The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
October 21, 2002
CHARLES JAY DEARTH JR., 63, of Munford, chemical operator for Humko Chemical and Memphis police officer, died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Family Funeral Care Summer Ave. Chapel with burial in Bethesda Cemetery in Senatobia, Miss. He was a member of Highland Heights Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dearth, the husband of Patricia Dearth for 46 years, also leaves three daughters, Cynthia Ann Teague of Memphis, Anita Sue Cook of Villa Rica, Ga., and Kimberly Renee Brewer of Millington; a son David Neal Dearth of Ripley, Tenn., two brothers, Richard Ray Dearth and Daniel Nolan Dearth, both of Brownsville, Texas, 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
March 27 1939 - October 20 2002