Faye Shackelford

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Services for Faye Shackelford of Tuscumbia, Mo.. are 1 p.m.,Thursday, April 8, at First Assembly of God Church with burial inBilyeu Cemetery near St. Elizabeth, Mo. Rekus Funeral Home inIberia, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Wednesday from 5-8 p.m., at the church.

Mrs. Shackelford, 76, died April 4, 2004, near Eldon, Mo., in anautomobile accident. She was born in Tuscumbia on June 17, 1927, toJohn Henry and Daisey Sarah (Ahart) Bilyeu.

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She was a member of Victory Bible Way Fellowship Church. Shemarried Leonard Howard Shackelford on Nov. 1, 1947.

Preceding her in death were a sister and four brothers. A son,Steven Shackelford, died in the same accident.

Survivors are her husband, Leonard Howard Shackelford ofTuscumbia; her sons, Mike Shackelford of Blue Springs, Mo., andJohn Shackelford of Brookhaven; a sister, Opal Bilyeu of Chicago,Ill.; a brother, Halleck Bilyeu of Kansas City, Mo.; 10grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Bilyeu Cemetery or Victory Bible WayFellowship Church.