had also been employed by Tanksley Trucking and Nation Brothers. He had also worked for Kennett Public Vo-Tech School and was a member of the PIC Council. Gramling owned and operated Malcolm's Garage and also operated a farm in Dunklin County.

A former member of Shady Grove Baptist Church near Kennett, where he was a deacon and member of the church quartet, he was a member of the First Baptist Church in Kennett, where he also served as a deacon. He was also a member of the Kiwanis Club in Kennett.

On Nov. 25, 1949, he married Dolores Vearn Ray who survives of Kennett.

Other survivors include: one son, Tim Gramling of Cape Girardeau; three daughters, Lee Wells of Harriman, Tenn., Teresa Gemeinhardt of Anniston and Julie Foster of Plano, Texas; two brothers, Eugene Gramling of Kennett and Stan Gramling of Heber Springs, Ark.; three sisters, Maxine Ward of Aurora, Alidene Tinkle of Kennett and Madonna Stewart of Paragould, Ark.; and 11 grandchildren.

Two brothers and one grandson preceded him in death.

Services were conducted Monday at McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett with Sam Stewart officiating.

Burial followed in Dunklin County Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Kennett.