Jerry Cole, 76, of Collierville, retired City of Memphis code enforcement employee, died of cancer Sunday at his home. Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Memphis Memory Gardens Cemetery. He attended Peterson Lake Baptist Church and was a veteran. Mr. Cole, the husband of Mildred Cole, also leaves two daughters, Linda Story and Patty Greer, both of Memphis; a stepson, Bobby Morrow of Memphis; a brother, Trevie Cole of Wood Dale, Ill, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to American Cancer Society Collierville Chapter.
(Mr. Cole was born February 12, 1924 in Weakley County, TN., the son of the late Johnnie Pearl and Katie Jones Grooms Cole of Sharon, TN.)
Jerry Cole, 76, of Collierville, retired City of Memphis code enforcement employee, died of cancer Sunday at his home. Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Memphis Memory Gardens Cemetery. He attended Peterson Lake Baptist Church and was a veteran. Mr. Cole, the husband of Mildred Cole, also leaves two daughters, Linda Story and Patty Greer, both of Memphis; a stepson, Bobby Morrow of Memphis; a brother, Trevie Cole of Wood Dale, Ill, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to American Cancer Society Collierville Chapter.
(Mr. Cole was born February 12, 1924 in Weakley County, TN., the son of the late Johnnie Pearl and Katie Jones Grooms Cole of Sharon, TN.)
Family Members
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Opal "O.C." Cole Adams
1908–1998
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Roger Lee Grooms
1908–1960
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Paul Brown Grooms
1910–1952
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Robert J "R J" Cole
1911–1988
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Terley Harold Cole
1913–1914
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Woodrow Wilson Grooms
1913–1990
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Robert Trevie Cole
1915–2009
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Ruth Grooms
1916–1918
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Rachel Grooms
1916–1918
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James Franklin Cole
1918–1980
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Bessie Beatrice Grooms
1919–1930
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