MINNIE LOUISE SPARKS GENTRY, 69

LISBON -- Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Arbaugh-Pearce-Greenisen Funeral Home for Minnie Louise Sparks Gentry, 69, of 39140 Grant St., who died Friday at Salem Community Hospital.
Mrs. Gentry was born July 18, 1931, in Springlake, Ky., a daughter of Warnie C. and Jennie E. Frazer Sparks. She moved to this area in 1965.
She was a homemaker and was a member of Old Trinity Church in Lisbon, where she and her husband would sing duets.
She leaves her husband, Brack D. Jr., whom she married Oct. 20, 1949; two daughters, Joyce A. Newman of Alliance and Anita F. Rzucidlo of Frankfort, Ky.; eight sons, Michael D. and Russell G., both of Alliance, Charles W. of Lisbon, David A. of New Waterford, Brack D. III of Salem, Gary R. of Beattyville, Ky., Ralph E. of Lisbon and Darrell L. of Cincinnati; 11 sisters, Betty Voight and Alice Johns, both in Texas, Dorothey Roseberry, Libby Malone, Mary Neal, Barbara Watkins, Shirley Van de Pas, and Nancy Grimes, all of Cincinnati, Helen Perry of Pine Knot, Ky., Diane Walls in Kentucky, and Stella Hinkle of Indiana; four brothers, Charles Sparks and Jerry Sparks, both of Cincinnati, and Frank and Kenneth Sparks, both in Georgia; 24 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Two brothers, Junior and Joe Sparks, are deceased.
Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before services.
4/15/01