PORTAGEVILLE -- Billy Wayne Grisso, 61, formerly of Charleston, died May 24, 2007, at the Pemiscot Memorial Hospital in Hayti.
Born Feb. 25, 1946, in Mississippi County, son of the late John Wiley "Bill" and Willie Sue Ray Grisso, he had lived in Mississippi County most of his life prior to moving to Portageville. He had been employed with Hart's Bakery in St. Louis.
Survivors include: three brothers, Eugene Grisso of Scott County, Jimmy Grisso of Portageville and Kenneth Grisso of East Prairie; two sisters, Barbara Warren of East Prairie and Dorothy Murphy of Rockford, Ill.; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. Wednesday until the funeral hour at 2 p.m. at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Gerald Penn, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church in Charleston, will officiate.
Burial will follow in the I00F Cemetery near Charleston.