Mother was Addie (Kennedy) Wells
Otho A. Wells
retired business owner
CLARKSDALE - Otho A. Wells, 93, a retired business owner, died of heart failure Wednesday at Greenbrier Nursing Home.
Services are 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Church in Jackson with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Visitation is 9 a.m. today at the church. Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mr. Wells was a native of Simpson County and had moved to Jackson in 1926 after attending Mississippi College. He began working for Kennington's Department Store and later opened his own interior decoration business in 1929, retiring in 1977. He studied design and decoration with Columbia University in New York City.
He was a longtime member and deacon of First Baptist Church in Jackson, joining in 1 926. He taught Sunday school for close to 50 years. He was a Boy Scout leader, a Training Union leader and a member of the adult choir.
Survivors include: wife, Carmen; daughters, Carmen Melanie Wells Burke of Clarksdale and Mary Lucretia Wells Cummings of Longboat Key, Fla.; sons, Otho Albert Wells Jr. of Foley, Ala., Preston Davis Wells of Pascagoula and James Gipson Wells of Orange Beach, Ala.; and seven grandchildren and 1 1 great-grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, 17 Mar 2000, Fri • Page 21
Otho A. Wells
retired business owner
CLARKSDALE - Otho A. Wells, 93, a retired business owner, died of heart failure Wednesday at Greenbrier Nursing Home.
Services are 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Church in Jackson with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Visitation is 9 a.m. today at the church. Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mr. Wells was a native of Simpson County and had moved to Jackson in 1926 after attending Mississippi College. He began working for Kennington's Department Store and later opened his own interior decoration business in 1929, retiring in 1977. He studied design and decoration with Columbia University in New York City.
He was a longtime member and deacon of First Baptist Church in Jackson, joining in 1 926. He taught Sunday school for close to 50 years. He was a Boy Scout leader, a Training Union leader and a member of the adult choir.
Survivors include: wife, Carmen; daughters, Carmen Melanie Wells Burke of Clarksdale and Mary Lucretia Wells Cummings of Longboat Key, Fla.; sons, Otho Albert Wells Jr. of Foley, Ala., Preston Davis Wells of Pascagoula and James Gipson Wells of Orange Beach, Ala.; and seven grandchildren and 1 1 great-grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, 17 Mar 2000, Fri • Page 21
Mother was Addie (Kennedy) Wells
Otho A. Wells
retired business owner
CLARKSDALE - Otho A. Wells, 93, a retired business owner, died of heart failure Wednesday at Greenbrier Nursing Home.
Services are 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Church in Jackson with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Visitation is 9 a.m. today at the church. Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mr. Wells was a native of Simpson County and had moved to Jackson in 1926 after attending Mississippi College. He began working for Kennington's Department Store and later opened his own interior decoration business in 1929, retiring in 1977. He studied design and decoration with Columbia University in New York City.
He was a longtime member and deacon of First Baptist Church in Jackson, joining in 1 926. He taught Sunday school for close to 50 years. He was a Boy Scout leader, a Training Union leader and a member of the adult choir.
Survivors include: wife, Carmen; daughters, Carmen Melanie Wells Burke of Clarksdale and Mary Lucretia Wells Cummings of Longboat Key, Fla.; sons, Otho Albert Wells Jr. of Foley, Ala., Preston Davis Wells of Pascagoula and James Gipson Wells of Orange Beach, Ala.; and seven grandchildren and 1 1 great-grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, 17 Mar 2000, Fri • Page 21
Otho A. Wells
retired business owner
CLARKSDALE - Otho A. Wells, 93, a retired business owner, died of heart failure Wednesday at Greenbrier Nursing Home.
Services are 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Church in Jackson with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Visitation is 9 a.m. today at the church. Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mr. Wells was a native of Simpson County and had moved to Jackson in 1926 after attending Mississippi College. He began working for Kennington's Department Store and later opened his own interior decoration business in 1929, retiring in 1977. He studied design and decoration with Columbia University in New York City.
He was a longtime member and deacon of First Baptist Church in Jackson, joining in 1 926. He taught Sunday school for close to 50 years. He was a Boy Scout leader, a Training Union leader and a member of the adult choir.
Survivors include: wife, Carmen; daughters, Carmen Melanie Wells Burke of Clarksdale and Mary Lucretia Wells Cummings of Longboat Key, Fla.; sons, Otho Albert Wells Jr. of Foley, Ala., Preston Davis Wells of Pascagoula and James Gipson Wells of Orange Beach, Ala.; and seven grandchildren and 1 1 great-grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, 17 Mar 2000, Fri • Page 21
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